BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks

Subject: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: Fortunato
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 08:26 AM

If you're feeling less than ecstatic this morning, imagine that like my friend Skarpi in Iceland, you woke up in a bankrupt country where volcanic ash had made your spring green land black and gray. A much larger volcano, Katla, is nearby and it is feared that it may be triggered. Wish him luck.
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Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 12:50 PM

We are all thinking of him. The last time Katla went up, I think it was 2 years after the original eruption at Eyjafjallajökull. So it could become a sort of sword of Damocles.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: GUEST,maryrrf
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 01:24 PM

Oh Skarpi I hope you and your family are ok. You've been through enough lately!

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 06:00 PM

Thinking of you, Skarpi!

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: Genie
Date: 16 Apr 10 - 03:06 AM

Yes, Skarpi, we thought we had it bad back in 1980 when Mt St Helens erupted and sent ash all over the Pacific NW and even around the world.   Your volcanoes seem to be doing a lot more damage, and I do hope the devastation isn't too severe or long-lasting. Praying that you and yours are OK and pull through in good shape.

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Apr 10 - 03:53 AM

thinking of you & your family, Skarpi

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: skarpi
Date: 16 Apr 10 - 12:36 PM

Thanks all , but I am fine , I am worry for the people who live only
one to ten km away from this eruption , the farmer are going to be loosing a lot of grown fields and if all that fluor goes into the ground and the animals eat that grass that will grow after the eruption they will die .

The day turned into night said a farmer in the tv news yesterday morning
and the clock was 11:00 in the morning elsewhere we had bright daylight
this eruption is just small , so small , against eruption in KATLA
and now we are worry everyday that this will wake the old lady up
from the sleep ... we are having global trouble now , but if the other goes it will be a disaster...and that s worry me now a lot .

But the lives goes on , and keep playing music all please
I am doing that , studio after four days :O)
kv Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: Amos
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 11:08 PM

Amazing photos of the eruptions and environs

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 11:22 PM

You all are probably too young to remember 1816, the so-called "Year Without A Summer."

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: Amos
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 11:34 PM

But of course you, yourself, are not...



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Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 10:53 AM

Being an infant, no, I don't remember it all that well.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 12:50 PM

Skarpi: "...if all that fluor goes into the ground and the animals eat that grass that will grow after the eruption they will die ."

Is that really so, Skarpi? When Mt. Saint Helens went up my brother got up at 3:00 AM and herded his cows into the barn so the next morning they wouldn't eat the grass that was covered in wet blobby ash and pumice.

However, after the eruption the soil became extremely fertile and crop output was greatly boosted.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 12:56 PM

The ash in Iceland is high in Fluoride which is dangerous for growing animals' bones and teeth and affects the digestive tracts of mature animals. I can't find the link right now but I remember reading about the deaths of huge numbers of farm animals in the last eruption because of fluoride.

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 01:00 PM

Info here:
http://iceland.ednet.ns.ca/new_page_1.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
From: Jack Campin
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 01:17 PM

The fluorine is most dangerous in the form of hydrogen fluoride gas, which poisons just about everything (and with the Laki eruption of 1783-4, seems to have damaged crops all across Europe). Once the acute phase of the eruption is over, the remaining fluoride content of the ash doesn't matter much.