“Somebody said it looked like a moonscape, but the moon looks like a golf course compared to what’s up there. . . . The ash is several hundred feet deep. There are tremendous clouds of steam coming up. There are enormous icebergs, big as a mobile home. A lot of them are melting, and as the icebergs melt . . . the ash caves in and creates enormous craters. There are a few fires about, on the edge of the ash flow, where logs are still exposed. . . . It’s an unbelievable sight.”
