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Lavacam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqudj0x0POA
One house already on fire. That whole neighborhood seems pretty screwed.
What about lava makes it so we can’t redirect the flow around neighborhoods with these things?
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One house already on fire. That whole neighborhood seems pretty screwed.
This may be a dumb question but near me is a cement factory that (incidentally) makes stackable concrete blocks the size of a car. They stack them multiple stories high and multiple blocks deep, at least while being stored at the factory. What about lava makes it so we can’t redirect the flow around neighborhoods with these things?
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One house already on fire. That whole neighborhood seems pretty screwed.
Hopefully, everyone is safe. But what of the homes? I'm interested to know what generally occurs, in terms of insurance, when homes and property are destroyed by lava flow? Is there insurance coverage for such events? Are the homeowners covered to rebuild/buy new homes elsewhere?
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One house already on fire. That whole neighborhood seems pretty screwed.
This may be a dumb question but near me is a cement factory that (incidentally) makes stackable concrete blocks the size of a car. They stack them multiple stories high and multiple blocks deep, at least while being stored at the factory. What about lava makes it so we can’t redirect the flow around neighborhoods with these things?
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One house already on fire. That whole neighborhood seems pretty screwed.
This may be a dumb question but near me is a cement factory that (incidentally) makes stackable concrete blocks the size of a car. They stack them multiple stories high and multiple blocks deep, at least while being stored at the factory. What about lava makes it so we can’t redirect the flow around neighborhoods with these things?
There’s footage of them saving the machinery being used to build the barriers.
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This may be a dumb question but near me is a cement factory that (incidentally) makes stackable concrete blocks the size of a car. They stack them multiple stories high and multiple blocks deep, at least while being stored at the factory. What about lava makes it so we can’t redirect the flow around neighborhoods with these things?
Lava is molten rock. Concrete blocks are rock.
> Benedikt Halldórsson of the Met Office says houses are not designed to withstand lava flow.
> »... You can expect the walls to give way from the load, and the heat in the lava is such that it burns everything in its path.«
Apart from the heat, since it's molten rock it also has considerable mass, and the lava flow continues pushing from behind.
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One house already on fire. That whole neighborhood seems pretty screwed.
This may be a dumb question but near me is a cement factory that (incidentally) makes stackable concrete blocks the size of a car. They stack them multiple stories high and multiple blocks deep, at least while being stored at the factory. What about lava makes it so we can’t redirect the flow around neighborhoods with these things?
See https://imgur.com/a/7WGO9M6 ; yellow are the defensive lines. Red are the fissures. Black is the lava; you can see how well it was redirected.
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This may be a dumb question but near me is a cement factory that (incidentally) makes stackable concrete blocks the size of a car. They stack them multiple stories high and multiple blocks deep, at least while being stored at the factory. What about lava makes it so we can’t redirect the flow around neighborhoods with these things?
Lava is molten rock. Concrete blocks are rock.
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This may be a dumb question but near me is a cement factory that (incidentally) makes stackable concrete blocks the size of a car. They stack them multiple stories high and multiple blocks deep, at least while being stored at the factory. What about lava makes it so we can’t redirect the flow around neighborhoods with these things?
They did exactly that. It worked great, but this new fissure is lava that went under . See https://imgur.com/a/7WGO9M6 ; yellow are the defensive lines. Red are the fissures. Black is the lava; you can see how well it was redirected.
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This may be a dumb question but near me is a cement factory that (incidentally) makes stackable concrete blocks the size of a car. They stack them multiple stories high and multiple blocks deep, at least while being stored at the factory. What about lava makes it so we can’t redirect the flow around neighborhoods with these things?
There is a berm that got built around the north of the town but unfortunately the fissures go under the town. The initial eruption came across the barrier so a lot of the lava has been diverted. The second eruption was inside the barrier so not a lot can be done. If you scroll down the linked page there’s a map of the flow and barriers. There’s footage of them saving the machinery being used to build the barriers.
Go to about 11:58 on the timestamp in the bottom right corner, you will see the lava flowing along the berm (which is doing a good job of protecting a large building) while workers with bulldozers and diggers close the gap in the berm that the road goes through.
The fissure close to the town opens up at about 12:20. The lava flowing behind the berm reaches the road at about 12:50.
