Pompeii Story

In class we have been learning how to write an information report. We had to pick a natural disaster to write about. The natural disaster I picked was the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, that destroyed Pompeii.

Introduction

In Italy on August the 24th 1944, Mount Vesuvius erupted destroying and killing everything within ten to sixteen thousand miles of it, including the town of Pompeii. During the days leading up to when Mount Vesuvius erupted there was a series of strong earthquakes.

Before

Before it erupted the people of Pompeii were having picnics, baking, and there were markets in the street where they bought things. They had their picnics on the side of Mount Vesuvius thinking it was just a Mountain, but it was actually a volcano. Young children carted, carts of fruit and veggies around to the market place in the middle of town, once they were in the market they would try to sell them.

During

Before Mount Vesuvius erupted there was a series of strong earthquakes that shook the ground violently, causing tiles to fall off the roofs of houses. Then black smoke started to pour out of the volcano, and the ash and hot rocks came raining down out of the sky hitting the roofs with a tremendous amount of force. Black smoke started to race down the side of Mount Vesuvius, up to 70 miles per hours covering the town and hiding it from view, and everyone within ten to sixteen thousand miles their houses were destroyed and many people were killed

After

After Mount Vesuvius erupted there was at least four meters of ash over the town of Pompeii, it had all harden leaving the people that died under it in a hard shell. All of the buildings broke leaving the rubble and the little bites of the wall that managed to somehow stay standing. Ash and rock was scattered all over the ground, and the bases of houses are covered in the ash and rock too. Mount Vesuvius had changed the landscape forever, it had buried the rivers and destroyed the port. After a little while if someone had survived they could not remember where the city once stood.

Conclusion

Because of Mount Vesuvius everything was changed, and everything was buried in ash and rubble.