How to escape from an erupting volcano

I love this comment from a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22133112

I thought it was to duck and cover...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ruvGaUuVLDc

> So instead, you and the rest of the Pompeiians find yourselves 6 miles from the vent of Vesuvius with only two options: Run north, or run south.

I dunno, I checked the map and you can run to east and then south without any mountains towards Cava de tireni and you will be further from Vesuvio than in Naples plus you can cross small hills and end up in Salerno with unlimited path further on coast.

i had such a hard time reading this article. the text kept moving up and down because of the adds, I eventually hit control a and copied everythign to a notepad to read..... wow that was an awful experience.

And yet protagonists survive after going through a pyroclastic flow routinely in the movies, such as Jurassic World: FK and 2012. It is a recurring trope in movies!