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The Big Wobble 4/9/2021
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2021/04/5-cruise-ships-head-to-st-vincent-for.html (http://www.thebigwobble.org/2021/04/5-cruise-ships-head-to-st-vincent-for.html)
5 Cruise ships head to St. Vincent for evacuations as volcanic eruption seems imminent: Roughly 16,000 people live in the red zone and will need to be evacuated: Caveat! People have to be vaccinated if they go aboard a cruise ship or granted temporary refuge on other islands
Authorities in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent have ordered mandatory evacuations on Thursday, saying they believe an active volcano is in danger of exploding. The island's emergency management office switched the alert level to red and said the first cruise line will in the next few hours evacuate those who live near La Soufrière volcano. It was not immediately clear how many people would be evacuated, where the ship would take them or if they would remain temporarily aboard. Roughly 16,000 people live in the red zone and will need to be evacuated, Erouscilla Joseph, director of the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center, told The Associated Press.
Evacuation efforts could be hampered by the pandemic. Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves told a news conference that people have to be vaccinated if they go aboard a cruise ship or are granted temporary refuge in other nearby islands. He said two Royal Caribbean cruise ships are expected to arrive by Friday and a third one in the coming days, as well as two Carnival cruise ships by Friday. Islands that have said they would accept evacuees include St. Lucia, Grenada, Barbados and Antigua."Not everything is going to go perfect, but if we all co-operate ... we will come through this stronger than ever," Gonsalves said. He said he was talking to other Caribbean governments to accept people's ID cards if they don't have a passport.
"This is an emergency situation, and everybody understands that," he said. Gonsalves added that he highly recommends those who opt to go to a shelter in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, an island chain of more than 100,000 people, be vaccinated. Joseph said emergency management teams have been going out to communities in the red zone and providing transportation to safer locations, including prearranged shelters." They know who doesn't have transportation because all of this has been canvassed before," she said, adding that those who board the cruise ship would not be taken elsewhere but would remain there for an unspecified period of time. Officials said the dome of the volcano located on the island's northern region could be seen glowing by nightfall.
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Volcano erupts on Caribbean island of St. Vincent, sending ash 20,000 feet into the air
(CNN) — A volcano on the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean erupted, authorities reported Friday, sending ash plumes 20,000 feet into the air.
La Soufrière volcano is located on the largest island of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines chain, the country's National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) said.
"Explosive eruption at La Soufrière," NEMO tweeted. "Ash plumes up to 20,000 feet headed East," it added.
"Please leave the red zone immediately. La Soufrière has erupted. Ash fall recorded as far as Argyle International Airport," it said.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/americas/st-vincent-volcano-eruption/index.html
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@PeteS in CA
Reported to mods for merging. Thank you
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Somebody tell that sumbitch Gates to quit his dumbass plan to dim the sun, the Earth can handle it all by itself.
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'Huge' explosion rocks St. Vincent as volcano keeps erupting
https://apnews.com/article/la-soufriere-volcano-eruption-st-vincent-caribbean-2c26166fa05e0ec6840669972ea1aaf0
44 minutes ago
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (AP) — La Soufriere volcano fired an enormous amount of ash and hot gas early Monday in the biggest explosive eruption yet since volcanic activity began on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent late last week, with officials worried about the lives of those who have refused to evacuate.
Experts called it a “huge explosion†that generated pyroclastic flows down the volcano’s south and southwest flanks.
“It’s destroying everything in its path,†Erouscilla Joseph, director of the University of the West Indies’ Seismic Research Center, told The Associated Press. “Anybody who would have not heeded the evacuation, they need to get out immediately.â€
There were no immediate reports of injuries or death, but government officials were scrambling to respond to the latest eruption, which was even bigger than the first eruption that occurred Friday morning. Roughly 16,000 people who live in communities close to the volcano had been evacuated under government orders on Thursday, but an unknown number have remained behind and refused to move....
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Aren't they more afraid of catching China Virus than of getting blown up and burned to a crispy critter by the volcano?
These people are not going to be good Democrats.