Volcano grounds European air flights...may last for months!

[2Xtreme21]

My boss and half my team are stuck in Germany.. Might be a fun few months. 😛

 

[Matthiasa]

There are still boats. 😛

 

[2Xtreme21]

There are still boats. 😛

I'll pass thanks.

 

[Matthiasa]

Eh boats are a tad bit safer these days.

 

[Eli]

My fiancee's boss is stuck in Switzerland because of this. Oh well, more overtime for her. 😀

 

[MrMatt]

Hmmmm first Iceland refuses to pay back that international debt...and now this

 

[Red Squirrel]

time for
titanic II

Actually they will have a cruise in 2012, ironicly, in memory of the Titanic. Would be interesting to actually go on there but the tickets are thousands, and almost all sold out already!


One of my previous coworkers when I worked at helpdesk went to vacation in India recently and he's also being delayed because of a volcano. I don't think it's the same one though, just a coincidence. He might actually be back already, I'm not sure.

Still crazy how far the ashes spread out though. 😱

 

[Red Squirrel]

My boss and half my team are stuck in Germany.. Might be a fun few months. 😛

Actually think most people just have to take the positive side of this. Basically a free vacation lol. I'm sure people wont get fired because they physically can't get back to work, may as well enjoy it lol.

 

[Nemesis 1]

As long as the wind keeps blowing towards EU . Its all good

 

[Locut0s]

As long as the wind keeps blowing towards EU . Its all good

It's likely to as winds in that part of the Atlantic tend to blow to the north-east.

 

[Modular]

umm all of them, because im pretty sure thats gonna just kill everyone

Yup. If Yellowstone goes, we all go.

 

[Locut0s]

Yup. If Yellowstone goes, we all go.

I think the Human race would still survive. We might be reduced to some hundreds of thousands or so but I think we would make it. But yeah all of us in North America might be fucked.

 

[Mardeth]

My father is stuck in Germany. Has to take a rental and drive 1000+ miles and then take a ferry. Mean while, my parents had bought tickets to this fancy ball and so that the tickets wouldnt go to waste, I had to rent a tuxedo and be my mothers date, escort, whatever....

 

[nageov3t]

what's the likelihood that we end up having a cold spring/summer because of this?

 

[Locut0s]

what's the likelihood that we end up having a cold spring/summer because of this?

Depends on the actual volume of ash released. For example the last eruption that probably had any significant effect was the Mt Pinatubo eruption in 1991. That lifted 10 billion tonnes of ash into the atmosphere and made for cooler weather that year world wide. I don't think this eruption is anywhere near that big.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pinatubo

 

[Brovane]

Looks like Obama canceled his trip to Poland for the Former President's funeral.

 

[nageov3t]

Looks like Obama canceled his trip to Poland for the Former President's funeral.

are you saying he... forgot Poland? 😱

 

[shortylickens]

ICELANDS REVENGE!!

I kid, I kid!
No seriously, they figured out how to set them off, and how to make extra ash just for England.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Yup. If Yellowstone goes, we all go.

Speak for yourself.

 

[Locut0s]

Speak for yourself.

Even NZ wouldn't be sitting pretty with over 1000 cubic kilometres of ash in the atmosphere. Nuclear winter x 1000. Crops would fail world wide.

 

[marvdmartian]

what's the likelihood that we end up having a cold spring/summer because of this?

Not to worry........global warming will save us!! :thumbsup: