January 14, 20242 yr Geologists are crazy. Oooo volcano - lets run towards it with a bucket and a lava grabber. But they are not even wearing the big spaceman silver lava suits.
January 15, 20242 yr 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.
February 15, 20242 yr I've been away but this one was short lived but really bad. Some 30-40 thousand people lost all heating to the houses (in -10°C weather) and the electrical grid couldn't keep up so they lost that and cold water too in some places. Now another eruption is forecast in 3-4 weeks and that might just be the new norm for us.
April 11, 20242 yr Not exactly volcano news, but how many threads can a forum of this size reasonably sustain focusing on Iceland? Welcome to new PM "Teflon" Bjarni Ben, surely this means a bright new future for all Icelanders?
April 11, 20242 yr Ehhhhhh fuck that guy... Anybody who sells part of a bank to his own father, needs to be taken out back and shot. Icelandic politics are such a cluster fuck right now, we have a major problem of attracting only idiots to power and it is really biting us in the ass now. Then we have the upcoming presidential elections with just one round of voting and 30 people running. It's also held in the middle of summer, 50% turnout would be high so our next president could have 4% of actual support behind him. Yeah no provision to have the two top people duke it out in a second round. Very democratic... On top of that, alleged child molesters and other trash in the running but they are from the artsy elite so nobody does anything. It's a shitshow...
June 18, 20242 yr Yup, that's real and the famous Blue Lagoon is about 3000m to the right of that picture. It is open now as the protective barriers that have been erected are managing to hold back the flow of the lava. Edited June 18, 20242 yr by spritzer
June 20, 20242 yr This shows a bit of what has happened to the town: There has been a second eruption since that was filmed but the town was protected by the earthworks. Iceland is generally out to get us though so I snapped this picture last week while in the north west town of Flateyri. It shows the memorial for the people lost there in an avalanche in 1995 and the massive earthworks above the town designed to try and project it from happening again. It's the dull A shape you can see at the bottom of the slope. The earthworks proved their worth in 2020 when it mostly protected the town but it will be upgraded again to fix issues that popped up. Also in 1995 another small town was hit earlier in the year killing even more people.
November 21, 20241 yr This is a small one but already causing plenty of damage. This did crack me up from last night: All in Icelandic but on the bottom "It is unlikely that there will be an eruption in November"... from the day before. Then the next piece of news is "eruption started next to Stóra-Skógfell". Here is a view from 9am this morning from the small town I grew up in at the west edge of Reykjavik
November 22, 20241 yr Yeah, that is quite sad. We bought a season ticket the winter of 2222/23 so we went there a few times a week. The gap they are filling up in the second picture is indeed the walkway to the lagoon... and those guys are utterly nuts for working so close to the lava Edited November 22, 20241 yr by spritzer
July 18, 2025Jul 18 This is the 12th eruption and we have reached the point where people are protesting unfair police closures. It's well away from anything and already fizzling out so nobody is worried.
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