[RooRoobird20]

Mt. Vesuvius is still an active volcano.

Mr RooRoo and I toured Pompeii, Vesuvius is large, imposing and scary, looming over Pompeii and Naples.

If Vesuvius errupts again like it did previously, it’s predicted that 600,000 are in the “red zone” who will be violently killed. That’s a lot of brain explosions.

[Equine1952]

My wife and I watched a special about the caldera under Yellowstone that could errupt. We live about 60 miles from there. She asked what we could do if it happened. I told her not to worry the shock wave would send the bricks on the front of the house at us at about 3000 mph, problem solved. I think there’s a Saying like “you never hear the brick that kills you”. I kissed her good night and went to sleep. That was a few years ago, same house, same place, different kiss good night with the same wife. 😀

[elcid1970]

Vesuvio did erupt in 1944. Italy was under US occupation. Ash from the crater literally caused USAF bombers to crash from volcanic ash being sucked into their engines.

We ascended it up to the crater in 1969. It seemed to be daring us to climb further. Nowadays drone photography takes one into the volcanic center in complete safety.

What’s scariest about Vesuvio’s power is how the catastrophic burial of Pompeii and Herculaneum was completely forgotten for many centuries until their rediscovery only two hundred years ago. Their excavations are only now bringing back to life those who lived before the disaster.