Dr. Jessica Venner

Yeah, and actually, you know, Pliny the Younger does say at one point during his letter that he...

was struggling to be concerned about it too much because at the end of the day, if the world's ending, he said, then everyone else is in it.

So it's like, you can't really, it was something they couldn't quite conceive in their heads.

They thought, well, everyone else is in it.

And they wouldn't know any different, which is petrifying, petrifying.

So yes, so this umbrella comes out.

And after a little while, pumice starts raining from the sky.

It's very, very light and grey and cold-ish.

It's like warm, but it's not hot at first.

And that's raining because they're tiny little pieces.

And that's creating a blanket over the city.

We'll focus on Pompeii for now.

Yes, go on then.

The wind is blowing in a southeasterly direction specifically.

And again, this is the thing.

If the wind had been blowing another way, A, some people think it's a different date is another excuse for the date being in October.

But B, we would have had different towns preserved in different ways.

So it really is.

That's another important fact.

Exactly, which is why they've become the star of the show in a horrible way.