{"id":18092,"date":"2015-12-05T02:30:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T10:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18092"},"modified":"2015-12-05T03:22:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T11:22:28","slug":"the-earth-unlocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/05\/the-earth-unlocked\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earth Unlocked"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember Sunday morning, 18 May 1980 at 8:32 am.  I was up and getting ready for church.  On this sunny morning, there was a great warm blast of air that came streaming in my window with force.  It was very unusual.  It wasn't until later that I learned that Mount St Helens in Washington state had erupted.  I was living in Victoria, BC at the time.  We experienced ash depositing on everything, but not like those in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n

From The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><\/strong> — Early Thursday morning, southern Italy woke up to see this remarkable display — Mount Etna, Sicily’s tallest peak and active volcano, was erupting after two years of silence<\/strong><\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sky glowed red above Sicily, seen above from Calabria, Italy’s most southern region. The skies were cloudless on Thursday morning and Mount Etna was capped in white snow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mount Etna on a sunny quiet day. (Wikipedia)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mount Etna on a sunny quiet day. (geology.com)<\/span><\/p>\n

Then early on Thursday morning, nature broke loose.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Click through for some more images.  The images following are from <\/span>The Huffington Post<\/span><\/a><\/strong> and show the raw power of the volcano's eruption.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mount Etna 2002 eruption<\/span><\/p>\n

The earth's fury can be awesome to witness, but very terrifying at the same time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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