it s an awesome sight. these truly are nature s strongest forces at work here. and nobody can tame them, nobody can control them. that is absolutely red hot lava that is spewing continuously into the air and then flowing downhill. that s why it s been so destructive to the homes, the villages, the communities that lie in the path of that lava. that s also a huge ash cloud that is pouring up into the sky, spreading across the island here on the east of la palma. we can show you what that volcanic dust is actually like. it s more like gravel in places. it s really quite coarse. and there is a thick layer of that absolutely everywhere, smothering everything. because of that ash and because of the fact that the lava flowing downhill has cut off roads, it has wiped through the infrastructure here and may mean villages are uninhabitable. you get a sense of how much heat that volcano is generating, how much noise it is generating.
these truly are nature s strongest forces at work here. and nobody can tame them, nobody can control them. that is absolutely red hot lava that is spewing continuously into the air and then flowing downhill. that s why it s been so destructive to the homes, the villages, the communities that lie in the path of that lava. that s also a huge ash cloud that is pouring up into the sky, spreading across the island here on the east of la palma. we can show you what that volcanic dust is actually like. it s more like gravel in places. it s really quite coarse. and there is a thick layer of that absolutely everywhere, smothering everything. because of that ash and because of the fact that the lava flowing downhill has cut off roads, it has wiped through the infrastructure here and may mean villages are uninhabitable. you get a sense of how much heat that volcano is generating, how much noise it is generating. and the big unknown isjust how long that eruption will continue, how much more devast
and then flowing downhill. that s why it s been so destructive to the homes, the villages, the communities that lie in the path of that lava. that s also a huge ash cloud that is pouring up into the sky, spreading across the island here on the east of la palma. we can show you what that volcanic dust is actually like. it s more like gravel in places. it s really quite coarse. and there is a thick layer of that absolutely everywhere, smothering everything. because of that ash and because of the fact that the lava flowing downhill has cut off roads, it has wiped through the infrastructure here and may mean villages are uninhabitable. you get a sense of how much heat that volcano is generating, how much noise it is generating. and the big unknown isjust how long that eruption will continue, how much more devastating it could be, and where that lava flow will end up.
the gulf so far, 1150 were dead already. no one knows how many of the few who get cleaned will survive. from bp s perspective, i m sure there s a beyond petroleum good news story in there somewhere. somewhere, you just under the brown toxic goo that s smothering everything it touches, there s something there s a good story in there. somewhere.