Thursday, April 15, 2010

UPDATE ON VOLANCO NEWS IN EUROPE: ALL airports in Northern Europe shut down! Flights from US are cancelled

FORCE OF NATURE
ON DISPLAY
IN EUROPE

Breaking News
By Randy Economy
http://www.economy4abc.blogspot.com/
Thursday, April 15, 2010
11:33 a.m.  PST

LONDON, UK -

If you are planning a trip across the Pond on Thursday or Friday from LAX or JFK in NYC you might want to check with your airline to see if you will be able to actually get you to Northern Europe.  Flights into all of Northern Europe are now being cancelled due to the massive volcano eruption in Iceland.

Photo from the Icelandic Coast Guard.
(Yes, they do HAVE an "ICELANDIC COAST GUARD!")

Here's the scoop.  A massive ash clouds have drifted from Iceland's erupting volcano has now disrupted air traffic across Northern Europe Thursday, forcing airports to close and the cancelation of hundreds of flights in Britain, Ireland and the Nordic countries.


In Iceland, hundreds have fled from floodwaters rising since the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier erupted Wednesday for the second time in less than a month. As water gushed down the mountainside, rivers had risen by up to 10 feet by Wednesday night.

The volcano was sending up smoke and ash that posed "a significant safety threat to aircraft," Britain's National Air Traffic Service said, as visibility is compromised and debris can get sucked into airplane engines.

So.  The Planet Earth trumps again.

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