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asteralien · 5 years

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flower ask meme: arum-lily, aster, baneberries, basket of gold, black-eyed susan, blazing stars, borage, bulgeherb, camelia, candytuffs, carnation, cock's comb, common boneset, daisy, false goat's beard, freesia, garden cosmos, gladiolus, rosemallows, transvaal daisy, and tropical white morning glory

Arum-Lily: What’s the farthest you’d go for a stranger? gave a man my lunch and cash when he came up to my window while i was idling at a red light? stayed five minutes past closing time to tell someone how to get somewhere even tho im terrible at directions

Aster: What’s one of your favorite quotes? “I believe that if a woman poet survives, if she sets out on that distance and arrives at the other end, then she has an obligation to tell as much as she knows of the ghosts within her, for they make up, in essence, her story as well.”contrariwise“I am not well-adjusted. More often than not, I am barely keeping it together. I’m constantly texting, and there’s no one on the other end. I’m just a grown man who can’t even look his own friends in the eye for too long because I’m afraid that they’ll see that I’m broken. So, you get credit for that. One time, when I was in 7th grade, I told everybody at school I had appendicitis. I wanted somebody to worry about me, but when Beth Brennan asked to see the scar I didn’t wanna get found out. So, I took mom’s scissors, and I made one. It hurt like hell. But it was worth it because I got 17 cards, and I still keep them in a box underneath my bed 22 years later because it proves that someone at some point cared about me. Want to see the scar?”

Baneberries: Favorite song? atm its either “high hopes” by panic!, “quarter past midnight” by bastille, or “when the night is over” by lord huron

Basket of Gold: Describe your familyim best friends with my mom, my brother terrifies me bc i love him so much, my granddad was my best teacher of selflessness and sacrifice, my cousin who was my best friend fell apart at exactly the same time i did and we never really got back together, i met my twin when i was like fourteen and needed them most, i have a grandmother who ended up teaching me more of what not to do than anything else, and i did in fact have a father, all evidence to the contrary

Black-Eyed Susan: If you could be any animal for a day, what would it be?a giraffe. no doubt

Blazing Stars: What are you afraid of? Is there a reason why? 101 things ! spiders because one crawled into my bed when i was 12 at five in the morning and my cat woke me up because it was just there at my feet, also never having someone fall in love w me, also watching everyone leave me when they figure out im worthless ! mostly spiders

Borage: Give a random fact about your childhood. there was a very shallow sort of…. gorge? ravine? it was like a steep drop off in the land down to a v rocky stream that cut behind our house in our old neighborhood. they didnt let us play there often bc my brother’s then-best friend slipped and cut his foot bad but i loved it back there + if i had been reading warriors at that point it would have been my clan camp fs

Bugleherb: How would you spend your last day on Earth? slashing the tires of as many animal abusers as i could find. then go rent a boat and take my family/friends out on the water. pass out some macarons maybe? gravestone shaped macarons? make everyone read some of four quartets out loud. also cuddle my cat a whole WHOLE whole lot

Camelia: If you could visit anywhere, where would you want to go? ive wanted to visit ireland for literally as long as i can remember

Candytufts: When do you feel most loved? when i havent eaten for a good while

Carnation: What are you currently wearing? mucha-esque loki tee shirt and my mom’s fluffy cloud pajama pants

Cock’s Comb: Favorite font?lydian bc it reminds me of when i was 10 and my cousin and i were writing our stories on the same computer and that was the font we used

Common Boneset: What are you looking forward to?everybodys workin for the weekend. captain marvel comes out next week too

Daisy: What do you feel is your greatest accomplishment? 1) winning the novel contest 2) making people laugh during my thesis defense 3) not offing myself during 2014 or 2017

False Goat’s Beard: What is something you are good at?embarrassing myself!

Freesia: What are three good things that have happened in the past month? 1) job 2) sushi 3) staying till almost midnight at a friend’s house talking whcih was the most ive actually been touched by a person besides my mom in weeks

Garden Cosmos: How was your day today?exhausting but i got a lot of reading done

Gladiolus: What is something you hope to do in the next year or two? submit a novel for publication. try to get into an editing program. grow potatoes and cucumbers, revive/expand my catnip and rosemary. donate money and buy art and take trips and make better food

Rosemallows: What’s your favorite memory? literally the only memory that doesnt feel like a rebuke or a warning rn is the day i met you in person

Transvaal Daisy: What’s your favorite item of clothing? thats either the high waisted bell bottom jeans my aunt gave me a while back or the black and green striped top that ive worn holes into ive had it so long

Tropical White Morning Glory: Describe your aesthetic. i literally dont have one, its a hideous + boring mishmash of four different aesthetics frankensteined together that doesnt make good art ever

#the ask + the answer #bruh........ thank u........#deadtreeclub #long post

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treebranchy · 2 years

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A Long Post About the La Soufrière Volcanic Eruption, One Year Later.

I remember how we were preparing for the eruption since December 2020 when the volcano started smoking, and created a second lava dome, which had grown to almost the size of the existing one. The alert level went from green to yellow to orange between December and March.

[Photo credit: UWI Seismic (@uwiseismic on ig)]

I remember how tense everyone was the day before it erupted. The Prime Minister was urging everyone in the red zones to evacuate. People all in the green zone said the air smelt like sulphur (i didn't lol but we can't all be winners). The alert level turned red.

Then the day of, Friday April 9, 2021, they heard rumbling (again i didn't lol and idk why). That meant it was go time. She was about to wake up. When I was at work was when she erupted for the first time in 42 years (the last time she blew was Friday April 13th 1979. The second Friday in April, same as in 2021. She's nothing if not on time). Everyone was in shock and in awe. This big beautiful ash cloud that we could see from the south of the island that kept growing as she kept erupting.

[Photo taken by me, in Diamond, St. Vincent. In the green zone]

Nighttime hit and we could see lightning in the ash cloud. At about 9pm the ash started falling in the green zone.

[Photo credit: unknown]

By morning everything was covered in ash. It looked like someone put the greyscale filter on all of the outside. And Soufrière kept erupting. Videos from the red zone showed that they were blanketed in darkness when it was supposed to be bright daylight. Ngl those videos def were giving apocalypse vibes.

[Photo 1: view from my house in the Green Zone; Photo 2: me, covered head to toe, trying to clear some ash so my dogs would be protected, ft. Beau; video taken by an unknown source at 10am(!!) in the Red Zone]

The awe and excitement of it all def wore off by the morning after. Cause that's when water got cut off (because we get out water from the rivers, the rivers come from the volcanic mountain range, so water in the catchments obvs were getting contaminated. But we had all been advised to collect water beforehand so it wasn't that dire.

But then the power went. And thats when things got real. Because where we were all connected and experiencing it together, suddenly it was just your household that you could account for.

All the windows and doors shut, and yet ash was still getting in. No water, except the ones you saved. No light for a brief period.

And then the rains came. Thankful that maybe the ash could get washed away. Learning that wet ash is heavy af and can probably collapse roofs, etc. And of course, rain + ash = lahars. (Think of a mudslide x 1000). Lahars cut new cliffs into rivers. Where once was a shallow riverbed, now was a 40ft gorge.

[Screenshots from a drone video of a lahar flowing through the Rabacca Dry River into the ocean]

18,000 people in the red zone evacuated. Lots more actually stayed back despite better judgment. Fishermen on boats helping to aid evacuation efforts. It was a WILD time. People were making ash angels 😂 (do not attempt btw lmao volcanic ash is dangerous stuff if inhaled too much)

Speaking of ash, ash from La Soufrière touched down in St. Lucia and Barbados, and I think they said ash even reached as far as the Canary Islands (dont quote me on that but I remember scientists saying it got hella far). I've collected ash in a jar for posterity.

La Soufrière blew no less than 30 times in the span of a few days. The following weeks, and months was mainly trying to get rid of ash. Trying to especially clear the damage from the ash in the red zone, and try to rehome individuals who were displaced. All in the middle of a pandemic!

And even after all that mother nature said LOL and flooded us as well. So we had a pandemic, an eruption, a flood all in the space of a few months. If I didnt experience it I would say it was too crazy to be true. Alas.

But nature has a way if rebuilding itself. Sandy Bay (a village in the red zone and one that took the brunt of the damage) got a new beach. St. Vincent has black sand beaches because of our volcanic makeup. When I learned this in school I used to think that the sand was really just dyed from the ash, but now I know that the sand IS ash and sediments from our volcano.

Exactly a year later my friends and I hiked up the Rabacca Dry River (a deep gorge like riverbed formed from lahars from the explosive 1902 eruption) to see a small waterfall there, made smaller due to the eruption. The Dry River is just under the La Soufrière volcano, and you can still see so much ash on the cliff walls! But its proof that nature will keep on doing its thing.

Ngl tho, hiking up there was def giving Jurassic Park vibes lol

[Photo 1: hiking up the Rabacca Dry River; photo 2: me at the end of the trail, in front of the waterfall; Photo 3: the waterfall, located at the base of the volcano]

As for Miss Soufrière herself, we are back at alert level green. She's sleeping once again. The new dome that she created was completely destroyed by the eruption and even the old crater dome isn't there anymore. I've hiked the volcano 5 times pre-eruption and I'm planning to hike it a 6th time in the coming months.

[Photo credit: uwi seismic (@uwiseismic on ig), photo showing how the La Soufrière volcano looks now]

TL; DR: the La Soufrière volcano in St. Vincent erupted for the first time in exactly 42 years one year ago. It was beautiful and terrifying.

#volcano #la Soufrière #la soufriere volcano #volcanic eruption #st vincent #st vincent and the grenadines

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