[Trigger warning.]
"In a way they're having a white Christmas—except this is sulfur ash, so it is something that can be deadly to the people if inhaled."—Fox News correspondent Mike Cohen, reporting on the Mayon Volcano in the Philippines, which is currently erupting tiny particles of sulfuric ash that can "cause respiratory problems or skin diseases, and could affect the thousands of people crammed into evacuation centers beyond the eight-kilometer danger zone," and which may emit a more serious eruption within days.
So, not like a White Christmas at all, really. Asshole.
(Btw, while Luzon, where the Mayon Volcano is located, is predominantly Christian, there are of course members of other religious communities, especially Buddhists and Muslims, and nonreligious people, who don't even celebrate Christmas, "white" or otherwise.)
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