9 Surreal Photos of Volcanic Ash Blanketing One of the Canary Islands

‘It Gets Everywhere’

Another house covered with ash. Photo: Emilio Morenatti (AP)

“The earthquakes are a bit scary,” Elida de Paz, 70, told El Pais. But “ash is what is really unbearable: you’re never done cleaning, it gets everywhere,” she said.

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