Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, things change. One thing that hasn’t changed is the lava flow isn’t stopping. It’s just not going where everyone thought it was heading. Lava is so strange: unstoppable, furiously hot, creeping, burping magma, eating up vegetation, munching homes; transfer stations, graves and anything and everything […]
As predicted the lava started moving again. I saw some footage that described how pāhoehoe and ʻaʻā lava move, none of which made me feel any better though I realize it was not intended to. The June 27th flow is a pāhoehoe flow and the worse thing about that kind of lava is that it moves slow […]
It’s hard not to become a lava addict when lava is going to cover your town and is going to change your life in the moment. I wait each day for the new flow maps and the civil defense message telling me how fast it’s moving, how wide it is, its current location and its […]