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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2011 9:12:31 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Jun 6, 2011 9:39:44 GMT -6
Those were very cool!
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Post by paulette on Jun 6, 2011 22:26:12 GMT -6
Thanks Jokelly - these were the best I've seen. Initially I heard on the news that there was a fissure 10 kilometers long and 5 wide. This was shocking (and never repeated) it was the ash cloud that was 10 kilometers HIGH and 5 kilometers wide. The pictures are eerily beautiful but I started coughing just looking at it. The light rocks are full of gas bubbles and when the walls of the bubbles break (as they cool) it breaks in the equivilant of glass shards. Very bad for lungs and cows' stomachs. The people of the area will be dealing with after effects for years.
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Post by skywalker on Jun 6, 2011 22:36:05 GMT -6
It's not good for car engines either. The ash particles are so small the air filters don't capture all of the dust but because it is so hard it tears the insides of the engines up very quickly. My dad was driving a truck back when Mt Saint Helens erupted and he said that all of the truckers were having to rebuild their engines after they drove through the ash cloud.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2011 13:38:04 GMT -6
It's not good for car engines either. The ash particles are so small the air filters don't capture all of the dust but because it is so hard it tears the insides of the engines up very quickly. My dad was driving a truck back when Mt Saint Helens erupted and he said that all of the truckers were having to rebuild their engines after they drove through the ash cloud. Yep. That's why they have to shut down air traffic around a volcano when it erupts. Planes start falling out of the sky if they don't shut down the airports...
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