JAYFORCE

This is the lava flow this morning in Hawaii. https://t.co/dCqmds5gYo pic.twitter.com/d6jDvPkGMB

— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 21, 2018

Surely you have heard about it. Maybe you’ve even seen footage of the hot lava creeping down hillsides or crossing roads. Looks like something other than what it is… a relatively slow-moving mass of molten rock, melting or burning everything it touches. That said, the news footage I have seen shows folks treating the lava like it’s some novel plaything that is just kinda hot.

Nah, son. This stuff is cooking asphalt and ocean and dissolving steel like it’s nothing. See the footage? Good. That’s about as close as you ever need to get to the lava. Just saying.

– @ojones1

New fears in Hawaii this morning – lava finally reaches Pacific Ocean creating a toxic lava haze. I explain in this video. Take a look. #livedesk. cc: @abc7newsbayarea pic.twitter.com/Y9kmjQ83ab

— Jessica Castro (@JessicaABC7) May 21, 2018

Mahalo to our own Billy Kervick for the video of this morning’s lava ocean in Puna. #kilauea pic.twitter.com/DwoTIZZ9kp

— KWXX FM (@KWXX) May 20, 2018