This post was written by Ann Lutterman-Aguilar, site director at Augsburg CGEE in Mexico (Cuernavaca). Please note that\u00a0Cuernavaca and Mexico City were NOT impacted by Popocat\u00e9petl’s\u00a0recent eruption – all CGEE students & participants are well and accounted for.<\/p>\n
Greetings from Cuernavaca, where all is well.<\/p>\n
By now, you may have\u00a0heard news of volcanic eruptions in Mexico. I want to assure everyone\u00a0that the recent eruptions\u00a0have NOT affected Cuernavaca or Mexico City, The volcano that has alerted news services is Popocat\u00e9petl (known locally as “Popo,”), a beautiful mountain approximately 40 miles east of Cuernavaca, 43 miles southeast of Mexico City, and 30 miles west of Puebla.<\/p>\n
With a threat level of 3 (7 being the highest), there are no evacuations taking place in the areas typically impacted by this volcano. As a result of ash clouds, the Puebla International Airport did close briefly from\u00a07 am until 1 pm, when it was fortunately safe to reopen.<\/p>\n
It is important to know that the primary concerns regarding potential damage from these eruptions is gritty ash that can harm people’s lungs if not protected.\u00a0 Since The Center is on the other side of the volcano, we are not in serious danger of ash raining down on Cuernavaca.\u00a0 Nonetheless, we do have face\u00a0masks ready to use should that ever become necessary.<\/p>\n
I have lived here for over 20 years, and have frequently climbed in the area of the volcano and talked with members of the National Rescue Team who are involved in evacuations, I feel very confident that our program participants are safe.\u00a0 Of course, we will continue to monitor the situation and take any necessary steps to continue to ensure their health and safety.\u00a0 In addition, as an added measure of precaution we have added an extra safety session to our ongoing orientation procedures.<\/p>\n
If you have any questions or concerns about this situation, please contact me (Ann) at\u00a0lutterma@augsburg.edu<\/a>, or\u00a0Leah Spinosa de Vega<\/a>\u00a0in our Minneapolis location at\u00a0+ 1 (612) 330 – 1650<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post was written by Ann Lutterman-Aguilar, site director at Augsburg CGEE in Mexico (Cuernavaca). Please note that\u00a0Cuernavaca and Mexico …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","category-mexico-social-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52179"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53693,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52179\/revisions\/53693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}