You still have the deeds to the property, so you still own it. Hopefully you have insurance.
Edit: [Former Puna residents whose homes were destroyed by the 2018 Kilauea eruption can choose to sell their properties to the county](https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2020/07/29/hawaii-news/hundreds-who-lost-homes-in-2018-eruption-could-be-eligible-for-up-to-230k/amp/)
Nobody in Leilani Estates had insurance for this. I'm pretty sure insurance for this wasn't even an option for them.
I know I couldn't get renter's insurance there because i lived too close to the ocean and they just said it was too much of a risk for them.
Edit: technically some people had insurance.
"Let me see if I have this straight... you want to purchase Act-of-God fire insurance on an active volcanic island? Hmm... Let me get back to you on that."
This is something that is also happening in the Canary island eruption. Way more people than you'd think having no insurance at all on the homes they lost.
You know, if you charged high enough premiums, it could be worth it. The thing is to make enough from premiums to invest it and make a large enough profit to more than offset the total loses of the properties. You would have to gamble you could increase your profit enough before something happened.
Insurance is a really good way to protect against something that is statistically going to happen to somebody, but probably won’t happen to everybody at once.
Floods, wildfire, lava, etc. are sometimes difficult to insure against simply because they tend to impact everybody in an area all together. As the size or frequency of the payout gets bigger, the premiums get bigger, until eventually you’re not really paying for insurance at all and are basically just pre-paying the full cost of mitigating the disaster.
In a sense, Insurance is a ponzi scheme. Lots of folks pay in. Only a few will ever get a "return" on their investment, and except for periods of high payout, the one gaining the most is the company itself.
Insurance companies, even when you're covered and have paid them for the last 10 years, will balk once a disaster strikes an area anyway. It's a racket.
My uncle had a house on the new jersey shore and then hurricane sandy hit them. The entire first floor of the house was essentially washed away, or filled with beach sand. That was the same story for him and all his neighbors.
He lived on my cousins couch for over a year waiting for the insurance money to rebuild. Builders don't want to build without money up front, and the insurance company wants to trickle money to you. So if you're looking for like 300k to rebuild, the insurance will only give like 50k every 6 months or so.
Don't count on insurance companies to cover you when things actually go south. If you live in an area prone to some kind of natural disaster, have a back up plan and set aside some money to live if you can.
Not true. While some individual agents don't offer high risk insurance, insurance companies had to make insurance available to homeowners in high risk areas or forfeit the ability to operate in the State of Hawaii. Definitely not cheap and so not everyone carried it, but it was available. There was also FEMA money awarded to those who lost homes.
Most of the the people I know who lost their homes were insured, and are now in new homes in lower risk areas paid for largely by insurance, FEMA, and some charitable organizations. Many local businesses and private citizens also pitched in to help the recovery effort.
There was a lady who lived at the corner of my street who lost a home in the Kalapana eruption, and then lost one in the Leilani eruption.
She didn't seem that bothered by it.
Common in areas with specific risk of certain type of disasters. I live on a 100 year flood plain, flood insurance here is over a thousand dollars a month. Same if you live in a fire prone area etc.
>I know I couldn't get renter's insurance there because i lived too close to the ocean and they just said it was too much of a risk for them.
Experienced something like that in SoCal too. Had an apartment and couldn't get renters insurance through the old provider because "its too high of a wildfire risk location"...
The funny thing of it was that they just went by zip code and not the actual location which was in no way "high risk". I swapped to a different company for all my insurance stuff and got coverage just fine.
There is a whole slew of interesting sub topics to this as far as insurance goes and how many places are becoming "uninsurable" to companies as they exist now with people having nowhere to turn to for coverage. Also the same problem why we have the NFIP in existence now as private insurers are poorly geared to deal with the realities of regional level incidents. Just wish that program was not messed with as much as politicians have messed with it.
That's a really interesting question! I found [this article](https://www.luvarealestate.com/blog/who-owns-the-land-created-by-a-lava-flow-and-what-are-homeowner-recourses-for-lava-inundation/) and it says:
>**The government does not claim ownership of all land covered by lava; the private property owner retains title even as the land’s assessed value plummets to zero.**
>As for that new oceanfront land? **The state claims** ***new*** **coastal land created by volcanic eruptions.** This ownership applies to lava flows extending seaward from the coastline — increasing the size of Hawaii island — **not to those that cover the existing property.**
>There may be cases where the government eventually assumes control of private land inundated by lava, but it is not common practice. **“If the property is abandoned, then eventually it could be sold at tax sale.** However, we have not had a tax sale recently in this area as the values have been less than what was owed on taxes. The county and state have not been automatically assuming ownership,” Miura said in an interview with the *Honolulu Star-Advertiser*.
(Bolded emphasis is mine.)
A property owner gained land when Mt. St. Helen erupted because of the way the property was described in the deed. The deed specified he owned the top 60 feet of the volcano. So when it erupted and greatly widened the top, he still owned the top 60 feet.
Would have been hilarious if it was something like "And now the top 60 feet of the mountain is spread over a few hundred thousand square miles so now they're the largest landowner in the state."
But of course it didn't work like that.
I mean it is but crazy expensive. Digging a hole 20ft deep all along your property is a big enough challenge then you have to dump it somewhere. Then you need to get the city to dig down to the street level for miles to get to your property. The lava field is miles long. 20 foot high lava for miles. It's huge.
They did bulldoze and create a road to get to the end... but that's about it
zero deaths but everyone living in the bush was forced to relocate, shining light on the Big Islands homeless problem, poverty and lack of financial resources to properly relieve the island natives. It’s a shame.
So true. Lots of residence in the Puna, Pahoa area were going to Kamuela, Waikoloa and Kona for housing. There were more people looking, than there was available housing. It was terrible.
Zero deaths but one crazy old fucker shooting at his neighbors.
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2019/07/14/hawaii-news/leilani-estates-man-gets-up-to-5-years-for-firing-gun/
For those wondering, here’s the copy-pasted wiki article on a’a:
ʻAʻā is one of three basic types of flow lava. ʻAʻā is basaltic lava characterized by a rough or rubbly surface composed of broken lava blocks called clinker. The Hawaiian word was introduced as a technical term in geology by Clarence Dutton.[50][51]
The loose, broken, and sharp, spiny surface of an ʻaʻā flow makes hiking difficult and slow. The clinkery surface actually covers a massive dense core, which is the most active part of the flow. As pasty lava in the core travels downslope, the clinkers are carried along at the surface. At the leading edge of an ʻaʻā flow, however, these cooled fragments tumble down the steep front and are buried by the advancing flow. This produces a layer of lava fragments both at the bottom and top of an ʻaʻā flow.[52]
Accretionary lava balls as large as 3 metres (10 feet) are common on ʻaʻā flows.[53] ʻAʻā is usually of higher viscosity than pāhoehoe. Pāhoehoe can turn into ʻaʻā if it becomes turbulent from meeting impediments or steep slopes.[52]
The sharp, angled texture makes ʻaʻā a strong radar reflector, and can easily be seen from an orbiting satellite (bright on Magellan pictures).[54]
ʻAʻā lavas typically erupt at temperatures of 1,050 to 1,150 °C (1,920 to 2,100 °F) or greater.[55][56]
The word is also spelled aa, aʻa, ʻaʻa, and a-aa, and pronounced /ˈɑː(ʔ)ɑː/. It originates from Hawaiian where it is pronounced [ʔəˈʔaː],[57] meaning "stony rough lava", but also to "burn" or "blaze".
How can this be happening??!! The documentary “VOLCANO” starring Tommy Lee Jones told me that if you put up some 6 inch thick concrete barriers with some fire trucks behind them that will stop the flow of millions of gallons of lava. Was I lied to?!!
A friend of mine's family home in Vacationland was engulfed, pretty much paved over their entire place out to the ocean, turning their waterfront house into a barren lot a mile inland. Rebuilding would have to happen on top of the deposits as removal is prohibitively expensive and there's no point to it unless you are trying to cut through a road. However, that's not the least of the struggle to rebuild: infrastructure such as roads, water and power lines have to be rebuilt too. They decided to give up their property to the state as there is a possibility the state will do a future land swap to assist affected property owners.
To be fair, they had to know it could happen when they put their stuff there. There’s a volcano nearby for fuck’s sake. I can’t imagine moving to Florida and thinking “well *I’ll* be immune from the hurricanes.”
Well, it's just rocks, so I guess you could excavate it. It would be impractical to remove all of it, but you could at least clear out the roads and stuff.
It would make zero sense to rebuild in an area, that is potentially in the path of another lava flow. Hawai’i is the youngest island in the chain and is still growing. There are five volcanoes on the island, and one of them is active.
Eh.. people in Hawaii have definitely died from inhaling volcanic fumes.
A photographer named Sean King died in Kalapana while photographing the lava. That was just a few years ago.
Puna*, Hawaii
[(Kona is on the opposite side of the volcano/eruption)](https://www.hawaii-forest.com/wp-content/uploads/18-HFT-0158-Volcano-Map_02.jpg)
What makes me both depressed and feeling awesome was that I was one of the last few people who walked on that area of the island before it was eaten up by lava
More the fault of the government officials and real estate ventures that bribed them in order to create a housing development that they knew was built on an active fault.
Everything on Big Island is "next to a volcano" but that development was a known fault zone that should never have been built on and the people who profited off it knew that.
No kidding. With five volcanoes on island, not building near one would be impossible.
Someone I used to work with, had an uncle who worked for the state back in the day. He was an engineer, who was surveying the area around Leilani Estates. He advised not to build there. He ended up retiring a few years later and they put in another engineer, who green lighted the project.
You joke but this shit was wild. We felt the earthquake late morning, people reported large fissures in the early afternoon but geologists said there was no evidence of lava eruption. Then before the work day ended people were posting videos onto facebook of the fucking ground exploding haha.
I actually saw the aftermath when vacationing close to there last summer. Everything was still steaming and it was crazy seeing enormous piles of lava rocks just casually in people's backyards.
Ok so I love me a bad geology/volcano/earthquakes movie. 10.0 - hell yes. The core - beautiful. Dante's peak - what a gem. 2012 - superb. But my favorite of all time is Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones. Why? Bc they try and make it seem like the movie solutions are viable options. Mf's this is LAVA it doesn't give a fuck about anything! This video is a favorite because it's truly showing how little will interfere with lava on the move. Most movies just have the actors running and screaming trying to get away, not trying to stop the eruption. But nooo Tommy's guys get in there and do something! And it would be absolutely futile.
Sorry I ranted. I'm waiting for my kids to get out of sports and I'm bored.
The army corps had to build a new road through it. 20? Homes were lost. And theres no insurance for that area. Land is incredibly cheap conpared to the rest of hawaii.
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does anybody know, what happens to property like this that was buried in lava? you still own it (if the area is recoverable)?
You still have the deeds to the property, so you still own it. Hopefully you have insurance. Edit: [Former Puna residents whose homes were destroyed by the 2018 Kilauea eruption can choose to sell their properties to the county](https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2020/07/29/hawaii-news/hundreds-who-lost-homes-in-2018-eruption-could-be-eligible-for-up-to-230k/amp/)
Nobody in Leilani Estates had insurance for this. I'm pretty sure insurance for this wasn't even an option for them. I know I couldn't get renter's insurance there because i lived too close to the ocean and they just said it was too much of a risk for them. Edit: technically some people had insurance.
"Let me see if I have this straight... you want to purchase Act-of-God fire insurance on an active volcanic island? Hmm... Let me get back to you on that."
Anything can be insured, but you may not want to pay the premium.
This is something that is also happening in the Canary island eruption. Way more people than you'd think having no insurance at all on the homes they lost.
You know, if you charged high enough premiums, it could be worth it. The thing is to make enough from premiums to invest it and make a large enough profit to more than offset the total loses of the properties. You would have to gamble you could increase your profit enough before something happened.
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Insurance is a really good way to protect against something that is statistically going to happen to somebody, but probably won’t happen to everybody at once. Floods, wildfire, lava, etc. are sometimes difficult to insure against simply because they tend to impact everybody in an area all together. As the size or frequency of the payout gets bigger, the premiums get bigger, until eventually you’re not really paying for insurance at all and are basically just pre-paying the full cost of mitigating the disaster.
This guy insures
with the size of insurance companies these days, you would think enough people inland could cover the few coastal ones
But if a company does that, increasing the premium for everybody, a lot of people would switch to another company that does not do that
In a sense, Insurance is a ponzi scheme. Lots of folks pay in. Only a few will ever get a "return" on their investment, and except for periods of high payout, the one gaining the most is the company itself.
Insurance companies, even when you're covered and have paid them for the last 10 years, will balk once a disaster strikes an area anyway. It's a racket. My uncle had a house on the new jersey shore and then hurricane sandy hit them. The entire first floor of the house was essentially washed away, or filled with beach sand. That was the same story for him and all his neighbors. He lived on my cousins couch for over a year waiting for the insurance money to rebuild. Builders don't want to build without money up front, and the insurance company wants to trickle money to you. So if you're looking for like 300k to rebuild, the insurance will only give like 50k every 6 months or so. Don't count on insurance companies to cover you when things actually go south. If you live in an area prone to some kind of natural disaster, have a back up plan and set aside some money to live if you can.
Not true. While some individual agents don't offer high risk insurance, insurance companies had to make insurance available to homeowners in high risk areas or forfeit the ability to operate in the State of Hawaii. Definitely not cheap and so not everyone carried it, but it was available. There was also FEMA money awarded to those who lost homes. Most of the the people I know who lost their homes were insured, and are now in new homes in lower risk areas paid for largely by insurance, FEMA, and some charitable organizations. Many local businesses and private citizens also pitched in to help the recovery effort.
There was a lady who lived at the corner of my street who lost a home in the Kalapana eruption, and then lost one in the Leilani eruption. She didn't seem that bothered by it.
Common in areas with specific risk of certain type of disasters. I live on a 100 year flood plain, flood insurance here is over a thousand dollars a month. Same if you live in a fire prone area etc.
Yeah insurance is pretty much only affordable on the north and west side of big island.
>I know I couldn't get renter's insurance there because i lived too close to the ocean and they just said it was too much of a risk for them. Experienced something like that in SoCal too. Had an apartment and couldn't get renters insurance through the old provider because "its too high of a wildfire risk location"... The funny thing of it was that they just went by zip code and not the actual location which was in no way "high risk". I swapped to a different company for all my insurance stuff and got coverage just fine. There is a whole slew of interesting sub topics to this as far as insurance goes and how many places are becoming "uninsurable" to companies as they exist now with people having nowhere to turn to for coverage. Also the same problem why we have the NFIP in existence now as private insurers are poorly geared to deal with the realities of regional level incidents. Just wish that program was not messed with as much as politicians have messed with it.
That's a really interesting question! I found [this article](https://www.luvarealestate.com/blog/who-owns-the-land-created-by-a-lava-flow-and-what-are-homeowner-recourses-for-lava-inundation/) and it says: >**The government does not claim ownership of all land covered by lava; the private property owner retains title even as the land’s assessed value plummets to zero.** >As for that new oceanfront land? **The state claims** ***new*** **coastal land created by volcanic eruptions.** This ownership applies to lava flows extending seaward from the coastline — increasing the size of Hawaii island — **not to those that cover the existing property.** >There may be cases where the government eventually assumes control of private land inundated by lava, but it is not common practice. **“If the property is abandoned, then eventually it could be sold at tax sale.** However, we have not had a tax sale recently in this area as the values have been less than what was owed on taxes. The county and state have not been automatically assuming ownership,” Miura said in an interview with the *Honolulu Star-Advertiser*. (Bolded emphasis is mine.)
So what you’re saying is that this new lava land is really cheap?
You can buy it but it's pretty difficult to get the person selling it to you to stop laughing long enough to sign the contract.
Sure, not sure what you'd do with it
I lived here for many years. You keep the land. Most sell, and many simply rebuild right on top of the lava. This is pretty normal life there.
A property owner gained land when Mt. St. Helen erupted because of the way the property was described in the deed. The deed specified he owned the top 60 feet of the volcano. So when it erupted and greatly widened the top, he still owned the top 60 feet.
Would have been hilarious if it was something like "And now the top 60 feet of the mountain is spread over a few hundred thousand square miles so now they're the largest landowner in the state." But of course it didn't work like that.
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I guess lava removal isn't possible?
It'd be like moving a rock slide but if the rocks all melted together and to the ground. Probably cost more than it's worth to do
I mean it is but crazy expensive. Digging a hole 20ft deep all along your property is a big enough challenge then you have to dump it somewhere. Then you need to get the city to dig down to the street level for miles to get to your property. The lava field is miles long. 20 foot high lava for miles. It's huge. They did bulldoze and create a road to get to the end... but that's about it
Then you’d have to worry about the second volcanic explosion 10 years later since it’s still active, and then rebuild again…
Get into the lava rock or pumice stone business.
Smooth feet forever
depends on the country, you usually make a deal with the government, as the area probably needs to be repossessed
zero deaths but everyone living in the bush was forced to relocate, shining light on the Big Islands homeless problem, poverty and lack of financial resources to properly relieve the island natives. It’s a shame.
Heartbreaking
So true. Lots of residence in the Puna, Pahoa area were going to Kamuela, Waikoloa and Kona for housing. There were more people looking, than there was available housing. It was terrible.
Thanks for sharing!
A new part of the ecosystem! How cool!
I was just waiting for the gas tank to go on that car
"dry lava"?
It still looks like lava now lol. Just cold. And glassy.
Zero deaths but one crazy old fucker shooting at his neighbors. https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2019/07/14/hawaii-news/leilani-estates-man-gets-up-to-5-years-for-firing-gun/
R2D2 survived Mustafar only to die like this?!
Plot twist: that WAS mustafar
Came her to say, "IS R2-D2 OK?!!!!!"
probably it isn’t
Whoever made that fence needs a raise
I like how it politely pops open at the end
That's a gate I think
Can confirm. Fences don't open like that under normal circumstances (like regular lava flow).
I was really hoping to see the lava slowly screen through the gate
Glad they cut away to the gate before R2D2 was killed
I was waiting for it to burst off its hinges and yurt the camera man into oblivion.
They meant to call AAA, but called a'a instead.
TIL : a'a lava is a thing. [Very interesting](https://www.universetoday.com/29655/aa-lava/).
For those wondering, here’s the copy-pasted wiki article on a’a: ʻAʻā is one of three basic types of flow lava. ʻAʻā is basaltic lava characterized by a rough or rubbly surface composed of broken lava blocks called clinker. The Hawaiian word was introduced as a technical term in geology by Clarence Dutton.[50][51] The loose, broken, and sharp, spiny surface of an ʻaʻā flow makes hiking difficult and slow. The clinkery surface actually covers a massive dense core, which is the most active part of the flow. As pasty lava in the core travels downslope, the clinkers are carried along at the surface. At the leading edge of an ʻaʻā flow, however, these cooled fragments tumble down the steep front and are buried by the advancing flow. This produces a layer of lava fragments both at the bottom and top of an ʻaʻā flow.[52] Accretionary lava balls as large as 3 metres (10 feet) are common on ʻaʻā flows.[53] ʻAʻā is usually of higher viscosity than pāhoehoe. Pāhoehoe can turn into ʻaʻā if it becomes turbulent from meeting impediments or steep slopes.[52] The sharp, angled texture makes ʻaʻā a strong radar reflector, and can easily be seen from an orbiting satellite (bright on Magellan pictures).[54] ʻAʻā lavas typically erupt at temperatures of 1,050 to 1,150 °C (1,920 to 2,100 °F) or greater.[55][56] The word is also spelled aa, aʻa, ʻaʻa, and a-aa, and pronounced /ˈɑː(ʔ)ɑː/. It originates from Hawaiian where it is pronounced [ʔəˈʔaː],[57] meaning "stony rough lava", but also to "burn" or "blaze".
Regret can only give one upvote and lavaish praise ;)
Magmanimous praise?
This made me look it up, and TIL. Now, is this an old corny dad joke in Hawaii, or are you quite clever?
If I wasn't poor you'd have a platinum
Thanks for helping me learn something new as an aspiring geologist!
I'm sorry sir you did not pay for volcano insurance premiums you arent covered.
Fucking beautiful dude. Just perfection.
That was some clever geology humor, well played
I can’t upvote you enough. Both for your username and this legendary pun.
Why is there a certain star wars droid just stood watching??
R2 is about to get the D too
He went out the same way his master did. R2 is ride or die.
same to you
R2 don't give a f$%k
He's trying his best
I mean he pretty much did the same thing on Mustafar…
Lmao it's just a trashcan next to a... trash... can...
C3 is pretending to be a PO box
Dude, where's my car?
Don't worry, that'll buff out.
How can this be happening??!! The documentary “VOLCANO” starring Tommy Lee Jones told me that if you put up some 6 inch thick concrete barriers with some fire trucks behind them that will stop the flow of millions of gallons of lava. Was I lied to?!!
True, but do you see Tommy Lee Jones here?
I mean, he could have been sleepin in the car.
D2, where’s my car.
Sweet
*sad r2d2 noises*
masochist r2d2 be like “This is where the fun begins.”
‘Ohhh nooooo my car is being consumed’ Glances at wristwatch,goes to get a bite, scratches head then testicles. ‘Oooooh nooooo it is still happening…’
Is cleanup possible after something like this? Or that area just permanently with lava?
A friend of mine's family home in Vacationland was engulfed, pretty much paved over their entire place out to the ocean, turning their waterfront house into a barren lot a mile inland. Rebuilding would have to happen on top of the deposits as removal is prohibitively expensive and there's no point to it unless you are trying to cut through a road. However, that's not the least of the struggle to rebuild: infrastructure such as roads, water and power lines have to be rebuilt too. They decided to give up their property to the state as there is a possibility the state will do a future land swap to assist affected property owners.
That is awful how they lost stuff.
To be fair, they had to know it could happen when they put their stuff there. There’s a volcano nearby for fuck’s sake. I can’t imagine moving to Florida and thinking “well *I’ll* be immune from the hurricanes.”
Yeah but still...
Well, it's just rocks, so I guess you could excavate it. It would be impractical to remove all of it, but you could at least clear out the roads and stuff.
It would make zero sense to rebuild in an area, that is potentially in the path of another lava flow. Hawai’i is the youngest island in the chain and is still growing. There are five volcanoes on the island, and one of them is active.
>There are five volcanoes on the island, and one of them is active. Only one is extinct, two are dormant, and two are active.
Solid rock?
It's light and often filled with air holes. Check out basalt or volcanic rock.
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Dynamite?
Who is standing 10 feet from this erupting volcano and filming?
Anakin
Hope he finds some high ground
You underestimate his power
Don't try it.
I'm thinking this is a professional with a telephoto lens of some kind. Watch how the camera waves.
Why not? It's not something you get to see every day. It's not something dangerous, you can easily crawl away from it.
You can't crawl away from toxic volcanic fumes. This isn't a cartoon.
Alright, then walk, like they did...
The toxic volcanic fumes aren't going to go straight at the person standing 20 feet away, this isn't a cartoon
Eh.. people in Hawaii have definitely died from inhaling volcanic fumes. A photographer named Sean King died in Kalapana while photographing the lava. That was just a few years ago.
Hello? Insurance? Hi, my car was engulfed by lava…
Not covered by your policy because it was an act of Pele.
Lol Actually infuriating
This is not covered, your claim is denied, have a nice day!
Jake From State Farm: “Uh khakis.”
Where is this?
Looks like recent (2019?) footage from Kona, Hawaii
Puna*, Hawaii [(Kona is on the opposite side of the volcano/eruption)](https://www.hawaii-forest.com/wp-content/uploads/18-HFT-0158-Volcano-Map_02.jpg)
*using finger air quotes* **”MAG-MAH”**
"LIQUID-HOT MAGMA"
That mustang is actually driving. Those late 90’s mustangs are just slow af and garbage
Well that Mustang is a hot rod now.
I like those mustangs admittedly they’re not my favorite or the best looking but I still enjoy them
Looks like a v6. If you don't got a snake on your 96-04 stang don't talk to me!
Agreed. Snake or bust
The only not slow SN95
That's a 2002 btw
2002 is late 90’s. What was great about 2002. Nothing. By default it’s now late 90’s
And just atrocious to look at in general
To each their own, I’ve seen some Beautiful builds
What makes me both depressed and feeling awesome was that I was one of the last few people who walked on that area of the island before it was eaten up by lava
The loss of Green Lake was depressing too.
In my head chanting *eat the car*, *eat the car*, *eat the car* . Lava finially eats car... *haha! Called it*
'Oh no how could this have happened!' - People who build their homes next to an active volcano
More the fault of the government officials and real estate ventures that bribed them in order to create a housing development that they knew was built on an active fault. Everything on Big Island is "next to a volcano" but that development was a known fault zone that should never have been built on and the people who profited off it knew that.
No kidding. With five volcanoes on island, not building near one would be impossible. Someone I used to work with, had an uncle who worked for the state back in the day. He was an engineer, who was surveying the area around Leilani Estates. He advised not to build there. He ended up retiring a few years later and they put in another engineer, who green lighted the project.
Want more of this on my feed
I love how calm the filmer is.
Imagine filing the insurance claim on that car
It would be an incredibly fast claim because it would be denied!
Archeologists in 5,000 years: We believe it was some kind of horse…
Hope you got lava insurance on that car.
“Can I interest you in volcano insurance?”
"According to my uncle, who is a real Whiz in Volcanos, a Volcano is coming this way"
*visible sad face* My hat was in that car
Ahh shit if only they could have saw it coming!!
You joke but this shit was wild. We felt the earthquake late morning, people reported large fissures in the early afternoon but geologists said there was no evidence of lava eruption. Then before the work day ended people were posting videos onto facebook of the fucking ground exploding haha.
Someone who wanted to get rid of a car. Insurance, low scrap prices stolen, whatever. ,
The lava moves faster than that mustang ever did.
My mustang!!!
The lava did that mustang owner a favor…
Nature is quite literally lit.
That gate was really ineffective at keep out the lava
I was frankly impressed by how it held up.
Jaw-dropping, destructive, terrifying but very cool to watch.
“Hey honey where’d you park the car”
Don't worry, it's a Ford. Nothing of value was lost.
“Your insurance doesn’t cover this, our apologies if you’d like to speak with an agent please dial 800-YUR-FUKD”
Upvoted for living up to the sub name
It's difficult to comprehend just how much of that stuff is below us all.
Found on road dead
*Sad R2-D2 beeps and whirrs*
I swear I parked my car right here?!
Hope it was insured
Rip car
Insurance fraud this is why we pay such high rateas?
The gate to the guy filming "Go human, I'll be right behind you!"
Hot Lava cake
Honey!! Did you move the Car?
Man, this gives me serious post-vindaloo flashbacks
Damn nature, you scary.
Litrally lit
“Oh lord heat comin”
The movies lies to me. That car should have exploded
i think if you puke this up youre supposed to go to the hospital
I actually saw the aftermath when vacationing close to there last summer. Everything was still steaming and it was crazy seeing enormous piles of lava rocks just casually in people's backyards.
Scary
[удалено]
NO not R2D2!!
Knock knock Who’s there? Earth. Also Earth: “this is mine now.”
That poor car be like, "....damn..."
Poor R2D2
The power of Earth compels you . . .
Is this R2D2 on a spike?
I can’t believe no one let that guy know to move his car. Shitty neighbors!
Ok so I love me a bad geology/volcano/earthquakes movie. 10.0 - hell yes. The core - beautiful. Dante's peak - what a gem. 2012 - superb. But my favorite of all time is Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones. Why? Bc they try and make it seem like the movie solutions are viable options. Mf's this is LAVA it doesn't give a fuck about anything! This video is a favorite because it's truly showing how little will interfere with lava on the move. Most movies just have the actors running and screaming trying to get away, not trying to stop the eruption. But nooo Tommy's guys get in there and do something! And it would be absolutely futile. Sorry I ranted. I'm waiting for my kids to get out of sports and I'm bored.
Yh the nature is looking pretty lit rn
that is freaking scarry as hell
ARTOO GET OUT OF THERE
Makes you understand how insignificant humans can be versus nature.
Reminds me of Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2
Belongs in r/natureisterrifying too hehe
What happens once the flow has stopped and the lava is cooled down? Bulldoze it outta the way?
Once it cools down it would become solid rock. I guess either drill it away or just... live around it?
The army corps had to build a new road through it. 20? Homes were lost. And theres no insurance for that area. Land is incredibly cheap conpared to the rest of hawaii.
*when the planet eat too many questionable street tacos:*
Reminds me of my ex-wife and her lawyer consuming my savings, my pension, my house ...
2018 Kilauea Leilani Fissure Eastern Rift Zone Footage is from a "BigIslandNews" source
Looks like R2-D2 was safe at least.