Will Plymouth in Monsterrat ever be re populated or is it abandoned forever?

Question

Will Plymouth in Monsterrat ever be re populated or is it abandoned forever?

Answer 1

As long as the volcano goes back to sleep then one would be able to go back their and live.

Answer 2

wers that ? i will probably becum populated soon -ther's to many people in the world to let space go 2 waste lol

Answer 3

I think that British government will want to refocus settlement on an area of the island that will not be threatened by the volcano. Since British taxpayers are paying the costs of operating the colony, I doubt the government in London will want to spend money in a time when most European colonial powers are trying to get rid of their colonies.

Answer 4

Get the land cheap ...... NOW.

Answer 5

I think they'll probably use the impacted land there for something else besides habitation.  Perhaps like farming or something... Living on top of that volcano-ash would be 'interesting' to say the least....  I mean lava from a volcano tends to take the same path over-and-over again, so any repeat would likely flow towards that same end of the island again.

Plus the volcano still has a small threat of re-eruption as it did in '95 and '97.... It is constantly monitored by the Government.

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/west.in...

Also, keep in mind that volcano-ash can collapse buildings too...  The ash that occasionally flies out of the volcano continues to fall on that part of the island too.

According to some of the reports still coming from the island, the volcano-ash is very heavy and you have to constantly make sure you shovel it off your roof fast (because if it meets rain-water it turns hard like concrete) and if it piles on your roof for a long time it will continue to harden and pile up, until it crushes the structure below....

The devastation which happened to the capital city of Montserrat was sad, it could have happen to any of the other islands too....  The Montserratian people had soo much going for them until then.

They were just on the verge of signing new sweeping agreements to gain even more autonomy from the British government in order to prepare for independence and then bam!  That hit their island like a ton of bricks.... The people on Montserrat didn't even know the volcano could become active.  Its been totally dormant the last 3 centuries since the island was found.  Luckily of the thousands that lived there, only only a relatively low number died during the eruption and hot ash-flow.

I remember the day that volcano went off-- all the airplanes in the Eastern Caribbean had to be grounded.  From Puerto Rico all the way down to Barbados...

The Soufrière Hills volcano

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soufriere_H...

Last I heard one member of the government was trying to see if it was safe enough to make the city a tourist attraction...  You can still see the tops of some buildings and stuff....  It was said by a minister that maybe they could market Plymouth as a modern day Pompeii.

http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/cgi-scri...

Answer 6

I think it is MonTSerrat.

Not much left to reinhabit. Once an icon of British culture, I think Plymouth is pretty much cooling lava flows and ash that is several feet deep. The other end of Montserrat is inhabited although I believe those people are there against the advise of the government.