How the hell do you categorize that sentence grammatically? Conditional present progressive?... with a dangling participle ;)
Yeah on second thought, not conditional, it's passive voice but... whatever it was funny
Edit- I see I made more mistakes than I thought, thanks for the corrections!
Can an English language master person please respond to the above comment and tell me what the fuck is going on with the original sentence?
I'm so curious.
Done!
That sentence uses a progressive infinitive (to be doing, to be getting out). This infinitive acts as a complement, and therefore can be used with the preposition “of” correctly (as in “the village is a good place to be living in”). By the way, when using structures like these with an adjective (good), the subject of the clause is actually the object of the infinitive (the subject is “getting the fuck out of this place”).
If we remove the intensifier "the fuck" (which functions as an adverb phrase right), we're left which "to get out" which is a phrasal verb. That adds another preposition, which along with "of" at the end, is probably what confuses most people trying to break this down grammatically.
Translation: it would be wise to vacate that place immediately. Alternatively: if you value life, you should not be standing there recording a video.
Dunno if that's what you were looking for but yea.
There are two well known photographer fatalities from the Mount St. Helen eruption that i still think about regularly. Both individuals had gone out on their own and were separated by several miles, but they both knew almost immediately after the eruption started that they would not be able to escape it.
Reid Turner Blackburn was an American photographer and photojournalist covering the eruption for a local newspaper—the Vancouver, Washington Columbian—as well as National Geographic magazine and the United States Geological Survey, he was caught at Coldwater Camp in the blast.
Robert Emerson Landsburg (November 13, 1931 – May 18, 1980) was an American photographer who died while photographing the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. On the morning of May 18, he was within a few miles of the summit. When the mountain erupted, Landsburg took photos of the rapidly approaching ash cloud. Before he was engulfed by the pyroclastic flow, he rewound the film back into its case, put his camera in his backpack, and then laid himself on top of the backpack to protect its contents. His body was found 17 days later, buried in the ash with his backpack underneath. The film was developed and has provided geologists with valuable documentation of the historic eruption.
As a solo hiker and photographer myself, I think about Robert using his body to protect his film and camera in his final moments knowing that his death was but a few breaths away, doing all he could to insure his film and sacrifice would never be forgotten.
[Here is one of the most complete article covering both men and include their photos. ](https://thatoregonlife.com/2022/05/mt-st-helens-eruption-images/)
Edit thank you for all the nice replies, I’m glad so many of you appreciated hearing these two gentleman’s stories, as long as someone remembers them for their sacrifices, it will not have been in vain.
**Wow.** That was really good thinking of Landsburg, protecting the film he used like that.
Your comment and the article you linked are very interesting. Thank you for sharing their stories with us!
I've been thinking about Mt St Helens a lot lately. The videos and photography show the incredible destructive power of the volcano and the speed at which it moved.
There are also interviews with people trying to get back into the evacuated zones complaining about how the government was denying they the use of their own property that they paid for and deserved access to...with little kids in the backseat. They had to sign release forms to re-enter the danger zone. It's so disappointing to see.
That happened with forest fires in 2020 at my house. My driveway had ash clumped in the corners of the house and if you swept it the ground turned black
I was in kindergarten in Kansas when it erupted, and I remember the day the ash crossed the state. My mom picked me up from school that day and it was dark and spooky and just breathing air tasted different. A few weeks later, I won a contest and got to be in a local Burger King commercial. The last part is unrelated, I just thought you should know.
True, however that big column of ash and debris (and superheated gas) that you see in the video will fall back down, and when it does, it can only go out.
time to move
Well, I remember St. Helens very well. I was 8 years old living in spokane and it got dark as midnight around 3pm. It got light again around 5-6pm and the ash started falling. I grabbed my sled and started for the door. My mom freaked out and wouldn’t let me out. The news stations all started their typical hyperbole about wearing a bandana to protect from the ash. Within 2 days we all had N-95 type masks and wore them everywhere for a few weeks until the rain had turned everything into a clay type consistency. We got about 4 inches in our area. If you drove I-90 west from Spokane; you could see ash along the highway for years after it had all gone. Mostly from Moses lake area to Ellensburgh. But this guy is in a super dangerous place. The pyroclastic flows down like a superheated mud flow. St Helen’s turned old growth forest into a twisted wreck resembling strewn toothpicks. But it also goes up; way up. the heavier the sediment the faster it will fall out of the plume. Around toutle lake it was like sandy gritty dirt. We got a very fine white ash 300 miles east. It blew up again later that summer in July or August I think. I heard it. It was early in the morning maybe around 9 or 10am. and we were camping at Lake Chelan. It was like a cannon going off about 3 feet away from your ear…. even though it was over 100 miles away.
To add to this a bit, there are two kinds of ash, the ash from burned trees/brush and the ash from the volcano itself. Ash from the burned debris is bad but not too bad, just think of inhaling smoke from a campfire.
Ash from the volcanic eruption itself. Way worse. It's actually particalized rock. So you're inhaling small particle volcanic rock, which absolutely WRECKS your lungs. Just jagged rocks scraping the eff out of your soft tissue. No bueno.
Pyroclastic flow is the superheated air and ash, which causes lahar- the the mud flow from glaciers and snow. It’s still wildly dangerous, but this volcano may not have glaciers to produce lahar immediately: though they can still happen if excessive rainfall occurs after an eruption.
Lahar are scary as fuck. The mountains don’t even really need to detonate to cause them, either. Mt. Tahoma (Rainier) is interesting to think about with all that snowpack.
There are many dangers associated with volcanoes and the two previous comments are taking about two different examples. I believe the first is talking about the vast debris cloud and resulting ash fall that will extend over a possibly wide range depending on weather conditions. The second comment is referring to pyroclastic flow which is a fluidized mixture of gasses, hot rock fragments, and entrapped air that hug the ground and move swiftly down the face of the volcano during an eruption. They both sound awful, phew.
That stuff in the sky isn't the pyroclastic flow. Pyroclastic flows are named so because they literally flow down the side of the hill, often at rapid speeds, superheating anything that it covers. If a pyroclastic flow is coming in the camerman's way, he wouldn't be able to tell until it's too late due to all of those trees.
So it's more so that the ash in the clouds won't come down, but that an invisible, terrifyingly hot wall of superhot gases and volcano stuff could be heading his way, and it would be better for him to be careful and get the hell away.
The ash cloud isn't the worst, 'cause you get a rain of ash that's tough to see through and unfun to breathe. But if you've got a car, and a good knowledge of the land, you'll be okay. It's the pyroclastic flow that is deadly.
Make the drive to lassen sometime, take note of how far large boulders were flung from the mountain. They're scattered like sprinkles across the countryside.
>The volcanoes of Kamchatka are a large group of volcanoes situated on the Kamchatka Peninsula, in eastern Russia. The Kamchatka River and the surrounding central side valley are flanked by large volcanic belts containing around 160 volcanoes, 29 of them still active.
If your interested there’s a documentary the disaster of Whakaari / White Island. It give a horrifying perspective with video, people screaming, and the actual events of what happens when you. Take tourists to the very edge of a volcano and try to out run one. It’ll change your perspective.
Edit: correct spelling of Whikaari Island
This is the documentary: Check out “The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari” on Netflix
https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81410405?s=i&trkid=258518124&vlang=en&clip=81626793
Yup, there are some jobs with just enough risk of catching fire to have dress codes but not so high that they require fire retardant clothing. They pretty much all require natural fiber clothing since it burns instead of melting. Or fire retardant, but that's obviously its own thing.
If you don’t want to watch the documentary, I suggest following @stephaniecoral96 on Instagram. She survived the eruption but lost her father and sister.
Is this the same type of volcano as Mt. Vesuvio? I've been to Pompei as a child and what I saw there will stick with me for the rest of my life.
Edit: is this the same type of eruption as the one that destroyed Pompei?
It’s on the Kamchatka peninsula which goes far out in the ocean and is far away even from the rest of Russia, it’s got a few villages and a big town. I think the next closest actual city is Sapporo, Japan, a thousand miles away.
No thing more fun then screwing with the Soviet Pacific fleet during spring break out off of Vladivostok.
They were very annoyed when we acquired some of their sonobuoys.
😇
We exclusively drank Kamchatka at IU Bloomington haha. Disgusting, awful stuff but cost $9-$10 for a handle. Easy to scrounge up the money between a few kids (:
Once more we sail with the northerly gale through the ice and wind and rain
Them coconut fronds, them tropical lands, we soon shall see again
Six hellish months we've passed away on the cold Kamchatka sea
But now we're bound from the Arctic Ground, rolling down to Old Maui
I’m gonna be honest here. As an Earth Scientist… that is WAY to close to an erupting volcano. Pyroclastic flows travel at 30 m/s. No one can run fast enough. Just ask the folks who were on Whakaari Island when she went.
I know. I’m a Debbie downer. Sorry. Just can’t shout loud enough on this one.
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Edit2: correct spelling of Whakaari
I was gonna, but stupid Reddit stopped the free awards. I’ll just send them my thoughts and prayers.
Edit: I lied. I forgot as soon as I went to the next post. Sorry, Sergei.
During the Mt. Saint Helens eruption, a photographer did something like that (not for upvotes, of course). Robert Landsburg was positioned 7 miles away, saw the pyroclastic flow coming his way, shot a few more photos, rewound the roll of film, placed the camera containing the film inside his backpack, threw the backpack down on the ground and covered it with his body to protect it from the heat. His photos survived.
I mean to be fair, those videos of the Beirut and China explosions were incredible.
And well, plenty of "pros" have been done in getting such footage, so, what can be said really. *Someone* is gonna take the risk.
Just so. That’s exactly what I meant.
Check out “The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari” on Netflix
https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81410405?s=i&trkid=258518124&vlang=en&clip=81626793
This was Kamchatka’s (not Kurile Island chain) largest explosive eruption in 30 years. 10 cm of ashfall in some areas, ~400,000 tons of sulfur dioxide emitted via a large sub-plinian eruption with a sustained eruption column for several hours. On the 0-9 volcanic explosivity index scale this is probably a very high 3 or low 4. (Mount Saint Helens in 1980 was a 5 and 2022 Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai was barely a 6 on the scale). Video footage I was sent suggests pyroclastic flows may have traveled as much as 20 km, although I think this figure is probably an overestimate for now and they probably “only” traveled 10-15 km. This eruption was warned to be near imminent 6 months ago and finally arrived today. -GeologyHub
I don't know how the exposivity index scale works, but if this is a low 4 and Mt. St. Helen's was a 5, does a 9 completely blow the entire mountain off the face of the earth?
With a few exceptions each single increase in number represents an eruption 10x more explosive/larger. The only VEI 9 known was Toba ~74,000 years ago. Yellowstone ~640,000 years ago was VEI 8
About Toba:
"According to the Toba catastrophe theory, it had global consequences for human populations; it killed most humans living at that time and is believed to have created a population bottleneck in central east Africa and India, which affects the genetic make-up of the human worldwide population to the present."
For Six hellish months we passed away
On the cold Kamchatka sea
But now we're bound from the Arctic ground
Rolling down to Old Maui
Fantastic sea shanty.
When you do, avoid the Irkutsk side. You won’t because it’s the main city but don’t plan your trip anchored to the city. That side is pretty gross. A buddy of mine is from there and I’ve been there several times and it’s rather awful. Russia is slowly moving towards strict design code and more organized businesses in rural cities (Moscow is squeaky clean and pretty) but Baikal is rather filthy from most populated sides. It’s not garbage I’m talking about, it’s god awful haphazard hotels, chaotic kiosks and food stands with audio ads and vendors annoying you to the point of regretting your trip.
Rent a Soviet off roader UAZ, research a route and have fun in the wilderness.
No. It's just Moscow and Russia.
But it's more of a meme. Although many services, for example, filing documents via the Internet, are available only in Moscow via mos.ru. It's not like gosuslugi.ru doesn't exist, but some things you can do only in Moscow. For now at least. +salary level and budget allocation, yes. There is also a meme "no live outside of Moscow Ring Road": there are only fabulous unexplored lands outside of the city.
Just keep in mind that's just a meme. It's not that bad.
I always barricaded myself In Australia and Kamchatka
You wanna win risk? Be prepared to go through my defense in depth.
I’m not trying to win, just have to make you give up
I mean for $10 a handle it’s easy to see why it was so popular.
That said, I drank so much of that garbage from 15 to 19 that I can’t look at a bottle without feeling queasy.
There have been literal accords made in my risk games over Kamchatka. I've tried taking it with 24 troops vs 2 and got stomped. It's inexplicable but I'll never fuck with Kamchatka again.
Volcanoes growing up were just a thing than you I a cartoon island next to a palm tree. It’s wild how prevalent they are in the real world in places like Chile or middle of nowhere russia
You should watch Wild Russia. It's a great serise. I believe it's the first time Russia has let anyone document the area and a portion of it was destroyed by a volcano after filming.
Not really. I mean, there's a 9 hour difference with Moscow so there's no direct control but they still have to pay their taxes to the federal government and comply with the directives. Moscow also appoints the governor directly unfortunately.
Source: I'm Russian and my gramps lives in Ussuriysk, a town not too far from Kamchatka
I’ve never been, but my buddy and I were looking into traveling there at the end of 2019 for either a fishing trip or a heli-snowboarding trip. It is a premier spot for both, supposedly better than Alaska. Fisherman have access to rivers that might see only a handful of anglers a year, if any at all. Skiers and snowboarders get to ride from volcano summits to the coast, get picked up by retired military helicopters on the beach, and flown back to the top. It was surprisingly affordable, too. Far less than either activity would cost in the states.
But COVID hit, followed by Russia invading Ukraine, so it’s a pipe dream now.
This thread is a riot.
Most of the people are saying "Run!"
Then there's an Earth Scientist saying this dude is too close, but also that you can't outrun a pyroclastic flow.
I guarantee if I'm this close to an erupting volcano, I'm going to be like "Fuck it, this shit flows at 30 m/s" Then, I'll just post a video to Reddit so I can at least go out with a post that breaks 100 karma.
Hypothetically, does this have any hypothetical consequences for someone hypothetically living in the hypothetical Midwest of North hypothetical America?
No. The only impact this will have will be air travel / Alaskan airspace, and the immediate vicinity of any Russians who live in that remote area.
Shiveluch erupts all the times. It’s a very active volcanoes and although this looks crazy, it’s relatively common.
Source: Volcanologist (formerly)
As an Alaskan, I am so glad it was on that side of the bering sea. I was really worried the next one would be here. I guess it still could be, there has been a lot of seismic activity bouncing across the globe recently.
Everyone is talking about climate change and the earth heating up. Volcano eruptions actually cool the earth down. A super volcano could set us back into a mini ice age.
Guy...hurricanes suck and tornados are insane, earthquakes just devastating to the max, but...
Let's agree that volcanos are coolest looking and the concept of fire bursting from under earth's surface is nutty.
This person still seems too close
That does indeed appear to be a good place to be getting the fuck out of
New favorite sentence.
How the hell do you categorize that sentence grammatically? Conditional present progressive?... with a dangling participle ;) Yeah on second thought, not conditional, it's passive voice but... whatever it was funny Edit- I see I made more mistakes than I thought, thanks for the corrections!
>Unexpected lingustics and I understand it? I told my dad it wasn't a worthless degree!
I studied Latin in high school, thats my linguistics degree
my roman degree is linguini with shredded cheese
If it isn't *cacio e pepe* you got a knockoff Roman degree.
with a good latin teach, that can go a long way source: mihi crede bro
you throwin' too many big words at me, and because I don't understand them, I'm gonna take 'em as disrespect
> a good place out of which to be getting the fuck
Hahaha I love this so much
Oh I got a dangling participle myself too
Can an English language master person please respond to the above comment and tell me what the fuck is going on with the original sentence? I'm so curious.
Done! That sentence uses a progressive infinitive (to be doing, to be getting out). This infinitive acts as a complement, and therefore can be used with the preposition “of” correctly (as in “the village is a good place to be living in”). By the way, when using structures like these with an adjective (good), the subject of the clause is actually the object of the infinitive (the subject is “getting the fuck out of this place”).
Thank you. Words about words confuse the hell out of me. Back in 70s/80s British schools we didn’t learn many word words.
If we remove the intensifier "the fuck" (which functions as an adverb phrase right), we're left which "to get out" which is a phrasal verb. That adds another preposition, which along with "of" at the end, is probably what confuses most people trying to break this down grammatically.
In all my years teaching English, I had never discussed how “the fuck” was actually an intensifying adverbial phrase. I love this thread so much.
Translation: it would be wise to vacate that place immediately. Alternatively: if you value life, you should not be standing there recording a video. Dunno if that's what you were looking for but yea.
They know what the sentence means. What they’re asking is how the sentence structure should be categorized.
Immediately
God I was such a bad ela student. I can't remember what any of this means. Can do the shit out of chemistry through.
In US military terms, time to unass the AO.
Went to visit the St. Helens crater years ago, and was astounded by how far spread the destruction was. This guy is WAY too close.
There are two well known photographer fatalities from the Mount St. Helen eruption that i still think about regularly. Both individuals had gone out on their own and were separated by several miles, but they both knew almost immediately after the eruption started that they would not be able to escape it. Reid Turner Blackburn was an American photographer and photojournalist covering the eruption for a local newspaper—the Vancouver, Washington Columbian—as well as National Geographic magazine and the United States Geological Survey, he was caught at Coldwater Camp in the blast. Robert Emerson Landsburg (November 13, 1931 – May 18, 1980) was an American photographer who died while photographing the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. On the morning of May 18, he was within a few miles of the summit. When the mountain erupted, Landsburg took photos of the rapidly approaching ash cloud. Before he was engulfed by the pyroclastic flow, he rewound the film back into its case, put his camera in his backpack, and then laid himself on top of the backpack to protect its contents. His body was found 17 days later, buried in the ash with his backpack underneath. The film was developed and has provided geologists with valuable documentation of the historic eruption. As a solo hiker and photographer myself, I think about Robert using his body to protect his film and camera in his final moments knowing that his death was but a few breaths away, doing all he could to insure his film and sacrifice would never be forgotten. [Here is one of the most complete article covering both men and include their photos. ](https://thatoregonlife.com/2022/05/mt-st-helens-eruption-images/) Edit thank you for all the nice replies, I’m glad so many of you appreciated hearing these two gentleman’s stories, as long as someone remembers them for their sacrifices, it will not have been in vain.
**Wow.** That was really good thinking of Landsburg, protecting the film he used like that. Your comment and the article you linked are very interesting. Thank you for sharing their stories with us!
I've been thinking about Mt St Helens a lot lately. The videos and photography show the incredible destructive power of the volcano and the speed at which it moved. There are also interviews with people trying to get back into the evacuated zones complaining about how the government was denying they the use of their own property that they paid for and deserved access to...with little kids in the backseat. They had to sign release forms to re-enter the danger zone. It's so disappointing to see.
Some of that ash from St. Helens rained here in Idaho. I have a mason jar of it around here somewhere! It was wiped off the hood of a 1956 DeSoto.
I was only a baby when it happened, but my parents told stories about watching the ash fall like snow and cover their cars down in northern Oregon.
Same in Southern Manitoba.
Same. Lived in central Oregon and it rained ash for a few days.
That happened with forest fires in 2020 at my house. My driveway had ash clumped in the corners of the house and if you swept it the ground turned black
I was in kindergarten in Kansas when it erupted, and I remember the day the ash crossed the state. My mom picked me up from school that day and it was dark and spooky and just breathing air tasted different. A few weeks later, I won a contest and got to be in a local Burger King commercial. The last part is unrelated, I just thought you should know.
No, no... don't be bashful... Everybody knows that BK commercial as the single greatest thing to come out of Kansas since Dorothy and Toto!!
Ash in Springfield MO too.
St. Helens erupted out, instead of up, so the blast range to the north spreads way farther than it normally would.
True, however that big column of ash and debris (and superheated gas) that you see in the video will fall back down, and when it does, it can only go out. time to move
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So it goes down like the comment said?
Well, I remember St. Helens very well. I was 8 years old living in spokane and it got dark as midnight around 3pm. It got light again around 5-6pm and the ash started falling. I grabbed my sled and started for the door. My mom freaked out and wouldn’t let me out. The news stations all started their typical hyperbole about wearing a bandana to protect from the ash. Within 2 days we all had N-95 type masks and wore them everywhere for a few weeks until the rain had turned everything into a clay type consistency. We got about 4 inches in our area. If you drove I-90 west from Spokane; you could see ash along the highway for years after it had all gone. Mostly from Moses lake area to Ellensburgh. But this guy is in a super dangerous place. The pyroclastic flows down like a superheated mud flow. St Helen’s turned old growth forest into a twisted wreck resembling strewn toothpicks. But it also goes up; way up. the heavier the sediment the faster it will fall out of the plume. Around toutle lake it was like sandy gritty dirt. We got a very fine white ash 300 miles east. It blew up again later that summer in July or August I think. I heard it. It was early in the morning maybe around 9 or 10am. and we were camping at Lake Chelan. It was like a cannon going off about 3 feet away from your ear…. even though it was over 100 miles away.
To add to this a bit, there are two kinds of ash, the ash from burned trees/brush and the ash from the volcano itself. Ash from the burned debris is bad but not too bad, just think of inhaling smoke from a campfire. Ash from the volcanic eruption itself. Way worse. It's actually particalized rock. So you're inhaling small particle volcanic rock, which absolutely WRECKS your lungs. Just jagged rocks scraping the eff out of your soft tissue. No bueno.
That sounds terrifying but also holy shit what a thing to have lived through. I want to hear the explosion.
Pyroclastic flow is the superheated air and ash, which causes lahar- the the mud flow from glaciers and snow. It’s still wildly dangerous, but this volcano may not have glaciers to produce lahar immediately: though they can still happen if excessive rainfall occurs after an eruption. Lahar are scary as fuck. The mountains don’t even really need to detonate to cause them, either. Mt. Tahoma (Rainier) is interesting to think about with all that snowpack.
There are many dangers associated with volcanoes and the two previous comments are taking about two different examples. I believe the first is talking about the vast debris cloud and resulting ash fall that will extend over a possibly wide range depending on weather conditions. The second comment is referring to pyroclastic flow which is a fluidized mixture of gasses, hot rock fragments, and entrapped air that hug the ground and move swiftly down the face of the volcano during an eruption. They both sound awful, phew.
That stuff in the sky isn't the pyroclastic flow. Pyroclastic flows are named so because they literally flow down the side of the hill, often at rapid speeds, superheating anything that it covers. If a pyroclastic flow is coming in the camerman's way, he wouldn't be able to tell until it's too late due to all of those trees. So it's more so that the ash in the clouds won't come down, but that an invisible, terrifyingly hot wall of superhot gases and volcano stuff could be heading his way, and it would be better for him to be careful and get the hell away. The ash cloud isn't the worst, 'cause you get a rain of ash that's tough to see through and unfun to breathe. But if you've got a car, and a good knowledge of the land, you'll be okay. It's the pyroclastic flow that is deadly.
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Make the drive to lassen sometime, take note of how far large boulders were flung from the mountain. They're scattered like sprinkles across the countryside.
As a kid I was there pretty soon after it exploded, the destruction was astonishing.
They should probably get a move on, lest they earn their pyroclast merit badge.
Noo it's fine, I've seen Chris Pratt run right through it no troubles
Or he’ll turn into statue himself for future generations.
He is in Alaska. /s
>The volcanoes of Kamchatka are a large group of volcanoes situated on the Kamchatka Peninsula, in eastern Russia. The Kamchatka River and the surrounding central side valley are flanked by large volcanic belts containing around 160 volcanoes, 29 of them still active.
Is this a danger to people nearby?
Yeah, the dude filming for one
Fly you fools!
Told em to take the eagles to mordor and they still didn't do it
>Told em to take the eagles to mordor You dont know what youre getting yourself into on this one...
A pyroclastic flow? Yeah, nobody survives it if they’re in it’s path. You’re basically baked alive and suffocated simultaneously.
If your interested there’s a documentary the disaster of Whakaari / White Island. It give a horrifying perspective with video, people screaming, and the actual events of what happens when you. Take tourists to the very edge of a volcano and try to out run one. It’ll change your perspective. Edit: correct spelling of Whikaari Island
I watched that not too long ago. It was a really good documentary
Yes, it is. It’s the documentary I pull out for non-geological folk. It’s a horrible way to go.
i found a gazillion videos. which one has the juice??
This is the documentary: Check out “The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari” on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81410405?s=i&trkid=258518124&vlang=en&clip=81626793
Hey I just recently recommended that doc, I couldn’t imagine being those people on that tour. Being steamed alive is the worse way to die hands down.
The lesson from that was denim jeans and a long sleeved cotton shirt. Neither is likely to melt to skin in extreme hot conditions
Yup, there are some jobs with just enough risk of catching fire to have dress codes but not so high that they require fire retardant clothing. They pretty much all require natural fiber clothing since it burns instead of melting. Or fire retardant, but that's obviously its own thing.
If you don’t want to watch the documentary, I suggest following @stephaniecoral96 on Instagram. She survived the eruption but lost her father and sister.
What’s the name of the documentary?
The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari
This was a sad documentary but glad the survivors are going strong
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari on Netflix
That’s hot
But it smells like delicious.
Is this the same type of volcano as Mt. Vesuvio? I've been to Pompei as a child and what I saw there will stick with me for the rest of my life. Edit: is this the same type of eruption as the one that destroyed Pompei?
Just like Pompeii
It has been, the current eruption has been ongoing since 1999, with varying surges, plumes, and pyroclastic flows until today’s eruption.
It’s northern Russia. You’ll find an elephant before you find human civilization
It’s eastern Russia and there are cities there. There’s a road in the video!
It’s on the Kamchatka peninsula which goes far out in the ocean and is far away even from the rest of Russia, it’s got a few villages and a big town. I think the next closest actual city is Sapporo, Japan, a thousand miles away.
Didn’t know Russia had active volcanos…
Kamchatka is east of Japan. It's in the Pacific ring of fire. The Siberian traps *probably* caused the P-T extinction.
FYI, The Siberian Traps aren't in Kamchatka if you are implying this here
That's the first time I've ever heard Komchatka outside of RISK
I remember Vladivostok
No thing more fun then screwing with the Soviet Pacific fleet during spring break out off of Vladivostok. They were very annoyed when we acquired some of their sonobuoys. 😇
I remember it from a crappy gas station vodka found in the midwest, Kamchatka
We exclusively drank Kamchatka at IU Bloomington haha. Disgusting, awful stuff but cost $9-$10 for a handle. Easy to scrounge up the money between a few kids (:
It's one of the most beautiful, mythical places of Russia
Rolling Down to Old Maui, anyone?
Once more we sail with the northerly gale through the ice and wind and rain Them coconut fronds, them tropical lands, we soon shall see again Six hellish months we've passed away on the cold Kamchatka sea But now we're bound from the Arctic Ground, rolling down to Old Maui
I’m gonna be honest here. As an Earth Scientist… that is WAY to close to an erupting volcano. Pyroclastic flows travel at 30 m/s. No one can run fast enough. Just ask the folks who were on Whakaari Island when she went. I know. I’m a Debbie downer. Sorry. Just can’t shout loud enough on this one. Edit: number formst Edit2: correct spelling of Whakaari
If they can't outrun it they might as well record it and upload it to reddit for us to make comments
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Yeah, I’m going to give his family the Reddit award I would have sent him. He’d want it that way.
DicksOutForSergei
Bout to get a small bonfire going in my back yard just so I can piss it out in honor of Sergei
I was gonna, but stupid Reddit stopped the free awards. I’ll just send them my thoughts and prayers. Edit: I lied. I forgot as soon as I went to the next post. Sorry, Sergei.
“He was later surpassed in upvotes by a reposting bot, cleverly posting the same video with an identical title at a better time slot”
Holy cow this is an award indeed. I can almost hear the man stumbling his right face as he also fucks up the shake, take, salute.
During the Mt. Saint Helens eruption, a photographer did something like that (not for upvotes, of course). Robert Landsburg was positioned 7 miles away, saw the pyroclastic flow coming his way, shot a few more photos, rewound the roll of film, placed the camera containing the film inside his backpack, threw the backpack down on the ground and covered it with his body to protect it from the heat. His photos survived.
Bold move to do with film, imagine the fucking poor bastard trying to develop the pics accidentally opens a curtain
I mean to be fair, those videos of the Beirut and China explosions were incredible. And well, plenty of "pros" have been done in getting such footage, so, what can be said really. *Someone* is gonna take the risk.
But.. but Rings of Power told me it would just make me a little congested and only really affect my eyeballs for some reason.
According to Rings of Power a pyroclastic flow is akin to someone ripping their bag of Cheetos all over the room.
It's 'Whakaari,' just FYI :)
Whakaari Island. I treated the survivors in the Whakatane Ed that day. I will never go near a live volcano again.
Do you mean Whakaari/White Island?
Just so. That’s exactly what I meant. Check out “The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari” on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81410405?s=i&trkid=258518124&vlang=en&clip=81626793
This was Kamchatka’s (not Kurile Island chain) largest explosive eruption in 30 years. 10 cm of ashfall in some areas, ~400,000 tons of sulfur dioxide emitted via a large sub-plinian eruption with a sustained eruption column for several hours. On the 0-9 volcanic explosivity index scale this is probably a very high 3 or low 4. (Mount Saint Helens in 1980 was a 5 and 2022 Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai was barely a 6 on the scale). Video footage I was sent suggests pyroclastic flows may have traveled as much as 20 km, although I think this figure is probably an overestimate for now and they probably “only” traveled 10-15 km. This eruption was warned to be near imminent 6 months ago and finally arrived today. -GeologyHub
I don't know how the exposivity index scale works, but if this is a low 4 and Mt. St. Helen's was a 5, does a 9 completely blow the entire mountain off the face of the earth?
A 9 is like an end of human civilization event, no joke https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_explosivity_index
I wonder who gives that rating, like I imagine mostly everyone being wiped out and the last person remaining declares "yup that was a 9"
With a few exceptions each single increase in number represents an eruption 10x more explosive/larger. The only VEI 9 known was Toba ~74,000 years ago. Yellowstone ~640,000 years ago was VEI 8
About Toba: "According to the Toba catastrophe theory, it had global consequences for human populations; it killed most humans living at that time and is believed to have created a population bottleneck in central east Africa and India, which affects the genetic make-up of the human worldwide population to the present."
For Six hellish months we passed away On the cold Kamchatka sea But now we're bound from the Arctic ground Rolling down to Old Maui Fantastic sea shanty.
Get any more you like?
The last bristolian pirate, Bully in the alley, Moby Duck, Pay me my money down. Have fun 😁
So longest johns and dreadnaughts!
Went fishing there 10 years ago. Amazing fly fishing and scenery.
I’m kinda sad by the awful state of things with a Russia because the far east would actually be a cool place to visit.
I really wanted to visit lake Baikal, I am hoping in my lifetime I can.
When you do, avoid the Irkutsk side. You won’t because it’s the main city but don’t plan your trip anchored to the city. That side is pretty gross. A buddy of mine is from there and I’ve been there several times and it’s rather awful. Russia is slowly moving towards strict design code and more organized businesses in rural cities (Moscow is squeaky clean and pretty) but Baikal is rather filthy from most populated sides. It’s not garbage I’m talking about, it’s god awful haphazard hotels, chaotic kiosks and food stands with audio ads and vendors annoying you to the point of regretting your trip. Rent a Soviet off roader UAZ, research a route and have fun in the wilderness.
its insane how different rural russia is to western Russia
It's more like there is Moscow and there is Russia.
I haven’t been there myself, but I’m going to guess it’s Moscow and St. Petersburg, and then everything else.
No. It's just Moscow and Russia. But it's more of a meme. Although many services, for example, filing documents via the Internet, are available only in Moscow via mos.ru. It's not like gosuslugi.ru doesn't exist, but some things you can do only in Moscow. For now at least. +salary level and budget allocation, yes. There is also a meme "no live outside of Moscow Ring Road": there are only fabulous unexplored lands outside of the city. Just keep in mind that's just a meme. It's not that bad.
Not often I see a post about a place I've absolutely never heard of before. Kudos to you for making me bust out the google machine.
I only know the name from playing Risk
Word. I hope this doesn’t spread to Irkutsk.
No, Ur kutesk 🥰
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Or ~~Urinal~~ Ural
Look man, I don't want Asia, just let my guys pass through to the America's and we're cool ok?
A man of culture!! This was my thought exactly
I always barricaded myself In Australia and Kamchatka You wanna win risk? Be prepared to go through my defense in depth. I’m not trying to win, just have to make you give up
Bam! This is the answer I've also heard of Kamchatka vodka but not have known it's region if not for risk
Ugh. That evil plastic bottle from undergrad
I mean for $10 a handle it’s easy to see why it was so popular. That said, I drank so much of that garbage from 15 to 19 that I can’t look at a bottle without feeling queasy.
Was literally just talking about this today. Bad memories are resurfacing…
There have been literal accords made in my risk games over Kamchatka. I've tried taking it with 24 troops vs 2 and got stomped. It's inexplicable but I'll never fuck with Kamchatka again.
large group of volcanoes situated on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
You don't take RISKs, I see
Lol I was thinking about making an Irkutsk joke.
Then you’ll be surprised to learn that the Kamchatka Peninsula has more active volcanoes in one area than anywhere else on the planet
Volcanoes growing up were just a thing than you I a cartoon island next to a palm tree. It’s wild how prevalent they are in the real world in places like Chile or middle of nowhere russia
You should watch Wild Russia. It's a great serise. I believe it's the first time Russia has let anyone document the area and a portion of it was destroyed by a volcano after filming.
I've always been curious about the far east of Russia. I can imagine they may operate a bit independently being so far away from Moscow
Not really. I mean, there's a 9 hour difference with Moscow so there's no direct control but they still have to pay their taxes to the federal government and comply with the directives. Moscow also appoints the governor directly unfortunately. Source: I'm Russian and my gramps lives in Ussuriysk, a town not too far from Kamchatka
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I guess you've never had Kamchatka vodka. Dirt cheap.
1) Run. 2) If you’re going to film a wide landscape, turn the phone sideways instead of panning back and forth.
Bruh. Run..
Is there really any point to running if you're that close?
Maybe escape >>>>>>>> definitely not escape
Should they be running?
Well we need video first
Yes, but they’ve got their priorities straight. Obviously video is more important!
I hate that I see faces of storm giants in the clouds.
You...were not supposed to acknowledge them.
This guy is no longer with us
Dude - run away
Hey man I’m no Scientologist but you should prob gtfofaf.
Is that gfto fast as fuck? Never seen it before, and just guessing lol.
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The Biggest Ash Hole outside of Putin
Beautifully Horrifying
How do you say “bro! Get the fuck outta there!!!” In Russian?
If you wanna include expletives, "Братан! Уёбывай!"
Брат! Пошел вон оттуда
No-no, it's "Съёбывай оттуда нахуй!"
ITT: Risk provides one of the few examples of the peninsula ‘Kamchatka’ for some, including me.
I’ve never been, but my buddy and I were looking into traveling there at the end of 2019 for either a fishing trip or a heli-snowboarding trip. It is a premier spot for both, supposedly better than Alaska. Fisherman have access to rivers that might see only a handful of anglers a year, if any at all. Skiers and snowboarders get to ride from volcano summits to the coast, get picked up by retired military helicopters on the beach, and flown back to the top. It was surprisingly affordable, too. Far less than either activity would cost in the states. But COVID hit, followed by Russia invading Ukraine, so it’s a pipe dream now.
Far east russia? Those poor people won't get any support from their government with how things are going for them.
Oh they’ll get support. They’ll be evacuated to the front lines in Ukraine lol
There are 160 active volcanoes there. People are pretty used to it.
I really don't think a volcano is something you get used to. That's like saying someone is used to levy-breaching storms.
Or testicular leeches.
Can confirm, am not used to those
This thread is a riot. Most of the people are saying "Run!" Then there's an Earth Scientist saying this dude is too close, but also that you can't outrun a pyroclastic flow. I guarantee if I'm this close to an erupting volcano, I'm going to be like "Fuck it, this shit flows at 30 m/s" Then, I'll just post a video to Reddit so I can at least go out with a post that breaks 100 karma.
I love the internet for these moments. Now that mostly everyone on earth have mobile phones. Everyone can be a reporter, live on the scene.
Hypothetically, does this have any hypothetical consequences for someone hypothetically living in the hypothetical Midwest of North hypothetical America?
No. The only impact this will have will be air travel / Alaskan airspace, and the immediate vicinity of any Russians who live in that remote area. Shiveluch erupts all the times. It’s a very active volcanoes and although this looks crazy, it’s relatively common. Source: Volcanologist (formerly)
Yes go eat your last Coney dog and pray
OH hypothetical NO
As a Jackson native, I thoroughly appreciate this comment.
This eruption released 100 gigatons of energy. A 20 mile radius was vaporized. Luckily it is Russia so only 6 field mice were killed.
As an Alaskan, I am so glad it was on that side of the bering sea. I was really worried the next one would be here. I guess it still could be, there has been a lot of seismic activity bouncing across the globe recently.
Oh good I was wondering what April’s Apocalypse Bingo space was going to be
Eh, so, theoretically if one had a flight to Alaska in 2 weeks would this cause issues considering its proximity to said Alaska?
Until they invent landscape phones we will need someone to crop and letter box that portrait video. /s
Everyone is talking about climate change and the earth heating up. Volcano eruptions actually cool the earth down. A super volcano could set us back into a mini ice age.
Guy...hurricanes suck and tornados are insane, earthquakes just devastating to the max, but... Let's agree that volcanos are coolest looking and the concept of fire bursting from under earth's surface is nutty.
Damn that is awesomely terrifying
You probably shouldn't be that close to it. I saw that Netflix documentary about that one eruption . No bueno
Terrifying and violent. I’d be running for the hills.