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Here. This is the live cam from Grímsvötn, the current Icelandic Volcano which made Obama move on from Ireland a bit early today as he probably didn't want to be caught up in another Icelandic Volcano Debacle.
You don't see very much, though. That's because of all the ash. My sister, who's a bit of a hobbyist expert on Iceland (she's got Iceland the way I got Finland, more or less), tells me that the main ring road around Iceland is so completely covered in black ash you can't even see it from more than a yard away! And the fishing lodge where my sister and her husband went some years ago and which would be wonderful for shipping the whole extended family to (except for the fact that our dad doesn't really want to go abroad any more because he's old and worried about his health) is totally out of reach, as reported by people who post on one of the forums my sister and her husband run. Completely cut off from the world!
The worst thing, though, is the problem with the livestock. The farmers get lost on their own land, can't find the animals, and even if they can -- there are three times as many sheep in the summer as in the winter, and the barns they have are only made to take in the sheep in winter...
It was easier with the finer, higher ash of Eyjafjallajökull last year; people at least got their animals in safe.
The poor sheep. **sniffles**
You don't see very much, though. That's because of all the ash. My sister, who's a bit of a hobbyist expert on Iceland (she's got Iceland the way I got Finland, more or less), tells me that the main ring road around Iceland is so completely covered in black ash you can't even see it from more than a yard away! And the fishing lodge where my sister and her husband went some years ago and which would be wonderful for shipping the whole extended family to (except for the fact that our dad doesn't really want to go abroad any more because he's old and worried about his health) is totally out of reach, as reported by people who post on one of the forums my sister and her husband run. Completely cut off from the world!
The worst thing, though, is the problem with the livestock. The farmers get lost on their own land, can't find the animals, and even if they can -- there are three times as many sheep in the summer as in the winter, and the barns they have are only made to take in the sheep in winter...
It was easier with the finer, higher ash of Eyjafjallajökull last year; people at least got their animals in safe.
The poor sheep. **sniffles**
