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Maybe I'm risk averse, but if a volcano erupted where I live, not just once, but twice, I would leave.

Actually I wouldn't, because I would have left THE FIRST TIME THE VOLCANO SEEMED THREATENING!

History is ripe with government officials pretending "all is good" until the volcano kills everyone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii and more recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Pierre,_Martinique

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_eruption_of_Mount_Pel%C3%... :

"The newspapers still claimed the city was safe. News of the Soufrière volcano erupting on the nearby island of Saint Vincent reassured the people, who believed it was a sign that Mount Pelée's internal pressure was being relieved. However, Captain Marina Leboffe, of the barque Orsolina, left the harbor with only half of his sugar cargo loaded, despite shippers' protests, clearance being refused by port authorities, and under threat of arrest. Many other civilians were refused permission to leave town.[6] Governor Louis Mouttet and his wife stayed in the city. By the evening, Mount Pelée's tremors seemed to calm down again."

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