Creeping lava looks straight out of ‘The Blob’ as it devours car
By Tamar Lapin
May 8, 2018 | 9:56am
Mesmerizing — and terrifying — timelapse video shows a wall of lava crawling across a Hawaii road and swallowing up a parked car.
The 30-second footage, taken by Brandon Clement, 38, captures the creeping mound of molten rock from the Kilauea volcano, advancing toward a white Ford Mustang in the Leilani Estates neighborhood Sunday.
As the lava approaches it, the car bursts into flames and is then consumed entirely.
“It looked like the movie “Blob†— but on fire,†the Mississippi photographer, who caught the phenomenon using his dashcam camera, told CNN.
Clement said it took about 10 minutes for the wall of molten rock to travel the 20 feet across the street, before continuing to flow down the road. ...
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