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Hawaii volcano could be on verge of major eruption

Posted by $ nickursis 5 years, 10 months ago to Culture
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You just have to wonder, people who build on an active volcano, and then get pissy when it eats their house? This seems so surreal, when people are not intellectually capabl;e of connecting "big hot thing with fire in it" to "it frigging burned our house down" and after doing it over and over, still asking: Barbara Lozano, who lives within a mile of the plant, said she would have thought twice about buying her property if she had known the risks."Why did they let us buy residential property, knowing it was a dangerous situation? Why did they let people build all around it?" she asked.
SOURCE URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/volcano-explosion-wont-deadly-people-stay-park-060754463.html


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  • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 10 months ago
    "Why did they let us buy residential property, knowing it was a dangerous situation? Why did they let people build all around it?"
    Duh.
    No personal responsibility whatsoever.
    Typical resident of Hawaii, the Communist state. Worse than CA, MA, and NY combined.
    Cut them loose. They don't understand what it means to be free and I doubt any education program can solve "stupid".
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 5 years, 10 months ago
    Or why me dino would not (think Katrina) would not ever buy beachfront property along the Gulf Of Mexico coast I'm the most familiar with.
    Mother Nature can be a really mean female dog.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
      You would think this would have been obvious after Camille...but nooooo. I went to Biloxi in 2014 and it was still trashed, but now you do have to build on a platform above the Katrina flood line, and able to withstand 120mph wind, up to the flood line at the railroad tracks, so something will be better. Selling land on a live volcano is like have a used car place with Pintos and Corvairs only....stupid.
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  • Posted by dukem 5 years, 10 months ago
    I lived for about a year in Sicily, on a rocky ocean beach (old lava) with a view of Mt. Etna, an active volcano. It erupted once while I was there (happens fairly frequently) and the big thrill was to go up to where it was erupting and walk on the semi solid molten lava with shoes that were capable of the heat. The people were used to it and it was no big deal to them, even when villages were periodically destroyed. I suppose one gets used to it. I, however, was pretty scared, but nevertheless went up to the mouth of the volcano periodically. But I was in my twenties, and immortal then.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
      Well, if something went wrong did anyone cry to the media and want it fixed? Is it declared a disaster when some lava or ash comes out? Usually I would say no, as you hear about the item and then that's it.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 5 years, 10 months ago
    Building on the side of a live volcano? Not any nuttier than building on eroding cliffs in California's Pacific coast. It's the breath-taking view, followed by the breath-taking disaster of your home tumbling into the Pacific or bursting into flames. It could happen tomorrow or in 600 years. Toss those dice. Oops, sorry, you lose.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
      Exactly. And now we have the Cascadia Subduction Zone to add to the fun. When that goes, there wont be enough money in the whole government to pay for "rebuilding.".
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  • Posted by $ TomB666 5 years, 10 months ago
    It makes me wonder how people so stupid have the money to live in an expensive place like Hawaii???
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
      That is why they are on the side of a volcano, they wanted the life, but couldn't afford it on the socialist havens they all voted for the last 20 years. So, an apt punishment, "for your sins go live on a volcano". The lady in the story said she couldn't afford the other islands so she bought her lot for 35K 10 years ago...bad investment I guess.
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  • Posted by chad 5 years, 10 months ago
    There is no 'safe' place on this planet. Everything has a price or a trade off. If you like living in a lush tropical climate there are storms that may destroy you, sometimes nearby volcanos and when you decide that you can live within a certain distance and still be safe and then the planet does something you didn't expect you must deal with it. There are so many things humans are not in control of. Get used to it. Sometimes the best laid plans are laid bare by probability and outcome. There is a remote chance the earth could be hit by an asteroid. I don't plan on leaving soon and if I wait too long and it happens I won't be calling anyone to complain. I will be trying to figure out what the best thing to do at that moment is.
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  • Posted by wiggys 5 years, 10 months ago
    is what is going on now not major?
    rhe folks over there think it is.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 10 months ago
      The thing is, the media is making the people seem to think it is. Sure it is a big deal for people who live there, when a fissure opens up in their backyard, but one has to ask "Why do you live there if you are not prepared to deal with it"? You do not see the continuous whining "oh my God" reporting on these events anywhere else (Indonesia has stuff like this all the time, plus the odd tsunami) yet you will get one or two articles and then gone. Same deal, they live on a volcano and deal with the results. Hawaii just wants to be special, and the media has their own agenda. I am waiting for them to find a way to blame it all on Trump.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 5 years, 10 months ago
    Reminds me of people building in New Orleans where large portions of it are at or below sea level, surrounded on three sides by water and located in a hurricane zone. Duh-oh.
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  • Posted by term2 5 years, 10 months ago
    Do you still own the “land” you bought even though its now under a few feet of cooled off lava?
    Still have the view and the weather and I bet yyou don’t get ever run by lava a second time (it flows somewhere else). Maybe rebuilt on top of the lava or bore through it for support columns
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