Well, not yet. Not all of it, anyway. But the little village on the east side of the Big Island of Hawaii is certainly threatened and, in fact, the first home was lost to the creeping lava today. Over the past day or so, the flow slowed and even stopped briefly. But it has resumed,…
Kilauea volcano on the Island of Hawaii — referred to here simply as The Big Island — continues to pump out lava, is now about a third of a mile from the little town of Pahoa, and there’s not a damn thing anyone can do about it. This volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983….
“Relentless” is one of the words best describing the lava flow oozing from the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The volcano has been erupting for 30 years, but until few months ago all it has put forth is ash. That’s an irritating problem, because it ends up as a haze that hangs…
I arrived here in Hawaii some 52 years ago and, as with all newcomers, couldn’t get over how consistently beautiful and benign the weather was. A typical afternoon in August would be sunny, temperature in the upper 80s, and a breeze from the northeast at perhaps 10 miles an hour. A typical afternoon in February…