• Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

    =====================
    Posted 08/15/2025
    =====================


    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

    =====================
    Addendum: 01/10/2026
    =====================


    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Hawaii volcano

That is some scary stuff.
I mean what are you going to do.
Aside from the fire,property damage and the ability to get to or leave your house couldn’t that emit poison gas?
Just the thought of toxic vapor scares the you know what out of me.
 
Last edited:
Yeah, some nasty stuff gets airborne in a volcanic eruption. It's not only ash that is a problem. I was reading where the lava running into the ocean can be pretty nasty. Not only hydrochloric acid being formed but there can be tiny particles of volcanic glass suspended in the steam being produced. Not really something you want to be breathing.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/...-hawaii-volcano-lava-hydrochloric-acid-hazard

Small wonder that tourism to Hawaii has dropped like a rock lately.

I'll take tropical storms and hurricanes any day. At least you can clean up and rebuild afterwards. If you have 100 ft. of hardened lava and/or ash over top of your burned out house and property, not much you can do about that afterwards.

So pick your paradise carefully, I guess.
 
Yes paradise does have a cost🙄.
We I’voe in one of the best suburbs of San Francisco.
Prices are about as high as it gets.
We live on a major fault line.
About 2 weeks ago we had 80 earth quakes in one week and another one-just yesterday.
Little ones relieve the pressure so the big ones aren’t so bad, but earth just suck.
 
Man, this is really something. Difficult to think of molten rock flowing more like a tide coming in than a freight train. It just seems to unstoppable.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWkNzOBihkg


I read that another volcano erupted in Guatemala and was very fast moving with pyroclastic flows that caused a number of deaths, unlike this Hawaiian volcano which people can just walk out of the way of the lava path.
 
Back
Top