Dramatic video captured this past week shows bolts of lightning as a volcano spewed ash up to nine miles into the air in the Philippines
Inside, the 52-year-old mother of two finds the roof over her kitchen has collapsed under the weight of ashfall. The once-blue walls are now smeared in a thick layer of gray ash. Her son is up on the roof scraping off the mud in an effort to stop the rest from caving in. "It was totally destroyed. I only saw it yesterday. I saw our barangay and can't help but cry," she told CNN from the ruined house in Laurel in the Philippine province of Batangas.
has designated the entire volcano island as a"Permanent Danger Zone" and recommends strongly against permanent settlements there.Nevertheless, people have inhabited the island. Some locals living on or near the volcano, many of them laborers or farmers, made money from offering horse rides to tourists.
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