Hola willen. Good to see you here.
In fact, in the last years, basically we are having much more volcano activity in the Andes mountain (border with Chile) than quakes. The Calbuco volcano erupted few days ago,
here.
Ashes, go up there in the sky and it takes time for them to disappear completely. They obviously mean a real problem for anyone living in the area. Rain / wind will not solve it in few days. Lot of cattle is lost in the first week and moving it is impossible or extremely expensive. Meantime, people has very hard life for months.
Because of ashes, last year, instead of going / returning by plane from Buenos Aires to Patagonia (Puerto Madryn, more precisely) I had to travel by bus many many times. All flights were almost continuously stopped for several months.
Each voyage took minimum 19 hours, all going well. It was definitely tyring!! But I could not complain;
I was still safe.
My life at sea taught me to complain little if at all; always there is someone having harder times than me.
When I was still second mate, we were once near Canary Islands in the middle of a very bad gale with the vessel rolling, pitching and hammering madly. We were all cursing and complaining until the Radio Officer (no satellites at that time) came with an emergency message from another vessel in the vicinity: she had one man gone overboard. Silence in our bridge after that.
My continued hope that things will quiet down, you can rebuild things and live in peace.