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. 😁
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.
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.
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.
I remember everyone was live-streaming the eruption. It started off with alot of gas shooting out of a few vents with so much pressure that rocks the size of cars shooting 100ft in the air. Then lava started coming out of cracks which then became the fissures. It started up the road at the main caldera where lava rose and then suddenly disappeared and then lava came out of a few of the old fissures west of Pahoa but then unexpectedly started coming out of the ground down the road to the east in the estates.
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
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!
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!
@@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
@@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!
A very interesting video about the Big Island of Hawaii. I’m originally from Hawaii and the last time I’ve been to the Big Island was over 30 years ago, and it hasn’t changed much over the years; except for recent lava flows that changed the landscape. Good job on all your videos!
When I visited the lava flow in 2009, there were still lots of areas where the rock was so hot it would melt the soles of your shoes. You could see the hot lava falling into the sea and instantly boiling the water into huge clouds of sulfur laden steam which basically produces sulfuric acid. There were barriers about a half mile from the flowing lava. There were only a few homes on the lava.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Truly Amazing Story Of This Part Of The Island, People Actually Build There Again, Cheap Or Not Now Way, I Can't Say They Are Brave That Doesn't Seem To Fit The Description Of Where They Live, Thanks Nick For Sharing These People And How They Live!
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. ✨✌️💜🌴
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.
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.
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.
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 🙂
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
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!
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!
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
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!
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?
@@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.
@@arcticfoxserenity7042 Because lava doesnt erase property lines. It is not "new land". It is the same land covered in geothermal rock. You chisel it off and get back to the topsoil.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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!!
Hey Nick, again another excellent video! I think TH-cam needs to have some sort of TH-cam Emmy award show plague given to their most interesting and creative videos!
That's crazy.. never know when it's going to blow and flow 😬. Also amazing how many words they can make with the 13 letter Hawaiian alphabet. Dorothy is Brave 💪
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.😮😮😮
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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. 😮
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".
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.
Vent #8 The powerhouse of the bunch is wild it's been 6 years since the eruption. I think as of August 15th, 2024, there's uplift in 3 spots at Kilauea. For the people that live on the big island of Hawaii, they have my damn respect 🫡
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
Good job going to Kalapana, Leilani, and Ocean View. I hope you also filmed Uncle Roberts Night Market in Kalapana, Pahoa, and the roads around Isaac Hale. You need to capture the whole Puna vibe!
Watch all of your videos, love them! Hawaii trip has been excellent! Good to see home close up since I moved to Oregon. Those Hawaiian words can be difficult 😉 Mahalo Nui Loa Nick
Mount Everest, located on the border between China and Nepal, has an altitude of 8,848.86 meters (29,031.69 feet) - making it the highest mountain in the world.
for those of us who remember Kalapana it was our Garden of Eden amazing black sand beaches and fresh water pools that would heal u ( not just Queens Bath ) . east rift u can set your ecological clock by it every 50-60 yr last major eruptions were in 1955/1960 Kapoho eruption took almost the identical path taking out Kapoho Beach lots subdivision at 4 corners taking out the old community / school and farms we also had some lesser out breaks behind Pahoa Town in 2014. we all new about 2018 long before lava actually flowed all the seismic activity in the area and the swelling of the Aina all major signs . all the new comers had blinders on thinking it couldn't happen but the rest of us new already sad all those folks building those multimillion dollar estates if they only new . and Saddle Rd that IS the new road u were on the original road was only 12-15ft wide with a line down the middle making it a two-way lane for us as kids that was as close to a Disneyland E ticket ride as u could get even later on driving it was always eye opening .. u never talked to any real Kupuna or Hawaiians with real history about Puna , Kapoho or Kalapana area u missed out on some real truths about this very sacred area and our Aina in general
Here is the entire Hawaii Road Trip Playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLq-_cmf3H6yqccGbhjoid97_3BEWegGtf.html&si=wTIHiG58Rv_FwId4
Ur doomed bozo
What a beautiful journey through Hawaiian Islands! Enjoy every episode! Thank you for sharing your vacation with us.
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. 😁
you say it, Charles,
Nick your almost at 1 mil subscribers! Congrats! It was great seeing how far this channel has progressed over the years!
Yay Mike!
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.
Incredibly beautiful, that rawness
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.
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.
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I remember everyone was live-streaming the eruption. It started off with alot of gas shooting out of a few vents with so much pressure that rocks the size of cars shooting 100ft in the air. Then lava started coming out of cracks which then became the fissures. It started up the road at the main caldera where lava rose and then suddenly disappeared and then lava came out of a few of the old fissures west of Pahoa but then unexpectedly started coming out of the ground down the road to the east in the estates.
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
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!
Yes Hawaii's population has been decreasing for years now.
Just so sad, beyond words what has happened to that wonderful place.
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!
@@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
@@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!
A very interesting video about the Big Island of Hawaii. I’m originally from Hawaii and the last time I’ve been to the Big Island was over 30 years ago, and it hasn’t changed much over the years; except for recent lava flows that changed the landscape. Good job on all your videos!
Great Video Nick, was great to meet you and your wife. 1,000,000 Subs is any day now! Congratulations! 🎉
Gary!! Hope you caught more fish down on the spit! 🐠
When I visited the lava flow in 2009, there were still lots of areas where the rock was so hot it would melt the soles of your shoes. You could see the hot lava falling into the sea and instantly boiling the water into huge clouds of sulfur laden steam which basically produces sulfuric acid. There were barriers about a half mile from the flowing lava. There were only a few homes on the lava.
Nick,& Kim,y’all are very brave! Even though it’s inexpensive,I’d never take the chance living there. Stay safe during your travels.💯👍🏾😀🫶🏾💜✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸
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.
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.
Take Slab City, add a few palm trees, and you've got the same thing. Except it's easy to escape Slab City.
@@alexcarter8807 In Hawaii it rains every day and fruit trees grow along side the road like weeds.
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.
@@cheribee968 There is excellent internet service in Hawaii as well as 5G everywhere including even at the top of the mountains.
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.
I remember hearing about him in the news..
Truly Amazing Story Of This Part Of The Island, People Actually Build There Again, Cheap Or Not Now Way, I Can't Say They Are Brave That Doesn't Seem To Fit The Description Of Where They Live, Thanks Nick For Sharing These People And How They Live!
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. ✨✌️💜🌴
Hey Lisa! ❤️☀️🌈
@@NickJohnson Hi.. keep up the awesome work with your videos. Very educational. 👍
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.
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.
Sorry about your knee 😣 that sounds like it hurt
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❤
Yes he has Sharon!
Including cutting people’s fences and entering their property on TH-cam during the eruption, for video footage, while they were evacuated.
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.
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.
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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 🙂
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
Prayers for Dana Ireland who lost her life on this island 🙏
🙏such a tragedy, so unnecessary and senseless...
Yes that was so terrible! Her poor family.
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!
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!
Yay I hope you have a good homecoming!
Fantastic video! Wild that anyone would build on that lava! Scrappers!!! Those lava rocks is are beautiful, but you are right…don’t take them!
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
they were ahead of their time. i think the mainland has caught up
Oahu here, crime central!
This is the best series on Hawaii l have ever seen! Looking forward to Alaska!
Best ever made
$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
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!
It's a lot not an acre.
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?
@@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.
@@arcticfoxserenity7042 Because lava doesnt erase property lines. It is not "new land". It is the same land covered in geothermal rock. You chisel it off and get back to the topsoil.
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.
Alaska!
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
Everything about this is crazy Donna!
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 .
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.
Most volcanoes do not re-erupt once they have erupted.
The drone was really helpful for this video. Spectacular views of the lava field and fissures.
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.
These lava homes are almost unbelievable... guess they are living off grid.. Great video!!
They're "non-permitted"
2k more to one million.Congratulations!
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.
Been wait for this island for a while! Finally!
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
999k subs and counting. Keep up the great work Nick!
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
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!!
Ok!!
Visited back in 2004. Rented a jeep and drove up to the observatory. Huge island.
Hey Nick, again another excellent video! I think TH-cam needs to have some sort of TH-cam Emmy award show plague given to their most interesting and creative videos!
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@@NickJohnson Yay, made of gold I hope!
Be careful standing on top of "old" lava flows. I did that back in March, 1983, and the soles of my shoes started melting.
That happened to me too, back in 97. Sorry place to live!
That's crazy.. never know when it's going to blow and flow 😬. Also amazing how many words they can make with the 13 letter Hawaiian alphabet. Dorothy is Brave 💪
Punatics are a special breed - Aloha from Kurtistown 🤙
@@robc5407 Punatic here🥰Hawaiian Acres love you🤙🏼
The LavaBillies of Puntuckey!!!
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.😮😮😮
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
Far less dangerous than it may seem, peace is priceless.
Yup, Puna is definitely the worst place to live so please stay wherever you are and don’t come here. 😘
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. 😮
It rarely erupts, however when it does,even Oahu gets Vog,very hard to breathe, with improved scientific methods we can easily monitor eruptions
VOG
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.
Ok John 👍
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".
@@NickJohnsonand you have to get state lava insurance for that area it's like 6000 to 7,000 a year
After seeing your videos, don't have any desire to go there. I will be glad when you've ended your trip in Hawaii
Looking forward to your Alaskan venture
There was a really nice tide pools that got covered by plaza along with a hot pool that was geo thermal heated.
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.
Coolest Nick Johnson video in a while! So neat
Vent #8 The powerhouse of the bunch is wild it's been 6 years since the eruption. I think as of August 15th, 2024, there's uplift in 3 spots at Kilauea. For the people that live on the big island of Hawaii, they have my damn respect 🫡
Prayers. For. You. All
Holy cow, have land prices reached such high prices that these people would rather sleep every night on top of a volcano?😮😮😬😬
Yes that's how bad it is. No cell service.
@@shellycooper7610 Do they even have a CB or ham radio network? Then again that shit would get stolen all the time...
Well…..they don’t have to worry about the pesky things we do, like home owners insurance, AC, running water or hot showers.
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.
Thanks for your videos on Hawaii now I don’t need to go there , off to Nevada
The Big Island is the best! Hiking the caldera was awesomer.
CONGRATS ON 1M VIEWERS!!! GIVE US A BLOOPER REEL!!!!!
Volcanic soil is one of the richest soils in the world. That black soil looks so good 😊
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.
Loved this video , visited The Big Island a few times , amazing place and I can tell you Scott is the ultimate tour guide 🙂🤙🏽
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)
Apau Hawaii Tours has a series of videos about the volcanic eruption in 2018, in Leilani Estates.
Really enjoying these videos..better then a trip to Gary Indiana
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.
We have a house on the west side of Kona, Big Island since 2016. I wanted to ride my motorcycle to Puna one day to see it!!❤🎉
I heard the tiki idol sound from the Brady Bunch in my head when Mappy mentioned taking a rock home.
And I thought it was just me!!!🤙😆
😂 Me too!
It’s crazy how people build homes on old lava flow! Such a trip!
Every island from the bottom of the ocean floor to the summit is an old lava flow!
A tiny home on wheels makes sense in this area or any area subject to unstable ground conditions.
Great vid, Nick. 1M subs soon, nice you earn it man!
Great work! Thank you for sharing the adventure
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.
Congrats on 1 million subscribers. Been watching since 400 thousand subscribers
Thanks for sticking around so long!
@@NickJohnson it's been a fun ride. Thanks for all the entertaining videos
This is extremely wild. The peoples tenacity to stay is incredibly unbelievable. Thanks for sharing Nick.
Yeah, his documenting the US is respectful.
Good job going to Kalapana, Leilani, and Ocean View.
I hope you also filmed Uncle Roberts Night Market in Kalapana, Pahoa, and the roads around Isaac Hale. You need to capture the whole Puna vibe!
They say Puna batu is the best!
Oh I did!
Those are known as the LavaBillies of Puntuckey!!!
Watch all of your videos, love them!
Hawaii trip has been excellent! Good to see home close up since I moved to Oregon. Those Hawaiian words can be difficult 😉
Mahalo Nui Loa Nick
We don't look at lava flows as devastation. It's the birth of land from the mother Pele.
The reason they are fine living there is because they cannot afford to live anywhere else prices on this island are ridiculous
Bingo, that's what I was thinking! LOL
This has been a wonderful series. Thank you so much for this. Btw, I wonder How much they're insurance rates are on the Big Island?!!
Mount Everest, located on the border between China and Nepal, has an altitude of 8,848.86 meters (29,031.69 feet) - making it the highest mountain in the world.
A big Aloha from out on the lava in Kalapana
Y’all got the best weed!🤙🏼🤙🏼
for those of us who remember Kalapana it was our Garden of Eden amazing black sand beaches and fresh water pools that would heal u ( not just Queens Bath ) . east rift u can set your ecological clock by it every 50-60 yr last major eruptions were in 1955/1960 Kapoho eruption took almost the identical path taking out Kapoho Beach lots subdivision at 4 corners taking out the old community / school and farms we also had some lesser out breaks behind Pahoa Town in 2014. we all new about 2018 long before lava actually flowed all the seismic activity in the area and the swelling of the Aina all major signs . all the new comers had blinders on thinking it couldn't happen but the rest of us new already sad all those folks building those multimillion dollar estates if they only new . and Saddle Rd that IS the new road u were on the original road was only 12-15ft wide with a line down the middle making it a two-way lane for us as kids that was as close to a Disneyland E ticket ride as u could get even later on driving it was always eye opening .. u never talked to any real Kupuna or Hawaiians with real history about Puna , Kapoho or Kalapana area u missed out on some real truths about this very sacred area and our Aina in general
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Awesome overview, tour, and background of the place, it looks very unique and pretty!
My favorite is the big island.
My brother had a home next to a lava field, but on the ocean.
Great video work again Nick , thanks !
Many of those people living there may actually OWN the land on which their shed sits!
looks like Mordor.
Very enjoyable and informative!😊
I just wanted to say Hawaii is beautiful ❤️ I love your videos and keep it up dude
@@rayb.6537 no no just saying Hawaii is nice tho but no sorry oof idk what too say