Pompeii and the Vesuvius Eruption
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The Death of Pomp-Pay
The reign of ash and lapili was not necessarily fatal. You could escape. It was pitch black. The only light was coming from buildings that had caught on fire, but you could escape. Unfortunately, there were different stages of the eruption. After this raining down of lapili, you get a pyroclastic surge. This is when this massive cloud of ash and super hot gas rushes down the mountain and overwhelms everything in front of it. This was fatal. So if you remained in pom-pay too long, if you did not escape during those first many hours, hoping to wait it out, say inside of a house, you were certainly dead. By the early hours
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