Posted on 01/22/2018 3:13:33 AM PST by markomalley
A giant mushroom-shaped cloud shot up from the Philippines’ most active volcano on Monday, darkening the skies and raining ash on communities where tens of thousands have fled after warnings of an impending eruption.
Mayon volcano’s new activity prompted state volcanologists to raise the alert level one notch higher than the initial warning scientists issued last week, meaning a hazardous eruption is possible within days.
Fine ash and sand fell on Legazpi, a city of about 200,000 people, and nearby areas after the midday explosion of Mount Mayon, forcing motorists to turn on their windshield wipers and headlamps, an AFP video stringer said.
Live local television footage and photographs showed the ash column rising several kilometres (miles) above the volcano, blotting out the sun in a largely agricultural region some 330 kilometres (205 miles) southeast of Manila.
“I had to stop because my helmet had filled up with ash,” local housewife Girlie Panesa, 39, told AFP as she parked her motorcycle by the roadside in nearby Ligao town.
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Oh dear, more CO2. When do the enviros announce new sanctions against volcanos?
A volcano erupts and the experts predict that the volcano will erupt. Kinda going out on a limb on that one aren’t they?
Just when you thought it was safe to sell your snow blower.
Pinatubo two!
Volcano Forces 15,000 to Flee Clark Air Base : Philippines: Americans are evacuated to Subic Bay Naval Base as eruption throws out ashes and debris. http://articles.latimes.com/1991-06-10/news/mn-324_1_clark-air-base
A bit of global cooling, coming our way.
Can you imagine the outrage they would express if an identical cloud of ash, dirt, and noxious (nay, poisonous) gas were to escape from a man-made facility? Why, it would be the end of the world! Villagers would have to relocate! Crops would be destroyed! Homes would become uninhabitable!
(Just like with this volcano.)
Except in that case, sanctions would flow down from Mount Liberal like a mighty stream!
Bunch of sanctimonious, totalitarian, control freaks.
Oh dear, more CO2.
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The exert CO2 should be stored in beer.
exert = extra — damed spell check.
The exert CO2 should be stored in beer.
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Excess CO2? Better to store it in wheat, barley and hops used to make beer - more of those, more beer. See?
I got a kick out of the source.
I found it humorous that someone felt the need to post a “heads up if you’re in the area” on FB about this volcano erupting.
It seems to me that NO ONE is going to miss the fact that a mountain is spewing ash and debris 10s of thousands of feet in the air that can be seen from 50 miles away ;)
On a related note, the volcano on Bali is erupting at the Western end of the fault line this volcano sits on. Link to live feed -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV7GawCgFHs
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