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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Under the circumstances calls were probably not getting through.
A Text is compressed into a packet which the phone repeatedly tries to send until it gets confirmation that it reached its destination.
Sometimes the system generates a false positive or the phone memory glitches, but a text message is more likely to get through than a call in an emergency.
One wonders if he wrapped and shielded her.
Video here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/09/new-zealand-volcano-people-unaccounted-eruption-white-island/
I think she is upset that the cruise line didn’t cancel the sightseeing trip in light of increased recent activity.
It's not waiting to happen anymore.
It’s nicer in the winter when it’s 30 below and the progressive pansies hibernate.
hmmm
Aren’t all disasters waiting to happen? If you’re at ground zero it’s the biggest disaster you’ll ever see. They all suck. How much depends on proximity to my way of thinking.
The rule of nines. In the old days when I was an EMT that would not be survivable, today there’s a chance. Sometimes life can be very random.
True enough.
s/
Normally you save that trip for the 15-year anniversary.
Incredible footage shows calm before fatal blast on Whakaari White Island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvuhtG1c2II
http://www.google.com/search?q=Incredible+footage+whakaari
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