Did any Romans survive vesuvius

Answer 1

Some were able to escape from Naples on the morning of 24th August, 79 AD(CE). Vesuvius erupted with a Plinian eruption, meaning there was no lava, but rather a pyroclastic flow, a cloud of super-heated ash(around 900 degrees Fahrenheit) which moves at hundreds of miles per hour. Under 8 inches of Ash, Pumice, and hot lapilli rock, roofs in Pompeii collapsed. In the nearby small town of Herculaneum, volcanic mud swallowed the town, over time becoming stone. In Pompeii, those who survived the night of August 24th would still fall victim to the eruption, as the air they breathed became poison. The air was not only polluted with the same toxic, super-heated ash, but also with poison gases, like Sulfur dioxide(SO2), Carbon Dioxide(C02), Hydrogen Fluoride(HF), Hydrochloric acid(HCI), Sulfuric Acid(H2SO4), Hydrogen Sulfide(H2S), in addition to Water Vapor(Which would probably be steam), Nitrogen(N), Hydrogen(H), Carbon(CO), Fluorine(F), Argon(AR), Chlorine(Cl), and Sulfur(S). Most Chemical plants don't even release this many poisons. People exposed to this would go blind, have respiratory paralysis, have severe acid burns to the skin. Your throat and nose would burn. In addition, most or all of these gases are extremely flammable, some even explosive. So you can imagine what the people who stayed in Pompeii went through. While we don't have exact numbers for the amount of people who survived, we can estimate. So far we have found around 1000 corpses in Pompeii, and around 300 in Herculaneum. We estimate that Pompeii had between 20,000 to 24,000 people, and that anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 people died. It is almost certain that some Romans were not in Pompeii due to things such as business. Around 6,500 people lived in Herculaneum, and most except for, we estimate, the 300 we have found.