Playing Games with an Ancient
I returned home after forty years to my home island of Hawaii. Its preferred nickname is the Big Island, lovingly a.k.a., the Orchid Isle, and yes, a.k.a., the Volcanic Island. Rightly named as the sole island in the Hawaiian Island chain that still has active volcanoes--above sea level. A few miles, mayhaps 30 miles they'd be, south of mine and my neighbor's coastline properties south of Kalapana, a new island--yet to be--will be added to the chain, once it breaks sea level; until then, it actively spurts insignificant amounts of debris onto the surrounding seafloor due to the insurmountable pressure of bearing the weight of an entire ocean.
Placing spatial values, plus, the cause and effects: There exists a stationary ventricle spout that connects the magma core to the ocean floor, beneath the Pacific plate. The Pacific plate moves, while the ocean floor and that spout--does not. The plate is moving northward, which explains why my island, Hawaii, is the largest and southernmost in the island chain. The northernmost islands, actual atolls, one can walk the length of them, in less than five minutes, since they've been slowly breaking apart after several millenniums.
It was late 2015, sometime in December, the date of my return. Pu'u O'o crater which destroyed Kalapana village, and my home ... was still active channeling underground. In 2018 mid-January, it abruptly collapsed on itself, clogging its vents, thus less dangerous--to a respectable degree. It can still build resistance and explode like Mount Vesuvius which destroyed Pompei.
Between shakes, quakes, and adolescence, the U.S. Geological Survey & The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists have been monitoring an outbreak of tremors, as well as, underground magma movements. All were clueless as to the cause and effects that occurred at Pu'u O'o crater as a calamity would befall upon islanders once again.
A few months thereafter, on May 03, 2018, a new Fissure erupted in Leilani Estates with some 1,200 souls residing. The next day, on the 4th of May, a 6.9 major earthquake rocks the whole island. The lava flow had nowhere to go with Pu'u O'o out-of-order, Leilani Estates were favored over the new Kalapana. The lava flow widened as the back door remained closed for needed relief and release of said lava flow. The coastal village of Kapoho's 2,500+ souls became its next victim.
A quarter of Leilani Estates and nearly all of Kapoho lay in ruins, sharing the same fate as my Kalapana. The new Kalapana, breed--steed, as they continue to grow--their front lawns, to greener heights, weights, and measures, using their new fertile-liars, undoubtedly.
A board being bored now coupled Cheques, at the borderless. Chess sways to cards, the Joker's in play, Hm? Battle of the Royals, and playing with the Aces--in sleeveless Hawaii where honesty goes fishing.
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