Check this out...it is going on about 10miles from us (as a crow flies)...the reports on the flow are interesting too.
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/images.html
Carol
Hmmmm, something's burning....
My gosh Carol! There was nothing like that so close to you in November, right? Doesn't that scare you?
Naw...it is headed downhill towards the water. It actually would be very difficult to get to us from the Pu'u O'o site...up and down hills and very lateral to our position. Now...when Moana Loa goes...that will be another duck in the pond!!! That particular subdivision that is it destroying has been destroyed before...only one die hard still living there and he got out. people who build in that area are NUTS!!!
Reminds me of the people that build along the Mississippi River - with signs indicating high water marks and dates...get flooded out over and over...you're right = NUTS!
It also reminds me of people in CA who literally build on the edge of a mountain. There is nothing but a severe drop in front of the houses. I saw one that looked like it could fall off with just a push and it was a biiiig house.
Oh, I know those! They look so scary! I had a friend in one, that I would never go visit. He lived there for years with no problem, then lost the house in a mud slide...but he was right in a way...never a peep of damage from an earthquake!
Mudslides were exactly what I was thinking of when I saw it. It was actually just off the Ortega Highway. And it was just this one house that was like that. All the others were further up the mountain or down in the valley.
Well, after having driven through Volcano and seeing the lava flows right up to and over the roads...I think I would take a mud slide or an earthquake over lava! The flows look like an alien landscape when they cool, and when they are still hot and flowing they look like Hell come to visit!
You drove through a volcano???
The lava flows would be kinda cool to see. Mudslides and earthquakes not so much. But the lava flows if they were hot I would enjoy at a distance. lol
Actually, we walked out to where the lava is flowing (a couple of years ago) and as we got closer the 'cooled' lava we were walking on got hotter and hotter and soon we could look down a crack in it and see molten fire red lava. it was a safe area, i guess, because the Ranger was there and let us on the area.
DH tells a very funny story about (years ago when he was in Hilo on his boat) offering to help a fellow who needed to pack up his house as the lava was coming straight for it. The fellow had arranged for big nets to be brought to the house which he and DH would load with furniture and a 'copter would come and carry away. WELL, they first stopped at a market to each buy something to make for lunch. In the car he asked DH what he had bought and Bob said, "hamburger". "Oh,', he was told, "I don't allow hamburger to be cooked in the kitchen. It splatters grease and attracts cockroaches!" HAHAHAHA The mountain of lava was about to swallow his house and he was worried about cockroaches!!! Priorities????
No....there is a place on the Big Island called Volcano. It is a lot of lava flows from various time periods, and it is where there is an active caldera...here is a pic, the fog is actually steam from the caldera.
Ok, now that makes more sense! LOL. I was trying to figure out how the heck you can drive thru a volcano without getting burned.
That pic is gorgeous too!!
LOL! Funny story Carol! here is me, just standing on a lava flow...and that is all you can see all around me!
LOL. Shows how hard the wind is blowing too. Great pic!!
Yep. It was windy, but that was a good thing, or the vog would have made it hard to breath, right Carol?
It's funny though. What you looked like in that pic is what everyone looked like around here today. We had some really strong winds. One of those days where you don't wear hairspray. LOL
haha...welcome to my world! It is always blowing around here, except for a few days each year called the "doldrums"...this is ponytail heaven...that or hats!
Need any marshmallows to toast Carol? Funny story about the man in Hilo, can you believe it - he really can't have been thinking straight to say something like that.
Do you get trades all the time Shari? Or are they afternoon until dusk trades like we have?
All the time. Sometimes more than others. We can watch the storms coming our winds are so strong. And the softball teams fight to play on the field with the wind...makes for lots of home runs. I have a cool picture I want to post for you guys...but we keep forgetting to take it. All our palms grow with a definate curvature...across the street there is one of those pines we get out here...I can never remember the name, growing right next to a curving palm and it has the same curve...It's so cute, like a tribute to interspecies love...they are saying "wither thou goest, I shall go"...very cute.