[Heather] Ultimately, whatever 
the volcano, Kilauea, decides to do

is what we will have to obey.

And so, if she wants to flow to the sea
and she wants to create more of her island,

and create new beaches, new lava feilds

then we will--

[crash heard in background]

--allow her to do that.

[Laughter]

And so, she's the boss here.

[slow guitar music]

[Darryl]The irruption that is generating 
the current lava flow

has been ongoing for over 30 years.

Historically, the flow has been to
the south-west side of the island

but on June 27th, a new fissure has
redirected to flow direction or path

in a more north-east direction.

Back in October it did enter the community.

It crossed over one of the roadways there,

went through a small cemetery,

and it went on to one
residential property -

a fairly large farm property.

This is going to be a very slow,
difficult, painful, frustrating event.

What could be our worst scenario
is that it crosses highway 130,

which is a primary state highway [Atoro?],
that services that whole area.

You're look at between
7 to 15 thousand vehicles daily

that would be stuck.

[Guitar music]

[Dani] A lot of people
actually left the island,

and I imagine it was probably
people that were renting

because it's different for the people
who are home owners out there.

They are not usually in a place
that they can just take off.

[guitar continues]

[Heather]My husband and I decided
that we could either relocate

outside of the Puna region,
on the other side of the flow,

or secondly, the choice that we 
ultimately decide to make,

was he left his job in Hilo,

so that we would be able to stay on this
side of the flow no matter what happened.

Whether it cost the access road or not.

We really love it here, and we wanted to stay.

[Darryl]Well, I think the local community,

living with this in our backyards for
generations, for lifetimes,

has come to accept that this is part of 
living on a volcanically active island.

Fortunately, we've seen the flow
advance to a certain point,

and then stall.

So, if it continues like this,
we could just see a widen

rather than a forward advancement,

and threatening roadways and other
infrastructure.

[Dani]More tourist what to come
over here and check out the lava story,

so people are getting very angry.

They're like, "this is our life. This is our
misfortune.

It's not something to come snap pictures
of that's really disrespectful".

But I get it, Pahoa is cool.

[birds singing]