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On the Big Island, it's sometimes lava. Since 1989, Mauna Kea volcano has been erupting pretty continuously, and the lava flow down the hillside has sometimes overrun residential neighborhoods.

Fortunately, the lava is fairly dense and slow-moving, so there has been time to pack up and move out of the way. Sometimes, the "pack up" has been fairly significant; entire houses have been jacked up and moved away, and a historic church that was in the path of the lava was similarly lifted off of its foundations and carried out of the lava flow.

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