Concern for Leilani Estates as lava moves eastward underground

[WestCoastGal]

Feed from Kapoho camera switch a few minutes ago and to a live feed from a FB user. The Summit just sent up major plumes from a rock fall. Not sure if this happened at this eruption or not but the live feed scrolling text says that the Summit's thermal camera #4 has been out since this morning's eruption.

This was from @Epic Live On LiveFB's feed right now. South side of HVNP will be seeing ash fall from this. The guy said not to panic people but these plumes will be making breathing more difficult especially for people with resperatory issues or young and old, and they should have their dust masks ready for the particulate. He's filming from the road there which he had panned to. He asked if you know people who are south and have breathing issues to alert them this ash cloud is coming their way. Camera for Kapoho is back to it's feed. This VolcanoYT streaming site is great for updates. 

BTW since I'm kind of new to watching these YT feeds, in my browser (Safari) you can simply click on the speaker icon in the URL to turn on and off the volume to the streaming. Thought I'd mention for other newbies . The explosions coming from the 132 feed are look really high and loud. Not settling down from what I can see.

You can scrub back a bit from the end of the live feed stream and see the camera from the Summit if you want to catch it for yourself.

[WestCoastGal]

Latest map of flow and erruptions:

BTW if you were watching when the live Honolulu Civil Beat on LiveFB went out, it's now restarted and back up.

From the text scrolling on the live feed site a few minutes ago - WXChasing reports that F19 and an undefined spot, likely a new F20, are now both active. F19 is fairly close to PGV. F18 remains quite active with continued flows and explosive behavior.

I seen now how there's only a small open non-lava filled spot in the F8 flow. Has this been closing up?

 

[WestCoastGal]

From the text scroll on the live site: "Residents of lower between Kapoho and Kalapana are advised to be on the alert in the event of possible gas emissions and volcanic eruption. There may be little to no advance notice to evacuate, so take this time to prepare".

Here's the news from KHON on Fissure 20 that opened in Lanipuna Gardens near PGV.

Crap just lost a bunch of update text. Let's see if I can recall. The guy who is staying at the house on 132 is packing to leave shortly for the airport. WXChasing and I think Brandon will still be there at the house, and they are working with the homeowners to establish a permanent live feed camera at their house so they can run it from back in the office. He mentioned that he knows most people watching are there for this volcanic activity but hopes people will subscribe to their Civil Beat website and newsletter to continue support them. They do a live spot on Fridays and this Friday he will be talking about his time down in Lower Puna during this. Should be interesting and worth catching. 

If you scrub back through the end of the video (which you can see a time code to give you), you'll see him rotate the camera to show where the fissures are in the area. Quite a number of them including F20 which is only visible as some steam right now through some trees. He does pan the area with the camera and points out all the fissures with F17 being the most explosive. Saw a really high plume with black lava being ejected even higher than the plume. More flying lava above the trees.  This current steam vent area right now is really under pressure. Camera's going down. Not sure when they will reestablish the feed. Guess we can keep checking back on this site. He did mention WXChasing.com (not his facebook account) so maybe we'll see more there. That or on Honolulu Civil Beat when he's back in the office.

[WestCoastGal]

Busy day out there on the Rift!

The guy shooting this live stream, Ryan Finlay on LiveFB Grup, LavaTracker (also Ken Boyer on LiveFB streaming as well, both visible on) is reporting this in his feed being shared below.

got this screen capture from his feed. They are talking about all these people walking and driving. BTW USGS and Ryan both have said the cloud is going toward the Ka'uDesert side (drifting general west and southwest from Summit) however communities downwid are likely to receive ashfall.

Ryan is interviewing a local resident, Susan, who was concerned about her cows and her neighbors animals and crops. 

USGS says this is NOT the big one btw. This is not a volcanic eruption but a steam eruption. You can see why HVNP closed the park ahead of time. Ken Boyer is at the 26 mile marker (later said 27 mile marker) outside the park broadcasting now. Photo from his feed earlier on. Says he's about 3 to 3-1/2 miles from the Summit crater.

Ken ran out of battery after 2 hours of live streaming (said he started at something like 97% and almost depleted). Howard Dashefski (sorry don't see it typed out) is now live streaming. Civil Defense about 15 minutes ago announced another rock fall. Here's the plume:

Not sure whose video feed this is from as there's no audio but they were running through an open field to get this view:

[Gonzer]

Debbie, thank you for all the work you're putting into this, it is greatly appreciated since West Coast news barely talks about this. One question, and I hope nobody takes this wrong; Why do we not see more native Hawaiians? All the homeowners seem to be haoles.

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks. Hopefully people come here for the news on the area and spend some time on the palm threads and join in the discussions. As much as I can I try to add links to the original news sources for a more complete view of happenings if people want to know more.

As to the makeup, honestly probably just the news you are seeing Gonzer. While doing my internet research and things I've posted links to, seen and or heard, native Hawaiians have been interviewed at the Info Supply Center, news interviews with cars leaving Leilani, at the Pahoa Civil Defense community meetings and as well as some of those posting videos. 

USGS has posted their photos of the ash plume at the Summit. No update on the Alert page or Maps yet.

This is from the camera feed #3 from Kapoho. Looks like the fissures along Hwy 132 and not from the Summit. And the fissure build up of lava looks to be pretty high from what I can judge from the picture. What do you locals think? and is that a rain cloud there above the area?

Just another rock fall and very dark plume rising above the Summit. 

Looks like the view once again from where Ken Boyers was. Maybe he's back after getting his battery recharged. 

Ken was saying to a commentor online that the darkness is all from the ash cloud above. Says its a beautiful day actually and turned around to show this view.

[WestCoastGal]

If you want a larger, sharper view of just the Hwy 132 fissure area, go to Livestormchasing.com/map and click on the eye icon next to Brandon Clement name (WXChasing). A map comes up showing the labeled fissures, click on the green button, then the Play arrow. Live footage from the house down from 132 is back up.

https://livestormchasing.com/map

BTW I have both live sites opened right now to catch what's going on at the Summit and at 132 close up and the VolcanoYT site has about a 1/2 minute delay from the LiveStormChasing site.

USGS has updated their Alert as of 12:28pm HST. GPS monitoring indicates magma continuing to be supplied to the lower rift. While earthquake occurances continue to be elevated, the earthquake locations have not moved downrift in the past couple of days.

[WestCoastGal]

Hey some wildlife! Scott (ApauHawaiiTours) posted a video from Kahukai near Leilani of a property with wild pigs on it. The mom looks to be staring Scott down. We see some wild pigs (and some are wild boars with the tusks) in our local Calif parks around here and they can be mean. The road outside of this location has a wide deep crack.

The clouds near the PGV plant and Hwy 132 are massive and nicely lit in the morning sun. 

This is not good news for the Big Island: http://bigislandnow.com/2018/05/15/bee-disease-detected-on-the-big-island-of-hawaii/  Pass the news on if you know any beekeepers on the Island.

Wow look at the image from Kahoha cam now. Forgot which way Kapoha cam was angled duh! and clearly not a rain cloud or fissure eruption plume but the drifting plume cloud from the Summit.

Latest update from Big Island Now on Kilauea and on activity down by PGV/Hwy 132. Sounds like fissure 21 may have opened up. F20 and 21 are just up-rift from F17.

[WestCoastGal]

Reading on the YT site for World Events and Wonders that they are saying that WXchasing's feed being shown on VolcanoYT is illegal. The owner told him that he submitted a take down notice to YT so only a matter of time before VolcanoYT is shut down. He says that his site can't use WXchasing's feed so I think this means if you want to watch Brandon's feed from the Hwy 132 house you'll need to view it on LiveStormChasing.com. So heads up.

[WestCoastGal]

Just uploaded from Scott just a little while ago and he was down on Moku @ 1:53 pm HST. Cracks are growing quickly. He's driving through sulfur and not steam so likely last time he drives over there. He said Nohea you can't get through so Malama would be shut off then.

 

[Kim]

2 hours ago, Gonzer said:

Debbie, thank you for all the work you're putting into this, it is greatly appreciated since West Coast news barely talks about this. One question, and I hope nobody takes this wrong; Why do we not see more native Hawaiians? All the homeowners seem to be haoles.

Gonz, according to the most recent Hawaiian population census and demographics data, about 10% of the population is Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. Thus if 90% of the people appear to be haole, well... Beyond that, there are some Native Hawaiian Homeland subdivisions, and it happens that Leilani Estates, Lanipuna Gardens, and Kapoho do not have this designation.

[WestCoastGal]

Big Island Video News report overlaid with Paradise Helicopters aerial footage and USGS photos. 

 

[Mangosteen]

2 hours ago, Gonzer said:

Debbie, thank you for all the work you're putting into this, it is greatly appreciated since West Coast news barely talks about this. One question, and I hope nobody takes this wrong; Why do we not see more native Hawaiians? All the homeowners seem to be haoles.

Genuine native Hawaiians were pretty much wiped out by disease soon after Cook arrived in 1778. A year later Chinese labor arrived and fortunately had children with the few remaining natives. The kids were born with immunity from the diseases. Later,  labor was brought in from Japan, Portugal, Spain, Puerto Rico and a few other countries. Today, after many generation of mixed marriages, you have what some people might call  local "Hawaiian" individuals. If you walk down the street in "local" areas, this is the kind of person you'll meet. 

Puna, for the most part, is not a area where a lot of local families are from. Its a fairly new area that was developed in the 1960's as opposed to most areas in the islands that have had generations and generations of residence. Many haoles bought the inexpensive land in Puna and built homes and this trend continues to this day. However, haoles only make up about 25% of the population in Puna, but you do seem to see a lot of them there as compared to other areas in Hawaii. You might see more haoles in the videos because the locals, knowing the danger, have hightailed it out of there. Hanging around to see what will happen, might be more of a haole thing to do.

[Mangosteen]

1 hour ago, Kim said:

Gonz, according to the most recent Hawaiian population census and demographics data, about 10% of the population is Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. Thus if 90% of the people appear to be haole, well... Beyond that, there are some Native Hawaiian Homeland subdivisions, and it happens that Leilani Estates, Lanipuna Gardens, and Kapoho do not have this designation.

Leilani Estates is 63% haole according to the latest census. 

[WestCoastGal]

Just an update on WXChasing's feed on LiveStormChasing's site. He was running low on battery and wanted to charge enough so he could run through the night so ended the broadcast. Said for about 1-1/2 hours so I'm thinking he'll be back up around 5:30pm HST (8:30pm PDT). For whatever reason he said he hadn't been able to figure out why the feed wasn't able to run on FB. Oh and VolcanoYT did get pulled recently if you tried to go there (site didn't have a license to broadcast the feed and YT took down).

Haven't seen much in the way of other news to tell you guys about. USGS did elevate Kilauea to Alert Level Warning/Red since we have the addition of the high altitude ash clouds after the Summit ash eruption.

How are you guys doing on the ground there? Do you hang out with other remaining residents in the evening? Imagine this eruption has managed to introduce some neighbors to each other that one hasn't met before. Hopefully some new friendships formed.

 

[WestCoastGal]

Thought I would post a few tv interviews. Scott Wiggers spoke to CNN this past Sunday:

 

Demian Barrios (@dbphotogallery) gave this interview on camera today to CBC News about his lava chasing:

 

And Scott was interviewed by CBS today: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-kilauea-volcano-eruption-lava-blue-flames-red-warning-ashfall-usgs-today-2018-05-15/

 

 

[Patrick]

My buddy Heath was quoted in the earlier mentioned NYTimes article. His home was right where fissure 7 or 6 or who gives a damn opened up. Entire house is gone. It's very heavy the reality for the folks who have lost their homes. I just hope the completely displaced folks, SO2 as well, figure out a way to get back to paradise soon. They all deserve it.

[WestCoastGal]

USGS updated their map. They are now showing PGV's perimeter. I noticed that F8 is now completely filled in. F20 is shown and I'm assuming the dot just above it will be F21 I had heard about today. While F17 hasn't been fully drawn out on the map they have indicated it's further most point of advance as of 6:45am HST Tuesday, again following the decent line. Getting close to the ocean and Hwy 137.

US Geological Survey:

 

The LIVE feed is back up for Brandon Clement (at the Hwy 132 house) on https://livestormchasing.com/map  Should be another light show tonight since the eruptions are still powerful and going on.

[WestCoastGal]

5 minutes ago, Patrick said:

My buddy Heath was quoted in the earlier mentioned NYTimes article. His home was right where fissure 7 or 6 or who gives a damn opened up. Entire house is gone. It's very heavy the reality for the folks who have lost their homes. I just hope the completely displaced folks, SO2 as well, figure out a way to get back to paradise soon. They all deserve it.

I can't imagine the nightmare many will face still going forward. Thankfully neither my husband nor I nor our families have ever had to be in a disaster situation where you lost your home.

For those in the volcano eruption zone I think they will qualify for federal assistance since the area has been declared a state of emergency zone. I read that those who were flooded and worse in Kauai didn't get the assistance because a certain loss amount hadn't been reached with more than half the people having insurance coverage. Not the case in Puna so hopefully your friend will at least get some help but what in the form of low cost loan. Really clueless on all this. I understand housing is tight there just like here in certain areas of California. I'm sure if you have a mortgage on your home, you're still on the hook for it. And what do you do about the lot you own if you can't even rebuild on it like after other disasters like fire. I wish Heath well. Will he stay in Hawaii do you think?

[WestCoastGal]

Hope you guys are watching the hot lava shooting up into the air on the Live feed now. Natural fireworks with red lava still falling down from the sky. Quite the show. Roman candles, starbursts just amazing to watch and sense the power. Says this is F17. He's been panning across the fissures and a number of them are very active.

Again for convenience: https://livestormchasing.com/map   Think it's the only green button on the map of Hawaii so easy to find that way (Branden Clement).

[WestCoastGal]

Scott Wiggers posted two more videos tonight on lower Kahukai. Very bad cracking and uplifting of the road pavement. In this first video he can tell someone tried to run their car over the crack and damaged their vehicle.

The road on this section of lower Kahukai has a giant crack running though someone property as well. 

 

[Hilo Jason]

At 8am this morning my wife and I were on our morning walk around Liliuokalani gardens and coconut island. 

This photo was taken from Coconut island looking back across Hilo bay. We could see the plume rising up from the summit. Unfortunately we just had our old iPhone with us so the picture quality is pretty poor. 

Pretty incredible to watch it pump out so much smoke and be visible from pretty far away. 

[DoomsDave]

@WestCoastGal, you're a trouper, keep up the information stream.

Hawaii isn't really in the news that much, at least until total carnage comes, which makes me hope Hawaii will stay out of the news.

I ran across this picture of a 2014 lava flow. And the circle continues . . . .

[WestCoastGal]

@DoomsDave , looking like a quiet news day this morning from what I can tell and I was wondering the same thing about whether after a week or so of coverage if mainstream coverage won't evaporate and news harder to come by.

I can start off with news from KHON2 that HVO is reporting that Fissure 6 at Leilani and Pohoiki Road has become active again. Yesterday evening around 5pm lava fountains and spatter were happening. Their article was published as of last night, and haven't seen it updated yet. They had indicated that Fissure 17 was pretty quiet at that point. Based on the numerous, continuous erruptions near PGV last night that I watch live, I'm confident that the lava flow in that area was up significantly and will be interesting to see updated reports on how much it traveled. Also looking forward to flyover video. 

I stayed up last night until around midnight or so watching the NE-end firework eruptions. I know Honolulu Civil Beat had left the house on Hwy 132 yesterday and pretty sure I had heard Brandon Clement (WXChasing) mention he was leaving this morning. He might still be there and sleeping given it's 4:20 in the morning but his feed is offline so no camera views. I thought there was one more guy staying at the house but not seeing anything posted from that area. Hopefully Honolulu Civil Beat can work something out with the homeowners to keep a feed going there at least while the eruptions in front of them are happening. Maybe they'll say something on their website or in their live Friday broadcast. 

If you missed the seeing Pele's display near PGV last night, WXChasing has posted a few videos on his website including some footage from last night. I'm seeing 3 videos tagged with a Wed. 5/16s date which was from coverage yesterday.

I know the Summit cameras were knocked out yesterday from the early morning ash explosion. We should still have a few cameras in the Summit area working and there's also the Kapoho camera that gave a view of the Fissures by PGV that will be online with views come daylight.

Here's a great, well deserved story on Ikaika Marzo by KHON2. Article on him along with Video interview with Howard Dashefsky. Leilani Estates was lucky to have Ikaika there from the start.

[WestCoastGal]

A few updates to report. 

From Honolulu Star-Advertiser (updated this morning): The Ash advisory for Kau district has been cancelled today. 

Hwy 130 is open beyond Malama for local residents only. Since there are metal plates covering the cracks, no large trailers or heavy equipment will be allowed. 

Surprisingly this mornings update says that the lava from F17 has not advanced since Tuesday. 

Air quality is Condition Red (immediate danger to health/limit further exposure) around fissures in the SE area of Lanipuna Gardens and surrounding farm lots on Pohoiki Road. 

 

Here's Mick Kalber's/Paradise Helicopters latest video. The aerial coverage is from yesterday during the day and as you can tell from the pull out video from NE of Fissure 17 looking SW to Leilani Estates, I counted maybe 11 fissures in LE with large amounts of steam still eminating from the fissure sites. The nighttime video is pretty representative of what it looked like last night.

USGS yesterday posted a new thermal map of the fissure system NE of Lanipuna Gardens. 

US Geological Society:

[WestCoastGal]

Scott Wiggers (ApauHawaiiTours), was up early today and posted a number of early morning videos. He was back on Kahukai (pig location) and Moku again. He meets Bill who joins him on the walk. The sulfur is really bad and they see red hot lava down on Kahukai at one of the fissure areas (second video).

BTW he did mention during his very early dog walk video (not posted here) that he has a tour to conduct tomorrow so will gone for 8 hours during the day. Not sure if we will have any video updates of LE until Friday. His customers had arranged to visit HVNP ahead of time and thankfully are still interested in touring other areas.

 

Given the earthquake map shows concentrated activity in the current area (and not so much beyond), I think Bill is correct that the lava maybe plugged or slowed down in the current area.

After Bill goes his own way, Scott heads back to the Moku area to try to reach the void in lava there. He says he heard on a news story last night that a vehicle got stuck in a crack up in this area. Downed utility pole and wires in the roadway. Huge fissure cone in one burnt out lot, house next door with lava rock wall in front untouched from what he can tell. Everything is brown however. He leaves this area of Moku headed for the void.

His mom saw a part of his interview on CBS this morning. I saw the CBS news article that mentioned him and posted it last night but didn't see the interview with David Begnaud (Scott talks about the interview during his early morning dog walk video btw). I just check the CBS linked article again, and noticed off to the side several "trending" videos on that page and his interview with David is in the one marked "CBS This Morning - Hawaii volcano spews giant plumes of ash". CBS keeps their video on site so you'll need to look for it there. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-kilauea-volcano-eruption-lava-blue-flames-red-warning-ashfall-usgs-today-2018-05-15/

 

[WestCoastGal]

USGS updated their Alert page. Interestingly it says that field crews estimate that Fissure 17 only advanced maybe a 100 yards. (If it wasn't flowing it must have been mound building the existing flow I think because there sure was a lot of spatter that I saw.)

Volcanic gases remain elevated downwind of vents throughout. A change in the trade winds may bring VOG to other areas so residents are encouranged to keep checking forecasts.

One of the interesting aspects of yesterday's Halemaumau steam explosions were the ballistic blocks found in the parking lot near it. Up to 2 feet in size. Could represent the beginning of steam-driven explosive activity. "Additional such explosions are expected and could be more powerful'.

[Mike in LB]

This is the plume over the vents near Leilani Estates at 7:30 this morning.  Picture was taken in Pahoa about 7 miles away.

Mike Arends

Nohea St, north of Leilani Ave

[Gonzer]

20 minutes ago, Mike in LB said:

This is the plume over the vents near Leilani Estates at 7:30 this morning.  Picture was taken in Pahoa about 7 miles away.

Mike Arends

Nohea St, north of Leilani Ave

No Bueno! Looks like an F20 tornado (if they went that high).

[WestCoastGal]

Wow @mike in kurtistown. Kind of reminds me of the summer California forest fires we saw this past year driving down the coast. Also looks similar to one of the Summit explosions yesterday, mean and high! Gonzer's right that it looks like it could be a twister. 

Saw this photo showing a different view of it on the USGS site taken during their 8:25am overfight. Caption mentions the sulfur dioxide plumes rising from the fissures and accumulating in the cloud deck. Hope you guys get those tradewinds back soon. Does the air smell of sulfur at ground level at all? There's got to be a lot of it up there above. If you saw a few of the videos Scott took this morning he saw quite a bit of sulfur on the rocks down near Kuhuiki and Brandon over by F17 said he could smell it at times last night. Civil Defense still has a red warning for SO2 for the PGV area.

[bgl]

Yeah, I came through Pahoa town at 8 am this morning and saw that plume as well. And after a week and a half in San Diego and Portland (OR) I am now back here on the frontlines.  Drove around a little bit this morning and here are some of the photos I took. And the difference between different parts of Leilani Estates is striking, to say the least (as Justin has already mentioned). The area north of Leilani Avenue and (roughly) west of Nohea Street is totally "normal", even though you can sense that the air is just a little bit different from what it's supposed to be, but nothing that's of concern. I stopped by at my old garden this morning, now the KP Lundkvist Palm Garden. I walked around and took a bunch of photos and will be posting some of those in Discussing Palm Trees later today (hopefully - some other things need to get taken care of first). I also walked about 900 ft onto the Kamehameha property, which is where I ran a palm nursery a few years ago.Back around 2006-2010 I had large areas cleared back here, and also built a number of trails through the forest. When the nursery was liquidated in early 2011, the lease also had expired and in the seven years since nature has really taken back everything that I had cleared - and more! I could hardly recognize the area, and had a hard time getting through some of the thicker weeds. Anyway - the first two photos show what most of the area STILL looks like, and just beyond it (no more than 50-70 ft) is Fissure #11 and 12, still smoldering in many places. Needless to say, I didn't stick around...

[bgl]

After walking around in my old garden, and back to Fissure #11 and 12, I drove the short distance east to where Pomaikai Street meets up with Malama Street. I know this area very well because I turn that corner every single morning when I'm out on my morning walk. Pomaikai is shown as blocked off on some maps (just north of Malama). It is NOT blocked off, but could potentially be. There are some cracks in the road on both Pomaikai and Malama but they are easy to drive across. The owner of the house on the corner (and I know him) came down to the street and invited me to come onto his property and take photos, and here they are. There is another house beyond his house (going towards Moku Street) and to say that the houses are dangerously close to the current activity would be a major understatement. Some of these cracks had opened up since yesterday!  First photo shows Malama Street (looking east, with his house up on the hill). I should add that ALL these photos (#2 through #5) are taken either right next to his house, or his neighbors house.

[WestCoastGal]

Glad you are getting to check on things there and love the nice green vegetation pictures . And look forward to more! Been tiring of the brown stuff. And seeing the brown landscape in the ones you did post that must have been hard to see that area knowing how it looked before. Not sure we've seen ground photos of F11 & 12 before. 

[bgl]

Then I drove out to Leilani Avenue, made a righhand turn, drove one block and another right on Moku Street heading south. The steep part at the extreme southern end of Moku Street is where the garden with a number of Marojejya darianii palms (and other unusual palms) is/was located and I was curious as to the condition of the garden. I was not able to get right next to it - it just didn't seem like a good idea. These two photos were taken only about ten minutes apart, and all of a sudden there were gases coming out of vents left and right so I made a quick escape after taking a handful of photos (next post). This is looking south on Moku Street. The car is a HELCO truck (Hawaii Electric Company).

[bgl]

As I mentioned earlier, the difference between the area immediately north of Leilani Avenue and south of it is extreme, to say the least. The southern part of Moku is like a war zone. Here are the photos I took of the "Marojejya garden" just before all the gases began to invade the area, and the property just to the north of it. The house on the Marojejya property is still standing, but is clearly beyond the point of no return. The house on the property just north of it has been destroyed by the lava, which has invaded most of the property, as can be seen in the second photo showing the driveway. The fourth photo is looking north towards Leilani Avenue.

[bgl]

And two more photos - the last for now. Leilani Avenue is blocked off at Nohea Street. In other words, it's possible to drive in from Highway 130 (assuming you are a resident) all the way to Nohea Street, but not beyond. This is what it looks like there, and the massive flow in the distance is the flow that extends from Luana Street, across Leilani Avenue, across Makamae and all the way to Ho'okupu Street. (I simply zoomed in on the lava in the first photo).

[WestCoastGal]

@mike in kurtistown should be glad to know HELCO is out today. Hope he gets power back to his place. They seem to be out in force from the latest video that Scott posted:

Scott was also reporting that F5 (near Kahukai and Leilani) has come back to life. Not a sound of steaming you want to hear near you. If the magma is blocked up near F17, there might be even more activity back in LE which I hope not even if the area is still hot. Also could be the reason for more signs of road and land deformation. 

 

Bo the photos from the Pomokai and Malama area are jaw dropping. Hope that neighbor's not staying in his house, I know I couldn't and might even have trouble feeling comfortable going back into it during the day should there be any more shifting. Did have to kind of smile when I looked at the second photo with the Weber visible. If you didn't see the giant ground crack in the foreground someone might think the burnt vegetation was due to a BBQ accident . Those are some serious deformation issues to overcome down the road.

Bo this must be surreal for you to see in person even though you've been looking at the photos. I'm so sorry your beautiful Leilani Estates and your neighborhood is facing this. Sounds like you have and had some wonderful neighbors living there. Did Kim go back too?

 

 

[WestCoastGal]

Bo I think you were going to add photos of the Marojejya garden property. Like to see them when you have the time. 

Also as you have time curious to hear what you make of the Hwy 130 crack location (think that subdivision off Ala'ili is still evacuated). Haven't seen anything new about that area with the exception of them adding steel plates over 130 so local residents can cross.

[bgl]

21 minutes ago, WestCoastGal said:

Bo I think you were going to add photos of the Marojejya garden property. Like to see them when you have the time. 

Also as you have time curious to hear what you make of the Hwy 130 crack location (think that subdivision off Ala'ili is still evacuated). Haven't seen anything new about that area with the exception of them adding steel plates over 130 so local residents can cross.

I did post photos of the Marojejya garden - sort of. The two posts I added right after your post "Glad you're getting back". I walked up Moku Street as far as I felt it was safe to do so, and as soon as I had done so the entire area between me and my parked truck began to fill up with gases so I made a VERY quick exit. Even if that hadn't happened I didn't really feel it was safe to walk closer to the Marojejya property. And the property owner on the corner of Malama and Pomaikai does NOT spend the night there, and he was very specific about that. He also seemed resigned to the fact that the house may be gone soon. Lots of cracks on all sides of the house and some of them are DEEP. Can't even see the bottom. Again, I wasn't about to spend too much time there... At my house, only 3/4 of a mile away (and I am also on Pomaikai, but north of Leilani) - totally different and absolutely surreal. Sun is shining and it's a very nice day. Every now and then you hear a very large boom, I believe from Fissure #17 some 2 miles away, and on a few occasions today we had some minor earthquakes. But ZERO damage from the 6.9 the other week.

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17 hours ago, Hilo Jason said:

At 8am this morning my wife and I were on our morning walk around Liliuokalani gardens and coconut island. 

This photo was taken from Coconut island looking back across Hilo bay. We could see the plume rising up from the summit. Unfortunately we just had our old iPhone with us so the picture quality is pretty poor. 

Pretty incredible to watch it pump out so much smoke and be visible from pretty far away. 

You're photo reminds me that the Big Island isn't really all that big. Hadn't really thought about being able to see an ash cloud from HVNP over in Hilo. That's such a great place to walk around there down by the park. When we were staying in Hilo many years ago we were right there at one of the hotels on Banyon Drive. Just remember it was the hotel that had ground level parking under the hotel and had cars submerged in the garage when the tsunami came thought many years ago. I really love that area and the area up north of it along the coast.