Vog and laze, MARFORPAC, Leilani Estates, and above all, Pele

May 28th, 2018 by Charles Cameron

Pele has given us the grace of quiet for today, but we don’t know what tomorrow may bring,” Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim said at a community meeting Monday night..

Giver of islands..

“My house was an offering for Pele,” said Monica Devlin, 71, a retired schoolteacher whose home was destroyed by a lava flow. “I’ve been in her backyard for 30 years,” she reflected, doing the math on when she moved here from Northern California. “In that time I learned that Pele created this island in all its stunning beauty. It’s an awe-inspiring process of destruction and creation and I was lucky to glimpse it.”

I offer flowers here in my written thoughts, considering her.

Sources:

The Atlantic, Madame Pele’s Grip on Hawaii: The Big Island’s residents are reacting to Kilauea’s latest eruption with a combination of grief and reverence.
Washington Post, As Hawaii’s Kilauea erupts, volcanologists swarm: ‘I expect great science from this event’
Washington Post, Hawaii residents returned briefly to a lava-stricken neighborhood. The destruction was ‘surreal.’
The Express, THIRD Kilauea lava flow reaches ocean causing DEADLY laze as officials prepare EVACUATION
Reuters, Living with a volcano means dealing with its goddess
New York Times, Madame Pele, Hawaii’s Goddess of Volcanoes, Awes Those Living in Lava’s Path
Popular Mechanics, 21 Devastating Photos from Hawaii’s Volcano Eruption
NBC News, Hawaii volcano lava causes more destruction
North Shore Shark Adventure, The volcanoes of Hawaii
Fox News, The Latest: 3 lava flows now reaching ocean off Hawaii

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Charles Cameron:

May 31st, 2018 at 2:26 pm

I posted this [above] on FB, and my friend Tom Elliot, who lives a few miles north of Leilani Estates, posted this comment, which I thought worth bringing over here with his permission. It offers a closer and more detailed look:

Nice post Charles. I will note that one of the tendencies of mainland reporting has been to conflate the various events that are happening as if they are all happening in the same general area, they are not. The “five miles high” likely references the 30,000′ ash plume from the summit crater, which is 25 miles west of the lava eruption site. That plume contains no lava but is instead caused by constant rockfalls in the now drained crater at the summit. That rock falls until it hit lava and/or the water table which is now leaking into the drained crater and when those three meet it causes either small explosions or larger events depending on how blocked the column gets before the force of gas and steam below it blows it out of the top of the summit.
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That’s producing the ash fall that is nagging at communities SW of the summit in the Ka’u District. Places like Na’alehu, Pahala and Wood Valley which is a big coffee growing area are dealing with the ash.
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Meanwhile over here about 7 miles South of us is Leilani Estates and the East Rift Zone. That’s where the fissures opened up and the lava is now flowing and taking homes, even more this evening. Then those fissures are feeding another event, the ocean entry, in the Kalapana area downhill from Leilani and that is what is producing the laze and hydrosulfuric acid mist embedded with glass particles.
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The events are linked but have quite different impacts on the areas where they are happening and most mainland reports fail to understand that.
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But your post really handles the resilience of the locals well. We know the hazards where we live, much like the Gulf Coast residences now bracing for massive flooding rains and a tropical storm know the hazards there, yet still live there

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