{"id":3642,"date":"2018-05-14T13:20:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T13:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2019-01-20T03:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T03:33:19","slug":"your-hawaii-wedding-volcanoes-lava-and-why-theres-no-need-to-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/your-hawaii-wedding-volcanoes-lava-and-why-theres-no-need-to-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Hawaii Wedding, Volcanoes, Lava, and Why There&#8217;s No Need to Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/es8ePEJhXTY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I guess you&#8217;ve heard in the news we have an active volcano in Hawaii and residents are running for their lives!\u00a0 Well, that&#8217;s partially true, but most of it is just sensationalism brought to you by the mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>The raw full truth is that an active rift zone opened up in a high-risk volcanic zone, Lava Zone One, on The Big Island.\u00a0 Around the 1990&#8217;s, developers were allowed to sell inexpensive properties in active volcanic sites, and residents from all over the world began building their lives there.\u00a0 \u00a0The new buyers were well aware that they were building on land that could erupt one day, but they truly never expected it would happen in their lifetime.\u00a0 As luck would have it, a rift zone opened up in their backyard, literally.\u00a0 \u00a0Consequently, there were people who had to pack up and run for their lives at a moments notice.\u00a0 \u00a0There&#8217;s a huge government failure that is not being reported.\u00a0 One, that residents were allowed to build their lives on an active volcanic side.\u00a0 Two, why a residential area was built so close to a geothermal plant.\u00a0 Lastly, three, if taxpayer dollars will be given to residents to rebuild back on an active lava zone (I hope not).<\/p>\n<p>No one has died.\u00a0 I believe around 37 homes have been destroyed.\u00a0 \u00a0The lava is not as much of a threat as the sulfur-dioxide that has reached toxic levels in that area.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the islands are 100% safe.\u00a0 \u00a0The only effects that we are getting from the volcano here on Oahu are slightly smoggy looking days and awesome blood-red sunsets!<\/p>\n<p>99% of the Big Island is safe to travel too.<\/p>\n<p>There is absolutely no danger to travel to the State of Hawaii.\u00a0 That is,\u00a0unless you want to jump hot a pit of lava.\u00a0 And doing that would take some extreme effort because there are police barriers to cross.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the moral of this blog?<\/p>\n<p>That if you&#8217;re planning to vacation in Hawaii or to get married in Hawaii, you don&#8217;t have to fear the volcano.\u00a0 \u00a0If the Volcano National Park is closed, I wouldn&#8217;t think about island hopping to the Big Island.\u00a0 But if it&#8217;s open, I&#8217;d definitely recommend hopping over to see Mother Nature at its most awesome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess you&#8217;ve heard in the news we have an active volcano in Hawaii and residents are running for their lives!\u00a0 Well, that&#8217;s partially true, but most of it is just sensationalism brought to you by the mainstream media. The raw full truth is that an active rift zone opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}