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Volcano erupts on Caribbean island of St. Vincent, sending ash 20,000 feet into the air
CNN ^
| Fri April 9, 2021
| Radina Gigova and Paul Murphy,
Posted on 04/09/2021 11:07:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin
La Soufrière volcano is located on the largest island of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines chain, the country's National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) said. "Explosive eruption at La Soufrière," NEMO tweeted. "Ash plumes up to 20,000 feet headed East," it added.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves on Thursday declared a disaster alert prompted by a change in the eruptive activity at the La Soufrière volcano, NEMO said.
The island was placed on red alert, meaning an eruption was "imminent now," NEMO said.
"Please leave the red zone immediately. La Soufrière has erupted. Ash fall recorded as far as Argyle International Airport," it said.
On Friday, Dora James, director general of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Red Cross, told CNN the eruption sounded like a "large jet engine," and that there was a "consistent flow of smoke" from the ash plume.
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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: caribbean; stvincent; volcano
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posted on
04/09/2021 11:07:41 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Iceland. Now this one.
Gonna be a cold snap.
2
posted on
04/09/2021 11:11:17 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: BenLurkin
In before the left finds this to be “racist”.
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posted on
04/09/2021 11:12:13 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Seruzawa; All
4
posted on
04/09/2021 11:13:12 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: Seruzawa
“Iceland. Now this one.
Gonna be a cold snap.”
Won’t matter. The “follow the pretend science” media will blame the eruptions on climate change anyway, and somehow the colder temp reading will be “corrected” to show continued warming.
Those D- STEM students need those climate change gubmit research funds, ya know.
5
posted on
04/09/2021 11:15:27 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: BenLurkin
Well there goes Globull Warming!..................
6
posted on
04/09/2021 11:16:23 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
To: BenLurkin
Wonder where all the offices of all the trusts and corporations will get moved...? /s
7
posted on
04/09/2021 11:20:33 AM PDT
by
patriotfury
((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
To: BenLurkin
.. and how many climate changing, atmosphere polluting, it's- the-end-of-the-freeworld-as-we-know-it tens of millions of tons of "greenhouse gases' will be discharged into the atmosphere-naturally, as in "not caused directly OR indirectly by mankind"?
Crickets......
8
posted on
04/09/2021 11:21:41 AM PDT
by
China Clipper
( Animals? I LOVE animals. See? There's one there, right next to the potatoes!)
To: BenLurkin
20,000 feet in the air?? pffft. Amateurish.
Iceland’s volcanoes send ash 30,000 feet!
9
posted on
04/09/2021 11:23:22 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: BenLurkin
If only we could just get the gulf of California to open up all the way to Vegas or Mammoth/Reno area, putting some distance between CA and Arizona, and giving AZ some beach and shipping...
10
posted on
04/09/2021 11:24:56 AM PDT
by
patriotfury
((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
To: BenLurkin
Has CNN found a way to blame Trump yet?
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posted on
04/09/2021 11:27:10 AM PDT
by
cdcdawg
(WTF is "Jim Eagle?")
To: BenLurkin
That plume of pollution could’ve very well come out of Michael Moore and has nothing to do with a volcano...
12
posted on
04/09/2021 11:27:59 AM PDT
by
Paco
To: BenLurkin
Is this part of Bill Gates’ project to freeze global warming?
13
posted on
04/09/2021 11:29:34 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(The veil of civilization is only 9 meals thick. )
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/09/2021 11:32:54 AM PDT
by
struggle
To: BenLurkin
Face diaper mumblers.
Not watching.
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posted on
04/09/2021 11:33:01 AM PDT
by
gathersnomoss
(Watch your back.)
To: BenLurkin
I think the best way to stop this is for me to drink some Jim Beam Bourbon.
That stopped that volcano in Peoria.
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posted on
04/09/2021 11:34:02 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: BenLurkin
All these volcanoes!
Gaia must be really pissed.
Quick, someone toss Greta into a cone of roiling magma to make it all stop.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/09/2021 11:41:27 AM PDT
by
heavy metal
(smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
To: Red Badger
It’s going to be interesting to see how it affects hurricane season. We (Florida) had a period of calm caused by dust being blown across the Atlantic from the Sahara Desert. Hurricanes had problems staying formed. With the volcanic ash? Who knows...could be a light season.
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posted on
04/09/2021 11:47:36 AM PDT
by
USAF1985
(An armed population is a polite population...)
To: Seruzawa
There goes the neighborhood.
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posted on
04/09/2021 11:50:04 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
(The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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