Residents get ready to run from volcano

The Jakarta Post ^ | 20 April 2006 | Suherdjoko and Blontank Poer

[Kitten Festival]

Suherdjoko and Blontank Poer, The Jakarta Post, Magelang, Boyolali

With Mt. Merapi spewing ash overnight, residents of three districts close to the Central Java volcano prepared Wednesday morning to evacuate.

Nurjahid, a resident of Srumbung in the town of Magelang, one of the three districts along with Dukun and Sawangan, said residents were getting ready and increasing the frequency of patrols. "When we hear a gong repeatedly sound, we will run to safety," he said.

Many residents have moved their belongings and livestock to safer places.

Gito, 30, took his seven goats from Ngablak to another village some five kilometers away, on the mountain's lower slopes. "I've been worried. It's better to take my livestock first," he said.

Another resident, Subchi, took his two buffaloes to a distant village. "We've been warned of a possible eruption. That's why I took my buffaloes to safety. We've also bundled up our valuables," he said.

[Kitten Festival]

Load up the goats, the water buffalo, the vittles, and git goin.'

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

After every big volcano eruption the world get 2-3 years of cold winters.

[CAP811]

Trouble with the ol' Gong warning is it my be preceeded by the sound of a freight train, in such a case no worries human, goat, or water buffalo, you all's gonna be crispy.

Ol' Cap's advise Go French......Run like hell!

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Volcano
By: jimmy buffett, keith sykes, harry dailey
1979

Chorus:
Now I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow

Chorus:
Let me say now I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow

Ground she’s movin’ under me
Tidal waves out on the sea
Sulphur smoke up in the sky
Pretty soon we learn to fly

Chorus:
Let me hear ya now I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow

Now my girl quickly say to me
Mon you better watch your feet
Lava come down soft and hot
You better lava me now or lava me not

Chorus:
Let me say now I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow

-- spoken: mr utley...

No time to count what I’m worth
’cause I just left the planet earth
Where I go I hope there’s rum
Not to worry mon soon come

Chorus:
Now I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow

Chorus:
One more now I don’t know (ah he don’t know)
I don’t know (he don’t know, mon)
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow

But I don’t want to land in new york city
Don’t want to land in mexico (no no no)
Don’t want to land on no three mile island
Don’t want to see my skin aglow (no no no)

Don’t want to land in commanche sky park
Or in nashville, tennessee (no no no)
Don’t want to land in no san juan airport
Or the yukon territory (no no no)

Don’t want to land no san diego
Don’t want to land in no buzzards bay (no no no)
Don’t want to land on no ayotollah
I got nothing more to say

Chorus:
I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow

Chorus:
Just a one more, I don’t know (he don’t know)
I don’t know (I don’t know, man)
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow

[ElkGroveDan]

I hope it's not as bad as the movie.

[P-40]

we will run to safety

Better be a fast runner...a very fast runner.