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The Caribbean Town of Plymouth

The Caribbean is a place where you go for vacation, not mayhem. Usually, that's exactly what you will get down there. But the town of Plymouth on the island of Montserrat got an unwelcome volcanic eruption, and there wasn't much they could do about it. Although they once hosted tourists for fun in the sun, every human being fled right before the area was buried in hot, molten lava. Yikes!

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Even today, that volcano gurgles and threatens to erupt again. People do visit the island today, but the town of Plymouth is simply not the same.