A Dunkirk type of evacuation? The population is currently 342,000.
338,226 were evacuated from Dunkirk.
Same thing, just no Nazis. ;^)
Don’t they have roads leading away from the Capital and the volcano? Of course it could be rough if it was raining. I remember seeing pictures in the Pinatubo area of people fleeing their cities with rain and mud falling on them and their vehicles. They really looked miserable. Thank goodness the Clark base had been evacuated earlier except for the volcano watch people. This is a fissure event, not a volcano explosion. The most famous fissure event was the Laki Fissure in 1783. It went on for months over several miles of fissure. Eventually it killed about 10,000 Icelanders, and 90% of the livestock. I think a lot of the people died of starvation. It also caused poor harvests in Europe and may have helped trigger the French Revolution.