Mount Etna erupts

[speak easy]

[samnsara]

1. oh boy do I remember what that smells like!

[Warpy]

2. Sunny with a chance of tephra

Not a place I'd particularly want to live.

[Cheezoholic]

3. Are those mountain houses right next to the volcano the ones that were selling for like $1?

No wonder they were pissed lol.

[speak easy]

4. cf swampland in Florida.

[Warpy]

7. It looks like they were miles away

but this looks like a pretty big eruption instead of the throat clearing of last year.

Catania is a fairly big city SSE of the volcano, about 25 miles away, far enough to be safe from the big stuff but certainly close enough to collect tephra.

Somehow, I think most real estate any closer than that has become unattractive over the last year, no matter how great the soil is for grapes and olives.

[CTyankee]

9. Don't we have an "air station" in Catania?

I was amazed to learn we did but was schooled by those who know something about war history. I believe the air station is called Signonella.

[Warpy]

10. We have one shockingly close to Vesuvius

I can't imagine the military would let another volcano go to waste.

We also had one near Pinatubo. It's gone.

[Bucky]

5. Fox News calls this a total failure by the Biden Administration; demands impeachment!!

[CTyankee]

6. Etna is an "active" volcano. I've been up it twice and brought back hardened lava as a

souvenir. It's lying around everywhere once you get closer to the top.

I once had a harrowing ride up it with a Sicilian driver (2 words that should never be put together ever). The first time we encountered snow and our driver didn't know about driving in snow and we slid down and I thought my time on earth was about to expire. The driver kept calling us "pazzi." Crazy.

[pfitz59]

8. I lived on Etna for 3 years.

Remember the pea-sized ash very well