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Post by karl on Jan 2, 2015 6:52:58 GMT -7
Popo has let us know it is alive and well once again as if there were ever a question. The following is published news alert, but has left out some related issues that are both dangerious and potentially damaging down stream of close by rivers. For one, the mountain is snow covered and with the rapid rise in temperature, melts with mixed ash/dirt/rocks will flow down hill as a flood of mud. The other is related to volcano eruptions and that is the extreme hot plastiflow that often follows.
The most violent eruptions were at 08:34, Thursday 01-January 2015 with close to 30 eruptions withen a period of 24 hours.
Puebla is some distance from this one of two relatively close volcanoes. Whilst a distance away, still with prevailing wind, ash will come down along a path from the source then over the city. It is very fine powdered rock, very damaging to autos/out side machinery and related filters both to building AC ventilation systems and automotive filtered induction systems.
Upon the streets and roadways, as the ash settles, when upon a vehicle driven through the ash, by virtue of the fineness of particals, it floats into the air to the irritations of other vehicles and pedestrians.
The following is a copy of the Federal Alert with advice and cautions:
During the eruptions, high-temperature debris were sent flying in a 3 km radius.The area is at an intermediate alert level, known locally as yellow alert.Along with the eruptions a three-and-a-half-kilometres-high column of ash, steam and gas spewed into the sky.
The wind carried the ash cloud to the nearby cities including Puebla. What to do if there's ash in the vicinity.
Local officials tweeted out advice for any community hit with an ash cloud. Covering nose and mouth with a wet cloth was at the top of the list. They also suggested rising eyes with "pure" water and to avoid using contact lenses
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Karl
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jan 2, 2015 11:14:45 GMT -7
Karl, Hopefully it won't affect Pueblo too much. Never the less, it is good to have emergency supplies on hand.
To rinse out the ash from your lips drink Corona. It has the right medications in it to help.
For more serious intrusions upon yourself I recommend a very good Tequila probably Sol de Barro. It has the right combination of medical properties that
will help purify small wounds and calm the nervous spirit.
So keep healthy and keep us informed of your status as we might be able to help somehow.
Much Love,
JJ
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Post by kaima on Jan 2, 2015 16:03:12 GMT -7
Karl,
Just visited your land of residence today, crossing the border into Los Algodones, just south of California and next to Yuma, Arizona. It was really enjoyable, though I hardly left the tourist area. It reminded me of Turkey to some degree, and the construction shows a lot more originality that is common in the US. The construction may look rough by comparison to US standards, but is best (as you know as a German) for holding the stucco finish on the outside. Mexican workers, despite all of the political stuff broadcast about illegals, hare well known in the US as hard workers and well skilled workers.
Happy New Year, in any case!
Kai the Tourist, now caravaning in Arizona and soon to be New Mexico before returning to Alaska.
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Post by karl on Jan 2, 2015 16:48:08 GMT -7
Kai
How so nice of you to reply..Yes, Mexican workers are not so clean or neat, but they do work hard and pay not so much heed to heat and sweat, but they seem to always get the job done on time, on buget and do not demand upon completion for a reward of monitary compensation.
You have come through Yuma,,what is your observations of Yuma? And of the Arizona area?
Yes, the volcano situation is some what irritating, for our building Havac systems have suffered at this early time, with maintenance people griping with extended hours of their labour. But, it must be done.
Perhaps to say, a drink is not withen the confines of the day at this time. But a bit of quite would be nice at the moment. I do have the duty for the next fore seeable time and the kitchen people are off and people are hungry. Hungry people become very nasty if not offered some hope of nice eats. With this in mind, withen the budgetary means that is mine to spend of some one elses money, was then to offer a call through our secretary staff, for emergency call in of available cooks and servers willing to come in on emergency time compensury double time.
The primary interest is with results, all other interest is secondary.
With that darn volcano, it has lived for many centuries more then my self, then in self it will continue long after I am gone.
Karl
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Post by pieter on Jan 3, 2015 15:17:23 GMT -7
Karl,
I hope you are safe over there. The German authorities (I hope) will take care of it's civil servants well in the case of emergency. I hope that you are well protected against the violence of nature, but also the unpredictable nature of men. In times of tension, hardship and need humans can change and become unreliable and dangerous too. I am talking about the Mexicans (fellow Germans, Europeans, Americans and good Mexicans will help you). My concern is that Mexico is not a stabile, political reliable, safe country for expats. So I hope that you take care of your safety and that your superiors take care of the safety of you and your colleages as well. Maybe I am over concerned, but that is the nature of friendship. Take care! And listen to John's advices.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by karl on Jan 4, 2015 5:55:05 GMT -7
J.J.
Thank you for some excellent advice and well appreciated. The volcano dust is a present and potential hazard and not to be taken lightly, but whilst so, not dangerious if viewed in a positive manner. It is in the event of being careless for this stuff is finely ground rock, extremely abrasive and sticks like glue to damp surfaces and filter material. Damp surfaces are in the medical hazards of sinus passages and lungs. Once in the lungs, eventually will cause the effects of miners desease and there is little to no cure once the lungs are effected.
Most folks if to brave by necessary reasons, to walk about in the dust, will generally protect them selves with filtering mask or at least keep the face/eyes and nose protected. Vehicle maintenance is pretty well covered with replacing the motor induction filters and cabin filters often.
This is not an exception to the fall out problem, it is not regular, but is occasional when the volcano feels neglected and wishes to voice its concerns with an eruption. The city will shortly afterward, clean the streets and flush out the storm drainage systems as the dust is washed down. Residents for the most part, take the situation as natures issues such as storms/wind/ and such, they then sweep aside the dust as of snow, and life goes on.
The volcano dust though, is very beneficial for farmers, for once it has been rain washed into the soil, crops do well with it. So there is the good amongst the bad.
I like your advice of Corona, simply though for the time being, I do not have the luxary of drinking any thing stronger then coffee for the time being. Perhaps this following week when things settle.
Karl
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Post by karl on Jan 4, 2015 6:33:36 GMT -7
Karl, I hope you are safe over there. The German authorities (I hope) will take care of it's civil servants well in the case of emergency. I hope that you are well protected against the violence of nature, but also the unpredictable nature of men. In times of tension, hardship and need humans can change and become unreliable and dangerous too. I am talking about the Mexicans (fellow Germans, Europeans, Americans and good Mexicans will help you). My concern is that Mexico is not a stabile, political reliable, safe country for expats. So I hope that you take care of your safety and that your superiors take care of the safety of you and your colleages as well. Maybe I am over concerned, but that is the nature of friendship. Take care! And listen to John's advices. Cheers, Pieter Pieter Thank you for your concerns and very much appreciated. Yes, you are very correct in the manner and Mexico, for it is different and should never be compared with our European system, or for that manner, The US and Canada. It is part of Latin America and with it, some traits that are similar in Government and people. For as well known, there is the wide difference between those of means and those of little means, with this, is power. For those of means enjoy the luxary of life, whilst those of little means, do with what they have. What though is a situation with those of means face is, there is always some one else wishing to take from those of means. Kidnaping is and has been on the rise in recent years of banking excutives or their family member{s} and of prominent people of means. Once the ransom has been paid, there is no gurantee the person/family member will be returned alive. For the above reason is of those of means, generally will hire protection services for their property and them selves with their families. With this, the same people who would be responsible in the first place for their endangerment, are the ones providing the protection for a price. With this, has the sound of a payoff in protection, and it is. With this system though, is protection from out side gangs. With the criminal element the news on the street is very accurate and fast, the message is then out to leave those under our protection alone, or we will get you. If not to understand this concept, is very misleading with news flashes of shootings and bodies found along side of country roads. Some not all, are warnings given by the rival gang to leave our territory alone, this is our area, find yours some where else.. With our selves, it is no secret what we are here for and some what the reason of our building with the strange domes on the roof is for, just not sure exactly. The local police and various protection services in this area, would enjoy for my self to stay off the streets and not in future to have a collusion with a backing vehicle with my bicycle. For then it becomes a circus of reports/investigation people on both sides with my self not excluded for action/accident report writing. Each side knows the other between police patrols and protection service people. After a time, it is not difficult to spot the plain cloths police when they are working the area. It is a situation that is not uncommon in some South American countries and was the common rule in Syria some years past. There is a stratified life that is regular and when some thing breaks up the routine of people going about their day, it is a noticeable event that should never be ignored. Some thing has changed the cycle of the day and should never be ignored. For my self, I am a loner so to speak, and with this usually blend into the area as part of the scenery. It is natural for my self as a habit. But, as you have so rightly mentioned, there are not gurantees in life, we always take our chances simply by walking out the door. Karl |
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jan 7, 2015 6:44:14 GMT -7
Karl, I hope you are safe over there. Take care! And listen to John's advices. Cheers, Pieter Well, I am modifying some of my advice. Do not accept any beverages from these folks mentioned in this report. You don't know where it is made.   Seres Extraños Muy Cerca del Volcán Popocatépetl / Strange Beings Very Near Popocatepetl Volcano  |
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Post by karl on Jan 7, 2015 7:43:31 GMT -7
J.J.
Interesting of such beings seen by others as climbing such rapid pace up the steep slopes of this volcano. With this, another mystery to ponder until further information is obtained through research. This and/or direct contact and containment for study would be best.
Where upon some thing such as this would be of best public interest is another matter of serious consideration. For such a find, of a being so foreign to our concept of what we believe and that what we wish not to believe is another matter. For what our conscience mind of understanding, is only to the model that was imprinted for comparison and recognition for acceptance for understanding.
It is a natural reactionary concept that nature instilled into our early ancesters as a survival instinct and preservation of the species. That what is different, is to be destroyed. It then is to this concept we must be very careful in such observations of that which we do not understand.
There are many mysteries in this part of the world that lend them selves to folk lore and folk magic. Partly perhaps due to the inability of an indian observer unable able to understand what he/she has observed. For in this abscense of inability to describe in terms of scientific terms, they use simple logic in words they understand with describing their observations. It then is to the researcher to translate what the research person is reading/hearing, into scientific terms we then will correctly understand.
returning back to those climbers travelling up an active volcano is simply crazy. For such a disturbance is extremely unpredictable with every moment a high risk to their lives. The natural events of such an eruption is not always with the magama or ash. For these things create hot gases of such heat as to simply evaporate a living preson. With the hot gases, are the well known events of poison gas that are more so lethal then what we as people have the ability to invent.
Thank you once again for your updating with additional interesting observations.
Hopefully, that darn thing will settle down and leave us alone.
Karl
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Post by pieter on Jan 7, 2015 12:09:00 GMT -7
I am glad that you are still safe and alive Karl. Hope that the lava of that vulcano will never reach your beautiful Pueblo!
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Post by karl on Jan 7, 2015 15:40:40 GMT -7
I am glad that you are still safe and alive Karl. Hope that the lava of that vulcano will never reach your beautiful Pueblo! Pieter Once again with thanks to you for your very kind concerns. Although the volcano is fairly close, so far has only present ash as a calling card that it is alive and well. It alternates between felt trimmers and eruptions of large high plumbs of white smoke/gases/flying super heated rocks to around a radius of 3 Km. Many of the residences and famers have long since evacuated until it calms down and is safe to return to their homes. The base and area is very park like with forest and plant life. A very nice area to visit in good times. What has been effected is air travel in Mexico City and Puebla Benite Juarez International air Terminal for flights in and out of the city. At night, a very lively spectical of superheated gases/glowing rocks blown vertically above the spout and then as they cool they then gradually glow lighter and lighter until nothing as they return to earth. Our building was designed with floating floors that absorb the trimmers and shock waves. What is the dickens is the air born dust that is sucked into the hyvac cooling and heating ducks with resulting effects of plugging up the filters. With this is some electrical magnetic wave emmissions that effect some transmission frequencies. We are far enough distance that a lava flow reaching is not likely. What is very likely is the flash flooding from heat melted snow reaching down laden with ash into the rivers at the base of the volcano. These things will play havic with the various down stream bridges and related accidents and drownings that occure with people and vehicles caught by surprise. The following is some stories of the two volcanos named after two lovers: Iztaccihuatl and Popocatepetl Iztaccíhuatl's father sent Popocatepetl to war in Oaxaca, promising him his daughter as his wife if he returned (which Iztaccíhuatl's father presumed he would not). Iztaccíhuatl's father told her that her lover had fallen in battle and she died of grief. When Popocatépetl returned, and discovered the death of his lover, he committed suicide by plunging a dagger through his heart. God covered them with snow and changed them into mountains. Iztac cíhuatl's mountain was called "La Mujer Dormida, (the "Sleeping Woman"), because it bears a resemblance to a woman sleeping on her back. Popocatépetl became the volcano Popocatépetl, raining fire on Earth in blind rage at the loss of his beloved. A different tale was told by the Nahuatl-speakers of Tetelcingo, Morelos, according to whom Iztaccíhuatl (or Istācsohuātl, as they pronounce the name) was the wife of Popo, but Xinantécatl wanted her, and he and Popocatepetl hurled rocks at each other in anger. This was the genesis of the rocky mountain ranges of the continental divide and the Trans-Mexican volcanic belt that lie between the two mountains. Finally Popocatepetl, in a burst of rage, flung an enormous chunk of ice, decapitating the Nevado de Toluca. This is why the Nevado is flat-topped, with wide shoulders but no head. Conceivably this legend preserves the memory of catastrophic eruptions. (Pittman 1954:59) The most popular legend about Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl comes from the ancient Náhuas. As it comes from an oral tradition, there are many versions of the same story, along with poems and songs telling this story: Many years before Cortés came to Mexico, the Aztecs lived in Tenochtitlán, today's Mexico City. The chief of the Aztecs was a famous Emperor, who was loved by all the natives. The Emperor and his wife, the Empress, were very worried because they had no children. One day the Empress said to the Emperor that she was going to give birth to a child. A baby girl was born and she was as beautiful as her mother. They called her Iztaccíhuatl, which in Náhuatl means "white lady". All the natives loved Izta and her parents prepared her to be the Empress of the Aztecs. When she grew up, she fell in love with a captain of a tribe, his name was Popoca.[2] One day, a war broke out and the warriors had to go south to fight the enemy. The Emperor told Popoca that he had to bring the head of the enemy chief back from the war, so he could marry his daughter. After several months of combat, a warrior who hated Popoca sent a false message to the Emperor. The message said that his army had won the war, but that Popoca had died in battle. The Emperor was very sad when he heard the news, and when Izta heard she could not stop crying. She refused to go out and did not eat any more. A few days later, she became ill and she died of sadness. When the Emperor was preparing Izta's funeral, Popoca and his warriors arrived victorious from war. The Emperor was taken aback when he saw Popoca, and he told him that other warriors had announced his death. Then, he told him that Izta had died. Popoca was very sad. He took Izta's body and left the town. He walked a long way until he arrived at some mountains where he ordered his warriors to build a funeral table with flowers and he put Izta lying on top. Then he kneeled down to watch over Izta and died of sadness too. The Gods were touched by Popoca's sacrifice and turned the tables and the bodies into great volcanoes. The biggest volcano is Popocatépetl, which in Náhuatl means "smoking mountain". He sometimes throws out smoke, showing that he is still watching over Iztaccíhuatl, who sleeps by his side. Another tale is much like the one before: Some warriors did not want Popoca to be with Izta, since they liked her themselves, and sent a message to the emperor saying that Popoca died; Izta became very sad and died of grief. When Popoca returned, he heard about Izta's death and became sad himself. He went out of town with Izta's body and ordered his soldiers to make a mound for him and Izta. He put Izta's body on one mound and got onto the other with a smoking torch. He remains there forever, looking after Izta, and, as time passed, dirt, snow, rocks, and Mother Nature covered them, turning them into great mountains. Popoca's torch is still smoking as a reminder of what happened Karl |
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