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CATASTROPHIC BEAUTY

EVERY TIME THERE ARE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS PHOTOGRAPHERS, NATURE LOVERS, TOURISTS AND EVEN BYSTANDERS FLOCKED TO THE SITE TO BEHOLD ITS BEAUTY NOT MINDING THE RISK IT WILL GIVE THEM IN RETURN. AFTER FOUR HUNDRED YEARS (400) THE PHILIPPINES MOUNT PINATUBO ERUPTED LEAVING 847 DEAD, INJURED 184 AND MORE THAN ONE (1) MILLION  PEOPLE WERE DISPLACED. I COULD NOT IMAGINE HOW HUGE IS FIVE (5) MILLION CUBIC OF ASHES AND PYRO- PLASTIC THAT WAS EJECTED BY MOUNT PINATUBO. ON THE POSITIVE NOTE, PICTURES OF CATASTROPHIC BEAUTY SUCH AS OF THAT OF VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS WERE SEEN IN POSTCARDS, NEWS MAGAZINES AND OTHER PAPERS OF GENERAL CIRCULATION. SCENE LIKE THIS IS ALWAYS WONDERFUL TO BEHOLD DESPITE THE TERROR AND DAMAGE IT BRINGS TO THE NATION ESPECIALLY TO THE  SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES AND THEY PRAY THAT IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.