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Lava Destroyed the City! Nyiragongo Volcano Eruption in Congo, Africa (May 23, 2021)
Youtube ^ | 5/23/21 | Fobos Planet

Posted on 05/23/2021 2:14:48 PM PDT by Rebelbase

Nyiragongo volcano eruption in Congo, Africa (May 23, 2021). Mount Nyiragongo: Lava destroys houses after DR Congo volcano erupts. After a large volcano erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo, footage shows lava on nearby streets, houses on fire and a thick orange cloud over the eastern city of Goma. Thousands of people have fled their homes after fountains of lava burst from the Mount Nyiragongo.

After crossing a major highway, the lava advanced toward Goma, a city of two million people which was devastated by the last eruption, in 2002, when boiling lava smothered entire neighborhoods, killed several hundred people and left at least 100,000 homeless.

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Helicopter view of the flow cutting a path through town at 2:06 in the video.
1 posted on 05/23/2021 2:14:48 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

I will take a Hurricane over a lava flow any day.


2 posted on 05/23/2021 2:15:57 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

Hey, just the other day a geologist or someone was telling them there was no danger to the city, that the lava was going in the other direction, so there was no need to fear or evacuate.


3 posted on 05/23/2021 2:18:15 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Rebelbase

How long before they dump the refugees in my town?


4 posted on 05/23/2021 2:19:00 PM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: Rebelbase

No virgins remaining in Africa?


5 posted on 05/23/2021 2:21:08 PM PDT by twister881
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To: Rebelbase

Doesn’t look like it was much of a city before the lava either.


6 posted on 05/23/2021 2:21:12 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: metmom

It was Dr. COVID Himself.


7 posted on 05/23/2021 2:24:49 PM PDT by YOMO
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To: Rebelbase

Obviously Systemic Racism on the part of Ma Erf [having all of the Wypipo Privilege that she does].


8 posted on 05/23/2021 2:25:50 PM PDT by Paladin2 (2 mi. on each side.)
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To: Rebelbase

Note to self - don’t buy property near a volcano.


9 posted on 05/23/2021 2:27:22 PM PDT by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: Rebelbase

“...boiling lava...”?

As opposed to non-boiling Lava?


10 posted on 05/23/2021 2:27:26 PM PDT by Paladin2 (2 mi. on each side.)
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To: Rebelbase

Free pumace


11 posted on 05/23/2021 2:27:26 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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To: metmom

“Experts”

Experts who dont live anywhere near it...


12 posted on 05/23/2021 2:27:48 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Rebelbase

We’re there people killed?


13 posted on 05/23/2021 2:29:56 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Rebelbase

This seems like a racist volcano


14 posted on 05/23/2021 2:30:23 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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How long before they dump the refugees in my town?

Goma had a huge refugee influx in 1994 during the Rwanda massacre. I was part of the relief effort that flew in tons and tons of foodstuff into Goma.

15 posted on 05/23/2021 2:31:06 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Whatever an “expert” says, do the opposite.


16 posted on 05/23/2021 2:32:03 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Rebelbase

Bookmark


17 posted on 05/23/2021 2:34:00 PM PDT by SaveFerris (http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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To: metmom

Well, government expert


18 posted on 05/23/2021 2:35:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo - Volcano Eruption Prompts Panic in Goma

Check out the last paragraph of the story. The World Bank had pulled funding from the volcano observatory over alleged corruption.

Great timing.

19 posted on 05/23/2021 2:36:10 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Rebelbase

Wow, absolutely astonishing. The size of that lava flow is incredible. Those poor people (both senses of the word) lost everything and have nowhere to go. It’s amazing that, as poor as they are and in the midst of this crisis, they are all better dressed than most Americans.


20 posted on 05/23/2021 2:37:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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