87th day later, he’s still scolding

The images are hardly believable but very real. In La Palma (Spain), the landscape is gray, the roads and roofs are covered with ash. The machines are busy evacuating these impressive layers so that the inhabitants can move around. The village seems totally swallowed up by the eruption of the volcano. All the inhabitants were evacuated and only the army remained in order to clear the roofs of certain houses.

This eruption, which is now on its 87th day, is the longest on the Spanish island. These thirteen uninterrupted weeks resulted in the evacuation of 7,000 people, and damage amounting to 900 million euros. If the crater of the Cumbre Vieja volcano seems to have calmed down for 24 hours, it was still rumbling on December 13, forcing residents to confine themselves because of the excess sulfur dioxide in the air. The economic consequences are dramatic for the island, which lives mainly on tourism.