The state should not allow homes in this area. Homes will be built on this land and the process will repeat itself just like Texas rebuilding after every hurricane and flood using FEMA money. Plants will eventually grow in poor soil over the lava flows. After a few years people will forget about the lava flow. They probably have a mortgage and still have to pay property taxes yet they can’t live in their home.īased on human greed I see the same thing happening in the future. Their homes are not livable as there are no highways, streets or utilities. They probably can’t even get to their home. Their home is worthless but because it wasn’t burned down they get no insurance money. The people who did not lose their homes who are in the evacuation zones may be in the worst situation. It would make no sense to rebuild as there are no highways or utilities. I doubt the government will allow people to rebuild in this area. If there’s anything left over, it can be used to rebuild or they can pocket the money. The insurance goes to pay off the mortgage first. The people who lost their homes and had insurance may be okay. The people who bought the property just wanted cheaper, more affordable housing. He does not care about the residents living in the area. The developer only cared about making money. Human greed is what caused people to buy/sell land and homes in this area. They also contribute toward roads, highways if needed. Generally the developer pays for streets, sidewalks, street lights, utilities for their development. He used his influence to get the state to pay for roads and utilities for this area. One was them was Senator Kazuhisa Abe who started Vacationland in the 1960’s. Below are two ads from 19, less than a decade after lava wiped out a previous development.īefore the developers started selling lots they lobbied the politicians to build roads and provide utilities to these areas. By mid 1960’s they were marketing and selling this land to haoles on the mainland as vacation homes. It couldn’t be used for farming or grazing as there was very little soil. After the lava flows real estate developers started buying the worthless land. The area near Leilani Estates was also wiped out by lava flows. If you look at the above map, you can see that the area that became Vacationland was wiped out in the 1960’s lava flow. The only way they could do this was to raise the cost of insurance for all people in the area to cover the higher risk. The politicians forced the insurance companies to offer lava flow insurance in zones one and two. This is when politicians did something reckless. If you can’t get a mortgage, you can’t sell homes. If you can’t get lava flow insurance, you can’t get a mortgage. This caused a problem for developers who wanted to sell homes in those areas in the 1960’s. This is why years ago insurance companies would not give lava flow insurance to properties in zones one and two. Landsat and other Earth-observing satellites continue to monitor the rapidly changing landscape of the island.It’s common sense that no one should live in lava zones one, two and probably three. The image series also shows how the coastline of the island has changed as various lava flows reached the ocean. The narrower flow that extends to the northeast occurred between 20, and approached the community of Pahoa. This lava flow buried the entire community of Kalapana in 15–25 meters of lava in 1990. The 1991 image shows a new lava flow extending toward the east along the coastline. In these images, green vegetated land is repeatedly covered with dark lava flows, and infrared imaging shows bright orange spots where there is the most heat.Įruptions from the Pu’u ‘O’o Crater have a history of burying towns. The most current image shown is from India’s Resourcesat-2 satellite, which spotted the lava flow in Leilani Estates despite the cloud cover. Landsat has been recording the lava flows on the Big Island since the latest eruption began in 1983. The new activity from the Pu’u ‘O’o Crater of the Kilauea volcano is a reminder that the volcano has been very active in recent decades. New fissures opened up on Hawaii’s Big Island in early May 2018, spouting lava that destroyed homes in the Leilani Estates neighborhood.
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