Coming To America: The Big Volcanic Ash Plume

The Business Insider ^ | 4-18-2010 | Joe Weisenthal

[redhead]

"Or an Eschoir Alert...now I am dating myself here."

Misty-eyed nostalgia here...

[o_zarkman44]

A crisis that Odooma could be waiting for?

[AD from SpringBay]

Class of ‘98. Been a long time since I’ve seen one of them.

[Cyber Liberty]

Good article. I call the two volcanoes, “the small one with the large name” and “the large one with the small name.” Apparently there is “an even larger one with an even smaller name.”

[jessduntno]

“After all they’re both ash holes.”

Hahahaha...Algore is MUCH bigger...and a greater blow hard...

[Cyber Liberty]

My only question is, how do you pronounce Eyjafjallajökull?

It won't help.

From my local paper: “ay-yah-FYAH’-plah-yer-kuh-duhl”

[spokeshave]

"just this weird winter weed and wild thyme. AAAARRRRGGGGGG!"

You got wild thyme....

has medicinal uses...

see Medical Herbalism by Hoffmann page 589

Dictionary of Medicinal Plants by Chevallier page 142

[Cyber Liberty]

Hey...

[vigilante2]

You can be certain the rats are thinking about it!

[Tex-Con-Man]

Or an Eschoir Alert...now I am dating myself here.

Some of us lurked a loooong time before we signed up...and we get it too.

[Mariner]

When St Helens blew up, I had 1/2in ash on my car...on GUAM.

[dennisw]

There's an article, Iceland volcano: Why a cloud of ash has grounded flights which describes the June 1982 incident of a BA 747 barely surviving an encounter with an ash cloud from an eruption of Gallunggung in West Java.

I read the wiki entry on that BA 747 flight a few days ago. Yours is the first thing that makes me think this is much ado about nothing. All airlines are terrified because a crash will have victims suing into the billions. Callous disregard and all that stuff

[dennisw]

WIKI

Loki =Laki (volcano)

Loki as depicted on an 18th century Icelandic manuscript

In Norse mythology, Loki is a god or jötunn (or both). Loki’s relation with the gods varies by source. Loki assists the gods, and sometimes causes problems for them. Loki is a shape shifter and in separate incidents he appears in the form of a salmon and a mare. Loki’s positive relations with the gods ends with his role in engineering the death of the god Baldr. Loki is eventually bound by the gods with the entrails of one of his sons. A serpent drips venom from above him that his wife Sigyn collects into a bowl. However, Sigyn must empty the bowl when it is full, and the venom that drips in the mean time causes Loki to writhe in pain, thereby causing earthquakes. During the events of Ragnarök, Loki is foretold to fight against the gods among the forces of the jötnar. There, he will encounter the god Heimdallr and the two will slay each other.

[dennisw]

Your critique is directed at the awful reporters we have that despised all science courses when in college. How are they going to write about a volcano without getting carried away? They get all hyped and emotional at natures fireworks display

[lonestar]

I think a lot of the “stuff” is above rain clouds...so it doesn’t help.

[Global2010]

Is he still on the internet in some form?

I think about Micheal Rivero sometimes.

[Global2010]

True very, true.

[Global2010]

Hope you are way off the mark.

This is the best warm and sunny winter we have had in years on the Oregon coast.

Two years prior snow/ice well into May.

[Diver Dave]

LOL!!! I’m just a noob, But that comment was GRATE!

[Global2010]

King Vanity and I signed up in 98.

the year we discovered the internet and still have the same webtv. to access it. ha!

Good tool to have on the homebound days.