Spare a thought for the folks in St Vincent: Power cuts after another 'explosive event'

[malaise]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56707956

There has been another "explosive event" at a volcano on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, with power outages and water supplies cut off.

The La Soufrière volcano first erupted on Friday, blanketing the island in a layer of ash and forcing some 16,000 people to evacuate their homes.

Scientists warn that eruptions could continue for days - or even weeks.

Emergency officials described the landscape as a "battle zone" and said more damage and destruction was likely.

The emergency management organisation Nemo tweeted: "Massive power outage following another explosive event at La Soufriere Volcano. Lightning, thunder and rumblings."

[GoCubsGo]

1. One of the few good things about the pandemic is

that there are numerous cruise ships available for evacuating the residents who choose to leave. May they all have homes in which they can return when things settle down. So scary!

[malaise]

3. No one without a vaccine can board one of those ships

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That's the bad news.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Oh, geez. That sucks.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. That is truly terrifying, my dear malaise...Where can they go?

It's heart-breaking.

[malaise]

4. Thankfully CDEMA has been preparing for this

Guyana and the islands will welcome our neighbors. Vincy's population isn't that large.
We did the same for Montserrat. Further lots of folks in the islands have family in other islands or in Guyana.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Thanks for telling me! I am very relieved. ♥

[malaise]

7. On ABC news now

You're welcome

[crickets]

8. That's good to hear. I've been worried they had nowhere to go. nt

[malaise]

10. The Garifunda (Black Caribs) used to dominate the area around

La Soufriere - there were between 1,110 and 2,000 of them were left in 1984
My paternal have move great grandfather was a Black Carib from St Vincent.

The Garifuna people (/ˌɡɑːriːˈfuːnə/ GAR-ee-FOO-nə[3][4] or Spanish pronunciation: [ɡa'ɾifuna] ga-REE-foo-na; pl. Garínagu[5] in Garifuna),[a] are a mixed African and indigenous people who are descended from the Black Caribs, who lived on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent, and speak Garifuna, an Arawakan language.

The Garifuna are the descendants of indigenous Arawak, Kalinago (Island Carib), and Afro-Caribbean people. They are also known as Garínagu, the plural of Garifuna. The founding population, estimated at 2,500 to 5,000 persons, were transplanted to the Central American coast from the Commonwealth Caribbean island of Saint Vincent,[7] known to the Garínagu as Yurumein,[8] now called Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Windward Islands in the British West Indies in the Lesser Antilles. By 1981, around 65,000 Black Caribs were living in fifty-four fishing villages in Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua.[7] Garifuna communities still live in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and abroad, including Garifuna Americans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garifuna
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We Caribbean, Central American and South American people have been moving forever..
My paternal great grandfather was one of the Garifuna from St Vincent.

[EndlessWire]

9. It's confusing.

First we hear that cruise ships came to the rescue. We heard that islands like Grenada had offered to take them in. Next day we hear that no one can even get on a ship unless they are vaccinated. So, how are they going to get to the new island if they can't get on a boat? And, the other countries won't take them now, because of the pandemic.

What are they supposed to do, swim? Simple solution: vaccinate them. We all need to get vaccinated. They will just get theirs sooner.

I have this insane vision of them all running to the lower end of the island. I wonder if the ash, which they said was already on other islands, has completely incapacitated the lower end of the island.

I feel bad for them.

[malaise]

11. Everyone entering an emergency shelter receives a Covid test

but Vincy doesn't have all the vaccines needed. Thankfully the Cuban vaccines will soon be available.