Posted on 12/09/2019 4:19:56 PM PST by BenLurkin
Barbara Barham told The Washington Post on Monday that daughter Lauren Urey, 32, and husband Matthew Urey, 36, were on their honeymoon. Barham said the couple from Richmond, Virginia, had plans to visit a live volcano and weren’t concerned about possible eruptions.
Barham said she got a call sometime later from Royal Caribbean asking if she’d heard from her daughter. Then Matthew Urey’s mother called and relayed a distressing voicemail from her son. Matthew Urey’s message said “there had been a volcano eruption and they were burned very bad,” Barham said.
Tourists had been exploring the moon-like surface of White Island, which is the tip of an undersea volcano. It erupted Monday with a towering blast of ash and scalding steam. At least five people were killed. Eighteen others were rescued. Eight others were missing and feared dead.
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May want to sift volcanic ash
Unfortunately they are probably extra crispy by now.
How dare there be freedom to do stupid things!
Sounds like a clan prepping to blame some one/thing for their kids stupidity
It’s a good sign he could make a phone call. They’ll probably live.
Sounds bad
Probably vaporized.
A little compassion right now for the families. They were newlyweds. They picked a bad time to go volcano exploring.
Yellowstone is an active caldera. One day a bunch of tourists there may meet the same fate.
Academics have questioned the suitability of White Island, New Zealand’s most active cone volcano, as a tourist destination, saying it “was a disaster waiting to happen”.
Bermuda is nice just as some classy Australian beach venues
Choose to visit the mouth of the beast than guess what........
Yer on yer own bunkie
Some pretty callow comments being made about a circumstance of which we know nothing, in particular knowledge of the danger involved, the horror of event nor the grief of the loved ones of those lost. God rest their souls.
Hopefully the US embassy (and other embassies) or the Red Cross will help to determine who is in the hospital and who is still missing.
one day the whole nation...if that caldera were to blow most of the united states is a disaster zone with no survivor any where near Montana Wyoming Idaho. of course there is a 10,000 year window in which it could blow.
Sorry I spent my you’te searching for and rescuing A-holes that did stupid stuff. Never felt sorry for any of them.
Mountain climbers,deep sea divers ect all got into trouble and all of them do it their own peril.
F em
When Yellowstone goes, it won’t just be the folks visiting the park that will get ashed.
PS:
Good peeps die trying to save their adventurous self serving asses.
Again
F’em
Maybe she can sue Gaia....
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