Posted on 05/28/2021 3:37:30 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Days after a deadly eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in Democratic Republic of Congo, the threat of another eruption forced the evacuation of much of the city of Goma. But that ended up in a traffic chaos…
Tens of thousands of residents tried to escape the major city in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, after authorities issued an evacuation order warning that Mount Nyiragongo could erupt again.
People jammed highways, crowded boats and set off on foot to flee this major African city on Thursday, seeking an escape from the rumbling threat of Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world’s most active and dangerous volcanoes.
After a fiery fissure ripped open on Saturday, sending a stream of lava rushing down the mountain’s rocky slopes toward Goma and killing more than two dozen people, scientists and local authorities warned that the danger had not passed.
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And the 1,500 ft. deep Lake Kivu could become a poisonous gas belcher, too.
Nasty stuff those 2 million people live close to. Prayers for them.
Everybody has a cell phone, but nobody has stable electricity to charge it.
Think about Copper thieves in the US, then Imagine what Africa must be like.
Prayers up for those people.
Talk about the apocalype in Congo, plague now a volcano. Scratch that off my summer travel list
Doesn’t look very diverse. This entire evacuation is RACIST! They need to bus in some Whites and Asians to set this right before they bus people out.
Ok, I laughed.
Does that mean white men have nothing to worry about? Awesome! I love being a white man. Blonde hair, blue eyes, raised Protestant Christian. I’m chosen, man!
Yeah. Where’s the whites? Did they kill them all in their zeal to escape nothing?
Fear. FEAR! There must always be fear or the bubble-headed bleached-blonde just is not happy. She comes on at 5.
Thanks, I can die happy now.
Plans? This is a plan? Trillions of frightened people heading down a desolate road to who knows where? Where are these people going, and do the people at their destination know they’re coming?
What kind of plan is that? Do you realize how much food, water, and sanitation this many people require? Do you?!?! Yaagghh!!
End of rant.
Like the Pinatubo eruption in ‘91, it will belch so much ash into the air that it lowers the world average temperature by 3 degrees for the next five years.
I remember how unusually cool the summer of 1993 was. I remember that summer specifically for reasons surrounding a certain girlfriend and our living arrangements. It was nice. We only had one or two days that hit 90 degrees that summer (in Minnesota). I vote for more volcanoes.
Poor Africa! Nothing ever goes right there. I really feel bad for those folks after that horrifying event last week where lava simply rolled into the town and moved so fast people couldn’t even drag elderly relatives out of the house.
That said, this same area lost 200 people to a volcanic eruption a few years ago. Why don’t they relocate the village?
Yu need to keep up.....Yes they have a destination......(all evacuations are full of people and vehicles)....and yes Ruwanda and others know they’re coming, have schools and other facilities waiting and preparing....also Internatinal groups who respond to natural disasters...and it’s not trillions of people...stop exagerating.
Natural disasters have happened for decades....the earth isn’t stable you know..it’s in constant motion.
Good thing we have people that don’t get their pants in a knot working on this.
“The 2002 eruption destroyed about 20 percent of Goma, burying it under molten rock, leaving 120,000 people homeless and killing around 250 people through carbon dioxide asphyxiation, burns and the lava-triggered explosion of a gas station.”
The Josef Konrad novellete was more about Belgian atrocities. I like the way he starts by pointing out that Britain was the heart of darkness at the time of Christ .
Yeah, if the CO2 and methane trapped at the bottom of Lake Kivu was triggered into a limnic eruption, most of the 2 million people living around the lake (it’s a big lake) could be asphyxiated in a few hours. A similar eruption on a much smaller scale, at Lake Nyos in 1986 killed most everyone near that lake, a “mere” 1700 people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnic_eruption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Kivu
I didn’t say the negroes were the heart of darkness
I was referring to the territory
The Congo
I’ve read the book too
Despite your accuracy in declaring Conrad comments on imperialism etc......Critics don’t share your interpretation though.....I suppose it’s our woke age......they see it as a racist book that paints Africans as less civilized than Europeans not a critique of European colonizers
I’ll confess these disagreements over black and white civilization don’t keep me awake at nite lol
As someone who witnessed first hand civil war in Sierra Leone I am under no illusion what black Africans are capable of on their. own to one another with no help from whites and with blunt or edged weapons
The story of heart of darkness to me though is more about the despair and the collapse into insanity of the main character Kurtz
I do agree the Belgian authorities were awful colonizers...no question whatsoever there but I’ll counter that with saying the Brits mostly left a good mark on yes....extremely violent uncivilized near Stone Age peoples in tropical Africa
Doesn’t justify the Simbas though...not to me anyhow
African on African atrocities are like black on black violence here...never ending ....and often ignored or excused or blamed on whites ....ridiculous
Have you been there are you familiar ?
I know west africa well and some of Zambia ...
I’m not a Congo expert...
It’s frigging huge ....four Texas
I was struck how ubiquitous cell phones are in today’s world
Like Nike t shirts and marlboros
Even in impoverished ...relatively speaking ...refugee caravans in the Congo....which can be bizarre remote..
My third world experience is dated....in my day it was low meter repeaters
Huge place I see....670,000
After a fiery fissure ripped open on Saturday, sending a stream of lava rushing down the mountain’s rocky slopes toward Goma and killing more than two dozen people, scientists and local authorities warned that the danger had not passed.
Good guess.
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