Indonesian volcano has erupted. 22 are dead. Cellphone footage from right next to the volcano.

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[–]hennaojichan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Good, and I see your point. And that fertility is why weed grown on the sides of volcanos in Hawaii is so good and expensive. Is that what they are growing on Vesuvius? When the pyroclastic flow from Vesuvius hit Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae, in CE 79 it froze guards at their posts and couples making love, forever frozen in stone. Have you lived in Italy?

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

No, but I've been there. It's crazy to me how people can live under an active volcano and take no notice of it.

My favorite part was they wrote the song Funiculì, Funiculà to celebrate the opening of the wonderful new funicular up the side of vesuvius in 1880 and by 1944 the wonderful funicular was wiped out by an eruption.

I stayed on the greek island of Milos in October and one of the shops there has as it's sign a picture of their volcano with a smiley face. Blows my mind.

Living in what must be one of the safest places on earth gives you a different outlook on things, I guess.

[–]hennaojichan 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Now that you've told me about the fertile ground on volcanos I understand better about why people stay in such dangerous places. I lived half the year on the Big Island of Hawaii for many years and it was so lovely people forget the danger. In fact the whole island could just blow up without warning one day. There are dangers everywhere there. They have something called lava tubes, bubbles that solidified with the lava when it cooled. Once in a while a bull dozer driver is killed when he drives over a tube near the surface and falls a hundred feet or so onto solid lava. Bicyclers fear making a header onto Lava because it doesn't bend if your head hits it, causing a lot of Traumatic Brain Injuries. There are lots of places where there is a tradeoff between living in a beautiful but dangerous place. Oh, I forgot about the Vog (a local word for volcano fog) on the Big Island. Kilauea constantly leaks Sulfur Dioxide gas but some days are worse than others. A heavy day will close your sinuses and make you really lethargic. Otherwise it's a lovely place.

[–]Node 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I poked lava with a stick as it slowly crept down the beach awhile back. It's pretty amazing stuff. The road along the beach had just been covered and closed the day before. There was a beautiful park with tall palms, green grass, and picnic benches just beside the black sand beach. I think it's under 50 feet of lava now.

[–]hennaojichan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I knew a guy in Hilo who used to walk out from the place where lava crossed the road (that is probably not there anymore but you remember) with an Instamatic Camera and get some great pics of molten lava. You gotta be really careful to do that. He'd go after midnight when all the rangers were gone. He worked at a hotel so he made a lot of money selling directly to the tourists and me too. I used to have an apartment at Kona Magic Sands. We used to call it Tragic Sands because so many couples broke up there, or worse. You live on Hilo side? Black Sand Beach is under lava? Damn. The turtles. The turtles. That's the good thing about Hawaii lava—it's slow.

[–]hennaojichan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hello Jet, Speaking of volcanos, It's noon here now but I can still see Mt. Fuji to the WSW from my computer. It was much clearer at about 8 am today. She is wayyy overdue for another eruption but I am not in any hurry. I am over a hundred kilos from her now.