Pompeii is not a story, it is a real event. All they could do was hide and wait to see what unfolded.
Pompey is a character in a humorous short story 'A Predicament' by Edgar Allan Poe, but it has nothing to do with Pompeii.
Yes, the residents of Pompeii had about six weeks warning that something was going to happen. Many of them escaped with most of their belongings. That's why there seems to be a lack of furniture and household goods in private homes. The stubborn ones, or the skeptical ones were the people who stayed and paid the price.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 caused the most destruction in Pompeii. The combination of ash, pumice, and hot gas raining down on the city buried it in a thick layer of debris, while poisonous gases suffocated many residents. Lava flows did not reach Pompeii during this eruption.
In 79 AD the city of Pompeii Italy was buried by a volcanic eruption. Over 65 acres were buried in a matter of minutes and it stayed covered for several hundred years when it was found. Today, you can walk the streets of Pompeii and see how people lived in 79 AD. It is a wonderful place to see and experience. I was there in 05.
Some fled the town whilst others took refuge in their home or business premiss. The ones that stayed hidden in Pompeii perished.
They would not be able to survive because the lava is able to burn down glass.
they stayed away from th mouinton apart from the guy who lost a leg
Pompeii never erupted. It just stayed right where it was. The volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted. That was in 79 AD.
The eruption in 79 AD was NOT unexpected. Why do you think so many people escaped? For about two months before the big bang the area had experienced a series of earth tremors and the water supply was drying up. The smart ones got out. The ones who stayed were the ones who, for some reason could not leave or simply "didn't believe it was anything serious". This accounts for the low death toll in relationship to the total population.
Either they are very lucky or the got to high enough ground so they stayed safe.
They didn't, in fact the eruption happened so quickly the bodies of the victims were preserved with lava and ash and still remain to this dayWhen they found the bodies the bones were in place as they were 20,000 years ago.
The simple answer is no. The more complicated answer is the volcano had been rumbling for a long time and the population had grown used to it. The violence of the main eruption was a surprise. Don't forget that no-one in Roman times actually understood volcanoes so could not have predicted the eventual eruption. In fact volcanoes are still very unpredictable beasts even now, despite our modern, vastly greater, understanding of them.
Otto Frank [Anne's dad] was the only one out of 8 to survive the war.