Life near Kilauea right now:
#BREAKING This is video just into our newsroom. It was shot 5 acres in on Makamae St. on the Kalapana side. #Kilauea pic.twitter.com/BbXK15eCG0
— Allyson Blair (@AllysonBlairTV) May 5, 2018
One has to wonder why anyone was allowed to build there.
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6 responses to “Makamae Street”
Come on OB! Where is your spirit of adventure?
Also, probably seemed like a good idea at the time….
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I’d be inclined to agree, but then I was in Iceland last year, and visited a couple of communities that have been damaged by eruptions within living memory. Heimay is kind of funny: nice clean streets lined with houses built in that distinctive tidy Scandinavian style — and it ends in a wall of congealed lava 60′ high. Signs up on the flow inform the visitor that this or that prominent building is buried beneath your feet. Of course Heimay has been a fishing town for a long time; it’s a small island and there’s not a lot of places to build that aren’t in range of the local volcano. Is it pluck or folly? Maybe both.
Nitpick time: how can someone be ‘five acres in’ a place? An acre is not distance, it’s area!
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Even more amusingly an acre is not traditionally square – the short and long edges have a ratio of 1:10.
I do wonder at the rationale behind building in such geographically unstable places, but the mind truly boggles when it comes to the placing of nuclear power plants on active fault lines, such as those in California, where they are just one completely expected and inevitable seismic shift away from polluting their surroundings for thousands of years, as Japan recently found to its cost.
I would retire in a heartbeat…to the Kona side of the island.
I do not blame these people. There are few of them. I’ve visited that area many times. Not many lives will be affected and I doubt any casualties, except for negligence.