El Salvador's highest volcano has erupted causing chaos...

[Gogi]

10,000 people have been evacuated.

http://news.bbc.co.uk

[MADem]

1. better link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4301612.stm

El Salvador's highest volcano, Ilamatepec, has erupted, killing two people and forcing thousands to evacuate the area.
The eruption released giant plumes of smoke and hurled ash and burning rock into the air, witnesses said.

Scientists said the volcano had spat rocks as far as 1.5km (0.93 miles) from its crater.

There have also been reports of lava rocks the size of cars, and villagers fleeing from a flood of boiling water.

Ilamatepec, also known as the Santa Ana volcano, had lain dormant since 1904.

[lcordero2]

2. the Yellowstone supervolcano eruption is 40,000 years overdue

on edit: it's not a good idea to go around pissing off people when we might need help ourselves in the future.

[EFerrari]

3. Sorry, I guess I don't get that.

My whole immigrant family is from ES, and I'm scared to death right now.

[lcordero2]

4. Yellowstone is a big National Park in the US

What is generally not known is that under Yellowstone Park is one of the largest supervolcanos in the world.

"Scientists have revealed that Yellowstone Park has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago…so the next is overdue. The next eruption could be 2,500 times the size of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. Volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and have calculated that in parts of Yellowstone the ground has risen over seventy centimeters this century."

[lcordero2]

5. how long has it been since you heard from them?

[EFerrari]

6. Most of them float back and forth but honestly

I wasn't thinking of them but of all the other folks.

I just saw most of them at a wedding in San Francisco, and I can't imagine any of them being caught flatfooted.

So, no, it's not exactly about my living relatives. It's about what feels like my people. And that probably sounds stupid.

[lcordero2]

7. that does not sound stupid

[EFerrari]

8. well, thank you.

I think of all those people -- sweet, lovely gentle people -- and my heart just explodes.

Maybe tomorrow, a more useful reaction.

[lcordero2]

9. i hope u can get at least some good sleep

[EFerrari]

10. I'll sleep better than some, no?

My first published poem was about sleeplessness after an earthquake there.

Life is life.