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Les Bain wrote:Family in B'dos sent some wtf footage from their yard yesterday. Today's update is that it raining.
carluva wrote:Saw a video on social media with a woman in Barbados showing the level of clogging in her gutters due to the ash washing down with the rain fall. It's like wet beach sand consistency and filled the gutters.Les Bain wrote:Family in B'dos sent some wtf footage from their yard yesterday. Today's update is that it raining.
sMASH wrote:how can u justify sending people who might be carrying covid to other places and infect that population?
unless they can set up a refugee camp where access in and out is limited, its the respectful ting to do for the welcoming country.
cyar save the peopel from volcano and den dead from covid.
elec2020 wrote:so by letting in these people the ENTIRE POPULATION will get infected. okay. well lets just leave them to die. to each his own.
Greetings Comrades. An update:
Explosive events are ongoing. The island is covered in ash, from a dusting/few inches in the south to many feet in the north.
The scientists' predictions were very accurate, and we managed to get the majority of the people out of the danger zone before the first explosion. Of course, some people chose to stay and only decided to leave once explosions were underway.
The immediate evacuation was somewhat chaotic, but largely successful.
Conditions in the shelters are very uneven. Some are adequate, others less so. We were probably two weeks too slow in acquiring additional cots, so a few thousand cots are still in Miami awaiting clearance to fly down (ash has closed airspace) as such, many people are sleeping on the floor. That situation is slowly being resolved with donations and makeshift solutions.
We believe that about 20,000 people will be internally displaced for up to 3 or 4 months. Historically, the volcano keeps going intermittently for a couple months.
So far, Infrastructural damage is not as bad as feared. Not a great deal of lava flow in the direction of villages, just ash and rocks. A number of homes have been destroyed, under the weight of ash or reported small fires ignited by hot projectiles. Minor damage by rocks ejected from the volcano. However most crops on island will be lost, and untold livestock.
The big immediate challenge challenge is the comfort, care and safety of evacuees. COVID is a huge underlying threat given the conditions in which people are housed. Other islands are offering accommodations but requiring vaccination first. Most people in the rural north have been vaccine skeptical. This will complicate matters tremendously, and likely lead to big outbreaks.
Tremendous volunteerism and solidarity across SVG. Many people are helping in myriad ways.
Immediate needs are water, bedding, respiratory equipment and supplies, and sanitary products for babies/elderly/women.
Thank you for your continued concern and solidarity.
aaron17 wrote:So this eruption right now can go on for months?
FrankChag wrote:Confirmed!K74T wrote:2021 > 2020
paid_influencer wrote:they say on TTWC that the ash reach Grenada itself today.
on the plus side, that ash supposed to be very good for the soil
death365 wrote:Ive been saying this all along 2020 was a off year.... 2021 is on!!!
I literally expecting the aliens to land asap.... Or at least find a planet with confirmed complex life on it
Xplode wrote:I went to Montserrat The Soufrière Hills volcano side ,back when it erupted back in 95-97 the vision still in my head , seeing a burn corpse running from the pyroclastic flows sure the person dint know they died .
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