Word: ashe
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...away from the fires and head for the river. On the way, I lost sight of my teacher and proceeded alone. People burned too severely to survive grabbed at me as I went along. Those who could walk stumbled over the bodies; they wore tatters and were covered with ash. I saw a living baby clinging to the breasts of its dead mother. I saw another child of three or four beating her dead mother with her fists. Perhaps she did not know that her mother was dead and in desperation and confusion was trying to wake...
...faithful reconstruction of a pre-Revolutionary crane, this Rube Goldberg device consists of an upright 30-ft. ash sapling, a block and tackle suspended from a fork at its apex, yards of thick manila rope woven through an assortment of pulleys and a stout ashwood capstan. Today it will raise the final gable, a 20-ft.-long triangle of beams on which roof boards will later rest. Babcock casually knots the free end of the rope around the beams, then signals his crew of four. Under their weight, the groaning capstan turns. The rope creaks. The beams refuse to budge...
Hooper Professor of Geology Paul Hoffman, who has mapped the remnants of hundreds of volcanic ash flows, praised the film for its accurate depiction of what the after-effects of such a “super-eruption” would look like...
...What I liked about it was the emphasis on the ash,” he said. “It would have been easy for them to ignore this, being overwhelmed by hot, glowing avalanches...
...armageddon-style plot, geologists are alerted to the growing danger. They reel off projections of the worst-case scenario: a massive storm of volcanic ash covering the entirety of the United States and killing millions of individuals by collapsing roofs, immobilizing cities, and crashing airliners...