Civil Defense (same link) has photos of emergency road construction.  The latest lava map (June 1) is discouraging.  A local report suggests VOG is decreasing, so gas releases might be declining.  See what the geologists and air monitoring people say.  

Leilani Estates has been popular with palm enthusiasts.  Along with homes, gardens are being lost.  

"Along with homes, gardens are being lost. "

Who issued building permits down flow of an active volcano?

The effected area is something like 14 miles east of the previously active "cone", Pu'u 'O'o. For our "general purposes", that whole area can be expected to be covered by lava every 200 years.

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this guy has the best vids so far:

Back before the eruption began around 1980, the Leilani Estates area seemed less riskly.  Since then, it's been affordable.  Kilauea's history is now considerably better understood.  At some point in the future, USGS expects the volcano to take a long break from issuing lava flows, instead producing pyroclastic flows, like the deadly one of 1790.  That would make for a different set of safety problems.

Also, Mauna Loa, a separate volcano, produces its own lava flows.

If housing on Kilauea seems irresponsible, in Washington State near Tacoma, new housing has been built on mudflows from Mt. Rainier that are less than 500 years old.

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A charter flight with Paradise Helicopters (must have gotten special permission to fly) resulted in this high quality video that's already out of date.  Geologists are reporting that the lava is as hot as it can get, the temperature of Earth's mantle.   Vimeo. 

I haven't seen a recent estimate of how many homes lost.  

Yes, all time record lava temp!

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The dumb should just die and get their Darwin Award.

My Big Island buddy reports:

The other night an idiot got around the road blocks and ran his truck into a flow!

A recent (June 3rd) aerial video shows 3 guys in the road in front of their vehicle watching a flow, while another flow is crossing the road behind them.

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Up to 500 homes destroyed in Vacation Land last night!!!!!!!!!!!

https://youtu.be/Yg1WsDihjro

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Edited: 06/05/2018 at 01:29 PM by dingpatch

A video, Mick Kalber with Paradise Helicopters.  Vimeo.  

Among many other losses, a legacy palm garden whose owner had died, but was hopefully going to continue.  

lave filled up the entire Kapoho bay tidepools...

A couple of the helo footage shots make the place look like Mordor. Geesh.

As best as they know, the magma chamber is hour-glass shaped with the top chamber being smaller than the bottom one. Current, rough, estimates are that amount of lava released so far amounts to only 2% of the top chamber. Estimates are that at current flow rates, there is enough magma in the chambers to continue the flow for 1500 years!

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The community mapping project, showing homes lost.  

A striking video of fast-flowing lava, posted by Hawaii Civil Beat.  

Amazing. A river of Molton rock.

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Replace turf grass with native plants that don't need irrigation and synthetic fertilizers or chemicals that can go into our waterways and ocean

 

A recent aerial photo by Harry Durgin, a local photographer whose Tanglewood Gallery has been closed except by appointment since June 2.  This is via his Facebook page.  Hope the gallery is open in August. Some of the aerial images of lava are, like this one, the most beautiful I've seen.  Assuming his images are large enough for exhibition prints, I would expect some museums to be looking for imagery like his, and of course video, which has become quite exhibitable with the rise of OLED screens.