<p>Nature can still disrupt modern life. </p>
<p>[U.K</a>. Shuts Airports as Icelandic Eruption Chokes Europe?s Skies - BusinessWeek](<a href=“Businessweek - Bloomberg”>Businessweek - Bloomberg)</p>
<p>I should rephrase…ANOTHER way that nature can still disrupt modern life.</p>
<p>Airports will close all over northern europe in fact I think the Netherlands is closed.</p>
<p>I wonder if we’ll have global cooling as a result of this like we had with Mt. Pinatubo.</p>
<p>S and school group was supposed to be leaving for Paris today…cancelled 
. Original flight from Bradley (CT) to O’Hare, then to Paris. They never left CT, although the first flight still went. They are trying to make arrangements to take a bus to Newark on Sunday, and fly over then. It’s a shame, they’ve lost 3 days of their itinerary - I don’t THINK the return date has changed (though still not firm plans).</p>
<p>I feel SO BAD for him. They’ve waited over a year for this trip (last year’s trip pushed to this year).</p>
<p>My son is in Europe, his return flight is on BA so he’ll have to change in Heathrow. He’s not leaving until late April/early May, but vulcanologists have no idea how long this will last - it could be weeks or months. :(</p>
<p>He keeps changing his return plans, he wants to travel after his semester ends but it looks like this could be a lot more expensive than I thought. I might have to tell him to forget it, he’s just coming home when he was supposed to. IF he can get home…</p>
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<p>Why should it? This is a relatively small eruption, the only reason its getting so much press is because of high pressure sitting over Europe has caused the ash cloud to drift much further than it normally would; and thus causing so much travel chaos.</p>
<p>My contact on the ground in London said this afternoon that the light looked subtly “glittery” but no darker than usual. Just so happens that the ash cloud is at flight-pattern altitude and over some major fly-ways.
I loved the quote from someone stuck in Glasgow “It’s not too bad, but all in all I’d prefer to be stranded on a beach in Mexico.”</p>
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Well, it could if it’s enough of an eruption but I really haven’t checked to see how big this one is in terms of ash. It’ll also depend on how long the ash is spewed and how far it disperses. Pinatubo was an extra large eruption though but it sure gave us fantastic sunsets here for a while (even better than the usual nice ones).</p>
<p>The volcanos on the Big Island of Hawaii have been erupting for a very long time (one for decades now) and doesn’t appear to have affected its climate.</p>
<p>^^ But they’re not spewing a lot of ash - hardly any.</p>
<p>They’re still spewing literally TONS of gases and other stuff into the air on a daily basis!</p>