Mauna Loa Eruption

[Mingo]

The lava flow has hit flatter terrain now and has slowed considerably. There is a decent-to-good chance it will stop before it hits the main Inouye/Saddle Road highway.....fingers crossed that it will not impact the road. If it does cross the highway, it'll put every truck bringing goods and gas to Kona from the Port of Hilo onto the Hamakua Coast highway, which is much tighter and MUCH slower.

So gas and beer could be slower to arrive in Kona.

It is a jaw dropping experience. Tutu Pele is beautiful in her glory...aloha.

 

[Old406Kid]

The lava flow has hit flatter terrain now and has slowed considerably. There is a decent-to-good chance it will stop before it hits the main Inouye/Saddle Road highway.....fingers crossed that it will not impact the road. If it does cross the highway, it'll put every truck bringing goods and gas to Kona from the Port of Hilo onto the Hamakua Coast highway, which is much tighter and MUCH slower.

So gas and beer could be slower to arrive in Kona.

It is a jaw dropping experience. Tutu Pele is beautiful in her glory...aloha.

Thanks for the update Mingo.

 

[Brute]

Hopefully the Saddle Road won’t get cut off…

 

[mems]

Flying back to Hilo last night this was the view out of the window.

Went up this morning and saw this with the sunrise.


My son Luke took these

https://imgur.com/a/HaxPFGF
My friend got these beautiful daytime shots.
https://imgur.com/a/rcv9AdH
There is some hot real estate on the Big Island

 

[Wadin' Boot]

VOG plays hell on the lungs of many people, especially the old and young or those with asthma type issues. In 2009 I was working engineering projects at the Moanalua Medical Center on Oahu when Kona (southerly) winds blew the VOG from a minor venting directly onto Oahu, and the hospitals emergency facilities were jammed with respiratory distress patients. Can only image how bad it is for those downwind of this major venting.

Medical facilities brace for influx of patients as threat of vog looms

A Vog Measurement and Prediction Program from the University of Hawaii shows there are traces of hazardous sulfur dioxide emissions surrounding the Mauna Loa eruption.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

Trivia points: The diagnosis for volcanic glass in the lungs is the longest word in English...

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

 

[Big Tuna]

My wife and I drove up the saddle road this morning to get a closer look. Pretty amazing even from the road and you’re seeing just a small part of it. Some pics from the phone.

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Mordor

 

[Old406Kid]

Trivia points: The diagnosis for volcanic glass in the lungs is the longest word in English...

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Try saying that three times fast.

 

[Brute]

Try saying that three times fast.

You’re screwed, you’re screwed, you’re screwed…

 

[HOG]

Not great cell phone pic

 

[RCF]

Try saying that three times fast.

I can not even say it once...

 

[Wadin' Boot]

I can not even say it once...

"How do you spell it?"
"Just like it sounds..."

 

[Brute]

"How do you spell it?"
"Just like it sounds..."

Coach K…

 

[Tim L]

Trivia points: The diagnosis for volcanic glass in the lungs is the longest word in English...

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

I didn't count but clearly longer than the alphabet

 

[Wadin' Boot]

I didn't count but clearly longer than the alphabet

Try and spell it with a standard bag of scrabble tiles and you come up short. Which was a bummer because I thought I was going to win

 

[Mingo]

 

[BriGuy]

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What a cool picture!

 

[Mingo]

My buddy Barry is a pro photographer, check out this shot he took of a Hawai’ian warrior appearing in the lava glow…

 

[Mingo]

Here’s a couple pretty cool shots from right in Kona town the night it started….



and this shot is right in my neighborhood the first night…

pretty trippy!