Comment #7365

so then the general consensus is that we shouldn't go?

- Alex on A Call to Arms

Tags: weather, natural disasters, volcanos, ocean

when i was but a lad growing up on the tropical island of st kitts, another island called monsterrat which had a volcano that was spewing ash into the air like there was no tomorrow. now, not crazy mount ste helen type of explosion but more like venting ash to the point where one night my friend bob and i were going bar hopping and it was almost like it was snowing. almost but not quite. normally you can't see monsterrat from st kitts, too far, but there was usually a nice thin layer of ash on everything and this night we had trouble walking because the ash was stinging our eyes, but there was never a large explosion.

anyway, one day i was sitting in class in 5th form a couple of months after this bar hopping night we looked outside and there was this gigantic column of rock looking smoke going as high into the sky as the eye could see. wish i had a camera, but alas no pictures were taken.

the reason i bring this up? well, because of this.

just made me think of monsterrat and that day back in school.