On 18/07/2013 5:39 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>> I would have expected it to look as if the internals were rolling like a
>> hydrocarbon fire.
>
> A pyroclastic flow is not a hydrocarbon fire.

I don't think that I said it was cuz.
But after watching the video Michael posted a link to. I thing billowing 
is a better way of putting it. I was surprised that the cloud like 
structure look very stable as it was moving at a fair percentage of the 
speed of sound. About 25% roughly.
You tend to describe things in terms of what you know and I have seen a 
lot of gas being flared off.

>

> ardentes.  The glow is difficult to see in daylight, but I have seen it in video

> local news for me.)  The edge of the flow, where it contacts the ground, looks
> like glowing embers.

I remember it it made the news here, in the UK, big time. Did you have 
to evacuate?


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Regards
     Stephen

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