No Topic Thread

Kapea

Kapea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wavYOp0McA0

Kapea

Travis Sanders did a FB Live broadcast from the roof of his house on Leilani Ave in Leilani Estates (see video above). That is a 20ft. flagpole in his front yard. That makes the spatter rampart around 20ft. high. The clanking that you hear is gobs of molten spatter landing on and burning the metal roof of his house.

Here are a couple of aerial photos of fissure No.3 a couple of hours prior to his Live FB broadcast. Travis' house is the green-roofed house at the bottom of the photos.

Travis has more video up on Facebook. FB Search: Travis Sanders Pahoa, Hawaii

grim

She's not happy

Kapea

Webcam showing Leilani: Timestamp in HST (UTC -10)

It will update automaticlly.

Smaug

What about your doors and windows? Do they still function optimally?

Kapea

I never close them, so it doesn’t matter. Most of my windows only have screen in them anyway. The doors I close are screen sliders on tracks. Alignment on those is almost irrelevant.

That kinda sucks when the vog (volcano smog) blows this way though. Most of the time the tradewinds blow the vog away from my windows. Thousands of miles of open ocean upwind. Yesterday morning it was still and the air smelled of sulfur and burning rainforest for a while. Pele can be a stinker when she has a mind to be.

punkin

I'm similar. Because my house is inside a shed i have windows and doors i never close and i have not bothered to put fly screens on any openings.

In keeping with the no topic thread....
I tapped my last full barrel of ujsm yesterday to give a bottle to a mate. Full isn't really the right word, well it was in 2011 when i filled it but it has about 25-28 of it's 54 litres left after a dip check.

Haven't distilled much since and i won't be starting back up again as far as i see, so this is the slow start to the end.

punkin

Elvis

@Smaug said: What about your doors and windows? Do they still function optimally?

I'm sure my sphincter would be functioning optimally if I was anywhere near that shit!

Kapea

This is devastating. Kapoho anchialine hot ponds and tide pools are gone. One of the most amazing places in the known universe - seriously.

Born from the volcano. Taken by the volcano. RIP Kapoho.

Elvis

I've been following all of this from Oz. Sometimes, I need to pinch myself to remember this is real. It's straight out of a reality tv show! @Kapea any correlation between what's happening on your doorstep and that in Guatamala?

Kapea

Well, they're both happening on the same planet. Other than that, not so much.

Warmers would have you believe they are being caused by global warming.

Kapea

What I've seen while standing in my yard over the last few days:

Kapea

They're not as exciting as the sensational photos and videos plastered all over the news. They're just what regular folks who live here are seeing now.

Kapea

There is a live webcam photo (updated every ten minutes or so) of the eruptive vent, fissure 8, in this video , 11 posts up above this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ1bkxAuxTk

Kapea

This is where fissure 8 opened up, looking in the direction of lava flow in the lava channel:

Kapea

When you hear someone say, "Land, they're not making it anymore!" you can call bullshit. Compare this map to the one from June 5 above. Pele's been busy...

Kapea

Kapea

I think I finally got the botanicals bill right in my gin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLMkauiTJaU

punkin

Looking at the weather at my new place compared to the weather at my old, makes me happy. Coldest night of the year so far last night i put long pants on when i got up this morning.

This time last year i was showering outside in the frost as my bathroom was being redone;

Kapea

Why Hawaiians believed Pele lives in the volcano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSafZbfGQy8

Kapea

Next weekend, in LA.
Because... somebody’s gotta do it!

Kapea

Weit, weit in der ferne
Man hört, man hört
Die musik

Just got back from the downtown palais
Where the music was so sweet
Knocked me right back in the alley
I'm ready
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm ready...

Kapea

Because volcanic eruptions are soooo yesterday we thought we'd have ourselves a Cat 5 hurricane to keep it interesting around here. It's two days out and it's already dumping rain by the tanker-load...

Smaug

Oh boy...

Pa_bon

Ouch! Being on the Gulf Coast I can relate....

To the hurricane of course......

Kapea

For scale on the forecast map above, using the Gulf of Mexico, if you were to put the 11:00PM location at the bottom on Havana, the 8:00PM location at the top would be near New Orleans.

grim

Be safe out there

Kapea

Lane ended up just being 16.5" (42cm) of rain over three days. No wind. It went south and west of my shed. No big ting bruddah. We get worse winter storms than that every year.

I live in a rain forest. Rain is what we do. That's why I run once-through condensers.