Lets talk story......and lava flow update 9/4 Lava flow (s) Today I helped a friend pack up large furnishings and important things and was storing them in a storage unit. All, with no urgency. For a large part of KaOhe Homesteads had moved out. Livestock, gone. One landowner, who just got it paid off, said Im out of here. Left it, walked away. But my friends Linda and Forest, even though after realizing the reality of things, which we all go through, the little freak out period, but then we get reconnected and we see what it is. Forest kept saying, Ive gotta mow the lawn. Gotta keep the place looking nice. Well, then later, that story line connected with a friend of Linda, who came out to Lindas house tonight. She shared with us stories of TuTu Pele, and the many years of eruptions, going back to 1798, 1890, 1959,1961, and of course, the one that had been famous since the 80s until recently in Kalapana. Now the new one. Each of the years she told a story and how homes were saved, and how homes were lost. For those that stayed, cleaned house, mowed the lawn, and prepared for a guest, TuTu Pele.....would pass. Her mothers house, was saved 3 times from the Kalapana lava flow. She told Linda that the lava will flow north and south of her. Stay, mow the lawn, prepare for a guest. Offer her gin, and have a drink yourself, 3 each, to be exact!! Listening to these stories was amazing, powerful, and so meaningful. The latest update: 9/4 I was at the meeting tonight, and of course, a lot of it is theory at this point, unless you talk to a local that knows! :-) The lava is .8 miles from the first property in Kaohe Homesteads. It has split in two. One headed more towards Pahoa and could cross 130 in 1 month to 8 months,depending on the speed, cracks, tubes, etc. Or could even stop. Or it could enter a tube and disappear and come up down in Kapoho, or anywhere along the east rift zone. Like it did in 1960 in Kapoho. Even when it is flowing fast, its been 1/10 a mile in a day, so this is something, or its an experience and chance to watch Pele creating, re-creating the landscape. Everyone who lives here on the big island, should, and mostly do, realize that this is an active volcano, especially Puna. Theres a lot of people here in the whole Puna district, 43.000, but thats the district, from Volcano to Keauu to Pahoa. They estimate if 130 gets cut off, they have to help 15,000 people find an alternate route. Many have been planned. Open Railroad, Govt/Beach Rd, or Red Road through WaaWaa through to HPP. They have also identified many other old farm roads, cane roads, that could be open. And only IF needed, the Chain of Craters Road. Now again, all of this is based on possibilities, and solutions and plans to the possibilities, for its not truly known, or can they predict exactly what Pele is going to do. We wait, we watch, we respect, we honor, and we allow Pele to go and do what she needs to do. She is welcome.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:56:30 +0000
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