Sometimes they see people where they haven’t seen for a while, and you just sit there or stand there and look at the mountain and you would like ‘Wow’, how could something so dangerous look so beautiful? But then all this time, yeah, we were educated to … it’s really funny but still it’s a good thing in a sense, something to see, something to learn about.
– Montserrat Resident, 2019
Soufrière Hills Volcano at sunrise in February 2010. Credit: Adam Stinton.
When I first saw the first massive plume of ash, it was like ‘WOW’, I can’t describe it, out of this world. And when you had the glowing of the dome at night, we used to go up to certain elevations and it was an attraction, for tourism too. For me, it was really really beautiful, beautiful sight. When it stopped glowing we were like ‘Oww it’s stopped’ in disappointment.
– Montserrat Resident, 2019
I have so many memories of watching these pyroclastic flows, as a matter of fact sometimes we would be out on the hills, and the strange thing was that these pyroclastic flows seemed to be silent until they had passed and it was like you could see all the colours of the rainbow in the pyroclastic flows.
– Montserrat Resident, 2019
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