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An interesting animation related to this topic: A Day in Pompeii - Full-length animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY_3ggKg0Bc https://www.youtube.com/wa

• xixixao 6y ago
  The animation is awesome because it shows it would be quite hard to tell that something extreme is about to happen in the morning (when the article details you must have left to survive).
  • kijin 6y ago
    It probably depends on your mode of transportation. If you need to reach Naples by 2pm on foot, then yes, you need to leave in the morning. If you have a horse, though, you can probably hang around until lunchtime and still have time to spare.
• Markoff 6y ago
  Judging by animation it would be quite obvious to leave at 1PM and you still have plenty of time until 5PM before things get really bad, heck in 2 hours you can get at least 12km away to Nocera inferiore, where you would be already pretty safe and in another hour to Cava de tirreni where you would be completely safe
  • folli 6y ago
    I don't know if this is really as obvious as you suggest. If you grow up near a volcano (see for example modern day active volcanoes in Indonesia or Etna and Stromboli in Italy), you will be used to some degree of rumbling and smoke and ashes spewing. So this might be regarded as a normal occurrence. Until it's too late, of course.