Only one family made it out of there accordign to a documentary i saw on the BBC
Pompeii ping.
Pompeii was full of sexual deviants. Can’t say I mourn their demise. But the ruins are cool to look at (not the X rated murals).
Only one family made it out of there accordign to a documentary i saw on the BBC
It was Ted Cruz trying to steal the Pompeii caucuses.
I had the good fortune to visit this amazing place last April. Utterly fascinating. Some of the day to day objects they have basically stored on shelf after shelf look like movie props. There was a small wagon, completely intact, that looked like it was used yesterday. Incredible. Still can’t believe I was actually there after just reading about it and watching documentaries about all these years.
Vesuvius looked different though before the eruption One of the frescoes has a depiction of it -- and it had an exposed magma plug at the crest.
Thanks for sharing this, it was very engaging.
It is amazing, the power of nature, the constant change, one thing balancing another, as two plates (in plate tectonics) separate, this can open the upper surfaces to the fire or lava of the core, but then on the other side of the plates they press together and could trigger an earthquake.
I live in California, and have experienced many earthquakes in my 60 years. Along the Hayward Fault a disaster is waiting to happen, and of course South in Los Angeles. In the 1906 quake, the epicenter was very far from San Francisco, yet we see what happened. Yet today, we could have an epicenter dead on the spot where millions live.
Today, of course, we have better building standards and so on.
But what we don’t have is better standards of people.
In the 1906 earthquake aftermath, the Army, National Guard, and police were ready to shoot looters on site. Today we do not have the courage to enforce such crisis mode threats or actions. I believe when the “big one” comes in California, while perhaps less buildings will fall and the fires will not be as occurred on such a level as in San Francisco, I do believe there is going to be mass destruction because it is likely the epicenter will be just under huge populations of Los Angeles or the San Francisco Bay Area, and not far off in San Juan Bautista. In fact, the destruction could be just as bad in the aftermath as many residents are now located in hills that have overgrown weeds and fire hazards due to lack of weed control. In fact, fires could escape easily from buildings and then spread into the fields of the California hillsides full of thousands of houses in these times.
But that is not my greatest fear.
When the “big one” comes there will be NO police to help you. There will not be enough police. The military or guards will not be able to arrive quickly enough. Many “officials” will be busy looking after their own families, or unable to arrive at all. You will be on your own.
You will be in your house or at work, God knows.
Then the looters will come, the thugs. In many numbers.
I have my guns. Do you? There will be no police on that day. There will never be enough police on that day. Not in the San Francisco Bay Area.
And just imagine what is going to happen in Los Angeles. It will be overrun by the worse of humanity, looters, fires will break out, many will be raped, many homes invaded and everyone shot dead, you will be their victims. Unless. Better know your neighbors. Better have guns.
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What happened at one AM (in media nocte)?
The one phrase I remember from Mrs. Collier’s 1962 Latin class.
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I too didn’t realize how long Vesuvius was erupting before the final blast. From what I saw I think around mid-afternoon I would have told the family it’s time to take a trip to Grandma’s and get the heck out of Pompeii for a few days.
Very good, but disturbing.