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From: EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) on 17 Apr 2010 14:43 Martin wrote: > On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:23:22 +0100, "Mike" <checkedmonthly(a)live.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:58:43 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Trains are a good idea even after the ash leaves. >> more civilised than planes but problematic for the sea, i use car >> ferries nowadays > > Us too for decades. Be grateful you have the option! (Ferry service from the American continents would be somewhat impractical.);-)
From: EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) on 17 Apr 2010 14:47 JohnT wrote: > > "Hatunen" <hatunen(a)cox.net> wrote in message > news:h63fs5lebec306s19ab0rv5gnsqut7rkq6(a)4ax.com... >> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:29:16 -0500, erilar >> <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: >> >>> >>> Is that going to affect travel to Germany in the immediate future? >> >> Not if you take take the train. >> > > I think that she lives somewhere remote (Minnesota or Wisconsin?) and > train services from there to Berlin are not all that frequent. True enough in terms of frequency, but I suspect Minnesotans and Wisconsonians might take exception to that "somewhere remote"! :-)
From: EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) on 17 Apr 2010 15:06 Jean O'Boyle wrote: > "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message > news:hqaoab01c8k(a)news4.newsguy.com... >> >> Jean O'Boyle wrote: >>> "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message >>> news:hq81gq04tv(a)news6.newsguy.com... >>>> Wow! I realize the U.S. (especially the state of Arizona) is decidedly >>>> insular, but you'd think something with that much international impact > >>>> would at least have been MENTIONED on Wednesday's "Nightly News"!!! We >>>> got plenty of rehashing of political issues and the state's "budget >>>> crisis", along with local crime news. Nary a WORD about Icelandic >>>> volcanoes! Interesting that the news story mentions the effects of an >>>> 1821 eruption lasting for two years - that was before jet aircraft. How >>>> might a similar situation affect worldwide air travel, now? >>> >>> You apparently have not been watching the right newcasts... >> And you obviously do not live in Arizona! There was SOME coverage today > > >> on MSNBC (including an interview with a geologist), but most of what I >> could find on CNN and FOX and other cable sources were their syndicated >> talking heads with commentary on whatever they comment about. (Whatever >> happened to the cable news channels that broadcast ONLY news - "in depth", >> but NEWS, not comment?) > > > No, I don't reside in Arizona, but if you had watched Fox News as you say, > you would have known that they broke into their regular programming with a > news alert regarding the volcano erupting in Iceland. Shepard Smith during > his evening news hour on Fox, covers the world news quite well including > what is happening to the poor people in Mongolia. I learn much more about > what is happening in the world by listening to him than to any other news > programs. He reports the news....does not try to interpret it as if the > viewers did not have brains to understand it themselves. > > --Jean Well, I only refer to FOX news as a last resort - I consider their political emphasis a disgrace to an allegedly "free" country, so avoid FOX in the interest of my blood pressure. I only looked there when channel-surfing for news of the volcano, and NONE of the channels available here had any news about the eruption when it happened. (I speak of Wednesday, you evidently were monitoring things on Thursday - evidently you have more time to watch TV than I do.) > >
From: EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) on 17 Apr 2010 15:10 William Black wrote: > EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote: > (Whatever >> happened to the cable news channels that broadcast ONLY news - "in >> depth", but NEWS, not comment?) > > You obviously can't get BBC NEWS Only via the Internet (and I think we foreigners must pay to subscribe). >
From: aquachimp on 17 Apr 2010 15:15
On Apr 17, 8:42 pm, Hatunen <hatu...(a)cox.net> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:26:55 -0700 (PDT), aquachimp > > > > <aquach...(a)aquachimp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > >On Apr 17, 12:14 pm, Martin <m...(a)address.invalid> wrote: > >> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:27:31 +0200, Wolfgang Schwanke <s...(a)sig.nature> wrote: > >> >"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgm...(a)earthlink.net> > >> >wrote innews:hq81gq04tv(a)news6.newsguy.com: > > >> >> Interesting that the news story mentions the effects of an > >> >> 1821 eruption lasting for two years - that was before jet aircraft. How > >> >> might a similar situation affect worldwide air travel, now? > > >> >That was probably about the climatic effect. It's unlikely that > >> >aviation will be affected longer than a couple of days. > > >> It is already longer than a couple of days :o) > >> -- > > >> Martin > > >& what my wife wants to know is "how will Obama go to Poland for the > >funeral?" > > He didn't. "Didn't" is past tense; The funeral is tomorrow (-: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/17/poland.president.funeral/index.html?section=cnn_latest "... other key leaders who planned to attend, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Obama, still faced possible cancellations due to the ash. The White House said Obama was scheduled to depart from Andrews Air Force Base late Saturday, but officials were still monitoring the situation" This begs the question as to whether "late Saturday" refers to local time, which would mean they have quite a few hours yet to decide; And besides, why not sneak around the back of the path of the dust unto Russia and down to Poland? .. > > -- > ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatu...(a)cox.net) ************* > * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * > * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |