Volcanic Ash Causing European Travel Problems

Darat said:
I'm sure we will manage but if it goes on for a couple of days we will start to notice the knock-on effect, for example no green beans from Kenya by the weekend (I know not a necessity but it's a good example), these are usually flown in, sent to the distribution centres and sent on to the supermarkets in about 36 hours.
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Sorry, but I can't seem to think of anything essential that we can't do without for a few days, or even weeks. Mainly because those essential things are normally safety stocked, to allow for just such situations (although things like strikes are more likely scenarios, but with similar effects).

Green beans, indeed! :rolleyes:

On the bright side, we will at least defer some massive CO2 emissions ....

Hans
 
MRC_Hans said:
Sorry, but I can't seem to think of anything essential that we can't do without for a few days, or even weeks.
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What does the military do in a situation like this? For the sake of national security you can't have a whole nation's air force grounded.
 
Ryanair will be charging extra....."Compulsory Airborne Ash Excess" or somesuch.
 
Aye, we live under one of the high altitude transatlantic flight paths (planes usually mere specks) and have a strangely clear sky. Not complaining, mind.
 
Cork airport was open for most of the day. Though not many flights operated.
My current project has about twenty staff from mainland Europe who'll be spending the weekend here in Dublin. Looks like the distillery tour'll be full on Saturday.....

My old tutor from my undergraduate days, who's a vulcanologist and hence spends little time in college, was annoyed to have missed the eruption.
 
Apparently, one of the biggest problems is that particulates in the ash is solidifying into glass when it gets high enough (and cold enough), and glass and airplane engines don't mix. How odd though, because I would imagine those little bits of glass will eventually fall to earth. I wonder if that's a factor in the "pretty sunset" phenomenon.
 
I was out delivering election leaflets until 8 o'clock, and the sky was perfectly clear. I didn't see any red in the sunset at all.

Wow. They don't call that housing estate "midge valley" for no reason....

Rolfe.
 
It might have been red here but it was difficult to see through the cloud.
 
The Mutha said:
I have a work friend in Aberdeen right now on his honeymoon. They are scheduled to fly out on Monday to Amsterdam connecting to Houston. I'm sure they'd not be all that upset if they couldn't get out for a few more days...
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If they're honeymooning in Aberdeen then they surely have bigger problems than mere volcanic eruptions!
 
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