Random thread: Where's your postcount now, (tpd) bitch

[Naylzie]

That is AWESOME.  I mean that in the awe-inspiring, original sense of the word.  Whoa.  I hope nothing too dangerous comes of it.  How close are you to it? 

[Hydra]

I'm very far away, about 300 km (185 miles) or so.  There isn't any danger I think, we are well prepared for this sort of thing.  It depends on the size of the eruption of course, but this particular one erupted in 2004 last and that wasn't very big.  There might be some property damage and the ashfall in the neigbourhood will be a bitch.  The biggest question is how large the flood will be, since it is a volcano under a glacier there is always a flood that follows some hours after it starts and sometimes they can be seriously big and terrifying.  There hasn't been a casualty due to volcanoes or earthquakes here in decades. 
The ironic part is that it is in a similar area as the Eyjafjallajökull one so I feel sorry for the farmers there.

This is part of why I love this country, things are never dull!  The earth is never still.

~hydra

[kristin]

Scary picture, but beautiful!

[Aaron]

Ya that pic is amazing. But very bad at the same time. Crazy stuff. Hope everyone is alright...

[chimera]

if you're saying i gotta share libby with you and sunna all at once... well, i say get me my camcorder, because rapture is indeed here

STFU SLUT
Y'all seem to forget that Libs is my girlfriend. 

Is anyone else expecting The Hand of God to come out of that cloud?  You might want to watch out for that, Sunna. 

[threatsicle]

A picture taken this evening.

WOW.

[threatsicle]

I've been working on set for these Nat Geo specials lately and today's callsheet called for "Roman orgies" -- on the day of the rapture. Found that quite hilarious.

[dee]

That's beautiful Sunna. I love erupting volcanoes, so long as I'm not in the ash and/or flood path. 

when I'm in the US, I live about 60 miles from Mt St Helens 

[Hydra]

Yeah that picture is awesome and I totally agree with you Julie, I have to watch out for the hand of god in this one.

It looks like this one is bigger than the last one, and might even be bigger than Eyjafjallajökull.  One of our most famous reporter said that it was the biggest one he had ever seen, and he has seen 23 of them.  It isn't looking so good at the moment, there is a whole lot of ash in the area.  The plume could be seen from Reykjavík last night but today all you can see when you look in that direction is just mist, which means ASH.  I'm going to see if I can drive closer to it today.

This is a picture taken this morning close to the volcano.  It should have been a bright and sunny morning but it looks like dusk.


~hydra

[rokken like dokken]

I've been working on set for these Nat Geo specials lately and today's callsheet called for "Roman orgies" -- on the day of the rapture. Found that quite hilarious.

How did that go, anyway?

[TPD]

holy god, that's awe-inducing.

stay safe sunna... 'tween the volcanoes and polar bears iceland is like the new adventureland of the world.

[kristin]

Yes, please stay safe. I can't imagine being near a volcano.

[luna]

That first shot is amazing hydra!

Random: I'm currently on tpd's favorite mass transit system...it's not nearly as awesome as he thinks it is

[Hydra]

Thanks guys, I am perfectly safe.

I didn't go near the volcano today as I had planned due to the fact that this eruption is a whole lot more powerful that the last one (Eyjafjallajökull) and there is pretty much nothing to see due to an enormous ash cloud covering everything.  The cloud itself got to Reykjavík about an hour ago (last time it never got this far).  It isn't dense though, just like a sandstorm or something, or perhaps just a bad pollution day in an average European city.
I'm going to stay indoors as much as I can because the air is kind of gritty and probably not that healthy for long periods of time.  Will be fun to clean my car when this is over. 

~hydra

[rokken like dokken]

That first shot is amazing hydra!

Random: I'm currently on tpd's favorite mass transit system...it's not nearly as awesome as he thinks it is

If it's the skytrain, I agree - but it's miles better than Calgary or Edmonton.  Edmonton's is so top-notch, its rail transit doesn't even stop at its number-one attraction!