Althouse: Lava.

May 7, 2018

Lava.

93 comments:

Sprezzatura said...: I've walked over active lava tubes.

And, stood directly over where the tubes dump into the ocean. And, went back at night to really see the bright redness.

Anywho, will be staying on one of the islands w/o lava this X-mas.; 5/7/18, 12:21 PM
Achilles said...: That is surreal.

I wonder what this does for property prices.; 5/7/18, 12:23 PM
NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...: Oh, man, that sucks. Someone lost a nice Mustang. Hope it's insured.; 5/7/18, 12:25 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Some serious global warming there.....; 5/7/18, 12:26 PM
bleh said...: Someone should have broken into the car and tried to hot-wire it.; 5/7/18, 12:28 PM
Anonymous said...: If you had to choose, this is a much better type of eruption than a Strombolian one.; 5/7/18, 12:30 PM
Caldwell P. Titcomb IV said...: Fun Fact! Gollum wouldn't sink into the lava, he'd just float right on top and fry.; 5/7/18, 12:30 PM
BarrySanders20 said...: The commencement of Dr. Evil's dastardly plan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVo1S52xdpI

Liquid hot MAGMA.; 5/7/18, 12:30 PM
gspencer said...: "I love what you did with the landscaping. And those lava lamps for night time accent lighting."

Swallowing the car brought back memories of the 1958 classic, The Blob,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob; 5/7/18, 12:30 PM
buwaya said...: My wife drove along that highway a few times, visiting friends in the area.
The blocked highway is the worst effect here, it has cut off quite a lot of residents who now have to make a very long detour back to "civilization"; it makes a lot of the region much less livable. Its also going to be difficult to restore that route, as any fix will have to take lava flows into consideration.

"I wonder what this does for property prices."

Nothing good.; 5/7/18, 12:34 PM
chickelit said...: “Swallowing the car brought back memories of the 1958 classic, The Blob,”

“Someone lost a nice Mustang.”

Two oblique references to Steve McQueen.; 5/7/18, 12:39 PM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: buwaya said...

"I wonder what this does for property prices."

Nothing good.

That depends entirely on whether you are selling or buying.; 5/7/18, 12:40 PM
Ken B said...: This a cafe? No comment on Huda's pussy lightening ideas? How about suntanning? Lip darkening rouge, kohl, and anal bleaching.; 5/7/18, 12:42 PM
Drago said...: Truuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmpppppppppp!!!; 5/7/18, 12:45 PM
Chris said...: Turns out, building a house on a volcanic rift probably wasn't a good idea.; 5/7/18, 12:48 PM
Drago said...: Chris: "Turns out, building a house on a volcanic rift probably wasn't a good idea."

Man-made Global Lava-ing must be stamped out!!

Lava exchanges must be created!

Lava melts Ice-caps!

Polar Bears, ironically, most impacted by volcanic eruptions in tropical paradises!; 5/7/18, 12:51 PM
Chris said...: "I wonder what this does for property prices. "

Well, it is a hot market.; 5/7/18, 12:55 PM
The Bergall said...: Shouldn't the government offer subsidized volcano insurance?; 5/7/18, 12:56 PM
rhhardin said...: The can make millions of tourist-shop ashtrays out of that stuff.; 5/7/18, 12:57 PM
Ralph L said...: Looks like R2D2 got cooked, so the Star Wars franchise is over.; 5/7/18, 12:59 PM
Ralph L said...: I didn't expect their streets would be in a grid pattern. It doesn't jibe with jungle.; 5/7/18, 1:03 PM
Big Mike said...: A bunch of years ago a friend of mine was touring the Big Island with his wife. They were walking on top of old lava tubes near where the volcano sends its lava into the sea, when suddenly a small tree growing atop the old lava burst into flame. My friend was still thinking "Well would you look at that" when a crack opened up between him and the tour group -- not a large crack, and he had no trouble jumping over it, but the crack was filled with hot lava. Could have been a lot worse for him.; 5/7/18, 1:16 PM
CJ said...: How about the racist Sen Schatz who advised the world that citizens of Hawaii are not “Hawaiians” unless they’re brown. A white US citizen that lives in Hawaii is merely a “resident of Hawai’i”.

He’s a Democrat, if you’d believe it.; 5/7/18, 1:16 PM
AustinRoth said...: Why hasn’t a Hawaiian judge issued a nationwide injunction against lava activity?; 5/7/18, 1:17 PM
Vance said...: As fast as that lava was moving, why didn't someone just go move the car? Looks like a good twenty minute window before the lava got there. Heck, just throw a chain on it and tow it--even if it ruins the tires and does nothing for the transmission; that's sure a heck better than getting it swallowed by lava.

Wonder if insurance will cover the total loss of the car?; 5/7/18, 1:17 PM
rhhardin said...: Property prices already figure in the risk of volcano, so they're unaffected.; 5/7/18, 1:18 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Blogger Caldwell Titcomb IV said...

"Fun Fact! Gollum wouldn't sink into the lava, he'd just float right on top and fry."

The ring was pushing him down as it tried to save itself.; 5/7/18, 1:19 PM
Vance said...: Oh, and doesn't Obama come from Hawaii? Where is he?

After all, he is God, isn't he? He promised that his election would heal the earth. So why hasn't he stopped this lava? Surely a man who can stop the oceans from rising, like he said and the left told us incessantly, wouldn't be fazed by a small lava eruption.

This is all Obama's fault, isn't it?; 5/7/18, 1:19 PM
Chris said...: Just remember kids, if a volcano erupts nearby... duck and cover.; 5/7/18, 1:20 PM
rhhardin said...: The video is worth more than the car.; 5/7/18, 1:20 PM
rhhardin said...: It ought to be llava.; 5/7/18, 1:21 PM
Chris said...: "Fun Fact! Gollum wouldn't sink into the lava, he'd just float right on top and fry."

Humans are less dense than Lava or Magma, so you would float too.; 5/7/18, 1:21 PM
Oso Negro said...: That car was parked there deliberately for insurance claim purposes. I have seen the same thing in Galveston when a hurricane is roaring in.; 5/7/18, 1:23 PM
buwaya said...: "Just remember kids, if a volcano erupts nearby..."

For this sort of volcano, walk away slowly.; 5/7/18, 1:30 PM
Jim said...: I like Ivory better. The grit doesn't do well with my skin and I can't use Lava to clean my glasses.; 5/7/18, 1:41 PM
Ralph L said...: Property prices already figure in the risk of volcano, so they're unaffected.

The Pompieans agree.

My aunt inherited her parent's property at Holdens Beach, NC. It's been underwater and un-housed since Hurricane Hazel. She was paying $0.95 in annual property taxes in the 90's.; 5/7/18, 1:43 PM
Anonymous said...: Assuming this is a Lava "Cafe" I am going to post this by Roger Simon about what I also think is happening in politics today. It may be wishful thinking, but the Dems have been so busy "resisting" that they have very little to offer in the upcoming election. Do rational people really want a return to the Obama era of America groveling while the economy stutters? I don't think so.; 5/7/18, 1:52 PM
buwaya said...: Hawaii has a majority Asian population, Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos, all as brown as the native Hawaiians.
But they aren't Hawaiian, or even part Hawaiian. All are haoles too.; 5/7/18, 1:54 PM
AllenS said...: Vance at 1:19 PM beat me to it. Well played, Vance.; 5/7/18, 2:08 PM
rcocean said...: How about the racist Sen Schatz who advised the world that citizens of Hawaii are not “Hawaiians” unless they’re brown.

Schatz = native Hawaiian. No doubt brown as a berry.; 5/7/18, 2:18 PM
rcocean said...: "Hawaii has a majority Asian population"

Yes that was ridiculous thing about the George Cloony movie "The Decedents". They're in Hawaii and everyone is White except for a few Polynesians.

Magnum PI was the same. They even had a black guy - but almost no Asians.

Geez, even Jack Lord's Hawaii Five-o had some Chinese Cops.; 5/7/18, 2:21 PM
Ralph L said...: Kam Fong as Chin Ho.

The Asians in Magnum were FOBs.; 5/7/18, 2:25 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Andrew McCarthy does a really great job eviscerating the fallacious arguments for redacting the portions of the House Intelligence Oversight Committee's dealing with what Comey and McCabe literally said in closed door hearings in March of 2017 and later in December, respectively.

Those redactions have no innocent explanations- they were only done by someone attempting to cover up the fact that Comey has been lying publicly about not saying it in March of 2017, and I think it likely that Comey was lying publicly because the original 302s were altered at some point after that March testimony to conceal the agents' original analysis of the interview. I strongly suspect that the recusal of Contreres from the Flynn case is connected to this issue in some way, and it explain's Judge Sullivan's order that all exculpatory evidence be given to either Flynn and his attorney, or given to the judge himself. I am will to wager that the battle is over those original 302s.; 5/7/18, 2:28 PM
Earnest Prole said...: It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!; 5/7/18, 2:30 PM
rcocean said...: Yeah, its sad that property values went down.

Someone lost some $$$

Boo hoo.; 5/7/18, 2:39 PM
Vance said...: I remember that the Romans went through a period of making their Emperors Gods, while said Emperor was still alive.

One of them (a sane one) demanded to know what was he supposed to do when some peasant prayed to him for a sick cow.

That guy had more common sense than Barack Obama. Or King Canute, who literally commanded the tide to stop.... then sent his troops to attack the tide, to stop it.

Except in actuality, King Canute was using that as an object lesson on how little power he truly had.

The left, and barack Obama, never learned that lesson. So I think that these Hawaiians should demand that King Obama, healer of the world, come and reverse the lava.

Maybe he can do what Xerxes I did, and whip the lava to make it behave. Xerxes had the Hellespont whipped because his first bridge fell.

I wonder how the water felt.; 5/7/18, 2:40 PM
madAsHell said...: This is Trump's version of "Cash for Clunkers".; 5/7/18, 2:40 PM
Rabel said...: State Farm:

"Most homeowners policies provide coverage for property loss caused by volcanic eruption when it is the result of a volcanic blast, airborne shock waves, ash, dust, or lava flow. Fire or explosion resulting from volcanic eruption also is covered.

Direct, sudden damage to your vehicle is covered under most automobile insurance policies if you have comprehensive coverage at the time of the loss."

There could be an innocent explanation, but I'm thinking the owner of the Mustang was well aware of the terms of his coverage.; 5/7/18, 2:44 PM
buwaya said...: "Or King Canute, who literally commanded the tide to stop."

To be fair, Canute did this to embarrass his flattering courtiers.; 5/7/18, 2:45 PM
Curious George said...: "Yancey Ward said...
Andrew McCarthy does a really great job eviscerating the fallacious arguments for redacting the portions of the House Intelligence Oversight Committee's dealing with what Comey and McCabe literally said in closed door hearings in March of 2017 and later in December, respectively."

I'm surprised our resident dullard, #IngaKnew, didn't post this. She's a hue McCarthy fan.; 5/7/18, 2:46 PM
buwaya said...: "This is Trump's version of "Cash for Clunkers"."

Is there a cooler way to destroy your car?
Even if it is, technically, quite hot.; 5/7/18, 2:48 PM
Ralph L said...: The cover image of the first clip is a mirror image of the actual footage. Why'd they do that? Was it so important to have the text on the left?; 5/7/18, 2:49 PM
DanTheMan said...: CNN is busy working on the Stormy Daniels angle of the Hawaiian lava flows...; 5/7/18, 3:08 PM
Richard said...: What a demonstration of the meaning of the word inexorable. But seriously, global warming right?; 5/7/18, 3:13 PM
tim maguire said...: I wonder how someone reclaims their land once it's all over. Can property lines be maintained? Can that land be made livable again? Or is it a total loss, abandoned?; 5/7/18, 3:18 PM
JaimeRoberto said...: "Someone lost a nice Mustang." No they didn't. That's one from the Mustang's ugly years. The lava is doing the owner a favor.; 5/7/18, 3:20 PM
madAsHell said...: There could be an innocent explanation, but I'm thinking the owner of the Mustang was well aware of the terms of his coverage.
Change "could be" to "is", and change the conjunction to "and"!!!; 5/7/18, 3:20 PM
madAsHell said...: This is no different than parking your pick-up truck on the train tracks, but it is much more spectacular!; 5/7/18, 3:24 PM
Clyde said...: Either the Mustang owner was a world-class idjit to leave his car parked there, or he really wanted that insurance money.; 5/7/18, 3:24 PM
AllenS said...: Maybe the Mustang ran out of gas. I was waiting for the fuel tank to blow, but it didn't. Then again, if this is CNN, the car was probably fake.; 5/7/18, 3:26 PM
Clyde said...: CJ said...
How about the racist Sen Schatz who advised the world that citizens of Hawaii are not “Hawaiians” unless they’re brown. A white US citizen that lives in Hawaii is merely a “resident of Hawai’i”.

He’s a Democrat, if you’d believe it.

Schatz, like many other Democrats, is a national treasure. Keep talking, Senator! There are mid-terms coming up in a few months, and you and Nancy and Mad Maxine are just what we need.; 5/7/18, 3:28 PM
FIDO said...: I saw that car and thought 'desired FEMA claim'.; 5/7/18, 3:31 PM
bagoh20 said...: It's a great soap for the working man's hands.; 5/7/18, 4:11 PM
Snark said...: As a kid and teenager I regularly attended dumping of slag events. It was actually a hot date back in the day, so to speak. Didn't approach the volume or dyscontrol here of course...but still managed to be fairly awe inspiring.; 5/7/18, 4:27 PM
Rusty said...: Any body got any idea what the carbon footprint of this thing is? Gotta be enormous. Get Gore in there. Give it a goodtalking to. Maybe show it a polar bear.

As far as property values go, theirs is now worth shit. Less than rocks. I'm sure if there is a surveyors datum some where on the island that property lines can be re marked.; 5/7/18, 4:44 PM
PM said...: Gaia's period.; 5/7/18, 5:43 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Geez, Trump had better keep his toupee away from that, lest it go ablaze from getting to close to the flames. At least, that's what I'd advise if he wasn't so busy already lighting his hair on fire anyway.

Nice R2D2 trash can, BTW.; 5/7/18, 6:02 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Any body got any idea what the carbon footprint of this thing is? Gotta be enormous.

Translation: "Rusty hates natural phenomena. Only MAN should be allowed to do ANY destroying!"; 5/7/18, 6:03 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: R2D2 - as if this scene needed any more allusions to Mustafar.; 5/7/18, 6:06 PM
Unknown said...: My body's burnin' like a lava from Mauna Loa
My heart's crackin' like a Krakatoa
Krakatoa, east of Java, molten bodies, fiery lava
Fire, fire, burnin' bright
Turn on your love lava
Turn on your lava light
Fire, oh volcano, over you
Don't let your lava love turn to stone
Keep it burnin'
Keep it burnin' here at home
Oooo hot lava
Oooo hot lava
My love may be as high as the highest volcano
But the altitude is way too high
Well it gets so cold when you look at me that way-yeah
I just wanna have that hot lava
Lovin' me away
My love's mountin'
My love's eruptin' like a red hot volcano
Fire, oh volcano, over you
I gotta lotta lava love locked up inside me
My love's a lava bomb
Knock you in the head
Knock you in the head
Kick you in the lava bed
Over you, hot lava
Don't let your lava love turn to stone
Keep it burnin'
Keep it burnin' here at home
t's burnin' up in here
Oooo look out, it's about to erupt
Oooo my body's burnin'
Like a lava from a Mauna Loa
My heart's crackin' like a Krakatoa
Hot fire, red-hot fire
Lava, ohh, hot lava
Hot lava, red-hot lava
Hot lava, re-e-ed, hot lava
Oh hot lava
I'm gonna let it go
Let it flow like Pompeii or Herculaneum
Let it sizzle, let it rise
Don't let your lava love flow turn to stone
Keep it burnin'
Keep it burnin' here at home
I'm gonna jump in a crater
See ya later
Oooo hot lava
Oooo hot lava
Hot lava
Red hot lava
Hot lava
Red hot lava; 5/7/18, 6:08 PM
Bob Boyd said...: Yeah Bitch! Magma!; 5/7/18, 6:16 PM
Drago said...: PPPT: "Only MAN should be allowed to do ANY destroying!"

"allowed"

So, we are "allowing" the volcano to spew lava.

Interesting.; 5/7/18, 6:20 PM
buwaya said...: Nature is still vastly greater than man, and all our pretensions before it are silly.
And we are always just one natural hiccup away from being gone.; 5/7/18, 6:28 PM
Drago said...: Between NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman being accused of assault and choking 4 women (more to come?) and Democrat Congressman Cardenas being accused of sexually assaulting a minor, confronting a lava flow looks pretty tame by comparison.

In Schneiderman's and Cardenas' defense, neither one of them actually went so far as to kill any chicks like the Kennedy's are known for.; 5/7/18, 6:35 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "At least, that's what I'd advise if he wasn't so busy already lighting his hair on fire anyway."

Pants, too.; 5/7/18, 6:36 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: "Go with the flow" = Evacuate! NOW!!; 5/7/18, 7:02 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: "allowed"

So, we are "allowing" the volcano to spew lava.

Interesting.

Take it up with Rusty. He's the one who feels that nature's unfairly competing with his destructive power.; 5/7/18, 7:04 PM
Drago said...: Yikes!

It appears that Schneiderman, although he didn't whack any chicks (which in no way is a disqualifier on dem side, in fact, potentially a resume bullet) he did threaten to kill several women.

In a very Woman Affirming Democrat way of course.

"They allege that he repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their consent. Manning Barish and Selvaratnam categorize the abuse he inflicted on them as “assault.” They did not report their allegations to the police at the time, but both say that they eventually sought medical attention after having been slapped hard across the ear and face, and also choked. Selvaratnam says that Schneiderman warned her he could have her followed and her phones tapped, and both say that he threatened to kill them if they broke up with him. (Schneiderman’s spokesperson said that he “never made any of these threats.”)

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse

I expect it will take no more than 2 years before the lefties rewrite Schneidermans actions as a republican "Southern New York State Strategy".; 5/7/18, 7:05 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Nature is still vastly greater than man, and all our pretensions before it are silly.
And we are always just one natural hiccup away from being gone.

I'm sure the Hiroshima victims would beg to differ.; 5/7/18, 7:06 PM
Jason said...: It looks like my sister’s dad’s house was probably destroyed. Her dad and step mom haven’t been allowed back into the neighborhood.

They had about 5 minutes notice to leave. For this eruption, anyway.; 5/7/18, 7:26 PM
Ralph L said...: Hurry up and wait for your house to be destroyed by a molten slug. But they probably have to assume a sudden deadly spew as at Pompeii. OTOH, who took the video?

Bet it smells sulfurous.; 5/7/18, 7:38 PM
wildswan said...: The footage was kind of like watching a monster movie - slowly the beast crawls forward, igniting trees, houses at its edge, crushing cars. Black on top with a lava lamp stripe and lumpy ... like a toad. Not fast but who's going to stop it? Then - seeing those vents all in a line because they are on the East Asian rift - I had a very bad feeling. But it was fascinating, I have to admit.; 5/7/18, 8:01 PM
buwaya said...: "Then - seeing those vents all in a line because they are on the East Asian rift"

They aren't on the East Asian rift - not are they on the "Ring of Fire" at all.
Hawaii is on a "hot spot". Yellowstone is also a "hot spot".; 5/7/18, 8:11 PM
Jimmy said...: The lava seen in the two videos is called A'A lava. pronounced ah,ah. Its much slower, and when cool, is very rough to walk on. Most of the flows around Kalapana , which was the last lava flow to damage homes, in 1990 i think, and one smaller one in 2010, were mostly A'A lava. the lava you have seen in many eruptions is the smoother lava, which moves much faster, has less debris in it. It is thinner, hotter, than the thicker A'A lava. It is called Pahoehoe lava.
Land is cheap on the Big Island, for obvious reasons. the homes you saw, on Maui for instance, would be 600,000 to over a million each. I'm sure those homes, and land were under 500,000 each.
As to why the grid? it is more profitable to buy a large piece, and plan it out so that maximum return is possible. the large tracts were usually ranch land.
The lava will remain that way for thousands of years. The first growth often times are the Ohia trees. Which has a beautiful flower, Lehua.
Noni, and ferns also grow. It can be as soon as 30 or 40 years, or much longer. Rain , wind, etc break the lava down, but it takes thousands of years. So you might own the land still, but it is pretty useless.
Big Island also has one of the highest rates of ashma in the country. On Kona wind days(south winds) it reaches maui, and it is like LA on a really bad smog day. But it is sulphuric acid base, so it really plays hell with people.; 5/7/18, 8:17 PM
Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...: From this morning's newspaper:

Hawaii volcano destroys 21 homes, spews lava 200 feet in air
By CALEB JONES, JENNIFER PELTZ and SOPHIA YAN
Associated Press
PAHOA, Hawaii — The number of homes destroyed by Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano jumped to 21 Sunday as scientists reported lava spewing more than 200 feet (61 meters) into the air.

Interesting that the 21st home was destroyed while the scientists were giving their report.

Reading further, the third paragraph begins: Hawaii officials said the decimated homes were in the Leilani Estates subdivision....

The officials were not clear on this point. Does this refer to the 21 destroyed homes, meaning there are 210 total homes in Leilani Estates? Perhaps these are homes in a different area, that were not totally destroyed but only individually suffered 10 percent damage.

Jones, Peltz, and Yan should do better reporting - or perhaps just better writing.; 5/7/18, 8:54 PM
buwaya said...: " I'm sure those homes, and land were under 500,000 each. "

The residential zoned land goes for under $20K an acre.; 5/7/18, 8:59 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Next time, instead of a car, place the bronze 'Fearless Girl' statue, arms akimbo, in front of the advancing flow.; 5/7/18, 9:00 PM
Sprezzatura said...: FTR, since folks are gettin' all tech in this thread: Pahoehoe is cooler looking.

IMHO.; 5/7/18, 9:33 PM
Sprezzatura said...: Also FTR,

It's best to play w/ this stuff w/ one of (maybe the) world's greatest volcanologist.

But, different strokes fer different strokes.

Also, don't forget that I'm humble.

Snatch.; 5/7/18, 9:37 PM
Yancey Ward said...: There was a dead body in the trunk.; 5/8/18, 12:32 AM
Kyzer SoSay said...: Resident Piss for Brains:

Hiroshima <<<<< Krakatoa

Yawn.; 5/8/18, 12:52 AM
Kyzer SoSay said...: "Also, don't forget that I'm humble."

We'd have to remember you first.

Keep hope alive.; 5/8/18, 12:52 AM
RigelDog said...: Lava says "FU" to absolutely everything---and FU especially, Mustang. It was eerie the way that the one finger of lava just honed in on the car.; 5/8/18, 9:22 AM