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A relative of the home's owners, who live on the mainland, arhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2829361/Lava-flow-volcano-incinerates-home-Hawaiis-Big-Island.html
d at the site to watch the house burn, officials said. That family member drove from another part of the island about two hours away and used an iPhone to take video of the house burning.
The county estimates the value of the home at about $200,000, Oliveira said.
The 800 residents that reside at the base of Kilauea Volcano were warned of a potential evacuation when it erupted in late June.
Around 50 families in the lava's projected path abandoned their homes.
The flow entered Puna on October 26 and engulfed a cemetery.
On Sunday, officials suspected the lava had come to a complete and final standstill 480 feet from the main street that runs through the town, which remains closed.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,515 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,515 posts)Warpy
(111,122 posts)Absentee owners from the mainland were traveling in to watch it burn down. Tenant has been gone for some time.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,515 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Looks like a northeastward flow, and it's some distance to that house on Cemetery Road across from the transfer station.
The main drag is only another half mile, maybe less, in the same direction.
Crap!
Cha
(296,773 posts)My son had property on Hilo for awhile and it was going to be a good investment until the things started changing as they are wont to do.. but, he was still able to sell it.. only not at what it would have been the previous year.
Mahalo Liberal in LA
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)nt
LostInAnomie
(14,428 posts)... but why can't they just dig a trench or a deep hole to keep the lava away from the houses?
Cha
(296,773 posts)MOre..
http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/07/28/lava-flows-you-cant-stop-you-c/
DFW
(54,268 posts)It's easier to explain if you've been there to see it. Pele ALWAYS has more lava than the Islanders could ever dig trenches. It's like digging a swimming pool to save your beach house from a Tsunami.
LostInAnomie
(14,428 posts)Ex Lurker
(3,811 posts)they've had weeks to prepare. Other volcanic areas of the world are not so fortunate.
DFW
(54,268 posts)I've seen it up close, though, and it's a slow, steady creep. You think you have a eye on it until you realize the soles of your shoes are melting, and it's time to get the hell away.
malaise
(268,664 posts)Damn!