Well, the jetty (or dock as my people call them) would've collapsed as she tried to climb upon it, and then she'd've been acidified head to toe, though I agree that such an action would've been instinctual.
The unintentionally "funny" part to that scene is how, as grandma staggers in increasing pain to get to shore and is finally within a few feet, Harry shouts:
Ruth, get to shore!
Ruth, get out!
...in a tone that almost sounds chiding, like she needs to be told.
And singing "row, row, row your boat" seems more likely to provoke ironic-to-despairing consideration of their predicament in the children than the calming effect song might otherwise have.
The entire flaming-truck-over-lava-while-saving-Ruffy-with-perfect-timing scene is a freaking, face-palming laugh riot.
As the volcano begins to erupt, the kids ask mommy, "what is that", and mommy then actually turns and asks Harry (in a fairly unpanicked voice) apparently so he can utter the high-falootin' sentence involving that big science word "pyroclastic cloud". Really? You've been outrunning the effects of a looming eruption for a day, you've lived through Mt. St. Helens, and yet you have to ask the vulcanologist for confirmation about what that massive spew of boulders and ash behind you might be?
And calling "fire-services" to the site of a clearly catastrophic, no-survivors explosive crash and diverting precious resources during a confusing evacuation under such dire of circumstances? One of many of what seemed like ad-libs on Brosnan's part that would've done well to hit the clipping room floor.
"I like to watch" Chauncey Gardiner, 'Being There'
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