Friday, February 14, 2014

A Map of Where Mt Kelud is and Where we Are ~

 This is Central/East Java - Do you see Malang?  To the left of it Nick wrote Mt Kelud on the map...1731 meters (X3=ft) and then if you look on the far left of the page (center) you will see Salatiga just above Surakarta - they say we are about 200+ km from this area!

We woke up this Saturday morning with a little more ash dust outside...so it continues to come down out of the atmosphere - but hopefully it is not erupting anymore - not sure really - the news coverage is not updated since last evening.  We did hear of 2 people that have died -due to the debris of rocks that fell on their house close to the mountain.

The farming people grow their crops along the mountain side (as you saw from our pictures from our bike ride the other day) the ground is so fertile here and making those ridges on the hillside seems to be a norm.  But all so close when a eruption happens! Too close! 

Today we will run some errands - (Yesterday we stayed in all day!) We will head out this morning for a while - keeping our faces covered!  People are wearing masks that they picked up at the drugstore.  We might just do the same.  The hanky's might do the job until we get some masks in town.  Being on the bike - it will be dusty out there!  

No church tomorrow - and a lot of schools closed for several days until the streets get cleaned up - and that will only happen IF WE GET RAIN!  No street cleaning sweepers here in Indonesia!  At least I have not seen any!

Pray for Rain - dear friends - for here in Indonesia! Pray for relief to come to the people in these immediate areas!  

Will keep you posted! Have a good weekend everyone!



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