"We've seen worse," the head of the INGV National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology in the nearby city of Catania ( aka New Pompeii), Stefano "not worried" Branco, told Italian news agency AGI.
Estimating that the eruption from Etna's southeastern crater began late Tuesday afternoon, Branco insisted that the latest burst of activity was "not at all worrying - hey, cannelloni for everyone!"
Nevertheless, with small stones and ashes raining down, authorities decided to close Catania's international airport.
So it begins...
Leave the lava, take the cannoli.
ReplyDeleteSpewing more greenhouse gasses and particulate pollution into the atmosphere in a day than all of Europe produces in a year, and nobody from the Greentards is out yelling about how we need to shut these terrible volcanoes down, for the good of the planet.
ReplyDeleteShocked! Shocked, I am...