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Volcano Fatigue In Italy

How many times does a volcano have to erupt before people become jaded?   A wise owl once had a magic number of three(1) for important questions – and I concur, because I can make a triangle the answer to most anything – but for Italians sick of Mt. Etna the answer is six.   That’s how many times it has erupted in the last month.

Tanning at the beach while Mt. Etna erupts

And it erupts practically every year.  People are used to it by now.

Maybe they are right to feel so casual.   If something goes wrong, they can just blame scientists for not predicting it.

NOTE:

(1) I mean, of course, this owl:

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