Lighting a cigarette Iceland style
Forgot your lighter? Use a glowing red rock of molten lava from an erupting volcano.
Picture taken by Bergur at the 2010 eruption on Fimmvörðuháls.
I have no idea who this is, standing by the Fimmvörðuháls eruption, but it does remind me of a great story from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption.
There are these two old brothers that live alone on a farm not far from the volcano. They had been forced to evacuate, unwillingly to Hvolsvöllur. However as the eruption stabilized they were allowed to return to the farm. A young TV reporter interviewed the brothers. She spoke with them as if they were a bit naive, something the brothers picked up on. When she asked “Isn’t it nice to be back and be able to stay with the animals?” one of them responded fussily ”With the animals? We sleep inside, they sleep outside.”
They also made it quite clear that they were not happy with having been forced to evacuate. “Our family has always lived here and there has never been a flood because of the volcano.” They were also not at all surprised that the volcano was erupting. They could see it from the weather in the weeks before that en eruption was underway.
(Source: goodreads.com, via skybrarian)
After breathing dusty ash air all day, there’s nothing like fresh pipe smoke.
Rescue worker Thorsteinn Jonsson smokes a pipe in the village of Kirkjubaejarklaustur May 24, 2011.
People living next to the glacier where the Grimsvotn volcano burst into life on Saturday were most affected, with ash shutting out the daylight and smothering buildings and vehicles. An ash cloud from a volcano on Iceland shut down flights in northern Britain and elsewhere in north Europe on Tuesday and was heading to Germany, but officials expected no repeat of last year’s air chaos.REUTERS/Ingolfur Juliusson
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