The last resident of the last home in a beleaguered Big Island subdivision evacuated his home this weekend an hour a lava flow came down the hill and consumed the structure.

Kilauea lava flows had burned every one of his neighbors’ homes and cut off the roads leading to the Royal Gardens subdivision in Puna. The Hawaii Tribune Herald reports:

In 2008, his last neighbor’s home succumbed. Jack Thompson began walking the 3 or 4 miles to Highway 130 over rough lava rock, hauling a backpack heavy with brown rice and beans. Those days appear to be over. 

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