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From: Mark Brader on 15 Apr 2010 18:26 William Black: >> Currently all planes have been grounded in the UK, Ireland, the >> Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, France is >> about to ground everything. >> >> Details at: >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8623534.stm Evelyn Gamble: > 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"!!! To be fair, at that time there was only only the eruption itself to report on, and volcanoes in Iceland aren't exactly big news. The international impact happened today (Thursday). -- Mark Brader "He'll spend at least part of his life Toronto in prison, or parliament, or both." msb(a)vex.net --Peter Moylan
From: Mark Brader on 15 Apr 2010 18:27 >> Is that going to affect travel to Germany in the immediate future? > > Not if you take take the train. Oh yeah? How many additional people are going to be dumped onto the railway system? -- Mark Brader, Toronto | A driver I know is getting uncomfortably close to msb(a)vex.net | earning the nickname "Crash". --Lee Ayrton
From: erilar on 15 Apr 2010 18:28 In article <h63fs5lebec306s19ab0rv5gnsqut7rkq6(a)4ax.com>, Hatunen <hatunen(a)cox.net> wrote: > 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 prefer trains, but there's too much water between the US and Germany. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: Hatunen on 15 Apr 2010 18:47 On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:04:33 +0200, Martin <me(a)address.invalid> wrote: >On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:22:20 -0700, Hatunen <hatunen(a)cox.net> wrote: > >>On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:44:23 +0200, Martin <me(a)address.invalid> >>wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:02:11 -0700, Hatunen <hatunen(a)cox.net> wrote: >>> >>>>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. >>> >>>and fly via Madrid? >> >>Why would you fly via Madrid to get to Germany if you're taking >>the train? > >How else will she get from the US to Europe? > >Most of Northern Europe is closed to air travel. Duh. I got the idea in my head she was travelling from the UK. Never mind... But the train is still a good idea if the ash stays. -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
From: d4g4h4 on 15 Apr 2010 18:48
Surreyman <alandavid.spencer(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > No air flights not nowhere in or out of the UK today. > Total chaos of course. > I live near Heathrow and at 5.30 p.m. the skies are sunny, clear and > blue. > Where's that volcanic fall-out then? > Did someone hit the panic button too soon, too hard? No. But, I'm glad I arrived back from Peru (via Amsterdam) yesterday, not today- we'd have been waiting there the whole weekend (as half ourluggage is!) -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "[Do you think the world learned anything from the first world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009) |