Courtesy USGS.
The count is up over 500 homes lost now. A friend sent me a scare story about how FEMA rounded up all these people in a “Mandatory Evacuation”, put them on buses and cattle cars, and is holding them in an undisclosed FEMA pen somewhere here.
PURE BS! FEMA application for aid was made only yesterday after we surpassed the threshold of 173 homes destroyed. People fled on their own. Local county “Mandatory Evacuation” means first responders will NOT be coming to get you and endangering themselves if you get in trouble. There are some farm residents in the area that live off-grid and chose not to leave, even though they are cut off from land access… but they are not immediately threatened by lava. Hardy, self-reliant homesteaders.