As Pompeii died?

And now, 24 August 1979 explosion and over the long-extinct volcano crater shot up into the sky a huge cloud of ash. A few kilometers soared fragments of rocks. The black cloud of volcanic ash has spread across the sky and the sun is eclipsed. On a clear day in the city fell dark night. On the heads of people poured a hail of fiery stones. The slopes of the volcano, hot lava streams flowed. People suffocated in the hot gray smoke, the ashes of their sleep and killing fell on the head stones. The once prosperous city of Pompeii has been bombarded with eight-meter layer of ashes and rubble, which for several hours continuously poured into the streets and homes. Another city - Herculaneum flooded fluid lava and boiling mud. Was almost completely destroyed and Stabia. About 10 000 people were buried under a thick layer of ash or burned in the lava flows runup. Three days later, the eruption completely over. Survivors of the townspeople tried to find her good, digging in the ruins and volcanic ash, but soon they left their homes. A few days later from Rome arrived inquiry. She concluded that all three of the city completely destroyed. The Commission had gone and not a living soul was left in place kata stanza. Only the smoking Vesuvius towered over them destroyed cities. It took several centuries and has nothing like that at the foot of the volcano once stood Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabia. And only in the 17 th century found them quite by accident.