Without Warning
Long Before Nepal, an Entire City Was Buried in Mud
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Armero was a Colombian city of around twenty thousand people. Five banks, two cinemas, two hospitals, four parks, a colonial church with a bell tower.
They called it the White City, for the cotton fields that turned the valley white at harvest.
By midnight on November 13, 1985, eighty five percent of it was under mud and more than twenty thousand people were dead.
The volcano was forty seven…