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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Angus on March 20, 2010, 11:11:47 PM
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That is true. I cannot yet see the glare, but that will apparently soon be cured.
Just filled the house with evacuees (friends) at 4 AM
Link here
http://www.ruv.is/frett/information-eruption
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Wow that is kinda cool and scary all at the same time there Angus. Stay safe.
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Yes, stay safe Angus, and remember when in doubt get out. a volcano is nothing to take lightly.
Fifteen miles is to close for my comfort. I remember when St. Helens erupted it messed things up for many, many miles around.
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Be safe man. I know Iceland is known for it volcanic activity, so is this the first time this volcano by you has erupted?
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You're a good friend & neighbor to take evacuees in. :) Be safe!
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Yes, stay safe Angus, and remember when in doubt get out. a volcano is nothing to take lightly.
Fifteen miles is to close for my comfort. I remember when St. Helens erupted it messed things up for many, many miles around.
And ain't it great to know that something like a quarter of the Western Lower 48 is sitting right smack on top of one of the biggest frelling time bombs in the world? If Yellowstone were to ever go up it'd probably take half the country with it.
Stay safe, Angus. Like SIK said: Don't hesitate to get out if it turns bad.
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And ain't it great to know that something like a quarter of the Western Lower 48 is sitting right smack on top of one of the biggest frelling time bombs in the world? If Yellowstone were to ever go up it'd probably take half the country with it.
Yeah and I think that I was watching something about it that said it was overdue to erupt, but most likely it won't happen in any of our lifetimes.
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And ain't it great to know that something like a quarter of the Western Lower 48 is sitting right smack on top of one of the biggest frelling time bombs in the world? If Yellowstone were to ever go up it'd probably take half the country with it.
Stay safe, Angus. Like SIK said: Don't hesitate to get out if it turns bad.
I wont say take it, more like bury it.
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And ain't it great to know that something like a quarter of the Western Lower 48 is sitting right smack on top of one of the biggest frelling time bombs in the world? If Yellowstone were to ever go up it'd probably take half the country with it.
Stay safe, Angus. Like SIK said: Don't hesitate to get out if it turns bad.
If Yellowstone goes it most possibly puts the whole planet to 'nuclear winter' meaning close extinction for us. So the ones that blow up with it are actually the lucky ones.
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A little update.
This is a modest volcanoe and last erupted in 1821. It is however located under a glacier, hence the precautions, - all living in the possible path of the melting water get evacuated. It was odd to have my friends and neighbours showing up with their bedclothes and dogs!
The worse part is however that another dormant one rests close to this one, Mt Katla, and she is overdue. That is a bad bad volcanoe, erupts powerfully and delivers a river of icebergs and melting water which equals 3x the capacity of the Amazone on a rainy day. That one is about 35 miles from me. In case of her going off, I will also have to evacuate :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katla
Everything went smoothly last night, the system worked, and it was a good thing that there was a drill 4 years ago to iron out the bugs in the evacuation process.
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Man sounds like it could get really bad there, and not only do you have to worry about lava & ash, you have to worry about floods, I hope everything works out.
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Angus, glad all was well.
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Just saw this video online about it, it's really kinda amazing looking, seeing a volcano erupt under a glacier, just hopefully nobody gets hurt or loses property.
http://www.comcast.net/video/hundreds-flee-icelandic-volcano/1446939926/Comcast/1445306753/ (http://www.comcast.net/video/hundreds-flee-icelandic-volcano/1446939926/Comcast/1445306753/)
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If the big one lets go, make sure you hang your clothes outside for a free steam cleaning :)
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Holy crap! I hope you are planning for a worst case scenario and have everything precious packed for evacuation. I'm not talking about your TV or computer. Stay safe!
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Link to the story on AOL.
http://news.travel.aol.com/2010/03/22/icelands-volcano-closes-airports?ncid=AOLCOMMtravdynlprim0871&icid=main|main|dl4|link5|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.travel.aol.com%2F2010%2F03%2F22%2Ficelands-volcano-closes-airports%3Fncid%3DAOLCOMMtravdynlprim0871 (http://news.travel.aol.com/2010/03/22/icelands-volcano-closes-airports?ncid=AOLCOMMtravdynlprim0871&icid=main|main|dl4|link5|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.travel.aol.com%2F2010%2F03%2F22%2Ficelands-volcano-closes-airports%3Fncid%3DAOLCOMMtravdynlprim0871)
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Whoa, look at the comments on that AOL link, LOL.
Anyway, prior to the eruption, there were between 500 and 1.000 small earthquakes for each 24 hours.
This volcano was rather expected to pop, and so are 2 others nearby.
And....c'est la vie.
BTW, I am on an evacuation list due to a possible flood-wave. But they're sending me only half a mile. So, a tad tempting to stay home anyway :D
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Whoa, look at the comments on that AOL link, LOL.
Anyway, prior to the eruption, there were between 500 and 1.000 small earthquakes for each 24 hours.
This volcano was rather expected to pop, and so are 2 others nearby.
And....c'est la vie.
BTW, I am on an evacuation list due to a possible flood-wave. But they're sending me only half a mile. So, a tad tempting to stay home anyway :D
According to some of the comments on AOHELL, God must hate Iceland.
ack-ack
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Whoa, look at the comments on that AOL link, LOL.
I did, and I can only say: OH MY GOD (pun intended :lol)
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Yeah those comments are hilarious.
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Is obama testing the old bush earthquake machine??? :O Someone should tell him iran is in a different part of the globe..... :neener:
<Sarcasm alert (tm)> the above is indeed sarcasm and is not intended to be a serious post. Anyone who thinks it is a serious post should immediately fly to Timbuktu and search for a life. <end of sarcasm alert(tm)>
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You are a good egg Angus! :salute
I hope that volcano doesn't go postal on you and you and your friends will be safe.
Thoughts and prayers for the people of Iceland.
ROX
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Errant volcanoes are the price you Icelanders have to pay for all that free thermal heating, Angus.
Take care, amigo, all the best.
:cool:
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Angus, wasn't there a town in Iceland that managed to save their homes from a lava flow by continuously hosing it down with cold sea water?
stand corrected, it was on the island of Heimaey in 1973.
(http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/europe_west_asia/heimaey/H13.jpg)
ack-ack
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Make sure everyone has some sort of a dust mask handy, just in case.
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I couldn't help but read through all the coments on the AOL article, it was just like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Hope all is well Angus
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Holy CRAP sir,
always better safe than sorry, in the end you can't take it back if it don't go well.
Maybe it's time to go get a hotel some 500 miles away with internet access and hook up AH there.
get some pizzas and beer and a few good cigars and wait it out.
Hope you, your family and friends are well Angus
that is all
froger
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Angus, wasn't there a town in Iceland that managed to save their homes from a lava flow by continuously hosing it down with cold sea water?
stand corrected, it was on the island of Heimaey in 1973.
(http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/europe_west_asia/heimaey/H13.jpg)
ack-ack
Nice picture finding.
This is actually not far from me, I can see it out the window, It was also my home port in my short life as a fisherman and a ship's cook :D
The islanders evacuated in a whiff, then some of them and many others returned later to fight the fires and the lava-flow with sea-water. The US-Navy generously lent several high-power pumps for the job.
The fight was succesful, a good part of the town was saved, and the lavaflow was stopped before it managed to close the port. Now the port is even better than before (it is actually a very good port), sheltered by the lava wall.
Our eruption is increasing gradually, and some hill is building up in the ambition of becoming a mountain. Lava is starting to flow down some ravines nearby.
The last eruption in this area took some 2 years, and ended up by triggering the bad neighbour. Our concern there would the massive amount of ashes scattered over a large area, - no way of telling where, since it all depends on the wind direction.
They will reduce or destroy crops, and poison drinking water, so the farmers have a heavy fight on their hands. Oddly enough, there are no precautions there in the routine (such as extra supplies of harvest). There might be a desperate last-minute boost in feed production this summer, at least if I have it my way, just forwarded my concern to the main sources......
New pic here:
(http://www.mbl.is/frimg/5/25/525797.jpg)
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Some video. It's a total tourist eruption so far ;)
http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/2010/03/25/likt_og_kvikni_i_isnum/
Yesterday, I could see the spurts of lava as well as the lava-fall through the kitchen window.
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And on she goes.
Lava has now properly entered a ravine/canyon and is flowing on gracefully:
(http://www.mbl.is/frimg/5/25/525962.jpg)
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Some news in English.
http://prakkarinn.blog.is/blog/prakkarinn/entry/1034721/
Sort of a silly-looking-blond interview, however the information is mostly correct. One correction, - Katla does not "blow" like Krakatau, she is just a badass volcano under 2000 feet of Ice. And the eruption that sent the globe into cooling was not Katla, but a fissure/crater line that opened well eastbound.
Sort of chuckling about some idiots on this boards that endlessly stated about the Volcanoes contributiong to GW. They do make a print on CC, by cooling.
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Glad to see you are doing ok so far Angus :)
I know this eruption is a result of your governments cunning plan to invade more ocean by using lava! I just hope the ocean you capture isnt in our general direction, because if it is ill fight back and email you foul words and heavy rainfalls to stop it! :cheers:
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HARRRFFF!
You have seen our plan, but not! Mt Katla will lay waste to the countries surrounding OUR fishing grounds. That is far more efficient than extending our country borders (and thereby the 200 nm fishing grounds).
On top of that, countries with failing crops will have to buy more FISH. Muhahahahaha :devil
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Filthy landgrabber!!! :mad:
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Ayyye, yer slackers. I will carry on relentlessly pouring soap and cod-liver oil into the crater for some lube-work, muhaha.
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:furious
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Hope this pic works.
Lava-fall, some 200 m. high they say. Had some pilots land outside the farm 2 days ago, they said it was spectacular.
And headed for...Norway :D
(http://img.visir.is/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=XZ&Date=20100326&Category=FRETTIR01&ArtNo=934254567&Ref=AR&NoBorder)
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Hello again.
We are slowly hetting used to this Volcano business. There it is, I can see the fumes out the kitchen window, and at night one can see the red colour reflecting from the fumes above.
Last night, my wife, guesthouse tourists, and workers went to have a closer look. They took a bus ride to a nearby valley (bus in this case is a modded truck with drive on all wheels) in order to make the 1000 meters of climbing to be on par with the eruption.
I was at home with the kids, and plenty of little jobs to do.
And then, another fissure opened up just like that. My folks got stopped in their tracks and sent down to base. They had to wait a while, since the road back to town is dangerously close to the waterways of the melting ice. They returned around 2AM.
This was well photographed and filmed in the morning. A spectacularly good link is here:
http://www.ruv.is/frett/nyjar-myndir-af-gosstodvunum
(click on the links in blue)
Pictures from aircraft. They normally circle the area at around 7000 feet, while the eruption is about 3000 feet. The wind and the mountain side (the mountain top is at about 5.500 feet high) along with the rising air from the hot lava make it for a bit of a bumpy ride. Some ultralight pilots have been playing with the devil by going a lot lower, as well as helicopter tours actually land close by and give the passengers a 10-minute walk.
One ultralight did bite the dust so far due to downstream (AFAIK), but no harm to the pilot.
Anyway, enjoy the footage!
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Really cool video there. :aok
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MORE!
The language is Icelandic, but nevermind, - the footage is very good!
http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/2010/04/01/mallar_afram_naestu_vikurnar/?ref=fphelst
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just saw your volcano on the news here in los angeles Angus,
looks like a weenie roast to me.
hope yer ok sir :aok
:salute froger
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This one is a tourist volcano, and can go on for quite a while. Not a "dangerous" one, so people can actually go see with very little risk.
However, the triggering for the neighbour volcano (Mt. Katla) seems to be a historically based fact, - and that one is one bad bad bad baddie lady.
KATLA has the potential of emitting a floodwave of water, ice, VERY big ice, and mud&slush with the flow of Mississippi, Amazon and Yang-tse (yellow river China) all put together on a rainy day, - into the waterways leading to the sea. This will cause some wave in the N-Atlantic, but not like a tsunami. The whole deal happens in hours.
The biggest lava eruption on earth since there was civilization, happened as well in this country, - 1783-1786. But our "naughty" volcano has a more volumous score of emissions of ashes and perhaps gases on record.
The high ashes & gases will travel the earth within 48 hours. The gases, depending on their volumes and general properties, will wobble about. Some will rise and blur out the sun a bit, - even globally. Some will travel wih the lower winds.
Ashes may fall anywhere in Iceland as well as in other coutries (the finer form), such as the UK and Mainland Europe. Just depends on the weather.
The general impact of a big dirtbomb like Mt. "Katla" produced is a downfall in close-by agriculture as well as a bigger area suffering. The gases mainly cool out solar effect (sulphur reflecting as well as clouds blocking solar heat). And that means global cooling at the end of the day.
Froger...that was a wee info for you. And at the end of this comment, - I confirm that I see the eruption again from my window....
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News update.
Yesterday the eruption stopped. However a new one just started, and this time under the glacial cap it seems. I already have the first evacuee in the house.
Morning will reveal what is happening, since it is dark and foggy and the eruption cannot be seen, merely measured (quakes).
I'll pass news and try to link some nice pictures as time goes on.
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Great videos! Your volcano reminds me of that very old scifi movie called "The crack in the world"...
Good thing those type of eruptions are the more gentle, slower kind, huh! We have our volcanos here as well! Artesian wells, and hot springs, occasional earthquakes, are all reminders of what is under the ground... And then we have the cascade megathrust fault 20miles west under the pacific ocean... It hasen't rocked since about 1700, and it's way overdue! And with the many quakes to the south in California, and the pretty big ones that have hit Alaska, all on the same plate boundary, USGS says, that it seems that this is the sticking point, right here where I'm sitting!!! Oh lucky me, says I, with a one eyebrow lifted, Mister Spock look!
Sitting here, between the Olympic mountains, and the Pacific Ocean, I've finally found my place in paradise, and keep thinking about the book title, "Paradise Lost", Hmmmmmmm!
Hope my Kharma is good, LOL!
RC
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News update:
http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/2010/04/14/earth_tremors_under_the_eyjafjallajokull_glacier/
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Thats gotta be weird, having an eruption under a glacier, guess it takes a while to even know if it's erupted until it melts the ice above it.
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You'd be surprized about how fast it goes. By now the smoke is up to 22.000 feet, and a crater-hole somewhere between 200-500 metres wide is measureable. (The coast guard has some night vision equipment to see through the clouds from their aircraft).
We did have our "tourist" eruption with minimal risk, but here is something more real at work.
It's in the middle of the glacier, so it is going to look quite dashing when the clouds clear.
Water levels are now rising very fast.
Here is the mountain info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull
A link to our page with a picture of the glacier on the top. This is what it looks like from where I live:
http://www.gardsauki.is/eng/galerie_eng.html
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(http://www.mbl.is/frimg/5/19/519682.jpg)
Looks beautiful. Will be ugly...afterwards...
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(http://www.mbl.is/frimg/5/19/519682.jpg)
Looks beautiful. Will be ugly...afterwards...
Oh yeah, definitely some beautiful sheep there, just keep the Bish away from them. :D
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Your sheep are belong to us :devil
Anyway, it's a decent eruption with some flood of molten ice ,- that is dirty water, - making it's way to the sea over anything in it's way. However, it could be worse.
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And ain't it great to know that something like a quarter of the Western Lower 48 is sitting right smack on top of one of the biggest frelling time bombs in the world? If Yellowstone were to ever go up it'd probably take half the country with it.
Stay safe, Angus. Like SIK said: Don't hesitate to get out if it turns bad.
Wouldn't that be ironic, destroyed from within our own heartland ..... :uhoh
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Something is not right with our old planet, lots of seismic activity; there are reports of earthquakes almost every day in news over past 2-3 moths. Today China got hit bad and who knows what's next! I hope they slow down before getting worst.
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Angus, no disrespect I hope, but how the heck do you pronounce "Eyjafjallajökull" in an english/american way that somewhat sounds like the way it's supposed to?
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It is a tongue-breaker :D
Anyway, now he ashes are falling and they stop air-traffic. This will affect the N-Atlantic now. With an unfortunate wind direction, trans-Atlantic flights might stop.
Ash-fall forecast here:
http://www.ruv.is/sites/default/files/skjol/oskuspa.jpg
And a heck of a picture, - probably the best farm in the country, right under the kettle:
(http://esv.blog.is/users/da/esv/img/bilde.jpg)
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Angus, yo' prediction has come to pass - all UK airports are suspending flights this morning due to the ash plume heading our way.
Ah well, at least it ain't Krakatoa going BOOOOOOM again.
:cool:
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Naaa, but we have a much bigger one ready to go :D
Now, here is a link to how the name of the mountain is pronounced. Happy days practizing :devil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull.ogg
And the Reuters report:
http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/2010/04/15/eg_hef_aldrei_sed_svona_adur/
I live at the edge of the evacuation area, so I do not have to move. Since we run a guesthouse we have got to know some of the traffic involved, both tourists and people we know.
The evacuation went very smoothly, and actually started before an eruption was confirmed. Scientists you see....and ours that work in the Volcano field do not have to travel the globe to acqure a lot of practice...and data.
:aok
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All air traffic is stopped in Norway now. Rest of scandinanvia and northern europe will follow or has stopped. Also some flights out of the UK are stopped but i dont think they have closed everything down yet. Depends on the wind direction. Hopefully it will turn west towards the US and stop before it gets there.
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Stay safe Angus, and an odd question, but would you happen to have any rooms open for hire? Asking on behalf of a friend who loves volcano's.
Cheers bud,
Wurzel
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<imagines Wurzel's friend setting off for Iceland in a kayak 'cos there's no flights>
;)
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<imagines Wurzel's friend setting off for Iceland in a kayak 'cos there's no flights>
;)
:D
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Not sure she's thought of that bit :D I'll advise her to look once Angus gets back to me....... :D
Wurzel
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Depends on the point of Origin. Mainland Europe is connected yet, and so is the USA.
Then there is the Ferry, who also stops at the Shetlands.
I still have rooms. The other day it was a bit busy, - volcano tourists ;)
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Thats what she's after viewing mate......got a link for rooms/prices etc?
Wurzel
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Let's hope the Eyjafjallajökull (yes I had to copy&paste that) eruption won't go on for two years like it did from 1821 to 1823. (!)
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Just dont expect us to pay for your ashes Angus. I have not signed any papers so legally that ash is a GIFT. You are not getting a single icelandic rubel!
Actually if this continues we will send it back by :airplane: and with a very :furious letter when your out of control volcano calms down!
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Wurzel: look here:
www.gardsauki.is
And for Nilsen, - the Ashes are for free. :devil
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Thanks Angus, will pass that onto her - you never know mate.
Wurzel
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Something is not right with our old planet, lots of seismic activity; there are reports of earthquakes almost every day in news over past 2-3 moths. Today China got hit bad and who knows what's next! I hope they slow down before getting worst.
Its just the journalists finding a new area of interest and a bit of bad luck. There are dozens of earthquakes on the earth every day and it just happened that some big ones happened near some populated areas during the past few months. Since Haiti, not many would be talking about Earthquakes. Since the 2004 Indonesian Tsunami, no one would really be afraid of tsunamis. They happen all the time. Volcanoes have to erupt one time or another, craters are not there for show off. Its just the way nature works and we are not immune to its forces.
Just look at this website: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/ (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/) This should ease your worries that numerous earthquakes is a recent event in the history of mankind...
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Btw, be safe Angus :salute
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Front page of CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/15/iceland.volcano.photos/index.html?hpt=C1 (http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/15/iceland.volcano.photos/index.html?hpt=C1)
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Had a sloooow day at work, all IFR traffic ceased at noon...
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Since no one have died because of the eruption (knocks on wood) I feel comfortable sharing this office joke: "First Iceland goes bankrupt, and now the whole place is on fire? ... I smell insurance fraud." ;)
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Do any of you know how long the trans-Atlantic flights are probably going to be closed for?
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Probably about as long as the volcano keeps trashing the environment. Maybe about 2 or 5 days after that. You could ask the volcano god for better clarification of the time table.
:huh
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Since no one have died because of the eruption (knocks on wood) I feel comfortable sharing this office joke: "First Iceland goes bankrupt, and now the whole place is on fire? ... I smell insurance fraud." ;)
It's better than that. Was a mere misunderstanding you see. We thought the Brits wanted ASH, not CASH :devil
And speaking of the devil, here is the face of the mountain who now troubles the British so much. Priceless picture taken with the advanced equipment of the coastguard, through the clouds. I expect to be able to see the eruption tomorrow when clouds will lift, but my angle of view will be different. Enjoy!
(http://mbl.is/frimg/5/28/528080.jpg)
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Since no one have died because of the eruption (knocks on wood) I feel comfortable sharing this office joke: "First Iceland goes bankrupt, and now the whole place is on fire? ... I smell insurance fraud." ;)
Or perhaps a cash for ash program?
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Do any of you know how long the trans-Atlantic flights are probably going to be closed for?
Just spotted this one. Anyway, what I can say is that no-one can say. Just check every day. Eruptions like this one can last for months, and the wind will take the ashes wherever it blows. On top of that, if there is little wind, the ashes can enter the jetstream, and go just about anywhere.
If this goes on for a couple of months like this, not to mention if the big neighbour volcano, mt. Katla goes off, - then we are also in for a periodical change of global temperature, - and it can be quite a bit.
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Here is a link to imagesdone with the "face" of the Volcano. Well, humour always helps ;)
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This volcano is killing me, smalls. Got 4 consultants I'm tying to get through Frankfurt this weekend en route to Eastern Europe. Has made for a blast of a Friday morning at the office...
Also, I saw that picture of the craters earlier...pretty cool coincidence, that.
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Just spotted this one. Anyway, what I can say is that no-one can say. Just check every day. Eruptions like this one can last for months, and the wind will take the ashes wherever it blows. On top of that, if there is little wind, the ashes can enter the jetstream, and go just about anywhere.
If this goes on for a couple of months like this, not to mention if the big neighbour volcano, mt. Katla goes off, - then we are also in for a periodical change of global temperature, - and it can be quite a bit.
as longs as it makes it warmer for us in England, I am all for it :lol
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Here is a link to imagesdone with the "face" of the Volcano. Well, humour always helps ;)
Link?
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Just spotted this one. Anyway, what I can say is that no-one can say. Just check every day. Eruptions like this one can last for months, and the wind will take the ashes wherever it blows. On top of that, if there is little wind, the ashes can enter the jetstream, and go just about anywhere.
If this goes on for a couple of months like this, not to mention if the big neighbour volcano, mt. Katla goes off, - then we are also in for a periodical change of global temperature, - and it can be quite a bit.
Thanks - guess I may be late for school :lol
as longs as it makes it warmer for us in England, I am all for it :lol
Nah, snow rocks! ;)
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<Shamelessly ripped off from Facebook / Twitter etc>
Angus - someone's made a mistake - the memo from Britain read "send the cash".
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It is a tongue-breaker :D
Anyway, now he ashes are falling and they stop air-traffic. This will affect the N-Atlantic now. With an unfortunate wind direction, trans-Atlantic flights might stop.
Ash-fall forecast here:
http://www.ruv.is/sites/default/files/skjol/oskuspa.jpg
And a heck of a picture, - probably the best farm in the country, right under the kettle:
(http://esv.blog.is/users/da/esv/img/bilde.jpg)
That your farm? MSN has this same exact photo on their website and it was heavily photoshopped to make the sky and smoke a lot darker and more menacing.
ack-ack
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That your farm? MSN has this same exact photo on their website and it was heavily photoshopped to make the sky and smoke a lot darker and more menacing.
ack-ack
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507/ns/world_news (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507/ns/world_news)
Link to MSN picture.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507/ns/world_news (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507/ns/world_news)
Link to MSN picture.
That wasn't the picture they had on their site yesterday. The one they had didn't have the date imprint and the smoke clouds and sky were much darker.
*edit*
Here is the Reuters picture that was used on MSN yesterday and other news publications.
(http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20100415&t=2&i=92407447&w=&r=2010-04-15T181856Z_01_BTRE63E1EVP00_RTROPTP_0_EUROPE-AIR)
and the original as posted by Angus.
(http://esv.blog.is/users/da/esv/img/bilde.jpg)
ack-ack
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That your farm? MSN has this same exact photo on their website and it was heavily photoshopped to make the sky and smoke a lot darker and more menacing.
ack-ack
That is not my farm. You can see it here:
www.gardsauki.is
Well...some of it.
Anyway, the show is staring. The clouds are away now, so untill darkness I could see the huge coulumn of steam, smoke and ash rising, and then the higher winds hrab it and blow off,,,,,to somewhere.
Anyway, - some of the newest jokes. A little humor sometimes helps....
http://memegenerator.net/pissed-off-volcanogod/ImageMacro/891213/pissed-off-volcanogod-heres-your-ash-oh-wait-you-said-cash.jpg
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News update. The eruption goes on and on, and now I can see it. We have lightnings in the ash-clouds visible in the darkness, and in daylight there is a mighty column of steam, smoke, and ash rising up to some 30K if the wind doesn't scatter it before.
Farmlands nearby are under a bombardment of fine ash, so there is a black blizzard in the midst of day. Farmers have been on the go around the clock to tend their lifestock. The next days will reveal how bad things are, but they are getting bad.
The ash will poison surface water and crops, and put a dent in the animal feed production in the country, since this is about the worst time of year to get this on to the ground. This may affect other countries as well.
Many roads are blocked, either for security reasons (many people are eager to win the Darwin award), as well as being severed by floods or simply impassable (poor visibility, and ashes will also eventually stop any engine).
Theonly good news is that, if anything, - the eruption might be on the retreat, - measurements indicate a relived pressure in the magma chambers.
I'll post pictures later.
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Local news reports are saying that ash has been found on Mt Rainier, being as your winds seem to blow to the east, that means it's almost all the way around the world already.. Oh man, this will probably screw up the summertime this yr, again!
Volcano's I hate em!
:salute Stay safe RC
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Not so long ago i had to shift snow and now its gonna be ash :cry
Havent seen any ash YET around me and i hope i never will. I just finished getting my boats ready for summer so i dont want to clean them again!
Angus... put a cork in it!
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Will do. Just waiting for a surrender notice from Gordon Brown :devil
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:rofl
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Ack-Ack, - looks they fixed the picture a bit. It could be as little as Photoshop's "auto-level" with a little more contrast.
The photgrapher is the farmer there, and they are stuck in a dark blizzard. My heart bleeds for them, and if I do not have to share their disaster I will try to do what I can to help them out once this hell is over.
Here is the view from approximately where I live:
http://www.mbl.is/frimg/5/28/528298.jpg
And a link to a webcam less than 1 km away. Click on "Hvolsvöllur"
www.mila.is/eldgos
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The Swedish national aircraft company SAS is about to go bust. It struggled alot economically before this eruption but this has put them over the edge really.
Thanks for the updates Angus, keep em coming! not much in the media over here, like 3 mins on the news show and thats it really. So any updates are apriciated.
My cousin and his family was supposed to fly home from Thailand yesterday, he called me for advice on where to go, i told him to go to Koh Samet, a paradise island 2-3 hours out from Bangkok, i guess they wont suffer too much. But if it keeps on for another year or so, making it back from Asia might be a bit harsh.
Haha. Mankind is a small creature lol.
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The Swedish national aircraft company SAS is about to go bust. It struggled alot economically before this eruption but this has put them over the edge really.
Thanks for the updates Angus, keep em coming! not much in the media over here, like 3 mins on the news show and thats it really. So any updates are apriciated.
My cousin and his family was supposed to fly home from Thailand yesterday, he called me for advice on where to go, i told him to go to Koh Samet, a paradise island 2-3 hours out from Bangkok, i guess they wont suffer too much. But if it keeps on for another year or so, making it back from Asia might be a bit harsh.
Haha. Mankind is a small creature lol.
SAS is scandinavian blunder, not a swedish national airline ;)
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SAS is scandinavian blunder, not a swedish national airline ;)
The Swedish state is like one of the largest owners.
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The Swedish state is like one of the largest owners.
Thank cod for that ;)
Dont tell anyone but the Norwegain state is planning to sell its share
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Cod? Did someone say Cod?
Anyway, as fos SAS, all the airline companies suffer, - and the weaker ones may fall. But bear in mind that once air traffic will begin again, there will be a lot to do, since people are now stuck in all possible places around the globe. I guess the perfect world will open to the airline companies that were less busy.
Here is a picture from yesterday, taken from less than a kilometer from my house. A wall of ash over some of the farmlands. Bad, but could be worse, since this is close to the shortest distance to the sea, from where the ash will not return.
Being in the farming sector, I cross my fingers for everyone, - including myself of course. Many have lifestock that is never housed, - noteably Horses. With enough fine dust in the air, they will suffer a slow death, unless taken out of their misery before. The farmlands under the ash cloud now have an average of 1-2 cm, which will probably mean zero crops this year, - there will be crops, but they will be poisoned. In some places the ash is thicker, - some farmers are using the opportunities in wind-stills orwind-turns to shovel it from their roofs.
Here is the picture. Spent yesterday looking at this, and then the lightnings in the cloud once it was dark. My heart sometimes misses a beat, and I grind my teeth in grief for my brethren in the dust.
(http://www.mbl.is/frimg/5/28/528320.jpg)
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I don't get why people are "stuck" around the world. Southern Europe is still open for air travel and Europe has an integrated rail network. A one day trip would instead take two or three days, thats all. Of course if ground transportation services are stressed over capacity things may take a lot longer.
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I don't get why people are "stuck" around the world. Southern Europe is still open for air travel and Europe has an integrated rail network. A one day trip would instead take two or three days, thats all. Of course if ground transportation services are stressed over capacity things may take a lot longer.
I don't think any flights from the U.S or any other part of the world are going to those closed airports, so they are stuck there.
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I got into Frankfurt just as they closed the airport .The queues at the train station were unbelievable.
so far i have been able to go to the places i want to on the train network and have been able to find hotels easily enough.
My only worry is not being able to get back to Muscat for work next saturday........actually im not worried i dont mind geting stuck in germany at all :cheers:
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"I don't get why people are "stuck" around the world."
Because 1) Europe isn't the world and 2) only one man has ever been described as being able to walk on water - and that was a l-o-n-g time ago.
Meanwhile, the rumour-machine here in Blighty has the cause of all the trouble down to a drunken Icelandic road-driller who got his aim badly wrong. A suggestion that the Royal Navy should proceed to the island and send the Marines ashore to block all the fuming orifices forthwith has been abandoned because of a shortage of ships and the growing need to use them to evacuate holiday resorts worldwide of whinging Poms before they drive the locals nuts.
Ain't life grand?
:aok
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Angus, you guys have caused me so much trouble. I have just spent the most surreal 'end of world' days ever. I can post it here because it's sufficiently separated from my normal life. Sufficient to say I fly here, hint, hint. Because I'm one of the few commercial pilots flying these days, ATC asked me to report on the ash cloud. This I duly did. I posted on a couple of local websites as you to advice for local pilots. Next thing as I drive to the field this morning. I get a call from my boss asking me to delete a certain post. I agree on the basis that he is my boss and anyway it's not a big deal. When I log on, it's already gone, along with another similar.
Eventually I figure out that the instigator is a much respected local pilot who got to the equivalent of Skuzzy and got my post deleted. Mainly because he doesn't want the local authorities to panic and ban all flying in this country. This I can understand even though I'm peed off that I've been censored.
So today when ATC ask me to report the ash cloud. I'm in a dilemma. Luckily it's absent today.
It's a crazy world right now. I have never known anything like it. Normally I get vectors but the absolute absence of airline traffic is actually disturbing.
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"I don't get why people are "stuck" around the world."
Because 1) Europe isn't the world and 2) only one man has ever been described as being able to walk on water - and that was a l-o-n-g time ago.
Again, airports in southern Europe are open. Take a flight to Spain or Italy and use ground/sea transport from there.
http://www.airlineindustryreview.com/list-of-european-airport-closures-and-status/
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There were like 6 flights from here to Trondheim in Norway yesterday. Seems like every opportunity is used to cross the sea where possible, and then use land transport for the rest
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Many are using southern europe to access the rest of europe. Almost half the flights from the US are still getting to europe last time i checked but the problem is getting from there. Busses and trains are packed all over europe and even our prime minister who was in New York when this happened had to fly to Spain and then rent a car to get all the way up to norway because all the trains were full.
Hopefully this will be the final push our government needed to get started on a high-speed rail network that has been discussed for atleast a decade.
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Angus....
Will you put a cork in that thing.... it's starting to block the sun here :)
this is a photo from 10:30 this morning from my back yard.
(http://home.xmsnet.nl/heater/Ash_ring.JPG)
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Doing my best ,- Expecting the bloody thing to make a dust layer in the house tonight. That means windshift, so the cloud may head to the Atlantic or the USA, - depending on whether the winds will be from NE or SE.
Arrrrfff....bloody volcano. And the peak is about 30 km away from me....
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Where is your cave located Angus? Is it easy to find on google?
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Thnax for the vids and pics.
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Angus, you guys have caused me so much trouble. I have just spent the most surreal 'end of world' days ever. I can post it here because it's sufficiently separated from my normal life. Sufficient to say I fly here, hint, hint. Because I'm one of the few commercial pilots flying these days, ATC asked me to report on the ash cloud. This I duly did. I posted on a couple of local websites as you to advice for local pilots. Next thing as I drive to the field this morning. I get a call from my boss asking me to delete a certain post. I agree on the basis that he is my boss and anyway it's not a big deal. When I log on, it's already gone, along with another similar.
Eventually I figure out that the instigator is a much respected local pilot who got to the equivalent of Skuzzy and got my post deleted. Mainly because he doesn't want the local authorities to panic and ban all flying in this country. This I can understand even though I'm peed off that I've been censored.
So today when ATC ask me to report the ash cloud. I'm in a dilemma. Luckily it's absent today.
It's a crazy world right now. I have never known anything like it. Normally I get vectors but the absolute absence of airline traffic is actually disturbing.
Can you expend on that a bit? What material they decided to remove?
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Where is your cave located Angus? Is it easy to find on google?
Here:
63'45'00.06N and 20'14'41.14W
My spare cave where I might move to if things go bad is:
59'55'01.76N and 10'43'38.79E
Please notify the inhabitants to have my room ready.
All the best.
Angus
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Here is some impressive footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6dDesUPkMo&feature=player_embedded#! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6dDesUPkMo&feature=player_embedded#!)
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I'm missing my grandfather's funeral because of this. He died last week - funeral is tomorrow. Ironically, they expect airspace to re-open over Scotland tomorrow but all too late. Not a happy camper.
Of well - :salute Donald Service (RAF 1941-46 North Africa and Middle East Campaigns). I'll be raising a glass of whisky to him tomorrow.
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That is sad. Anyway, what part of the RAF? My great uncle served with 111 sqn in N-Africa from Nov 1942 untill approx March 1943.
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Here:
63'45'00.06N and 20'14'41.14W
My spare cave where I might move to if things go bad is:
59'55'01.76N and 10'43'38.79E
Please notify the inhabitants to have my room ready.
All the best.
Angus
uhhh are you in a boat?
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That is sad. Anyway, what part of the RAF? My great uncle served with 111 sqn in N-Africa from Nov 1942 untill approx March 1943.
He didn't talk much about it, but by putting together the places he talked about and the fact that the squadron was involved in anti-submarine patrols, I believe it might have been No.14 Squadron. He certainly spent time in Algeria and Palestine.
Anyway, sorry - I'm getting us off topic.
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Angus, glad yr ok
still. What part of the island are you located?
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I am in the south, merely 30 km from the peak of the volcano.
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I am in the south, merely 30 km from the peak of the volcano.
the link you posted earlier Angus
http://www.gardsauki.is/eng/standort_and_anreise_eng.html
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Exactly.
hehe, being in the guasthouse business, I have had some marooned Frenchmen (flight cancellations) who are now working for me, a helicopter crew, and in the next days Geologists, some that come from Cambridge. Strange days indeed.
The eruption is now changing, - there is less ash and lava is starting to flow. The wind favours me still, for it is pushing the smoke away. I can still "enjoy" the view, but with a heavy heart, for some of my colleagues suffer bad.
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Can you expend on that a bit? What material they decided to remove?
Fairly innocuous, just reporting that I flew through the layer multiple times without any negative impact on the aircraft, quite a thin layer too, all but invisible until you were level with it. But you knew it was there when you smelled it and felt it on your lips. Reminded me of my trip to Iceland. :aok
Like I said I think it was pulled because it was feared the authority might overreact and start to restrict VFR traffic too. But the ash was gone next day anyway or at least it was a bit higher.
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Latest news (time is 1257 BST) of flight restrictions is that the ash has reached Newfoundland and Labrador and it's no-fly from or to those locations.
The Purple Cloud is spreading . . .
:cool:
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Is the Volcano still erupting? Did the bigger one that is close to that one have any activity rise?
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The eruption is changing into a more lava-based eruption (which is much better) as well as there seems to be very little activity in the dormant neighbor.
Some theories actually indicate that this is working as a tap-off, which would be very good news indeed.
Hopefully this stops soon. Always looking at it, - can't stop! And alas, it is but the big thing I see right outside.
At night we can see the fire and the lightnings in the ash as well. Yeacchhh!!!!
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I just wanna know. How many carbon credits is that volcano going to have to buy from gore to make this right????
:neener: :devil
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Just image if this volcano erupted in, lets say 1943-1944. How much would that effected the air battle over Europe.
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I think Mt Vesuvius did erupt in the 44 45 period.. I remember seeing pics of planes in Italy with guys sweeping a couple feet of ash off the wings of B25s..
RC
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I think Mt Vesuvius did erupt in the 44 45 period.. I remember seeing pics of planes in Italy with guys sweeping a couple feet of ash off the wings of B25s..
RC
Yes, it did erupt in 1944 and have not since then. But that eruption was minor compare to the eruption in Iceland right now. Also the jetstream will not push the ash north but more east south east direction. Another factor is that Mt Vesuvivs is not under 500 m of ice.
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I just wanna know. How many carbon credits is that volcano going to have to buy from gore to make this right????
:neener: :devil
Seems some people have difficulty with the concept of "more".
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Latest BBC news at 0920 BST: UK and most of the rest of European airspace has re-opened to traffic.
The 'Eruption Disruption' is easing slowly . . .
:cool:
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Volcanos have a very quick and effective cooling effect on the atmosphere, and the carbon emission is actually only a fraction of what we tiny humans add to the air. The emissions are also ash (dust particles etc) and sulphur, which causes cooling for a while. And a lot comes out, - I have heard the number 750 tonnes per second for this one.
Here is a link to a very good photo-archive of the eruption. And this is mostly what I see out the window. I even know most of the people in the pictures. Highly recommended:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html
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Volcanos have a very quick and effective cooling effect on the atmosphere, and the carbon emission is actually only a fraction of what we tiny humans add to the air. The emissions are also ash (dust particles etc) and sulphur, which causes cooling for a while. And a lot comes out, - I have heard the number 750 tonnes per second for this one.
Here is a link to a very good photo-archive of the eruption. And this is mostly what I see out the window. I even know most of the people in the pictures. Highly recommended:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html
Wow, that first pic with the red lightning is just amazing. :aok
Are you getting any ash on the ground where you live?
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Living in California right now you wound think there was a volcano cooling us lol. Raining in end of April very odd for us.
-BigBOBCH
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Here is an animation showing the ash plume dispersion in the atmosphere in a 6days period. I'm surprised we had some ash here in eastern Canada :confused:. Some flights have been cancelled to Gaspe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8rCsr9b0u0&feature=player_embedded
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I just wanna know. How many carbon credits is that volcano going to have to buy from gore to make this right????
:neener: :devil
lol
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Here is an animation showing the ash plume dispersion in the atmosphere in a 6days period. I'm surprised we had some ash here in eastern Canada :confused:. Some flights have been cancelled to Gaspe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8rCsr9b0u0&feature=player_embedded
Yeah that was weird how a cloud of the ash looked like it broke off and headed west.
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Makes you wonder though. First, Iceland goes bust, then they manage to set their country on fire. Thats got insurance scam written all over it. :bolt:
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Different wind directions in altitude layers, and then some goes into the jet-stream.
An update: The wind is pushing the cloud to the SW still, but the amount of material is a mere fraction of what it was. It may head for petering out, but as it is with volcanos, - you can never be sure.
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Makes you wonder though. First, Iceland goes bust, then they manage to set their country on fire. Thats got insurance scam written all over it. :bolt:
Hehe, we are not insured for this one.....externally :bolt:
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Fantastic pics Angus, thanks for posting.
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Not sure if you saw my other question Angus, but are you getting any ash on the ground where you live?
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How about some Icelandic volcano pics?
These shots are incredible!
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html
:O
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How about some Icelandic volcano pics?
These shots are incredible!
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html
:O
Yeah Angus already posted these.
Damn Skuzzy was fast, I was posting in the original thread you created and by the time I hit the post button it was gone & moved here.
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Yeah Angus already posted these.
Damn Skuzzy was fast, I was posting in the original thread you created and by the time I hit the post button it was gone & moved here.
:huh :mad:
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:huh :mad:
Pittsburgh hater...
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wow....
(http://www.weerwoord.be/uploads/204201018271610.jpg)
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Wow, indeed! Any rock band would give their nuts for a light show like that. Ain't nature wonderful?
:cool:
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The link works no more for the pictures. Any idea where to reach them?
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The link works no more for the pictures. Any idea where to reach them?
Which link are you talking about, the one you posted yesterday, because it still works for me.
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Here:
63'45'00.06N and 20'14'41.14W
My spare cave where I might move to if things go bad is:
59'55'01.76N and 10'43'38.79E
Please notify the inhabitants to have my room ready.
All the best.
Angus
Angus, you live in a CAVE? Wow, you learn something new every day.
:lol
-Penguin
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Does it look like a real cave to you? :neener:
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Those videos and photographs are absolutely stunning. I certainly hope cleanup isn't terrible.
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It is going to be quite some work.
But....that is that.
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At least the dentists evacuated your island. :D
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I can't help grinning whenever I see the word 'evacuated' mis-used - which means I grin a lot these days, thanks to errant newscasters who don't know any better.
An evacuation is an emptying, to evacuate means to empty - so it's funny to hear of people being evacuated. What with, a stomach pump? It's buildings and places that are evacuated, not the people in them. Unless fear of those dentists has abruptly loosened their bowels, of course.
:cool:
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So hows she doin? Any changes?
A lot of people have been affected by this but no one nearly as much as those living in her shadow. A lot of people are forgetting that. I just want to express my concern for you Icelanders and my appreciation for your correspondence and good attitude, Angus. We're pullin' for ya.
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Anyone else catch this little gem?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mHZgP9vkc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mHZgP9vkc)
:lol
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A couple of friends of mine, Father and son went to visit the Volcano in a Cessna Caravan from Ireland although I have no idea why they flew via Barcelona. I suppose they were dropping someone off or rescuing someone stranded. This is their video. There is extensive training on how to pronounce the damm thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_HlJe4aFU&feature=player_embedded
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LOL, that video was good! And what a ride they had.
Newest news are that the smoke and ash is now NW bound, so there have been a lot of flights this morning. I can see the eruption now, and the ashes who fall on the glacier side, painting it somewhat ash-grey.
At times one hears the rumbles from exploding bubbles etc. Some of our dogs went quite afraid in the beginning but are now getting used to it.
There is a lot of cleaning in process, where farmlands and farms were hit with up to 10 cm layer of the ash, which basically resembles cement powder. I was lucky, only had a little "taste" of the thing.
Well, that's....living on a volcanic island. What would you expect:D
BTW, the very first eruption has stopped. That will be a sight to see later on, - fresh crusty lava, mmmm.
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Here is a very good video which shoes how the air traffic was paralyzed for some time:
http://gizmodo.com/5525888/this-is-how-air-space-reboots
Now I am getting the ash over my head. It is fine, grey, and has some odd salty-sour flavour. If it comes down with the rain it is sour, quite much actually.
I will get test results from surface water today, - from a little brook where the horses get the drinking water. Apparantly a lot of the fish in it is dead.
Yeachhh Eyjafjallajökull!!!!
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(http://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/imageschuck-norris-speaks.jpg)
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:rofl
Forgot to call in the cavalry.
Unfortunately It didn't work still itching from todays sour rain. Shower time!!!
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I did read this thread a while back, but then something else came up so I didn't have the time to reply...
Angus, we're really glad to hear that you guys are ok after that (the first thing was to check the O'club after hearing the volcano erupt ;))
And having been to Iceland and to Angus' farm, I'd recommend that to everyone. It's just such a short distance to the volcanoes and you can easily get there and back from Reykjavik in a day. Having been there, I can recommend it. :aok
And as a private message to Angus, the baby is growing up fast and developing rapidly, each week something new. Looking forward to when I can start teaching him the WW2 aeroplane stuff. :) Well that's not one of my priorities, but we're getting there day by day...
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Thank you so much!!! And congrats with the "development" Panzzer!
Now...Volcano...making rumbling sounds in windstill and 30 tonnes of lava per minute...
We are indeed close to the crater....32 kilometers.
It is a sight, - sometimes, - and a load of trouble.
People are doing a great work of helping each other out. Just offered fields for summer culture to a guy that brushed a half-inch of ashes off his horses this morning!
It is a sight, and from where I live it is more of a show than direct trouble.
But....the trouble of my friends is my trouble....
All the best for you.
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Angus, stay safe, and give our (me & Mia and the little one) greetings to the family. :)
<S>
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Thanks again.
And your toddler will perhaps add AH hours to yours. I found out that my older daughter, - at the age of some 1.5 years, was quite fond of AH, which she called by the name "Brooomm-broomm". I had her sit beneath me with an old keyboard and a joystick, lol.
Anyway, back to the Volcano. Am expecting a spectacular view and a lot of air traffic soon. The forecast is such that we will have sunshine.
The crater is estimated to deliver some 40 tonnes of lava per second now, as well as 20-30 tonnes of ashes. This is quite a bit. The lava river has now managed to run down the mountain and reach the base. A river is there, assembling the melting water from the lava river cutting through the ice. The water is now at 17 degrees celcius instead of the normal 4 or so.
I'll link some pictures and stuff later.
The eruption does not seem to be petering out BTW. On the contrary.
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Was a special on Nat Geo about your volcano.
They made it sound like the 2 volcano's are linked, once the little one starts blowing its just a question of time till the nasty one wakes up.
Duck and Cover Angus!
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They are linked, - or seem to be. The big one has a habit of blowing after this one stops, - but then it is "only" a moderate eruption. This one is about moderate as well, but much closer to me. I am not about to tie a tin had on my pet cow.
This one blew last in 1821, and the eruption lasted for 2 years. The other one ets over with the business in much shorter time. The main problem there is flooding, then....ashes.
Now we have quite a lava-based eruption. Will be a sight to see once the fog lifts.
The discovery channel has covered this, - they were here the other day. 60 minutes were at the mountain 2 days ago, and Top Gear a few weeks ago (they drove ON the lava). Has any of that arrived on TV?
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Well the ash cloud has shut down our airspace again this morning but only in Ireland this time.......for now. No flights in or out. It hasn't gone away!
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Angus, ever figure out if that rain was acidic? Usually acid rain is found in a state between vinegar and battery acid. It's been known to kill fish, too.
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Here is Craig Ferguson's angle on the eruption, as well as his try at pronouncing "Eyjafjallajökull".
Hilarious as usual ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzY1VHUTDHg
The flights that have been cancelled number 100.000, or so I hear.
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WOW , I would get the hell out of there asap ..
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Naaaa. Even the old ladies here don't. :devil
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If Yellowstone goes it most possibly puts the whole planet to 'nuclear winter' meaning close extinction for us. So the ones that blow up with it are actually the lucky ones.
Well hey, if it happens, it happens. No sense in worrying about it, and hell, as far as I'm concerned, my life was easier before I knew there was a gigantic super-volcano almost under my feet that's overdue to explode. :aok
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1pLUs44 , I hear ya . I don't like even being close to it . I'm to close now being in Memphis ..
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Yellowstone is bad, - a supervolcano. Probably the baddest of the baddest in the world. Then you have Indonesia and the Med. Ours are not that bad, so it is more like a tourist attraction. It is an odd life to basically "live" with a spewing volcanic craters and fissures, lava-falls, melting glacier and so on, only some odd 15 miles away. (this one is actually some 18, but....)
And....life actually goes on in it's routine. There is indeed more work for some, and some aid is needed for some, which others make an effort in order to fulfill.
And blast, - it is a grand sight anyway!
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More photo's please ...
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Well hey, if it happens, it happens. No sense in worrying about it, and hell, as far as I'm concerned, my life was easier before I knew there was a gigantic super-volcano almost under my feet that's overdue to explode. :aok
Don't expect it to just pop like a cork like in the movie 2012. You'll have some time to get out. :aok
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Here should be one. Taken from very near, and gives a typical sunny-day's view.
The Glacier is about 5000 feet high by the way, and today, the smoke and ash reached some 31K.
(http://www.eldgos.is/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/efjgos7.jpg)
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That's just wild ! Thanks for the pic ..
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That's just wild ! Thanks for the pic ..
Hey Flench, I haven't seen you in a while, how have you been since your dad passed away? :salute
-Penguin
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Not good bro , not good .. Thank's for asking tho . I guess it's just going to take time ..
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Recent update on the emissions/ashes.
(http://www.mbl.is/frimg/5/30/530214.jpg)
BTW, I have three volcanologists in the guesthouse now, one Englishman, one Italian, and one French. They are doing some analysis of the components in the gas emissions through some spectral devices. Interesting....
Here is the view from where I live. It is a webcam, and the position is about half a mile away:
http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-hvolsvelli/
Enjoy, - the sooner the better. This is now amazingly big, some 20K column, and some folks are getting hit by the ashes very badly.
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LOL, thought you were starting a joke for a min there Angus. So these 3 volcanologists walk into a guesthouse, an Engli..... :lol
Webcam is cool. Thanks for posting.
It's hard to believe just how big that cloud really is. :O
This view has live infrared.
http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/ (http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/)
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Look at this one :
(http://omarragnarsson.blog.is/users/3b/omarragnarsson/img/p1011699.jpg)
And here is a link to a good blog-page. It is in Icelandic, but has some very good pictures.
http://omarragnarsson.blog.is/blog/omarragnarsson/
This aircraft has been residing on my field, and as can well be seen, we finally had ashfall.
It is a disgusting type of ash, acid, salty, and fine like cement powder. In the case of this aircraft, the pilot was lucky, - the ash fell while it was raining, and we just washed it off the plane.
He sticks around and does volcano round-flying for camera work as well as hopping around with volcanologists and such. I may be going today or tomorrow to have a close look.
If some of you have a good hosting ability, I can soon send some pictures that can be posted. Some of the images are awesome, especially if one has an understanding of the proportions.
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WOW !
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Look at this one :
(http://omarragnarsson.blog.is/users/3b/omarragnarsson/img/p1011699.jpg)
And here is a link to a good blog-page. It is in Icelandic, but has some very good pictures.
http://omarragnarsson.blog.is/blog/omarragnarsson/
This aircraft has been residing on my field, and as can well be seen, we finally had ashfall.
It is a disgusting type of ash, acid, salty, and fine like cement powder. In the case of this aircraft, the pilot was lucky, - the ash fell while it was raining, and we just washed it off the plane.
He sticks around and does volcano round-flying for camera work as well as hopping around with volcanologists and such. I may be going today or tomorrow to have a close look.
If some of you have a good hosting ability, I can soon send some pictures that can be posted. Some of the images are awesome, especially if one has an understanding of the proportions.
Thats just insane, stay safe.
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I am actually hoping to get a "hop" tomorrow.
No guts, no glory :devil
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He he he. Don't eat too much dust. I hear it can dry you out. :P
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It does.
I am actually eating calcium and drinking more water than I'd normally do, my daughters are drinking a lot of milk, and then, same will be with my wife.
Anyway, in dark hours, - our island is a cool place because of wild things such as volcanic eruptions. I do miss the non-erupting periods by now, as are described in this link, - oh yes, Aragorn has been around here a few times, really under my nose. Quite a cool person I hear.
http://aslaugfridriks.blog.is/blog/aslaugfridriks/entry/1057106/
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Some Time lapse footage of the volcano I came across on wimp.com.
http://www.wimp.com/icelandicvolcano/ (http://www.wimp.com/icelandicvolcano/)
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That is two cool ...
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WOW!
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News update:
The eruption has stopped. For now that is. I hope I can fly over tomorrow to have a look, - we will see.
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News update:
The eruption has stopped. For now that is. I hope I can fly over tomorrow to have a look, - we will see.
About time you guys got a break. Stay safe and here's to hoping it stays quiet for a while.
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Mark my words, it's going to start again. This is a break. Hope it lasts a bit.
and...TY ;)
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Just have BP plug it like they are the oil spill , lol .
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LOL
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May get a flight tomorrow. Will post pics if I get some.
What there is now to see is what the eruption has left, - that is no less interesting than the eruption itself. What I may see tomorrow is a canyon where the lava basically cut itself through the glacial layer, thereby forming a canyon.
Interesting ;)