Lava From Kilauea Boils Away Hawaii's largest Freshwater Lake within hours

[Demovictory9]

The Green Lake was gone in hours.

Lava from the Kilauea volcano spilled across highways and into Hawaii's Green Lake — a major source of fresh water on Hawaii's Big Island — and evaporated all the water, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The flow created a huge plume of steam as it hit the lake Saturday on its way toward the ocean, according to Hawaii County's Civil Defense agency.

"The lava is quite hot, so it boiled away the water," Sally Sennert, a USGS volcanologist embedded at the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program, tells NPR.

"The lava flows, like a stream of water, are going to take the path of least resistance as they flow downhill," Sennert says, adding that she doubts the lake will return. "All I've heard is reports that lava has filled it up," she says.

The lava entered Green Lake at 10 a.m. local time and had evaporated all the water by 3 p.m., according to the USGS.


Lava steams after it hit Hawaii's Green Lake, which had been filled with water hours before, on Saturday.



https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/617860832/lava-from-kilauea-boils-away-freshwater-lake-in-hawaii

A steam plume first appeared around 10 a.m. Saturday as lava poured into Green Lake in Kapoho, but by 3 p.m. a Hawaii County Fire Department overflight confirmed to the US Geological Survey that the lake had filled with lava and the body of water was no more.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/us/green-lake-lava-evaporates-hawaii-trnd/index.html

[notdarkyet]

1. Wow, thanks.

[malaise]

2. Unbelievable

Nature can be cruel

[MontanaMama]

3. holy crap.

Fascinating. Scary. Amazing.

[2naSalit]

4. Yikes! nt

[hunter]

5. Kapoho Bay, playground for Big Islanders and many others, is lost to lava

Kapoho Bay is gone. Wiped out. Completely filled in with lava.

And for many Big Islanders, that's hard to come to terms with. Homes and subdivisions can be rebuilt. Roads can be cut and paved.

But there's no rebuilding a bay. The bay is gone.

--more--

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38356471/kapoho-bay-playground-for-big-islanders-and-many-others-is-lost-to-lava

[Retrograde]

6. The volcano giveth and the volcano taketh away

Hawai'i is a very young island. The landscape was built up by volcanoes over millennia, and it will continue to be built and altered as long as Hawai'i sits over that hot spot. The bay was built by previous eruptions, and this one will most likely build some new landscape features.

Even knowing this, though, it's said to see places and people's lives affected so much.

[RandomAccess]

7. Staggering

I'd been watching via YouTube uploads daily, but kinda got away from it. This is such sad news. So many of the islanders I've seen who've lost their homes have taken it in good grace -- but I suspect the end of their endurance isn't far away.

[suffragette]

8. There in the morning and gone by the afternoon. Mother Nature can be ruthlessly efficient.