Volcano

Mike: I can't leave you here after an earthquake. Kelly Roark: Why not? I'm 13 years old. I know what to do. Mike: OK. What do you do? Kelly: Get in the door frame, stick your head between your knees, and kiss your ass goodbye.

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Mike: If a dam breaks somewhere, the Mayor calls, I don't want you telling her Roark went fishing. Emmit: Look, see, the mayor's in Aspen, okay? We don't pull her off of the slopes for only a 4.9. Besides, I'd cover for you. Mike: I'm sure you would. You look very comfortable sitting behind my desk talking on my telephone. Emmit: Yeah, it's kinda like I belong there or something.

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Amy: Sometimes magma can find one of those fissures and rise up through it. Mike: What's magma? Rachel: Lava. Mike: Lava? Right here in L.A? Amy: It is one of several possibilities. It is unlikely, but it is a possibility. Mike: We have a history of that here in the downtown area? Rachel: Parícutin...1943 a Mexican farmer sees smoke coming out of the middle of his cornfield. A week later there's a volcano a thousand feet high. There's no history of anything until it happens. Then there is.

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Amy: God, this is so stupid. The city's finally paying for its arrogance. Mike: Which particular arrogance is that? Amy: Building a subway under land that's seismically active. Mike: Yeah, it was a foolish man that built his house upon the sand. Amy: Matthew 7:26. Favorite among geologists.

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Woman: Emmit, FAA’s on the line. They want an update. Emmit: Where are we with the airports? Marty: We shut down all outgoing. Everything incoming is being re-routed to Ontario. Emmit: No, no, no, no. Marty, no... Look at that screen! That cloud is blowing due east. We gotta send everything to San Diego. Man: Emmit, they got two gas lines burning on Fairfax. They can't get any hydrant pressure. Emmit: Swimming pools. Man: What about them? Emmit: Pump out all the swimming pools. That's a thousand gallons a pop. That's all the water we need. Man: Emmit, we just got a call from La Brea. There's total gridlock from Pico to Sunset. Emmit: Didn't we send over all those damn traffic cops? Man: That's who's calling; they're stuck at Olympic. Cars keep stalling out because of all the ash. It's clogging up the air filters. Emmit: Chevettes, right?

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Mike Roark: All right we know that stuff is lava. What do we do next? Amy Barnes: You have got to evacuate the West Side. This thing is going to burn through the city until it reaches the ocean. Roark: The West Side, it's a million people! Barnes: There will be a million dead or homeless people if we don't evacuate! This is going to destroy everything it touches!

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