Posted on 04/18/2010 6:22:14 AM PDT by blam
I hope it does not come to Florida!
BTW.....thanks for staying on top of this catastrophe for us
As an Employee for Boeing, I can tell you news that our customers are nearing crisis mode scares the hell out of me. Airlines with hundreds of millions of dollars of airplane orders may not find those orders so important anymore as they recover from this financial impact.
Perhaps you are refering to the Vestman Islands eruption? The harbor at Heimey was at risk of getting choked off, but...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldfell
Arthur Max And Karl Ritter, Associated Press
4-18-2010
AMSTERDAM – Dutch airline KLM said it safely flew aircraft without passengers through a window in the cloud of volcanic ash over Europe Sunday, and pressed for an end to the total ban on commercial air traffic that has paralyzed travel across the continent.
Other airlines including Lufthansa and Air France said they, too, were conducting test flights. Authorities, however, extended airspace restrictions across Europe and said there was no end in sight to the plume spewing out of a volcano in Iceland, which they insist is dangerous to planes.
KLM said the planes, of various types in its fleet, flew at normal altitude above 10,000 feet but did not encounter the thick cloud that had hovered over the continent since Wednesday, apparently indicating the Icelandic dust had thinned or dispersed.
A KLM spokeswoman said four flights completed the short flight from Duesseldorf in western Germany without incident and four more planes were due to return to their home base at Schiphol Airport. The airline had permission from Dutch and European aviation authorities before sending the planes aloft.
Engineers immediately took the aircraft for inspection as they landed.
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It says that “Mercifully” the ash fell on farmers and farmland. Not on the apparently more important city. Sheesh.
Obama did asks “where is Armageddon?”
He may have given Obama his answer
I haven’t seen any movement for aid or help for them. like we’ve seen for Haiti. A lot of them are homeless, now.
They’re White.
I think there’s something less than 400,000 people on the whole island, but the ash has to make breathing hard, and of course it will destroy just about all electronic and mechanical devices it contacts.
Just seems strange that there’s been so little mention of how this is affecting the islanders.
Actually Florida could use a volcano or two. Volcanic soil is the best. So far Florida is just a big sandbar. Just beach sand blown on top of old coral turned to limestone.
Puerto Rico and Cuba are volcanic in origin. The grand old houses of Miami have clay tile roofs. Tiles made and fired in old Cuba and sent over by boat. There is near zero clay in Florida. Just a little in north Florida.
Not to worry. Captain Bailout (disguised as nobama the arrogant) stands ready to save them.
There are about 320,000 Icelanders. I think, so far, most are unaffected by the ash or flooding. The ash is blowing away from Iceland presently.
It's a whole new story if Katla blows though...And, it has done so the last three times this one has erupted. There could be more 'sparks' in the future.
so maybe you can fly from Germany to Holland without engine failure?
Now, volunteers to try transatlantic?
By Jimmy Buffet
Ground she’s movin’ under me
Tidal waves out on the sea
Sulphur smoke up in the sky
Pretty soon we learn to fly
Chorus:
Let me hear ya now I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Now my girl quickly say to me
Mon you better watch your feet
Lava come down soft and hot
You better lava me now or lava me not
Chorus:
Let me say now I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Oh great. Let’s think about that for a minute.
Rahm, “never let a crisis go to waste.”
Airlines in a financial crisis, stranded citizens in foreign lands, and no plan B to get them home.
DC, more bailout money and another reason to control air travel.
Somewhere on another thread I heard they were losing 200,000,000 a day.
I don’t think “a lot” of Icelanders are homeless, but “a lot” of them are hunkered down inside buildings with their livestock (who must be getting hungry and thirsty)
I haven’t heard a single news person try to pronounce the name of this volcano.
How long before we bail out Europe?
like the Russian plane that defied restriction and bolted from Moscow to Rome at low altitiude- and had to coast in to land?
I have friends headed to Sam's to stock-up even now. They're bringing me ten pounds of pre-cooked (dried) bacon to go with the beans/peas I already have.
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