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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - May 20, 2018 - 09:39pm PT
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Here is a map showing the flows from yesterday. Last night it crossed the coastal highway in two spots and started flowing into the ocean.
The fissures that are putting out all the pa'hoe'hoe lava are all east of Leilani Estates and the flows have mostly been down hill thru very rural land and forest's.
Unless new fissures break out across Highway 132 , or closer to Kapoho, this is a pretty good path for the lava to keep taking without much damage.
The rift and the fissures are all in a very straight line, it is interesting to go on Google Earth and drag across to see the elevation's.
It seems any thing north of the rift should be safe.
So highway 137 is cut in the middle. If you are east of where it crossed the road , the only way to drive out is east to Kapoho then 132 west to Pahoa.
If you are on the west side of the flow,the one way out is highway 130 , that seems pretty safe for now, but it is the only road from there to Pahoa
https://hawaiicountygis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3428cd9282ff431c865eb32761793078
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neebee
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hey there say, john... thank you so very very much for this update...
whewww... :O
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 4, 2018 - 01:53pm PT
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Here is a video from this morning showing the flow enter the ocean at Kapoho bay.
The video starts about 20 seconds in. You can see how many house are threatened on each side of where it is entering the bay. The flow is almost 1/2 mile wide.
They now say 117 houses have been destroyed,, could be a lot more in the next few hours and days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYsW4aD_Fpw
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2018 - 02:20pm PT
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A sad night for Kapoho and Vacation Land. Both were almost totally covered.
Compare the USGS map to the Google maps image. Well over 100 homes destroyed in 12 hours.
Every thing between the red lines lines is gone.
And the flow has moved into the ocean 0.7 miles.
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2018 - 04:50pm PT
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The pin shows the boat ramp at Pohoiki.
Not sure about Shacks,, must be a surf spot..
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2018 - 08:15pm PT
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A before and after photo.
The first was taken Sunday, June 3rd, as the lava approached. The yellow is Vacation Land , that is a lot of homes. Blue is the bay, before and after in the second photo , and red is the flow.
It pretty much wiped every thing out.
Not my photo's.
June 5th
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zBrown
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Jul 15, 2018 - 05:31pm PT
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Before and after photos reveal a vast amount of land near Kapoho Bay now covered in lava.
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