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tblue37

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1. Funny you should post this now. I posted thread a few minutes ago

Reply to byronius (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 01:30 PM

Jun 2018

about people in the path of the Guatemalan volcano' s pyroclastic flow refusing to get out of the way, because they want to get videos of the flow and ash cloud.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210692834

Imagine if there had been cell phones at Pompeii.

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A Day in Pompeii -- an intense animation. [View all] byronius Jun 2018 OP

Funny you should post this now. I posted thread a few minutes ago tblue37 Jun 2018 #1

I just saw that. Major Darwin Award. byronius Jun 2018 #2

Yikes! rusty quoin Jun 2018 #8

My heart is pounding cyclonefence Jun 2018 #3

Smoke comes out of volcanoes like that all the time, and earthquakes are a regular occurrence. Nitram Jun 2018 #5

Yeah, but see cyclonefence Jun 2018 #10

Thanks for posting this. Sophia4 Jun 2018 #4

Chilling how fast it happened. flying_wahini Jun 2018 #6

This past week I was in Washington state. ChazInAz Jun 2018 #18

Did you hear the lahar sirens at noon? Aristus Jun 2018 #20

Extraordinarily done lillypaddle Jun 2018 #7

You don't need to, Vesuvius is an entirely different type of volcano than Mauna Loa. catbyte Jun 2018 #11

Wow, thanks for the education/info lillypaddle Jun 2018 #13

I couldn't stand to hear the dogs barking, especially since I visited the ruins of catbyte Jun 2018 #9

Here is an interesting (and also horrifying) description of the same event: deurbano Jun 2018 #12

When I attended art school in Rome we went on a "field trip" to both BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #14

And there were signs indicating her specialty above the door dhol82 Jun 2018 #15

Terrifying and fascinating. smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #16

Just found a new skeleton in Pompeii packman Jun 2018 #17

We visited Pompeii a few years ago. Highly recommended! It feels like the people FailureToCommunicate Jun 2018 #19