1 Hotels are enjoying the high demand at the moment.

Broken window gain?

2 Earthquakes in China, Chile, Haiti, California, massive volcanic eruption in Iceland. Is the Earth's crust making some major moves?

3 It might be a good time to invest in blimps and cruise liners for trans-Atlantic travel. Hey, if economically and politically we've regressed to the 1930s, might as well have a revival of period travel methods as well.

4 At some point, governments are going to reexamine the factors that led to closing the airports. Is there a danger?

I thought we had settled that yesterday. YES, it is too dangerous to fly through this crap.

5 So, does the UN Climate Change Panel give the volcano a CO₂ break, like India and China?
Or do we have to go all nuclear on it and cork it up with Al Gore?

6

Good analysis as usual Gabe.

Too bad the eco-tards won't even consider how much even one volcano can disrupt a great many things. 

But here's another way they'll exploit it - with that assinine theory that is the polar ice caps melt, it'll cause even more volcanic activity (which was debunked pretty handily at WUWT).

7 We haven't heard from George Orwell in a long time. Anyone?

8 Anybody come out of this better than when they started?

I'm looking better and better.

9 BAILOUT!!!!!

10 We ought to make volcanic eruptions illegal.

11 The Volcano acted stupidly.

12 They are saying cabbies are making thousands for just a single run over there. I'm jealous of course

13 I think this proves the AGW meme once and for all.

14

13 I think this proves the AGW meme once and for all.

Indeed.  And that all volcanic eruptions must be capped and taxed.  Say, how does cap volcanic eruptions?  And who does the bill go to, Gaia?

15 It might be a good time to invest in blimps and cruise liners for trans-Atlantic travel.

Release the dirigibles !!

16 So how does this benefit Mitt Romney?

17 Gaia must hate Europe.

18 The Volcano acted stupidly. Posted by: Sam at April 19, 2010 10:30 AM (Cxsey) not from the Volcano's point of view

19 Nobody cares about the scandis?

20
Barack's golf game is getting better.

21 I inherited this volcano from the previous administration.

22 Did you notice how monochromatic that ash looked?

23 Don't worry about Europe.  They'll rise again from the ashes - to find themselves an Islamic continent.

24 See? We passed HealthCare just in time.

25 The mold builder for our underwater fixtures is stuck in Switzerland.

In WWII my dad was in Italy when Vesuvius was erupting.  He suggested to the base commander that they move their planes but was ignored.  The ash settled on the planes and then it rained, turning it to acid.  Bye bye airframe.

26 Are we sure those ash clouds weren't photoshopped?  And where is Flat Fatima, anyway?

27
How does this help M'chelle's fat daughters?

28 Anyone notice a faint rainbow halo around the sun this morning in the South? Some atmospheric phenomena? Just wonderin.

29 The volcano has now been Mirandized and will be tried in a civilian court in Manhattan.

30 Is the Earth's crust making some major moves?

If Roland Emmerich and the Discovery Channel have taught me anything, and they have, it's that oh noes!  We're all going to diiiiiiiiieeeee!

I've been pondering this event in light of the whole Just In Time and lean push for ordering supplies.  JIT is almost totally dependent on the transportation system working without flaws.  One hiccup and there's a problem.  One event like this and it's a calamity.  I don't mean simply perishables, I'm talking paper goods, etc.  Supplies aren't being kept on hand in order to reduce costs and the like.  That's great until something like this happens.

You know, there's a reason that survival goods are now mainstream.  You cannot count on your local grocery getting supplies even if you aren't affected by the event. 

31 won't even consider how much even one volcano can disrupt a great many things.

Any chance there's a volcano lurking under D.C.?  I know, it would be a real Hail Mary...

32 You're all my bitches. How you like them apples?

33 NATO: F-16 fighters damaged by volcanic ash _{By SLOBODAN LEKIC (AP) – 3 hours ago}

BRUSSELS — A senior Western diplomat says several NATO F-16 fighters suffered engine damage after flying through the volcanic ash cloud covering large parts of Europe.

The official declined to provide more details on the military flights, except to say that glasslike deposits were found inside the planes' engines after they patroled over European airspace.[snip]

http://tinyurl.com/yykfgkm

 

34 of course if Yellowstone or Mammoth Lake ever decide to cook off, we may be in for a few economic shocks ourselves.

35 There sure seems to be a lotta shit going down with the Earth lately. Man's ego and his arrogance make him think the Earth revolves around him, when in fact, when the time comes, Earth will shake us off like a dog shakes off water after a bath.

36 You know, there's a reason that survival goods are now mainstream.  You cannot count on your local grocery getting supplies even if you aren't affected by the event. 

Posted by: alexthechick at April 19, 2010 10:45 AM (8WZWv)

Absolute truth.

37 It's good for the rug.

38
1 year supply of survival food at Costco.

39

If I have to, I'll tax that volcano out of existance.

40 We have an emergency shipment of Dust Busters at ready.

41 That's what happens when you listen to Tea Partiers.

42
o/t Democrats running cookie cutter attack ads. 

Reality:  Democrat pro-union + tax hiking policies push jobs overseas, but that won't stop the democrats from falsely accusing their opponents.

43 #35 Great analogy!

44 The economic impact will extend further than the ash cloud.

I was wondering how this is going to affect Iceland's recovery from their total collapse in 2008.  They're supposed to be paying back a percentage of GDP to the UK and Netherlands...

45 Falling ash makes it difficult for the President to read what I'm telling him to say.

46 This is all the fault of you whorish Western women.

47

This voluminous cloud of hot, steamy ash is reminiscent of what my panties were like when I first saw our dreamy President speak.  His beautful brown eyes and deep, dulcet tones caused the dust in my otherwise dried-up vagina to explode into my hot, sweaty thighs with such force that I nearly caused flight delays at Reagan International Airport. 

Back to you, Keith.

48 Global warming, my ass.

49

"Cruise" liner yerass. What's needed now is the greyhounds of the sea, SS United States and the Queens. Three days and a few hours, and you're there.

How odd that the Royal Navy had to dispatch two of its larger vessels to "rescue" Brits from the Continent. The United Kingdom has no liners. Shame. There is no trooper on the tide.

A Lockheed Constellation can fly the Atlantic underneath this cloud, just sayin. The Boeing SST and the Concordes, all of which we did not "need," easily flew above it. We had it all, and we pissed it away. Couldn't afford the upkeep. Looks cheap now, doesn't it? 

 

50

Back to you, Keith.

Aw now that's just wrong.

51 Maybe after a nice five-year eruption the western world will go back to realizing we should hate the earth. Oh good, maybe we can go back to mining coal everywhere again.

52 "1 Hotels are enjoying the high demand at the moment.

Broken window gain?

Posted by: Vic at April 19, 2010 10:24 AM (QrA9E) "

He's not arguing it's a good thing all in all, though, just that some are benefiting despite the negatives for others. On balance there couldn't be any real good out of this, given that it was unwanted by the people stranded.

53

Solar panels covered with volcanic ash don't work very well...just sayin'

 

54 Let me be clear:  if need be, I will seize complete control over everything until this all blows over.

55

Let's see: 

1:  Idiot Rick Sanchez thinks Iceland is too cold for volcanos.

        http://tinyurl.com/yyvfyn7

2:  Iceland has volcanos.

3:  Glowbull wormening has made Iceland safe for volcanos.  It's Science!!1!

56 of course if Yellowstone or Mammoth Lake ever decide to cook off, we may be in for a few economic shocks ourselves. Posted by: Jean at April 19, 2010 10:48 AM (h0rZ/) That is what the scotch, guns, and ammo I am stocking up with is for

57 54

Solar panels covered with volcanic ash don't work very well...just sayin'

It matters not. Solar radiation doesn't penetrate the ash cloud anyhoo.

58 52 Maybe after a nice five-year eruption the western world will go back to realizing we should hate the earth.

Oh good, maybe we can go back to mining coal everywhere again.

Posted by: joncelli at April 19, 2010 10:56 AM (RD7QR)

Not after I tax the coal industry out of existence.

59
@48 Nice.  Horrible, but nice.

60

It will cause unemployment to go up again. Expectedly of course.

61

That is what the scotch, guns, and ammo I am stocking up with is for

I'm teaching myself how to cook over a fire with nothing but a dutch oven, a skillet and a couple wooden spoons (one for stirrin', one for smackin' knuckles).

62 Athens's airport is not that big I was suprised by how small it was I thought that the Columbus airport is bigger.

63 Other losers:  The 500 or so people who trained for and are unable to compete in today's Boston Marathon.  That would truly suck, put in all that time and all those miles and not be able to get to the venue. 

64 I saw the SS United States at dock in Philly. It's ghostly looking but you can still see the sleekness. If somebody had the wherewithal to refurbish her they could probably make their money back and save a grand ship to boot. (Of course the big deal is the asbestos.)

65 How odd that the Royal Navy had to dispatch two of its larger vessels to "rescue" Brits from the Continent.

What happened to the Chunnel?

66 It matters not. Solar radiation doesn't penetrate the ash cloud anyhoo. Posted by: maddogg at April 19, 2010 10:58 AM (OlN4e) How does plutonium radiation effect solar cells?

67

This just in:  Next month's unexpected rise in unemployment is being blamed, in part, on the Iceland volcano.

And the chocolate rations are being increased to 30 grams!

68
I'm teaching myself how to cook over a fire with nothing but a dutch oven, a skillet

I got one of them big-ass iron skillets from Academy.   No better way to make bacon and eggs, imho.  Also makes a good melee weapon and marginal armor when carried on the back of the rucksack.

69 48

This voluminous cloud of hot, steamy ash is reminiscent of what my panties were like when I first saw our dreamy President speak.  His beautful brown eyes and deep, dulcet tones caused the dust in my otherwise dried-up vagina to explode into my hot, sweaty thighs with such force that I nearly caused flight delays at Reagan International Airport. 

Back to you, Keith.

Posted by: Andrea Mitchell at April 19, 2010 10:55 AM (IHbof)

Let me put some 3D to that.

70 alexthechick - if you ever have a free weekend - try turning off your power at the box for the whole weekend. Use the time to clean for fridge/freezer and see how you could actually get by for 3d to week w/o power. Could you open your garage, stay warm/cool, enough light to function after dark, can you still communicate and get news, etc. - you will find some surprises.

71 69
I'm teaching myself how to cook over a fire with nothing but a dutch oven, a skillet

I got one of them big-ass iron skillets from Academy.   No better way to make bacon and eggs, imho.  Also makes a good melee weapon and marginal armor when carried on the back of the rucksack.

Posted by: Dang Straights at April 19, 2010 11:03 AM (fx8sm)

Those big-ass iron skillets hurt like a mofo.

72 Somewhere Al Gore is smiling. "The ice caps might melt. I told them. I told them."

73 What % of CO2 2010 emissions will be from this volcano?

74

How does plutonium radiation effect solar cells?

I haven't a clue, but if I were to guess, I would say it would damage them quickly. Since they (the Solar cells) are designed to work with longer wavelength radiation such as infrared, and plutonium is high energy Alpha particles (among others) that would probably pass through them and damage the absorption material.

75 I thought we had settled that yesterday. YES, it is too dangerous to fly through this crap.

Yes, the science is settled.  Al Gore is an asshat.

76 Breaking: ESPN projects fewer home runs this season due to volcanic ashidized air.

77

What % of CO2 2010 emissions will be from this volcano?

not that much, but the sulphers are a bitch.

78 #65 The SS United States had all the asbestos removed a few years ago. Some French(?) company bought her and is in the process of refitting for some sort of 'express' sea travel.

79 maddogg, see you could have bought sub safe or space rated panels with that tax deduction - and maybe powered a watch.

80 BF - the damn French predicted this ...

81 See, man, this is why we need to drive hybrids, man, Look at the damage we are doing to the environment, man.....

82 alexthechick - if you ever have a free weekend - try turning off your power at the box for the whole weekend.

I'd love to but I think the other tenants in the house might be a weeee bit miffed. 

I'm slowly stocking up on gear like camp stove, fuel, rations, the small solar panels to charge smaller goods and stuff like that.  I have enough candles to last for a few decades.  I have a hand crack radio/light in the car but I need another one for the house.  I was effectively stranded in the house for four days with the blizzard last month and that helped point out some other needs.

83 Is there any reason they haven't re-routed south and dropped the routes down low from Northern Europe?

84 Oh good, maybe we can go back to mining coal everywhere again.

Woohoo!  Coal mining party at my place this weekend.  Bring your own shovels.  Couple of caveats, any bodies you find are probably just former boyfriends of my eldest daughter who mysteriously disappeared.  I of course have no idea how they ended up in my backyard and disavow any knowledge of said events.

Also, while there is no history of any major coal deposits where I live I figure if we start in a large swimming pool shape that would be awesome.  From the "research" I've done it greatly lessens the dangers of methane buildup.

85 "the other tenants in the house" - I see you have identified the first problem.

86 The important issue is how these billions of tons of ash will effect Gaia. I think we need to pass an international law to regulate the amount of ash produced by volcanoes.

87 see how you could actually get by for 3d to week w/o power.

I went for a week without power during Hugo.

88 the first time a landfill erupts in some sort of spontaneous Lithum combustion from all of those Prius batteries - are the leftys going to self-flagellate?

89 Vic - Hugo sucked. I was in Charleston, good Hurrican party, +6 months of clean-up

90 I would say it would damage them quickly. Since they (the Solar cells) are designed to work with longer wavelength radiation such as infrared, and plutonium is high energy Alpha particles (among others) that would probably pass through them and damage the absorption material.

Apha particles will not penetrate a sheet of paper. They would have no effect solar cells at all.  Alpha is considered an ingestion hazard because you have to get it inside you before it does harm.

91

I'm slowly stocking up on gear like camp stove, fuel, rations, the small solar panels to charge smaller goods and stuff like that.  I have enough candles to last for a few decades.  I have a hand crack radio/light in the car but I need another one for the house.  I was effectively stranded in the house for four days with the blizzard last month and that helped point out some other needs.

I didn't see anything mentioned about your most important survival tool...

92 An event like this debunks the fraud of man-made global warming. One simple volcanic eruption has done and will do more to affect the planet's weather than all the driving and all the flying and all the industrial production mankind has done.

93 Hugo sucked. I was in Charleston, good Hurrican party, +6 months of clean-up

I was over a hundred miles away, lost part of my roof and was without power for a week.

94 Apha particles will not penetrate a sheet of paper. They would have no effect solar cells at all.  Alpha is considered an ingestion hazard because you have to get it inside you before it does harm.

Posted by: Vic at April 19, 2010 11:23 AM (QrA9E)

Well, I guessed poorly.

95

That's cool, for something scandi.

(By the way, off-topic, Estonia is technically not Scandinavian, right?)

96

This voluminous cloud of hot, steamy ash is reminiscent of what my panties were like when I first saw our dreamy President speak.  His beautful brown eyes and deep, dulcet tones caused the dust in my otherwise dried-up vagina to explode into my hot, sweaty thighs with such force that I nearly caused flight delays at Reagan International Airport.     Back to you, Keith.

That was some real funny shit until I got a mental image of it.

97 Rail travel in Europe is at capacity for the first time ever.

Wait, what?  I hear time and time again how Euros just love traveling on the train and we're just a bunch of Gaia killing hicks because we don't take AmTrak and we are addicted to oil.

98

We went without power for about 30 hours last year, which is nothing...except that we'd just moved into our house a few days before, so I couldn't find flashlights, batteries,  etc. Didn't have much food stored. (Well, except for the (&^% fridge and freezer that I'd filled up the day before. ) Didn't even know what radio station to tune into. Not fun being unprepared.

 

99

And some more views on Iceland: "What if it spreads to the “big one”? Historically, eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull have often preceded eruptions by the bigger Mount Katla because there apparently are “eruptions channels” between the two. Katla’s last eruption was in 1918.

via zerohedge.com

100 I didn't see anything mentioned about your most important survival tool...

The shotgun, the boots or the pron?  All of those should be assumed to be in my survival kit.

"the other tenants in the house" - I see you have identified the first problem.

You say problem, I say source of other white meat. 

101

The shotgun, the boots or the pron?  All of those should be assumed to be in my survival kit.

The shotgun will do, if it is at least 20 ga. and you have a variety of different loads for it.

102 Our press corps is so touchingly sympathetic to the troubles of others.  From Twitter:

markknoller I know the Iceland volcano's a pain for most, but it spared me a schlep to Poland this weekend with Obama. Thanks Eyjafjallajokull.

Knoller is the CBS radio correspondent at the White House.  Do you think I should forward this to the Polish Embassy?

103 Vic - did a tornado get you or just the regular wind shear.

104 And the chocolate rations are being increased to 30 grams!
Mmm. 30 grams.

105 Vic - did a tornado get you or just the regular wind shear.

Tornado as the pieces of roof were scattered in a circle around the house. I fared better than my neighbor though. It twisted a pine tree around like a piece of licorice and dropped it on his house right through the kitchen/dining room. Luckily they were all in the rear of the house.

106 30 grams???! Doh!

107 30 grams???! Doh!
Get your stuff, dad. I'm turning you over to the Obama Young Pioneers for that thought crime.

108 (By the way, off-topic, Estonia is technically not Scandinavian, right?) They speak a Finnic language, so they're quasi-Scandi.

109 Miss Marple - yes and copy these guys: http://tinyurl.com/y659mwk

110 Tänan teid, joncelli.

111 Vic - I was amazed at the number of small twisters that tore thru the forests north of Charleston -- looked like logging roads in some areas. After the barrier islands, and some of the poorly build housing complexes, the damage was worse inland.

112 That's a good idea, Jean, to contact the Polish American Congress about the twit's twitter.

Miss Marple might also add that Obama went golfing on the day of the funeral (and maybe point out in contradistinction that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper went to a Polish-sponsored funeral Mass in Toronto).

113

Anybody come out of this better than when they started?

Sure - Preznizzle Obizzle got to avoid the messy and dreary Polish Funeral and get in 18 holes of golf at Andrews AFB.  One might think that it might have been more appropriate for the White House to have scheduled instead a memorial at the Polish Embassy here in lieu of attending the funeral where Obizzle could pretend to give a shit......but what the hell am I thinking??!!

114

At the moment, no one can say how long the volcano is going to erupt.

 

But the EUcrats have their contigency plan(s) in place, right?

They thought of everything, all aspects of the daily lives of their citizens.  Don't tell me they haven't regulated volcanic eruptions.

115 They thought of everything, all aspects of the daily lives of their citizens.  Don't tell me they haven't regulated volcanic eruptions.


*cackle*

116 Europe's in a panic... HA! HA! HA! This ash cloud is really small shit compared to what I could do...

117 I was amazed at the number of small twisters that tore thru the forests north of Charleston -

Once they go inland hurricanes spawn a wealth of tornadoes which actually do more damage than the hurricane.

118 #38 Good find on the Cosco stuff DS!  --a lot less money than food insurance or excess nutrisystem boxes. 

119 Sorry, Pele, but Luge might be the one demanding a human sacrifice now. I nominate Al Gore as the One to appease Eyjafjallajokull. I'll even volunteer to stuff Fat Al with ebelskivers - just to make him even more yummy - and drop him into this volcano. If this works, great. If not, it's still a win win situation.

120 Guess Iceland will have a major problem with carbon credits.  Plus this volcano is moving thousands of pounds of CO2, CO, Lead, Sulfur and its compounds, NOxs, and other heavy metals (U, Ni, Au, Po, Zn and a lot of others) into to air.  More than all the humans on earth have done in the past 1000 years.
Plus it could do this for two years, like one did in the early 1800's.  Going to be a cold summer here in the valley, if this keeps up.  One could only HOPE for it and watch the CHANGE it will bring to the world (see how i supported the pres there).