02-02-14, 03:40 PM
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Gefallen Engel U-666
Join Date: Jul 2013
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On Kauai: when fire goddess Péle speaks, lose the grass skirt!
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A smaller series of explosions took place in May 1924. Geologists, comparing the amount of material deposited in 1924 and earlier, suggest that the 1500-1790 AD explosions were far more violent than the 1924 event, and the amount of ash deposited many times greater. The large amount of falling ash in 1790, however, likely did not cause the death of the passing party. Reports by local Hawaiians on the conditions of the bodies of the people killed by the 1790 event, in addition to geologic indicators, strongly suggest the falling ash was accompanied by searing hot surges that engulfed the victims. The army of Keoua was apparently overcome by a sudden and violent pyroclastic surge. Basically, the party was engulfed in a stream of hurricane force winds, composed of hot steam and sulfuric gases.
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What's cookin' at your luau, Kahuna BBY ? I've actually seen the tracks left by the victims... a local tourist attraction.
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