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  1. Those were contractors, saving the large earth moving machines you can see in the background.  Those were being used to make walls around the town to try and steer the lava away from it so they might come in handy later. 

    The latest news claim the smaller fissure inside the town has pretty much closed at this point and most of the lava is running to the west so above the houses. 

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  2. ...so here we are again and this time it is much, much worse. 

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    It started just before 8am here and this was taken just as day was breaking, around 10:15am.  This is right next to the town and a second fissure has opened up inside the town so yeah... this is not good.  Now the town was evacuated quickly but the first houses have already been consumed by the lava and it can go only one way, through the town and into the sea. 

    There was a serious accident this week in the town where a man was buried alive when he was trying to stabilize some of the fractures in the earth.  They searched for two days but couldn't find him so it was decided to abandon the town yesterday. 

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  3. That's been done before.  After the eruption in Vestmannaeyjar, which wiped out roughly a third of the town, people baked rye bread in the lava. It cooks at a relatively low temp (say 140°C) but for a long time so just dig a hole and leave it there for a day or two. 

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  4. Well it happened.  Yesterday, the only talk on the news was that the people of Grindavík would be able to celebrate Christmas in their own homes and the police were being criticized for almost arresting one person who wanted to sleep in the town and reopen his hotel. 

    With almost no warning, a rather large fissure opened up some 3km north east of the town and the lava flow is running to the west, away from the town but directly towards the main road and the Blue Lagoon.  There has been erected a protective barrier all around the Blue Lagoon (mostly though around the geothermal power plant it's right next to) and they are now plugging the gap where the road pass through the barrier. 

    The bad news is this is a rather larger eruption than the last fews and the lava flow is heading towards the hot water pipe leading from the power plant.  That carries all the hot water used for heating the homes south west of Reykjavík, for some 40000 people.  If that is consumed by the lava... there is no plan B except to use electricity to heat the homes or at least, keep them from freezing up.   Yeah, this is bad...

     

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  5. Yeah... that part annoyed me no end.  :mikey2:

    He did tell her off for using a brush to clean the L300's which would probably have killed them in the end. 

    Also, has anybody else noticed the T8000 chassis has been changed since the first units?  Much more ventilation on the new ones.  Wonder why that was changed...  ;)

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