Meet The Americans Who Live On An Active Volcano

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  • Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
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Комментарии • 462

  • @NickJohnson
    @NickJohnson  26 дней назад +15

    Here is the entire Hawaii Road Trip Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLq-_cmf3H6yqccGbhjoid97_3BEWegGtf&si=wTIHiG58Rv_FwId4

  • @Battleneter
    @Battleneter 26 дней назад +11

    Well you have far more chance of dying in a car accident than living there, and yet we all jump in our cars without thinking twice, human risk perception is fascinating.

  • @knife_gun_axe272
    @knife_gun_axe272 20 дней назад +3

    It’s becoming exactly what they wanted it to be. It’s a military base and it’s a playground for the rich and famous. I don’t know why everybody’s acting so surprised this is how they planned it.

  • @ruger8412
    @ruger8412 27 дней назад +13

    6:05 id rather live like that then in a 10 million dollar house where you can hand your neighbor toilet paper through your window into his window that it seems like the rest of people in the cities do. Fyi you can see this same landscape in New Mexico by the white sands missiles complex.

    • @mountain-man0
      @mountain-man0 26 дней назад +1

      Oy! Another new Mexican! I just moved off of living off grid for a decade in new mexico. Raised there too. Look out Puna! Ima comin!
      This life ain't for everyone but I'm happy I get to live it.

  • @johnrobinson5156
    @johnrobinson5156 26 дней назад +10

    $25k/acre? Less than what rent is for a year.. worth the gamble. Put in a modular home.. put valuables in a suitcase. Cheaper than living in Phoenix

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 26 дней назад +2

      If they know you have a suitcase of valuables, you will tragically go out hiking one day and be found fallen into a lava tube if you're found at all. Poor guy, fell down a lava tube, headfirst! And said suitcase will buy one of the braddahs a new truck! Cheehooo!

    • @user-ft9tf5tw6l
      @user-ft9tf5tw6l 24 дня назад

      It's a lot not an acre.

    • @arcticfoxserenity7042
      @arcticfoxserenity7042 12 дней назад +1

      I don’t understand how can there be a price to pay for land on the lava?? It’s new land it’s belong to no one. Who do the pay to but lots who belongs to the first person claiming it?

    • @n28515
      @n28515 2 дня назад

      @@arcticfoxserenity7042 This is lava above private property. Your property is still yours after a lava flow, so you can come back and build on it. Some people choose to let the county have their land (an option for at least some). Others, as shown in this video, choose to rebuild. Everybody (at least all who have lived on the island for a while) knows that this can happen. However, lava is like water---it takes the lowest route as it heads downhill. This means that the places where the lava flowed this time are probably safer than those where it did not. They will probably not have their houses destroyed again in their lifetime. But, Pele could decide to do something different and reopen fissure 8.
      Newly created land (where the lave enters the ocean and makes the island larger) is owned by the county.

  • @JoeKarolczuk
    @JoeKarolczuk 26 дней назад +11

    The reason they are fine living there is because they cannot afford to live anywhere else prices on this island are ridiculous

  • @HiloBoiz808
    @HiloBoiz808 27 дней назад +28

    I have friends who have lived there for 8 years or more.I stayed there for several weeks about 8 years ago.Everyone living out there is a fringe character.Some are totally unhinged, most are ok.Every greenhouse you see is full of weed! Its all water catchment, solar power, and inadequate waste treatment.Its definitely wild wild west.
    And its 30,000 feet tall measured from the ocean floor.

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 26 дней назад +1

      Take Slab City, add a few palm trees, and you've got the same thing. Except it's easy to escape Slab City.

    • @tripplefives1402
      @tripplefives1402 25 дней назад +1

      @@alexcarter8807 In Hawaii it rains every day and fruit trees grow along side the road like weeds.

    • @cheribee968
      @cheribee968 24 дня назад

      Sounds accurate
      I have not been near puunalu since 1980’s and there was a new “ island “ popping up at the edge.
      The thing about living where they put up dwellings is getting away if necessary.
      No internet you would find out when help, law enforcement showed up.

    • @tripplefives1402
      @tripplefives1402 24 дня назад

      @@cheribee968 There is excellent internet service in Hawaii as well as 5G everywhere including even at the top of the mountains.

  • @DoingHawaii
    @DoingHawaii 26 дней назад +21

    Living on the slopes of an active volcano is no different than living in Earthquake Central (California), Tornado Alley (You know where this is), or Hurricane Party Land (Florida - East Coast). I love it here! I consider myself lucky to have witnessed the 2018 Eruption up close and all personal like. 😁

    • @mybluedoor
      @mybluedoor 21 день назад +1

      you say it, Charles,

  • @macD723
    @macD723 26 дней назад +8

    There were some pieces that flew through the air. A guy I work with here in TX, came from Hawaii, and he showed me a picture of his friend in the hospital, that was on a ladder in his house, when a piece of lava came flying through his house, and took out his leg. It was still attached, but they had to amputate it. It must have been the one you were showing, because it was only a few years ago.

    • @morgasm26
      @morgasm26 14 дней назад

      I remember hearing about him in the news..

  • @trappedinkalifornee
    @trappedinkalifornee 27 дней назад +8

    Well…..they don’t have to worry about the pesky things we do, like home owners insurance, AC, running water or hot showers.

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 26 дней назад +2

      Hot water for showers is easy - I've rigged up a long, dark green, garden hose and put it on a hanger where the sung hits it. Put a nozzle on the end to control water flow. I was in a rural area here in California and I put a deck of sorts in front of the shitty old trailer I was living in. There were too few people around to worry about privacy, so I'd take hot showers right there on my deck. But yeah water is rain catchment or you truck it in.

  • @AdamSmith-cq9pi
    @AdamSmith-cq9pi 27 дней назад +26

    I've been on the Big Island since 2010 and am moving off Island in two months sadly. The people who have moved here since 2020 do not contribute to local society and it's falling apart. Retirees and remote employees have forced rent so high, many middle class people have left and are continuing to leave. The auto dealerships used to have 8-10 mechanics, now they have 2 or 3. Teachers are being imported from the Philippines on 6 month visas because new teachers can't afford to live here. Health care is terrible due to nurses not making enough to stay. I'm sad for the true locals who have called this home for generations. All the children graduating high school are leaving, including my own. I hope to come back some day but I'm afraid I will not recognize this amazing place if I return. A hui hou!

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 26 дней назад +1

      Yes Hawaii's population has been decreasing for years now.

    • @loisaustin6200
      @loisaustin6200 26 дней назад +2

      Just so sad, beyond words what has happened to that wonderful place.

    • @yvonneeatley3091
      @yvonneeatley3091 22 дня назад +1

      They need a Hawaiian who cares about the people to rule the island again and bring it back to its former glory! When I visited Maui, a lady told me who lives there that an unfurnished apartment costs $3670 a month. Outrageous!

    • @cheribee968
      @cheribee968 22 дня назад

      @@yvonneeatley3091 I’m in medical all my adult life
      I could not survive on those rent prices even if I shared a two bed place
      I can’t imagine who can live with that cost

    • @yvonneeatley3091
      @yvonneeatley3091 22 дня назад +2

      @@cheribee968 Maui is a magical place. All the Hawaiian people were so humble and friendly! My heart goes out to fire victims. I donated money towards fire victims! God put us on earth to love one another and help our fellow man! Amen!

  • @hammahdepartment5667
    @hammahdepartment5667 27 дней назад +21

    Keahialaka, my home. We been here over 2000 years.
    That lady Dorothy, one of my very few friends in this life. What a wonderful lady, I would not be where I am in this life if not for her help. She gave me an opportunity and I’ve been running ever since.
    Love and blessings from the sovereign kingdom ko Hawaii Pae Aina

  • @ATCrogerwilco
    @ATCrogerwilco 27 дней назад +28

    I'm from the east side of Hawaii. I was born in 86 but I moved out of thereb to the mainland in 2007 and never went back. The amount of crime that was there when I was a kid was insane

    • @gregh7457
      @gregh7457 26 дней назад +4

      they were ahead of their time. i think the mainland has caught up

    • @IlseBader
      @IlseBader 16 дней назад

      Oahu here, crime central!

  • @johnmajchrzak9826
    @johnmajchrzak9826 27 дней назад +85

    I myself cannot say enough how your video series on Hawaii has opened my eyes more than you can know. Thank you to you and your family.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  26 дней назад +3

      Ok John 👍

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 26 дней назад +5

      The thing is, if you just want a warm place to retire, there are better, much cheaper choices. Frankly when I left Hawaii for the mainland (Southern California) as a young adult, I was of modest means so I lived in an area that was heavily Hispanic and considered "high crime" where I was. (It was on Placentia Avenue in Costa Mesa, not far from "Airplane Park").
      Well, I felt immediately at ease because just the change to a Hispanic culture from a Pacific Islander one was huge. I saw how the Hispanic people were much kinder to each other, I never saw one of them hit one of their kids, and I really can't say I saw any violence at all in that 'hood. Sure, there was some theft that went on like a neighbor parked her bike in front of her place for a few minutes and went back out and it was gone, but I can point to majority white places where bikes disappear like that too.
      My point is, you can move to many, many places in Mexico, Central/South America, etc. where you won't have the vicious dog packs or having to worry about your neighbor's 15-year-old son (who's already 6'4" and 240) deciding to try to cave your head in with a shovel because you're a "haole".

    • @Maxwell1989
      @Maxwell1989 25 дней назад

      ​@@NickJohnsonand you have to get state lava insurance for that area it's like 6000 to 7,000 a year

    • @eddierobinson4444
      @eddierobinson4444 24 дня назад +3

      After seeing your videos, don't have any desire to go there. I will be glad when you've ended your trip in Hawaii

    • @eddierobinson4444
      @eddierobinson4444 24 дня назад +2

      Looking forward to your Alaskan venture

  • @user-rh8fl8qz2z
    @user-rh8fl8qz2z 15 дней назад +1

    Several years ago, the PAHOA town area was TOTALLY covered in lava, streets and all. The COUNTY approved of its development decades ago KNOWING that it was in an active LAVA ZONE! Those properties are no longer accessible, nor sellable. Total loss!

  • @annabelleb.8096
    @annabelleb.8096 25 дней назад +9

    I admire their courage. I would have chronic insomnia trying to live in a place like that. Imagine waking up one night to find your house splitting in half or lava flowing through your living room. 😮

    • @IlseBader
      @IlseBader 16 дней назад +2

      It rarely erupts, however when it does,even Oahu gets Vog,very hard to breathe, with improved scientific methods we can easily monitor eruptions

    • @IlseBader
      @IlseBader 16 дней назад

      VOG

  • @agnesh1844
    @agnesh1844 27 дней назад +39

    What a beautiful journey through Hawaiian Islands! Enjoy every episode! Thank you for sharing your vacation with us.

  • @bluewave7120
    @bluewave7120 27 дней назад +6

    Prayers for Dana Ireland who lost her life on this island 🙏

    • @trinity9312
      @trinity9312 26 дней назад +4

      🙏such a tragedy, so unnecessary and senseless...

    • @shellycooper7610
      @shellycooper7610 26 дней назад +3

      Yes that was so terrible! Her poor family.

  • @hydro2wheel
    @hydro2wheel 27 дней назад +19

    A good friend of mine brought back a small jar of black sand, maybe 4 tablespoons full, from a beach that he and his wife visited while on vacation in Hawaii. I freaked out and told him to mail it back to where ever that beach was. He laugh and told me that I was crazy, superstitious. Within 2 years he lost his job, divorced his wife, and lost all of his belongings because he could not afford to pay the rent on his storage unit. He ended up in a mental hospital. I have talked with him twice since then. He telephoned me, still has my number written down, and he is not the same person I once knew.

  • @paulonunes2002
    @paulonunes2002 27 дней назад +17

    Holy cow, have land prices reached such high prices that these people would rather sleep every night on top of a volcano?😮😮😬😬

    • @shellycooper7610
      @shellycooper7610 26 дней назад +6

      Yes that's how bad it is. No cell service.

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 26 дней назад +1

      @@shellycooper7610 Do they even have a CB or ham radio network? Then again that shit would get stolen all the time...

  • @ephraimgarrett4727
    @ephraimgarrett4727 26 дней назад +2

    Be careful standing on top of "old" lava flows. I did that back in March, 1983, and the soles of my shoes started melting.

    • @puertocool
      @puertocool 26 дней назад +2

      That happened to me too, back in 97. Sorry place to live!

  • @williamlloyd3769
    @williamlloyd3769 20 дней назад +2

    Attitude of HI homeowners seems to match those living on Palos Verdes peninsula in SoCal whose neighborhood is slowing moving toward the Pacific Ocean. Both groups don’t want to give up their part of paradise.
    PS - as of August 2024, Grindavik, a fishing town in Iceland, is at risk of being overwhelmed by the next eruption.

  • @blackdiamond696
    @blackdiamond696 25 дней назад +2

    Humans remind me of ants. If you knock over an ant pound, they just rebuild a couple of feet over😂

  • @michelefreitas4762
    @michelefreitas4762 27 дней назад +17

    So I've heard stories about an old lady walking on Saddle Road and people picked her up and she disappears after getting in the car. Some say it is Pele. Always offer her a ride or you may have bad luck later.😮😮😮

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 26 дней назад +4

      Madame Pele can appear as a lovely young lady or an old woman. If you see her walking along the road, always give her a ride or there are consequences.

    • @michelefreitas4762
      @michelefreitas4762 26 дней назад

      ​@@alexcarter8807so I've heard. Haven't seen her walking on Saddle Rd yet, but will keep an eye out. I thought I did see her image in the last eruption on Mauna Loa last year.

  • @ImsTwo
    @ImsTwo 27 дней назад +5

    A beautiful area i visited before the eruption. I would think tiny homes on a trailer would be a better choice for those wishing to partake in this lava land

  • @donnaw2868
    @donnaw2868 26 дней назад +8

    25:33 time stamp She explains how Hawaii is the healing island & how the land cured her rheumatoid arthritis. Wonderful to hear that !
    This video was wild, the geography is unto itself.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  25 дней назад +2

      Everything about this is crazy Donna!

    • @kristinelepro5730
      @kristinelepro5730 25 дней назад +3

      I had RA & Lupus, moved to Big Island for 4.5 years and went into remission too , moved away back to mainland and sick again . Miss the island every day .

  • @hilaryh8743
    @hilaryh8743 27 дней назад +4

    Hey Nick ...Im Earl Scheib, and I'll paint any car for just 99.95! 🖐😃

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  26 дней назад +1

      lol even my VW?

    • @hilaryh8743
      @hilaryh8743 22 дня назад +1

      @NickJohnson Good witches Bakery and the Pixie Pantry at Santa's Village BTW I'm back in California in Fallbrook aka 5 minutes from Temecula I'd love to meet you You're always welcome here as a guest !❤️❤️❤️

  • @user-ox5bt5rc6m
    @user-ox5bt5rc6m 26 дней назад +2

    I'm FBI, my Home.
    When I was 14 I wanted to take my babysitting money and buy some.
    My mom wouldn't let me!
    It was only .10c a square foot in Ocean View Estates.
    I have some schoolmates who live up there, have for many many years.
    Konawaena Wild Cats!🤙🏻

  • @astro88girl
    @astro88girl 13 дней назад +1

    I was born and raised on the Big Island Hawaii! I live in Santa Barbara California now, this footage makes me feel right at home!, something about it brings me back to my childhood. What a place! It takes a special type of people to live here. I can hear the crackling of the lava rock as I speak! Beautiful! I’m visiting in two weeks again, this is my number one spot to visit!

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  10 дней назад +1

      Yay I hope you have a good homecoming!

  • @patrick03333
    @patrick03333 18 дней назад +1

    I surveyed the whole area and people should rebuild homes but not use it for profit reasons which is why everyone wanted us to survey so they knew where they could legally take tourists

  • @Gizathecat2
    @Gizathecat2 20 дней назад +1

    Many of those people living there may actually OWN the land on which their shed sits!

  • @heather957
    @heather957 27 дней назад +4

    I know of someone vacationing on Big Island right now. He's not having a great time, but he said the weather's been nice overall.

  • @Karvega11
    @Karvega11 27 дней назад +3

    That's got to be poisonous to breathe, right?

    • @Malama_Ki
      @Malama_Ki 26 дней назад +1

      During the eruption yes. Not now though.

  • @williambush7971
    @williambush7971 27 дней назад +13

    You have convinced me that I have no desire to travel to Hawaii.

  • @hokudadog7637
    @hokudadog7637 24 дня назад +1

    The people in this area know full well they live on a volcano, and in an eruption zone, Zone 2 - they are adults making adult choices - land was cheap for a reason. A lot of Hawaiians and locals in Puna were pushed out because of the HOA fees.

  • @FlintIronstag23
    @FlintIronstag23 27 дней назад +17

    I heard the tiki idol sound from the Brady Bunch in my head when Mappy mentioned taking a rock home.

    • @kevinstl9428
      @kevinstl9428 26 дней назад +2

      And I thought it was just me!!!🤙😆

    • @ajf5823
      @ajf5823 25 дней назад +1

      😂 Me too!

  • @user-ji8km6yu7w
    @user-ji8km6yu7w 24 дня назад +2

    It's cheap and they no doubt are using Gas Generators and Solar for Power!

  • @thegem69
    @thegem69 27 дней назад +26

    Incredibly beautiful, that rawness

  • @sharon94503
    @sharon94503 27 дней назад +15

    Scott from Apau Hawaii Tours is a great guide. He's provided such fantastic footage for us during and since the 2018 eruption in Lelaini Estates❤

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  26 дней назад +1

      Yes he has Sharon!

    • @rafesamontesamonte4468
      @rafesamontesamonte4468 24 дня назад +1

      Including cutting people’s fences and entering their property on RUclips during the eruption, for video footage, while they were evacuated.

  • @kimberlyfendt8282
    @kimberlyfendt8282 23 дня назад +1

    We don't look at lava flows as devastation. It's the birth of land from the mother Pele.

  • @californiapoppy
    @californiapoppy 26 дней назад +2

    Nick! This is so crazy to see, my dad is one of the crazy people who live here. Lava life is a whole other level of off grid living.

  • @thobbs4526
    @thobbs4526 26 дней назад +3

    THAT was super-interesting. We were at Puna in 90's, went looking for a black sand beach we had been to on a previous trip & it was gone, covered in lava. It was so weird to see street signs sticking out of lava, there had been houses there. I remember we watched the glowing, molten lava flowing into the ocean during the really dark night, from a distance.
    Also, I'm not superstitious so I took a piece of lava, then fell on lava & cut up my knee pretty bad, really painful. So I put the lava back. The knee took forever to heal & I still have the scars.
    Thank you for all the detail, so much has changed even more dramatically since I was there, awesome video.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  25 дней назад +1

      Sorry about your knee 😣 that sounds like it hurt

  • @HiRollersOfficial
    @HiRollersOfficial 26 дней назад +2

    Please leave hawaiian land for hawaiians, stop buying property here if you're not hawaiian

  • @Brad-f5p
    @Brad-f5p 26 дней назад +4

    At 6:06 when you were droning over the eerie lava village if you look real close you can see a kite flying in the distance so somebody must have been home 🙂

  • @user-qe7nd3ui5d
    @user-qe7nd3ui5d 13 дней назад +1

    This is not America! This is the Hawaiian island!!!!

  • @HumanErrorIsEverywhere
    @HumanErrorIsEverywhere 24 дня назад +1

    Visited back in 2004. Rented a jeep and drove up to the observatory. Huge island.

  • @francisdv
    @francisdv 25 дней назад +6

    This is extremely wild. The peoples tenacity to stay is incredibly unbelievable. Thanks for sharing Nick.

    • @derekwhite9932
      @derekwhite9932 24 дня назад +1

      Yeah, his documenting the US is respectful.

  • @tudomerda
    @tudomerda 25 дней назад +1

    "there's no signs that says stay off it you might get hurt", LOL, here's a idea for a application for Americans, hold your phone in front of you and wait for the phone to flash "warning danger ahead" for steps...

  • @lisaharrison5397
    @lisaharrison5397 20 дней назад +1

    Im a Florida native. I own my land . I know that after all my life dealing with hurricanes and destruction. Still recovering from Ian this time btw. Life is a gable. We might be not be here tomorrow do to all kinds of circumstances. Life is given every day. So I don’t see them as crazy. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Love your videos. ✨✌️💜🌴

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  18 дней назад +2

      Hey Lisa! ❤️☀️🌈

    • @lisaharrison5397
      @lisaharrison5397 18 дней назад

      @@NickJohnson Hi.. keep up the awesome work with your videos. Very educational. 👍

  • @motokev2727
    @motokev2727 26 дней назад +2

    My brother who lived on the south coast, knew a guy living on the south east coast in a shed. I believe he bought the lot and put a tuff shed on it. He makes things to sell is how he lives.

  • @robc5407
    @robc5407 27 дней назад +19

    Punatics are a special breed - Aloha from Kurtistown 🤙

    • @katiewillgo
      @katiewillgo 27 дней назад +3

      @@robc5407 Punatic here🥰Hawaiian Acres love you🤙🏼

    • @Malama_Ki
      @Malama_Ki 26 дней назад +3

      The LavaBillies of Puntuckey!!!

  • @khayneify
    @khayneify 27 дней назад +10

    I cannot tell you just how good your series on Hawaii is, they're great and I have watched everyone of them! I am really going to miss this when you leave. I have watched your videos for a long time, and they were good also, but couldn't touch what you've done with Hawaii. You're going have your work cut out you to match this when you leave. But you can do it Nick.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  26 дней назад +5

      Alaska!

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 26 дней назад +1

      @@NickJohnson A friend of mine is Alaska born and raised. You'll find plenty of squalor, desperation, violence, and hate up there to titillate us, your loyal watchers. See if you can find some "Old Believers", Russians who left Russia because the new Czar wasn't violent and despotic enough for 'em or something.

    • @gayle9428
      @gayle9428 24 дня назад

      Cool. Please do Ketchikan. I lived on top of the tunnel for a little while back in the early 80s. The view up there is incredible and it's a rather interesting little town.

  • @suzz1776
    @suzz1776 23 дня назад +1

    I mean if u own the land and lava decides to cover ur land, it is still ur land. So rebuild. Same thing with earthquakes and tornados and hurricanes. U rebuild and live ur life.

  • @casonread6503
    @casonread6503 24 дня назад +2

    I live out on the lava just built a new house here. Beats playing in the matrix, it’s free and clear I’ll get the rest of my life out here.
    Sun and water keeps us alive.
    Usually if lava has come thru one spot it doesn’t return for 100s of years. So it’s not as risky as you portrait but it’s a wild Wild West for sure. 😂🎉🤙🏽🌈
    Endless rainbows.

  • @galecreek
    @galecreek 26 дней назад +10

    Nick, this is your best video so far! You got the best in-depth record of the aftermath of the eruptions. We’ve been to the big island and drove around. Just seeing where the lava went was mind-boggling. But you went to places I would never venture. And captured some phenomenal video. I can’t say enough about the quality of your videography. Accolades.

  • @bruddahgabe
    @bruddahgabe 27 дней назад +2

    My channel has more videos of the big island of Hawaii than anyone in the universe!

  • @beachdawgz
    @beachdawgz 26 дней назад +9

    Interesting video. I have always thought it would be cool to live in Hawaii. After watching all your Hawaiian videos, I've changed my mind. Lots of nice places, but all I could afford would be to live in the volcanic grounds and probably not even there.

  • @marcielynn4886
    @marcielynn4886 27 дней назад +9

    I live about 15 minutes away but in a forest with soil.

  • @brendawhisenhunt8444
    @brendawhisenhunt8444 27 дней назад +3

    These lava homes are almost unbelievable... guess they are living off grid.. Great video!!

  • @edwardvargas6911
    @edwardvargas6911 27 дней назад +2

    Bring back those deserted haunted ghost towns, abandoned houses, terrible crime ridden cities and states

  • @cheribee968
    @cheribee968 24 дня назад +1

    Drove around there temporarily living there for a few months several times a year. It always felt like no one was home anywhere and so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
    Water electrical would be difficult to be without and inconvenient. Being without internet would be unbearable.
    There’s many people there, born there that are used to living without ALOT

  • @arcpulseh
    @arcpulseh 19 дней назад +1

    I actually was hiking the volcano national park last week. Perfect timing lol. I flew into Hilo, rented a car and explored Kilauea all the way down to the sea arch. Amazing place! Great video sir.

  • @thomasahern5650
    @thomasahern5650 27 дней назад +8

    I have a friend who built a nice home in the town of Volcano on the Big Island back in the 80's and yep, true to its name, Kilauea ate it, what was he thinking, we still laugh about it, now he lives up in Waikoloa on the Big Island.

  • @ripple947
    @ripple947 21 день назад +1

    I've been to that part of the island a couple of times, before 2018. My impression of Pahoa, the one town, was where old hippies go to fade away. There were amazing natural hot pools on the coast near the SE corner but I believe the volcano buried it.

  • @allthingsharbor
    @allthingsharbor 24 дня назад +2

    Apau Hawaii Tours has a series of videos about the volcanic eruption in 2018, in Leilani Estates.

  • @blacksilverchair3315
    @blacksilverchair3315 26 дней назад +2

    Volcanic soil is one of the richest soils in the world. That black soil looks so good 😊

  • @user-wd5qw2sr4d
    @user-wd5qw2sr4d 25 дней назад +1

    A tiny home on wheels makes sense in this area or any area subject to unstable ground conditions.

  • @HiloBoiz808
    @HiloBoiz808 27 дней назад +4

    That's KalaPAWNa Gardens, not KalaPANa.

  • @TakeMeFishingGary
    @TakeMeFishingGary 21 день назад +1

    Great Video Nick, was great to meet you and your wife. 1,000,000 Subs is any day now! Congratulations! 🎉

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  18 дней назад +1

      Gary!! Hope you caught more fish down on the spit! 🐠

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 26 дней назад +9

    I know someone who lives in Puna/Pahoa. He said something like, "yeah, come up with $30k and you can buy a place" and I said I have "less than zero interest" in moving to the Big Island. It's the friggin' Wild West there. Crime is off the charts. People get killed by packs of feral dogs too often.

    • @paulwalker4772
      @paulwalker4772 25 дней назад +1

      Far less dangerous than it may seem, peace is priceless.

    • @anthonyjohnson100
      @anthonyjohnson100 24 дня назад +2

      Yup, Puna is definitely the worst place to live so please stay wherever you are and don’t come here. 😘

  • @puertocool
    @puertocool 26 дней назад +1

    Back in 97 I was in this area. Walking out on the lava flows, I detected heat in certain areas. One would be crazy to buy and live here. I always say that Hawaii is really not a nice place. There are many tropical islands in the world far superior.

  • @MimisWorld77
    @MimisWorld77 23 дня назад +1

    I cant with you 🤭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣TY FOR MAKING ME LAUGH

  • @matty13
    @matty13 27 дней назад +23

    A big Aloha from out on the lava in Kalapana

    • @Malama_Ki
      @Malama_Ki 26 дней назад +1

      Y’all got the best weed!🤙🏼🤙🏼

  • @lawrenceharp6396
    @lawrenceharp6396 26 дней назад +2

    Those were crazy times when it went off in 2018. We were all just getting over the 2014 flow that got into the edge of Pahoa. (It didn't arrive as quickly and spectacularly as 2018 did) Many wonderful places to snorkel (Vacationland) or just hang out and soak (Hot Ponds) vanished for good in 2018, and many lives turned upside down. One of our customers from work burned up out there, and it stopped shortly after interestingly enough... The Police and Civil Defense combined with National Guard made viewing any of it impossible, probably to avoid instances such as that. The East Side is a unique place to live, and quickly becoming unaffordable as it develops. If you have a juicy pension, 401k and just sold your home in the Bay Area or Seattle, Portland, etc it is very affordable and you get a lot of bang for your buck in the right area.

  • @marieduran6286
    @marieduran6286 22 дня назад +2

    Two days of nonstop earthquakes is enough of a warning for me, I don't know if they really need an alert on their phone. Hats off to Dot for having the grit to stay until the last minute and then rebuild. I really can't blame them because with the price of land and homes, where else are they going to go. And this is a shout-out for the people living on the lava, you gotta hand it to these people, they are made of tough stuff. I also noticed that there are plants growing between the cracks of the lava and I thought, even the plants have persistance and determination. Besides that lava will be land in a couple of million years. The people living there won't have electric bills, but they will be need food and fuel for their trucks and ATVs. Tempting fate? Really, all the people on the island is tempting fate.

  • @californiapoppy
    @californiapoppy 26 дней назад +2

    From my understanding, the people who live in Kalapana and other lava zones completely understand the risks. In their minds, the land is cheap, there’s no building codes, no big government to charge them or regulate basic necessities, and they prefer it that way. They are attracted to the simplicity, even though it comes with a ton of work. They are all about living and being left alone, to just enjoy nature and family. (And there are kids there!) They also see the volcano as part of life, “go with the flow” is the local adage. Nothing lasts forever, they rebuild. It’s crazy but it’s also honest and you’ve got to admit the respectability in people honoring their convictions.

  • @madmerlot841
    @madmerlot841 27 дней назад +14

    The drone was really helpful for this video. Spectacular views of the lava field and fissures.

  • @quentinamundson2718
    @quentinamundson2718 26 дней назад +2

    Nick if you are still on BIG ISLAND please have breakfast at Coffee Shack!!! It’s the best hands down!!! I used to live on BI Kona side I miss it so much!!

  • @jeffhenson1994
    @jeffhenson1994 27 дней назад +4

    YEA MORE MAPPY LOL

  • @markking2054
    @markking2054 27 дней назад +2

    Miolii at the South end of Kona had lots for sale on Lava for 4000 i ended up paying 24000 for a lot in Pebble Beach 2001. Ended up selling off.

  • @milanimorales2645
    @milanimorales2645 25 дней назад +1

    This would be the only section of Hawaii I would be able to afford. Landlords be like, "Open space, sunny views, AFFORDABLE, plenty of room for the kids to run around, participate actively in science exploding volcano, put your deposit in today before it's gone!"

  • @keonesilva3646
    @keonesilva3646 11 дней назад +1

    I live in Upper Puna near Volcano Village since 2004 totally off grid and loving it. ❤

  • @FJLMolokai
    @FJLMolokai 24 дня назад +1

    They live on the lava field because that's their land and that's we're there house was before the lava took it.most of them aren't new to the area

  • @Malama_Ki
    @Malama_Ki 26 дней назад +3

    Those are known as the LavaBillies of Puntuckey!!!

  • @memeruss9896
    @memeruss9896 26 дней назад +6

    I have very much enjoyed your Hawaiian Island videos the best, this one for sure is my favorite one of them. In this one, you are completely honest and there are no comments about the people or their bad situations, which is very refreshing! Glad you gave us this great perspective of these beautiful islands, each with their own history, knowledge, and feel of the land and its people.
    The plus was you had a great trip for yourself and your wife!
    You did a great job on these, and I think are your best videos yet! Keep them coming!

  • @user-yo3ef3sb8y
    @user-yo3ef3sb8y 27 дней назад +2

    Finally, made it to my hood "the green getto"

    • @Malama_Ki
      @Malama_Ki 26 дней назад +1

      Featuring the LavaBillies of Puntuckey…..

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 26 дней назад

      Cook rice? Nah, brah, cook ice.

  • @jimmysotack2523
    @jimmysotack2523 25 дней назад +3

    2k more to one million.Congratulations!

  • @elizabethbrown7082
    @elizabethbrown7082 27 дней назад +2

    'I' don't understand.
    Aren't we ALL just "betting against nature" ?
    How is this different?😊

  • @matthewkeating-od6rl
    @matthewkeating-od6rl 23 дня назад +1

    There was a really nice tide pools that got covered by plaza along with a hot pool that was geo thermal heated.

  • @KCFromTheIE
    @KCFromTheIE 27 дней назад +2

    It’s crazy how people build homes on old lava flow! Such a trip!

    • @Malama_Ki
      @Malama_Ki 26 дней назад +3

      Every island from the bottom of the ocean floor to the summit is an old lava flow!

  • @legalizefreedom451
    @legalizefreedom451 25 дней назад +1

    I live down the road. But on better land. That land is super cheap, but never know when your house will get eaten up.

  • @ephraimgarrett4727
    @ephraimgarrett4727 26 дней назад +1

    Build a house on a lava flow? No problem -- just leave an offering to Madame Pele (a bottle of booze should work) on your front porch and you're good to go. 😄

  • @tripplefives1402
    @tripplefives1402 25 дней назад +1

    You know you can drive all the way up to the top of Mauna Koa on paved road? There is a road that also goes all the way to the top of Mauna Loa but its generally not open to the public.

  • @benh3427
    @benh3427 23 дня назад +1

    There are many homes on the big island that are over million dollars, just not near the volcano (kailua-kona have many nice area that you can buy and you can get good deals compared to Maui or Oahu)

  • @stevedelie8145
    @stevedelie8145 27 дней назад +2

    Your screenshot for video looks like the cover of a Pink Floyd album!!

  • @anthonyjohnson100
    @anthonyjohnson100 24 дня назад +1

    Halema’uma’u is full of a lot of lava, the east rift is now refilling down to Pu’uo’o, once it fills it will either erupt back down the pali towards kalapana or it will drain all at once like it did in 2018 down the LERZ coming out somewhere near Leilani. This time it will be a lot more lava though. I think it will follow the north side of the 2018 flow wiping out papaya farm road or it could head further north toward the bottom of Kahakai by the boulders. Either way it’s just a matter of time.

  • @storm2000808
    @storm2000808 14 дней назад +1

    Lost my Kapoho hale to pele in this lava flow. Was beach front property, but now its a 3.5 acre lava slab about a mile inland!

  • @beja7641
    @beja7641 27 дней назад +2

    They re-did saddle road it used to be 1 lane

    • @Malama_Ki
      @Malama_Ki 26 дней назад +1

      It’s the autobahn of Hawaii now!!! They did an awesome job compared to the death trap it was before.

    • @lavapix
      @lavapix 26 дней назад +2

      It was 2 lanes but the outer edge of each was so bumpy everyone drove down the middle of the road. That road was great. It had character and you could pull off most anywhere and explore. Glad they let us drive on a part of the old road during the Mauna Loa eruption. Lots of people grew pot along that road at certain elevations on the Hilo side.

    • @beja7641
      @beja7641 26 дней назад

      @@lavapix Nice

  • @Spencer02
    @Spencer02 26 дней назад +4

    Hello Nick 👍 I think it's absolutely incredible how lava is so hot, and burns rock. Everything in it's path. That piece of lava you picked up looks amazing, the structure is incredible.

  • @stevenweiss2148
    @stevenweiss2148 27 дней назад +12

    Really enjoying these videos..better then a trip to Gary Indiana