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[Heather] Ultimately, whatever
the volcano,Pele, decides to do
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is what we will have to obey.
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And so, if she wants to flow to the sea
and she wants to create more of her island,
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and create new beaches, new lava feilds
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then we will--
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[crash heard in background]
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--allow her to do that.
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[Laughter]
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And so, she's the boss here.
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[slow guitar music]
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[Darryl]The eruption that is generating
the current lava flow
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has been ongoing for over 30 years.
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Historically, the flow has been to
the south-west side of the island
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but on June 27th, a new fissure has
redirected to flow direction or path
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in a more north-east direction.
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Back in October it did enter the community.
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It crossed over one of the roadways there,
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went through a small cemetery,
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and it went on to one
residential property -
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a fairly large farm property.
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This is going to be a very slow,
difficult, painful, frustrating event.
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What could be our worst scenario
is that it crosses highway 130,
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which is a primary state highway [Atoro?],
that services that whole area.
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You're look at between
7 to 15 thousand vehicles daily
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that would be stuck.
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[Guitar music]
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[Dani] A lot of people
actually left the island,
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and I imagine it was probably
people that were renting
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because it's different for the people
who are home owners out there.
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They are not usually in a place
that they can just take off.
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[guitar continues]
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[Heather]My husband and I decided
that we could either relocate
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outside of the Puna region,
on the other side of the flow,
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or secondly, the choice that we
ultimately decide to make,
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was he left his job in Hilo,
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so that we would be able to stay on this
side of the flow no matter what happened.
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Whether it cost the access road or not.
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We really love it here,
and we wanted to stay.
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[Darryl]Well, I think the local community,
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living with this in our backyards for
generations, for lifetimes,
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has come to accept that this is part of
living on a volcanically active island.
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Fortunately, we've seen the flow
advance to a certain point,
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and then stall.
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So, if it continues like this,
we could just see a widening
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rather than a forward advancement,
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and threatening roadways and other
infrastructure.
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[Dani]More tourist what to come
over here and check out the lava story,
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so people are getting very angry.
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They're like, "this is our life.
This is our misfortune.
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It's not something to come snap pictures
of that's really disrespectful".
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But I get it, Pahoa is cool.
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[birds singing]
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