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What started out as an inconvenianse is turning into a serious disruption on a global scale. It's a strange thought that your country is responsible for such a catastrophe. Except of course the country isn't doing anything. The planet just happens to crack open in the middle of it. Still - I find myself fighting back the urge to apologize profusely whenever I read reports of travelers sleeping in airports for days, being stranded far away from home, losing money, potential food shortages and I don't know what.
This isn't the first (or last) volcanic eruption of this type or scale (Mount St. Helens in Washington USA raised quite a havoc in 1980). But it seems to be the most troublesome. The wind direction holds stubbornly fast and Eyjafjallajökull gives little indication it's planning to cease its little outburst anytime soon.
It could very well stop in a couple of days - and everything return to normal - but it could also go on for a long time. The uncertainty is the worst and I'm reminded of the feeling we all experienced immediately after the financial crisis happened: To not know when the other shoe would drop.
Hell - not know how many legs the bloody beast possessed.
This isn't the first (or last) volcanic eruption of this type or scale (Mount St. Helens in Washington USA raised quite a havoc in 1980). But it seems to be the most troublesome. The wind direction holds stubbornly fast and Eyjafjallajökull gives little indication it's planning to cease its little outburst anytime soon.
It could very well stop in a couple of days - and everything return to normal - but it could also go on for a long time. The uncertainty is the worst and I'm reminded of the feeling we all experienced immediately after the financial crisis happened: To not know when the other shoe would drop.
Hell - not know how many legs the bloody beast possessed.