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MO39 · Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject: Tungurahua

Justin,

There's been a lot of news (and spectacular photos) lately on the web about this extremely dangerous volcano, where has been erupting the last few days. When I was in Ecuador several years ago, I remember traveling down the highway that takes you past or near some of Ecuador's most important volcanoes and was in awe of their beauty and potential power. And I spent a week in Ba�os, a pleasant resort town, which is very near Tungurahua. I can�t imagine what it would be like to be there now! I know that Quito is nowhere in the vicinity of these seismic happenings, but I wonder if the capital has been at all affected.

Marsha

Justin Trullinger · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:05 am Post subject:

Just reading about it in the newspapers like everybody else- photos sure are pretty. I was in Ba�os a few weeks ago, and it was business a usual in a resort town.

Now, a large part of it has been evacuated, and the other part is nervous. From where it lies, lava won't hit ba�os, but serious ashfall, mudslides, and rockfalls are all dangers. (When that things throws rocks, it isn't messing around!)

Several villages closer to the volcano have been evacuated, and a lot of livestock have been lost to the ash.

It's cotopaxi that we really worry about...

Best,
Justin

MO39 · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:41 am Post subject:

Justin,

I'm sorry to hear that Ba�os has been so terribly affected by the volcanic activity. When I spent time there, I felt as though I were living in an Andean version of Shangri-La. And yet the photos of the eruptions and the lava streaming down the sides of the volcano and all the rest are so beautiful when viewed from a safe distance....

Hope you are well and business is thriving.

Marsha