e-mission

2009-05-08T03:35:00.000-07:00

The evacuation of Plymouth was completed before the volcano erupted. In total 8,000 lives were saved. A few hundred lives were lost.

Hurricane update

2009-05-08T03:27:00.000-07:00

The hurricane's eye is now going to miss the island but it will still hit the north side of the island.

The volcano is still erupting and the ash is moving east.

2009-05-08T03:21:00.000-07:00

The hurricane is of moderate strength and will hit the north-east side of the mountain in 1 hour, 40 minutes.

2009-05-08T03:15:00.000-07:00

The ash has now reached 15cm in areas. People are abandoning their cars and continuing on foot. Traffic jams are occurring and people are attempting to reach the safer north side of the island.

2009-05-08T03:11:00.000-07:00

One of the teams researching on one of the maps.

2009-05-08T03:09:00.000-07:00

The team working on the hurricane temporarily lost satellite signal reducing the effectiveness of their operation.

2009-05-08T03:05:00.000-07:00

The hurricane has caused flooding in the town of Trant's. High waves hitting the east coast have stopped all ships evacuating the island.

2009-05-08T03:00:00.000-07:00

Tuitts was left to the volcano because no evacuation efforts were made to save the town and the town is now burned to the ground. There has been significant loss of life.

2009-05-08T02:48:00.000-07:00

An ash cloud has engulfed Harris and Tuitt's. Pyroclastic flows are moving at very high speeds towards the coast. The ash cloud has also stopped all commercial flights from bramble airport and all helicopter support.

geographic map

2009-05-08T02:37:00.000-07:00

An ash flow is moving down the Tar River valley towards long ground but the evacuation team did their job well and the town was evacuated safely.

2009-05-08T02:27:00.000-07:00

Total population of Montserrat is 4488.

Roughly half of the island is in the danger zone including the capital city Plymouth.

Welcome to the e-mission

2009-05-07T09:48:00.000-07:00

This is the Media area where the events and thoughts about of the day will be uploaded.

Thanks for taking part

When you are creating your post-mission response try to think about including the following pieces of information:

What did you do well in the mission?
What did you find challenging or difficult?
What could you have done better?
How did you overcome your problems?
What will be the short-term effects of the volcano, hurricane and the evacuation?
What long-term effects will they have on Montserrat?
How might the residents deal with these problems?