Apparently it only takes some 80 years for vegetation to reestablish itself. So if not the grandkids, maybe the great grandkids?
I have no idea if you still own it. Some of it is rented, so if you have a 6 month lease, do you have to keep paying?
File under “Problems most people don’t have.”
I have read that the new land formed belongs to the state, according to law.
Ah, okay then. So, sure you have a half acre…but it now starts 20’ below the surface.
I think it meant lava displacing the sea . . . but I may be wrong! 
“I’m sorry ma’am but your policy clearly states ‘any and all damage from a stratovolcano.’ See the footnote here on page 354. Kilauea is a shield volcano.”
It’s not a pre-existing condition? I expect those of us living in tectonically stable areas would have it more easily available…
A violent black market?
Coming in 2020: Sandrunners: A Dump Truck Full of Blood.
Interesting article. Yet another resource we’re using up faster than it’s being replenished. It mentions that desert sand isn’t suitable for construction because it has been worn round by wind erosion, and thus doesn’t have the sharp edges needed to resist cracks when used as aggregate in concrete. But I don’t see the problem for using it to make glass as the sand is melted anyway.
Hey, there’s always the sand on Mars – unless there’s too much iron in it.
Mostly eroded by wind?
Well, there goes that start-up.
Ditto for silicon for computer chips.
This must be news from the “yeah, no shit” file.
Motive still unknown…
I have no idea where the Banshees found the sample (right at the beginning), but it’s always struck me as true.
Well, that takes care of the refugee problem. /s /black humor
https://www.quotes.net/mquote/1022991
Edit - Since it didn’t one-box…
It Came from Outer Space 1953
Sheriff Matt Warren:
Did you know, Putnam, more people are murdered at ninety-two degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I read an article once - lower temperatures, people are easy-going. Over ninety two, it’s too hot to move. But just ninety-two, people get irritable.
Apparently it’s from the movie “It Came from Outer Space” (1953), in a section titled “Doubts and Paranoia”. The only online video clip doesn’t seem to be working, but here it is FWIW:
Hah! Guess you’re just a little quicker on the draw this evening!