Think Pompeii Got Hit Hard? Worse Eruptions Lurk

Yahoo - Reuters ^ | 3-6-2006

[Rummyfan]

We're all going to die!!!!!

[Dallas59]

Did Bush know?

[MineralMan]

"We're all going to die!!!!!"

You speak truth.

[WV Mountain Mama]

Is Michael Moore about to blow?

[Minn]

Pompeii is really cool. I would have loved to party with those people.

[RightWhale]

There was plenty of warning for Pompeii. Most took the rumbling and plumes as part of the scenic attraction of the area and shrugged it off. 'Oh, that's just Vesuvius, it does that all the time, no big deal.'

[ozzymandus]

Golly, the cable news networks haven't had a volcano to obsess about since Mt. St. Helens. As I recall, the death toll in that one was 1 old man who refused to leave. Now if Mexico City was to blow, that would be pretty cool.

[NavyCanDo]

Naples was a favorite liberty port of mine when I was a 19 year old sailor with hormones working overtime. On the other side of the coin I hated Naples when on Shore Patrol duty. I would love to go back some day just as a mature tourist.

[blam]

"As I recall, the death toll in that one was 1 old man who refused to leave."

I think it was 51 or 52 people who died. BTW, the old man did die...his name was Harry Truman.

[Dacus943]

"skeletons of a dog and nine pregnant goat victims"

Goat VICTIMS! What the fudge. The goats were for eating, and they just got cook earlier than planned.

[ozzymandus]

Yeah, I saw the movie. He was played by Art Carney.

[Tolkien]

It was 56 people... and that was because it blew out sideways. This confounded the U.S. Geological Survey and Governor Dixie Lee Ray.

[Cold Heart]

57 dead from St Helens eruption.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Pompeii was great. There were intact buildings, amphitheaters, streets, brothels, temples and casts of people that died during the eruption. The streets still have the ruts that chariots and wagons wore down.

[GAD]

Get an umbrella.

[RipSawyer]

Sheridan said the disaster that followed Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the U.S. Gulf Coast shows officials do not plan adequately for natural disasters. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Maybe I am slow but I fail to see how it is possible to"plan adequately" for natural disasters. Of course on the other hand any fool can make grandiose plans, the execution is a little more difficult.

[dirtboy]

Maybe I am slow but I fail to see how it is possible to"plan adequately" for natural disasters.

Well, the definition of "adequately" is always open to interpretation in that context. But one can also figure out inadequate planning - such as Nagin waiting for the Saturday before Katrina hit to work out the legalities of ordering a mandatory evacuation. Just for starters.

[Bubba_Leroy]

"We're all going to die!!!!!"

You speak truth.

Not me. I'm planning on living forever. So far it's working.

[SunkenCiv]

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