This is a place for me to capture thoughts, ideas, snippets of this and bits of that, that don't seem to lend themselves to one of the more traditional item types.
When I read the word in the book, I got the basic meaning from context, but looked it up anyway. Concurrently, there was that nagging feeling that I'd just seen the word here on WDC, so a writing-time-killing search ensued. I kind of hope I remember / run across the site source, or that whole precognition thing that swept the Newsfeed a while back could present itself as an option...and that's just a bit spooky.
"Lahar is an Indonesian word describing a mudflow or debris flow that originates on the slopes of a volcano. Small debris flows are common in the Cascades, where they form during periods of heavy rainfall, rapid snow melt, and by shallow landsliding."
I'm with Robert Waltz. I don't have to learn anything else today .
Kare is probably correct. But if it was a newer post, it's possible someone was reading the same book, and decided to use their fancy new word.
Not gonna lie, I do it fairly regularly to reinforce how to use the word. This may shock some readers to their very core, but I do learn new words outside of the 'awesome swears they make up in Quebec' vocabulary.
Lahar... a word remembered from my college course in vulcanolgy. But I looked it up anyways: A pyroclastic flow is an avalanche-like cloud that is a mixture of air, hot ash, and pumice lapilli. A lahar is a very wet, ash-rich debris flow that moves in a relatively fast-moving slurry. If I remember right there were areas of the west side of Cartago in Costa Rica destroyed by lahars. Ash and tropical rains = problems.
As for here... no clue. I checked my two old blogs and elsewhere. Nothing.
You didn't 'think/see' Kalahari by any chance... it has lahar in it and comes up on searches.
Remember that scene in Volcano where the lava is racing through the sewer tunnels and you're thinking to yourself: "No way! That's all CGI." I'll go along with you on the 'presence' of lava in LA's sewers, but I've gotta give 'em props for showing how fast it can move. Don't think so? Check this out from that active volcano in Iceland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gqYbZv5vDg
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