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  Just left Hawaii on my first trip there.  Went to Volcanoes NP on Wed. Juuuuuuust missed it!
context: It's like when you're wasted and start puking and then it stops and you're like "I'm good now, I'm good noBBBLAARRRGGHH". >
  
  Thanks for the laugh >
  
  I like reading up on this kind of stuff. Different reality for folk who live in its shadow. I was a kid when Pinatubo erupted and I thought the ashfall coming down outside was that snow I kept seeing in movies.
  Hawaii, being part of a volcanic chain is in a cycle of oceanic weathering and volcanic growth, and the chain extends for thousands of miles. Compared to continental lands, on shields/cratons, etc, I wonder how.many islands are forever lost to history as they erode below the waterline (and many never even broached) and I assume are subducted down the line.