“If it goes up, it will come down,” said Charles Mandeville, volcano hazards coordinator for the U.S. Geological Survey. “You don’t want to be underneath anything that weighs 10 tons when it’s coming out at 120 mph (193 kph).”
I'm pretty sure you don't want to be underneath anything that weighs ten tons regardless of the speed it's traveling??
Well clouds weigh 200 tons on average, and you don't see people panicking when they are underneath those, so its even more incorrect.
not just that ive also walked under bridges which weigh tonnes and got out the other side alive
She said she was sad to lose her home but also felt a sense of renewal brought on by Pele, the Hawaiian volcano goddess. She said the eruption was Pele’s way of correcting overpopulation of the island.
There seems to be a resurgence in gods wanting to address overpopulation recently...
she is a very smart woman, i don't doubt it
Perfect time for me to be on vacation back home lol. Actually toured Kilauea and the Volcanoes National Park way back in Elementary School.
I'm on Oahu so thankfully pretty far from the Big Island (where the volcano and eruptions are happening) but tbh all the vog that's been spewing out is wrecking my respiratory system. I've been living on Claritin since I got home while normally I've been fine in the past.
While it is sad that there's pretty much nothing you can do to stop it, small eruptions/lava flows are a pretty regular occurrence (about yearly) on the Big Island so those homeowners must've realized the risk living there would be. Seems like things are a bit bigger this time around though.
While it's obviously awful for the people affected by this, I hope they get some good footage.
Fuck the vog I've been sneezing and coughing the past couple of days, the allergy pills I take don't really help with it
At least it seems to be a bit better today.
I still question the logic of moving to an island with multiple active volcanos on it
moving to Tornado Ally makes more sense than that
Eh, they're not nearly as bad as you think. Eruptions are very rare.
I lived in Sicily and Mt Etna was a active volcano. It is pretty cool watching lava come out of it at night, but it was never any danger. Now the last time Etna had an eruption was a few years ago (I think), but the authorities did a lot to mitigate the danger.
Tornadoes are way more common than volcanic eruptions. Also volcanoes usually accompany beautiful landscapes and interesting geology. I know it's a grass is always greener scenerio but living in tornadoe alley comes with it's own gripes. The first monday of every month is usually siren test day but it's easy to forget so you get a spooky monday. Also volcanoes are usually curtious enough to give an advanced warning. Tornadoes sometimes just show the hell up after a nice sunny spring day. I was hiking once when a tornadoe just swung to the south of me by about a mile. It was small but it took of some roofs and made my ears pop.
Because tornadoes and volcanoes don't happen every day, to massive amounts of people to the point where those regions are 100% inhospitable.
Same reason we have people living on Caribbean islands despite the risk of category 5 hurricanes hitting them.
Living near or on a volcano is kind of a tradeoff, they tend to be absolutely gorgeous places.
Also yeah, inclement weather exist pretty much anywhere
Fair enough, i can't argue against any of those points considering every volcanic area i can think of is beautiful
And hell, hurricanes are much nicer than tornadoes, lethality-wise, because you get so much warning.
Sometimes with tornadoes shit happens and people get screwed, but there's really no reason hurricanes should result in fatalities.
IIRC volcanoes are similar? And even on the big island of hawaii, there's 3 active volcanos, but only one of them, Kīlauea, is a very active and prevalent threat. Mauna Loa pops every few decades and no one has died from it in the 20th century (no eruptions have happened since '84.) Hualālai hasn't popped since 1801, tho it's thought that it'll do it sometime this century. But this basically as long as the government keeps monitoring them, and people aren't stubborn, then the volcanoes aren't really a serious problem that should dissuade one from living there.
If anything the earthquakes in the area cause more damage more regularly.
Even the wrath of nature has its own unique beauty.
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