[Heather] Ultimately, whatever the volcano,Pele, 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 eruption 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 widening
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]