I’ve resurrected a fun old post from ancient days, and given it a sexy new video. All you fans of volcanic activity, especially the night stuff, should drop by and ogle.
And here’s a little something extra for ye: an amazing classic image of Mont Peleé in eruption by Angelo Heilprin, who was a braver human than I’ll ever manage.
You should check out that Volcano World article. But only after you get intimate with mine!
I have a bunch of “Disaster Books” … things like “The Mt Prlee Inferno” and the “The San Francisco Apocalypse” “The Galveston Horror” … it’s a rather formulaic genre … some quick chapters about the disaster, photos, many of them crudely retouched, touching stories from a survivor or two, filled in with some stuff about older disasters if necessary to fluff out a thin tale.
I think I have one or more on Mt. Pelee.
Cool pics of volcanic spines in the Volcano World article. We’ve seen a couple of those at MSH, as well. They aren’t very stable, of course.
At 0:37 in that video I can see the devil peering out of the cloud. Go look!
Pareidolia aside, good stuff.
I have always thought of the glowing avalanche as mother natures version of a nuclear explosion, Except that some are bigger than anything we have yet exploded (see Tambarooa, or Mt Katmai or …), let alone prehistoric ones like Yellowstone, Long Valley or Toba.
I’ve been missing the volcanoes around here. :)
Dana, it is so good to have you back. As rq says, I missed the volcanos.