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**Luvapottamus**

The Popocatepetl volcano outside of Mexico City has been spewing glowing rock fragments as far as 1km (0.6 miles) down its slopes.

Columns of ash have been shooting from more than 60 openings in the crust of the 5,450m (17,900-foot) volcano.

Residents of surrounding villages said they were awoken by a low-pitched roar coming from the mountain.

Popocatepetl's last major eruption was in 2000, when thousands of people had to flee their homes.

'Smoking mountain'

Local resident Aaron Sanchez Ocelotl said the eruptions sounded "like the roaring of the sea".

"Up on the mountain, it feels incredible," he said.

Gregorio Fuentes Casquera, the assistant mayor of the town of Xalitzintla, 12km (7 miles) from the summit, warned people to take the volcano's renewed activity seriously.

"This buzzing, this roaring isn't normal," he said, asking residents to be ready to evacuate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeQCGpner...re=related

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 91955 04-24-2012 04:41 AM

I work with a woman who has family in the city of Puebla. The locals are scared shitless, yet they are afraid to leave their homes too.

I see another Pompeii happening. Maybe in 1700 years, archeologists will find their remains.

Ktrkrlnn

**Johntaraz**

Will this affect my next Taco Bell order?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 70676 04-24-2012 05:01 AM

Johntaraz Wrote:

Will this affect my next Taco Bell order?

No, but maybe your side order of Tuberculosis chuckle

**Shakey1** · **Shakey1** Subscriber User ID: 78542 04-24-2012 05:03 AM **Posts: 11,986**

LoP Guest Wrote:

I work with a woman who has family in the city of Puebla. The locals are scared shitless, yet they are afraid to leave their homes too.

I see another Pompeii happening. Maybe in 1700 years, archeologists will find their remains.

**Mike In SATX**

This volcano has been acting up for quite some time. If Popocatepetl blows with pyroclastic clouds, it will throw more pollution in to the air than all of what mankind has done as a whole. And these enviro-whackos think man is the main problem where "climate change" is concerned? Not even close...

BTW, a good pyroclastic cloud will help keep the temps down. So much for "global warming". This crap needs to go the way of the "clobal cooling" scare of the 1970s

**ID Rick**

In 1961 as a little boy I read a book published in 1941 about Popocatepetl. A little boy witnessed the birth of the volcano in his back yard. It came out as a rumbling in the ground, and the cows and chickens fell down. Then in the field a red geyser erupted. My family ran the little boy said, as the geyser grew.

Eventualy there was a huge mound, and then a mountain. The entire farm lands were destroyed.

But yet The biggest city in the world grew. And the Volcano grew.

doomed

**Mike** lop guest User ID: 88229 04-24-2012 05:23 AM

ID Rick Wrote:

In 1961 as a little boy I read a book published in 1941 about Popocatepetl. A little boy witnessed the birth of the volcano in his back yard. It came out as a rumbling in the ground, and the cows and chickens fell down. Then in the field a red geyser erupted. My family ran the little boy said, as the geyser grew.

Eventualy there was a huge mound, and then a mountain. The entire farm lands were destroyed.

But yet The biggest city in the world grew. And the Volcano grew.

Paricutin, crazy stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin

**Johntaraz**

ID Rick Wrote:

In 1961 as a little boy I read a book published in 1941 about Popocatepetl. A little boy witnessed the birth of the volcano in his back yard. It came out as a rumbling in the ground, and the cows and chickens fell down. Then in the field a red geyser erupted. My family ran the little boy said, as the geyser grew.

Eventualy there was a huge mound, and then a mountain. The entire farm lands were destroyed.

But yet The biggest city in the world grew. And the Volcano grew.

The volcano grew and grew as it fed on the energies and pressure exerted by frantic humans churning the earth into magma.

-- 20 million people within 25 miles (40km)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tD2uoscfc

**Johntaraz**

Agonist Wrote:

ID Rick Wrote:
In 1961 as a little boy I read a book published in 1941 about Popocatepetl. A little boy witnessed the birth of the volcano in his back yard. It came out as a rumbling in the ground, and the cows and chickens fell down. Then in the field a red geyser erupted. My family ran the little boy said, as the geyser grew.

Eventualy there was a huge mound, and then a mountain. The entire farm lands were destroyed.

But yet The biggest city in the world grew. And the Volcano grew.

Paricutin, crazy stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin

I like it when I learn something new. Heartflowers

**ID Rick**

One would hope it would not Saint Helens itself. Way to many souls there.

I have to back off and think about this. Tissue

**Johntaraz**

ID Rick Wrote:

One would hope it would not Saint Helens itself. Way to many souls there.

I have to back off and think about this.

Witnessed St. Helen's as a 6th grade kid. We lived about 50 miles away.
The remarkable thing from my vantage point was a towering cloud on the distant horizon. Gargantuan. Far larger than the largest thunderhead imaginable. One that had such detail of billowing plumes rising so high above everything, yet so far away. And a long trailing ash plume extending beyond sight to the east.
We went later and gathered some ash from a riverbank near the Toutle River. It had widened by thrice its former size and was flanked with piles of twisted trees and roots from the pyroclastic flows, lakes (Spirit lake among them) that had over-topped emptied into it, and tons of melted snow and ice.
It had earthquakes, steam vents, and a few minor eruptions before the big one May 18th 1980. The biggest clue was dome building. Most of the casualties knew of the danger, but refused to leave. Although a few got caught in the river surges miles from the volcano.

If Popy goes big, well... hard to think about.