quiz : QUIZ: WHAT YEAR WAS THE ST. PIERRE SNAKE INVASION? [+] ballot by RunsWithScissors ACTIVE Sat May 19, 07 - Thu Feb 11, 10 Volcanic activity on the 'bald mountain' towering over St Pierre, Martinique, was usually so inconsequential that no one took seriously the fresh steaming ventholes and earth tremors during April of that year. By early May, however, ash began to rain down continuously, and the nauseating stench of sulphur filled the air. Their homes on the mountainside made uninhabitable, more than 100 fer-de-lance snakes slithered down and invaded the mulatto quarter of St Pierre. The 6-ft long serpents killed 50 people and innumerable animals before they were finally destroyed by the town's giant street cats. But the annihilation had only begun. On May 5, a landslide of boiling mud spilled into the sea, followed by a tsunami that killed hundreds and, three days later, May 8, Mt Pelee finally exploded, sending a murderous avalanche of white-hot lava straight toward the town. Within three minutes St Pierre was completely obliterated. Of its 30,000 population, there were only two survivors. What year did this happen? 1876 1891 1902 1923 Ballot #115037 : SEE RESULTS Comment: Register to submit comments You may still vote without registration show your vote with comment?

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