Posted on 06/03/2018 10:20:46 PM PDT by Kartographer
Rescuers struggled to reach rural residents cut off by a volcanic eruption that killed at 25 people near Guatemala's capital, and authorities feared the death toll could rise with an undetermined number of people unaccounted for.
The Volcan de Fuego, Spanish for "volcano of fire," exploded in a hail of ash and molten rock shortly before noon Sunday, blanketing nearby villages in heavy ash. Then it began sending lava flows down the mountain's flank and across homes and roads around 4 p.m. local time
Eddy Sanchez, director of the country's seismology and volcanology institute, said the flows reached temperatures of about 700 C.
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700C = 1292F
Was this preceded by earthquakes?
Pelosi immediately issued an invitation to 2.3 million survivors..
The so-called temporary invite would only last till after November....
Dems will now demand that DHS create a Temporary Protected Status — for the next 40 years.
Volcano of Fire.....how imaginative those early Spaniards must have been
“Volcano of Fire.....how imaginative those early Spaniards must have been”
You beat me to it.
GMTA
What a sharp, erudite nation of poets!
Only a people composed of scholars and and scribes could have come up with a handle so elegant and imaginative. I now realize what they mean when they speak of the mystery and romance of the Latin soul, souls liken unto a Volcano of Fire.
Has been a good bit of activity for the past week I understand.
Do you speak Spanish?
The volcano that towers over Antigua, Guatemala is called Volcan de Agua (Water Volcano). I suppose because it was dormant long enough for water to pool in its cone crater.
Fuego is one of several volcanos visible from Atitlan Lake which is one of the most beautiful spots in the Americas.
Soon enough it will be Trump’s fault.
Very literal bunch - Fire, Water, Land of Snakes, Land of Mosquitos - good thing that all sounds more impressive or exotic (to us) in Spanish.
In fairness, though - that's a small country with a *lot* of volcanoes to name.
Please don't judge all the countries south of our border by the Least Common Denominators.
Some are much more corrupt than others but they all what seems to be a layering of class and privilege that none have been able to shake completely.
We don't get the best of them as illegal invaders.
The legal ones that have immigrated and integrated into the U.S. we never hear a word about in the criminal news.
I have some old 35mm color slides of that area from my parents (mid-1950s). Beautiful scenery. IIRC, Volcan de Agua is the one that destroyed the old capital city. Not by erupting, but because an earthquake fractured the crater lakebed and the lake partially drained, causing a huge mudslide.
My remarks were intentionally sarcastic. As others have pointed out, "volcano of fire" is rather unimaginative compared to the names that our Hollywood screenwriters can come with. These Screen writers, who when you get right down to it, provide me with my universal yardstick for understanding foreign cultures. LOL.
Prayers up for the people affected. I saw some cell phone videos that people took as they fled away from the erupting volcano. The sad thing on the videos was seeing other people driving TOWARD the eruption. I imagine they were hoping to rescue loved ones trapped near the volcano.
My husband and I drove with a friend from Detroit to Lake Atitlan. The lake was lovely, if I remember correctly there were 2 volcanic peaks across the lake. My husband and friend drove over there and up a mountain to a village where they bought lovely handwoven textiles. There were a number of Swiss settlers there and because of that a good supply of fresh vegetables in stores. This was in the late 1960s. We also visited the ruins of old Antigua where I was impressed by the massiveness of the collapsed church. They said it was caused by earthquake. Before Pelee erupted in Martinique in 1902 it had a pool of water.
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