NO flights in or out of UK as ash from Icelandic volcano leaves thousands

[Raineyrocks]

Britain cut off from the world: NO flights in or out of UK as ash from Icelandic volcano leaves thousands stranded
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:28 AM on 15th April 2010
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All British airports will be closed from 12pm today as vast plumes of volcanic ash from Iceland forced the cancellation of thousands of flights.
In an unprecedented move which will leave hundreds of thousands of travellers stranded, British airspace will not reopen until at least 6pm.

The disruption will have a devastating impact on families returning from the Easter holidays who were due to fly back to Britain this weekend.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266038/Iceland-volcano-erupts-second-time-month-forcing-new-evacuation-tourists.html#ixzz0lBj5ZIRE


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266038/Iceland-volcano-erupts-second-time-month-forcing-new-evacuation-tourists.html#ixzz0lBj5cKkc

[Raineyrocks]

This is strange, I wonder if it's connected in any way. 


Volcanic Ash is supposedly to blame for grounding a significant portion of Air Travel throughout Europe.

All flights in and out of the UK and several other European countries have been suspended as ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland moves south. Up to 4,000 flights are being cancelled with airspace closed in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark among others.

The UK's air traffic control service (Nats) said no flights would be allowed in UK airspace until at least 0700 BST on Friday amid fears of engine damage.The airspace restriction was the worst in living memory, a spokesman said.
largest NATO military drills is being held today, rather conveniently while volcanic ash is keeping all commercial aircraft on the ground around the U.K. That won't stop one of the world's largest military exercises from going forward though.

A large fleet of warships, submarines, frigates and aircraft from 10 NATO countries and one non-NATO member has congregated here to take part in the 'Brilliant Mariner' maritime exercise in the Baltic Sea.

The 10-day long multi-nation naval drill began here on April 12, 2010. It will engage the NATO forces to respond to a number of challenges, including asymmetric or terrorist threats, maritime security operations and embargo operations "in a realistic scenario," a NATO statement said.
The exercise will see participation of 6,500 defence personnel, 31 warships, 28 aircraft and four submarines that will operate in the Northern European waters and airspace.

The French Navy, which is commanding the maritime exercise, has sent 10 of its warships and 30 aircraft.

Its naval fleet includes aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, amphibious warship Mistral, under-attack submarine Emeraude along with other frigates. The aviation fleet includes Mirage fighter aircraft, Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft and Atlantique 2 maritime patrol aircraft along with other planes.

The countries participating in the huge military drill are Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, USA, France, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom and Sweden. Sweden, a non-NATO member, is taking part in the exercise as a 'Partnership for Peace'
http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2010/0...ills-continue/

[Raineyrocks]

Interesting, does anyone know how accurate Cayce's predictions have been?

Edgar Cayce predicts tribulations will start after volcanic eruption in Iceland and heavy earthquakes in South America. After volcanic eruptions in Iceland watch more and more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, one of the places the next volcanic activity will happen : Italy and Greece.

"The so called endtime and earth changes will start with the great shaking of South America and the eruption of a volcano in Iceland. "If there are greater activities in (the volcanoes) on Iceland, Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere." Americas westcoast will be destroyed. The widespread destruction in Los Angeles and San Francisco as well in many portions of the westcoast will occur. Earth changes will occur in the central portion of the United States as well."

Here's another interesting link:  http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-...-italy-report/

[MaineShark]

Interesting, does anyone know how accurate Cayce's predictions have been?

Edgar Cayce predicts tribulations will start after volcanic eruption in Iceland and heavy earthquakes in South America. After volcanic eruptions in Iceland watch more and more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, one of the places the next volcanic activity will happen : Italy and Greece.

"The so called endtime and earth changes will start with the great shaking of South America and the eruption of a volcano in Iceland. "If there are greater activities in (the volcanoes) on Iceland, Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere." Americas westcoast will be destroyed. The widespread destruction in Los Angeles and San Francisco as well in many portions of the westcoast will occur. Earth changes will occur in the central portion of the United States as well."

Predicting things that are almost certainly going to happen is pretty easy.  Earrthquakes in South America and volcanoes in Iceland are not exactly rare events.  It's very easy to "predict" them and be proven "right."

Joe

[Raineyrocks]

Interesting, does anyone know how accurate Cayce's predictions have been?

Edgar Cayce predicts tribulations will start after volcanic eruption in Iceland and heavy earthquakes in South America. After volcanic eruptions in Iceland watch more and more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, one of the places the next volcanic activity will happen : Italy and Greece.

"The so called endtime and earth changes will start with the great shaking of South America and the eruption of a volcano in Iceland. "If there are greater activities in (the volcanoes) on Iceland, Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes. But these are to be more in the Southern than the Northern Hemisphere." Americas westcoast will be destroyed. The widespread destruction in Los Angeles and San Francisco as well in many portions of the westcoast will occur. Earth changes will occur in the central portion of the United States as well."

Predicting things that are almost certainly going to happen is pretty easy.  Earrthquakes in South America and volcanoes in Iceland are not exactly rare events.  It's very easy to "predict" them and be proven "right."

Joe

Good points, thanks! 

[Friday]

The prediction was as follows:

...If there are greater activities in (the volcanoes) on Iceland, Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes.

That's pretty darned specific.  Within 3 months, the prediction will be proven true or false.

[Lloyd Danforth]

If I owned stock in Levi's or Rice a roni, I'd short them!

[Raineyrocks]

The prediction was as follows:

...If there are greater activities in (the volcanoes) on Iceland, Vesuvius or Pelee, then the southern coast of California and the areas between Salt Lake and the southern portions of Nevada, we may expect, within the three months following same, inundation by the earthquakes.

That's pretty darned specific.  Within 3 months, the prediction will be proven true or false.

Yikes, I skimmed over that part when I was reading it.  Edgar was an interestingly strange guy and I hope he was wrong of course. 

[Raineyrocks]

If I owned stock in Levi's or Rice a roni, I'd short them!

What do you mean?

[Friday]

If I owned stock in Levi's or Rice a roni, I'd short them!

What do you mean?

Levi's and Rice-a-roni are (supposedly) both California products.  So if you owned stock in either of them, and thought there was a chance that California was going to (finally!) sink into the sea soon, you'd want to "short" them.  "Short" is an investment term which I'm not even going to attempt to explain; just go with it, rainey. 

[Raineyrocks]

If I owned stock in Levi's or Rice a roni, I'd short them!

What do you mean?

Levi's and Rice-a-roni are (supposedly) both California products.  So if you owned stock in either of them, and thought there was a chance that California was going to (finally!) sink into the sea soon, you'd want to "short" them.  "Short" is an investment term which I'm not even going to attempt to explain; just go with it, rainey. 

Oh, I get it now, thanks Friday! 

[Friday]

This is really quite a story.     Check this out:

The paralysis that began in London and Paris soon spread to Hong Kong and Tokyo, to Nairobi and Buenos Aires, and to New York and both of the Washington area's international airports. It was, by all accounts, one of the most bizarre acts of nature ever to constrict world travel, and it grounded tens of thousands of passengers internationally.

Until the eruption, which began last month, Iceland's long volcanic history was little known beyond trivia games, but as that legacy surfaced Thursday, so did news that the last time the Eyjafjallajokull volcano exploded -- 187 years ago -- the eruptions went on for more than a year.

Officials were at a loss to predict how long it would take for the ash to dissipate or for flights to resume.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/15/AR2010041500560_pf.html

[Lloyd Danforth]

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/04/15/rick-sanchez-too-cold-iceland-have-volcano-there

Rick Sanchez: 'Too Cold' in Iceland 'To Have a Volcano There'

Thu, 04/15/2010 - 18:37 ET

On Thursday's Rick's List, CNN's Rick Sanchez again demonstrated his lack of knowledge of basic science, again related to geology. As he covered the volcanic eruption in Iceland which has disrupted thousands of airplane flights across Europe, he commented that "when you think of a volcano, you think of Hawaii and long words like that. You don't think of Iceland. You think it's too cold to have a volcano there"

The anchor, who asked on-air, "By the way, nine meters in English is?" after the massive earthquake in Chile on February 27, directed his "too cold" remark to CNN on-air meteorologist Chad Myers, who also reports on other science-related stories. Myers didn't get into details of plate tectonics as footage of the volcano played on-screen, but explained that "a plume of ash [was] coming out of the top of [a] volcano, going straight up."

Sanchez then asked about one of the details in the video: "What's that white stuff though? It looks like clouds." The meteorologist replied, "That's just a cloud....The volcano is going off, but there's just regular weather happening underneath it. This thing is going tens of thousands of feet in the sky, and it is going right into the flight path of an awful lot of airplanes."


Rick, I know that you didn't know that it was pro-lifers that were taking part in the March for Life in January, and that you have trouble with metric conversion, but let me explain something to you. Plate tectonics is completely independent of climate. There are volcanoes in Alaska, the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, and even in Antarctica [Alaska and Antarctica links courtesy of fellow NewsBuster Noel Sheppard]. There are even volcanoes at the bottom of the ocean.

The relevant transcript from the last segment of Thursday's Rick's List program, starting at the 4:57 pm Eastern mark:

    Rick Sanchez, CNN Anchor | NewsBusters.orgSANCHEZ: I was just asking Chad, how can you get a volcano in Iceland? [Myers laughs]. Isn't it too- when you think of a volcano, you think of Hawaii and long words like that. You don't think of Iceland.

    MYERS: Right.

    SANCHEZ: You think it's too cold to have a volcano there. But no! There it is.

    MYERS: Look at that.

    SANCHEZ: What is this? Explain-

    MYERS: That is a-

    SANCHEZ: Go- take us through these pictures.

    MYERS: That is a plume of ash coming out of the top of [a] volcano, going straight up. Tens-

    SANCHEZ: What's that white stuff though? It looks like clouds.

    MYERS: Tens of thousands- that's just a cloud.

    SANCHEZ: Oh, okay.

    MYERS: Yeah. The volcano is going off, but there's just regular weather happening underneath it. This thing is going tens of thousands of feet in the sky, and it is going right into the flight path of an awful lot of airplanes


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/04/15/rick-sanchez-too-cold-iceland-have-volcano-there#ixzz0lGEmx9dq

[Raineyrocks]

Could this have anything to do with a magnetic pole shift?  Seriously, I don't know.    It's scary!

[Friday]

It's a volcano;  volcanos erupt.   

The thing is, this is the first time this has happened since airplanes became a necessary part of modern life.  Who knows what the impact will be on business, mail delivery, manufacturing, the travel industry...

I'm not going to mention the epic fireball that flew across several midwestern states last night, for fear of really making you paranoid....