From:	Marc Renouf renouf@********.com
Subject:	Crater Lake
Date:	Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:23:30 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Robert Watkins wrote:

> The resultant tsunami also managed to lower the level of the Red Sea
> sufficiently (and for a long enough time) that a bunch of Jewish refugees
> leaving Egypt managed to get across. If you want an impression of the Theran
> eruption as seen from a few thousand kilometers away, go and read Exodus.

The concurrent presence of a massive volcanic eruption gives a
whole new meaning to "pillar of smoke by day, pillar of fire by night"
too, doesn't it? ;)

Marc