Iceland volcano

Kyla =^..^= wrote:
If you look at the USGS earthquake map you will see where there have been
dozens of quakes all over the world in recent weeks. They just played it
as a "popular" or "current" subject. MLB

That's so true.
My dh gets e-mails for 6.0s or stronger EQs all over the World. Recently
my youngest sister was in Salt lake City and they had a 5.1 and he
didn't get the e-mail about that one. Second one that day for them.
Seattle is due for a big one soon.
They predict a 9 pointer..yeesh.
Love
Kyla

Yes, we had two on that day. I did not feel either but a box of cereal fell off
a shelf. The house has been creaking a lot lately and I hear it when I
am using the computer. TuTu has been asking for more attention than
usual and she has even jumped on the bed the last two nights. She
hasn't done that for a long time. She preferred sleeping in front of a
heat register. Best wishes. MLB

Joy wrote:
That's true, and if you can go home, great. However, if you're at the end
of a trip, you may not have money for an extended hotel stay. I heard of
one woman who moved to a different hotel because the one where she was
staying decided to take advantage of the situation by tripling their rates.

Joy

Obviously depends upon the hotel. One of our clients was due to fly
back to the U.S. from Paris on 9/11 - not only did the hotel assure them
they might extend their stay until flights were available again, but
refused to charge them for the additional time! (Shouldn't a natural
disaster get the same consideration as a terrorist attack?)

Adrian wrote:
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:

There's always the QE2! ;-)

The QE2 is no longer in service, it's now a hotel in Dubai or somewhere
like that.

Oh. I realize that we see "Keeping Up Appearances" mostly in very hoary
re-runs, but when our PBS channel has a fund drive, they give us newer
fare, and the episode last Saturday - which I'd not seen before - had
Hyacinth and Richard on a QE2 cruise. (On it they encounter her sister
Daisy and scruffy brother-in-law Onslow, who had won a VIP cruise with
all the "perks" she considers her due, but is not entitled to.)

"Kyla =^..^=" wrote in message
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If you look at the USGS earthquake map you will see where there have been
dozens of quakes all over the world in recent weeks. They just played
it as a "popular" or "current" subject. MLB

That's so true.
My dh gets e-mails for 6.0s or stronger EQs all over the World.
Recently my youngest sister was in Salt lake City and they had a 5.1 and
he
didn't get the e-mail about that one. Second one that day for them.
Seattle is due for a big one soon.
They predict a 9 pointer..yeesh.
Love
Kyla

Southern California has supposedly been due for "the big one" for years.
I'll worry about that if and when it happens.

Joy

"Cheryl P." wrote in message
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wrote:

After one of the terrorist attacks - a UK one, not 9-11 - my sister's
planned flight from Scotland to Canada via Heathrow was naturally
disrupted. She grabbed the first available seat and arrived, totally
exhausted (no hotels; she'd spent HOURS on tarmacs and in Heathrow) but
safe, on a nearly-empty plane. Not everyone was willing to take the
authorities at their word that it was safe to fly again!


That is not quite the same. The chances of another terrorist attack is very
different from the real threat of the volcanic ash we are experiencing here
right now.
Do you think the airports would close - losing hundreds of thousands of
pounds per day if they didn't have to?
Tweed

Christina Websell wrote:
"Cheryl P." wrote in message
...
wrote:
After one of the terrorist attacks - a UK one, not 9-11 - my sister's
planned flight from Scotland to Canada via Heathrow was naturally
disrupted. She grabbed the first available seat and arrived, totally
exhausted (no hotels; she'd spent HOURS on tarmacs and in Heathrow) but
safe, on a nearly-empty plane. Not everyone was willing to take the
authorities at their word that it was safe to fly again!


That is not quite the same. The chances of another terrorist attack is very
different from the real threat of the volcanic ash we are experiencing here
right now.
Do you think the airports would close - losing hundreds of thousands of
pounds per day if they didn't have to?
Tweed


I don't quite see what you're getting at. In both cases there was an
identified risk. in both cases, the authorities determined (or are in
the process of determining) that the risk was back to an acceptable
level, and I pointed out that Joyce, who'd said in the bit you took out
that she wouldn't want to be on one of the first planes in the air,
wouldn't be alone, because based on at least one person's past
experience, lots of people refrain from flying immediately after the
authorities say everything is OK again.

I didn't say a thing criticizing European airports for closing down. I
didn't even directly compare the danger of a bombing with that of flying
through volcanic ash. I said that right after a major close down of the
airports, people often are nervous about flying.

--
Cheryl

Cheryl P. wrote:

[snip]

I pointed out that Joyce, who'd said in the bit you took out
that she wouldn't want to be on one of the first planes in the air,
wouldn't be alone, because based on at least one person's past
experience, lots of people refrain from flying immediately after the
authorities say everything is OK again.

I didn't say a thing criticizing European airports for closing down. I
didn't even directly compare the danger of a bombing with that of flying
through volcanic ash. I said that right after a major close down of the
airports, people often are nervous about flying.

For the record, I'm nervous about flying on a good day. It doesn't mean
I don't fly, but my body goes into "danger! danger!" mode regardless of
how realistic the dangers are. I don't think I'm alone in that, either.

I mentioned in an earlier post that I was stranded in Boston a few years
ago when a blizzard hit the day I was going to fly home. Flights were being
cancelled all over the place, and the airline I was on (don't remember
which one) cancelled every flight *except* the one I was on. WTF?? No way
was I getting on the sole flight which, for some incomprehensible reason,
they allowed to take off. The airline understood this anxiety, and allowed
nervous passengers to be moved to another flight at no cost. I'm sure many
people considered themselves lucky and got on that plane (which got to its
destination safely, btw), but I was happy to hang out in a hotel for a
couple of days and wait for better weather. So I wasn't technically
stranded, but a lot of people sympathized with my decision, so I don't
think I'm an outlier.

Joyce

--
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good
many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch