Faith in humanity

[celamity]

One of the larger Norwegian newspapers has arranged a webpage for people to post short messages, either regarding where they need help getting to and from, or where they can offer transport to and from.

People who have managed to charter buses are giving others a chance to join the ride. Truck drivers are offering their spare seats. Students are planning drives from Stavanger to London (incidentally: all those underseas tunnels, so you actually can drive from a peninsula to the continent to an island? Brilliant!). People are writing that they not only will share travel expenses, but that they will offer good company and music and so on.

If only people could pull together like this when times aren't adverse...

(I just heard a small plane take off. Northern airports are still slightly open, but I looked at an ash forecast and it seems it'll close up over us, too, before long.)

Comments

[celamity.livejournal.com]

Apparently it's comparable to road dust, in terms of how harmful it is to humans. I'm not sure I believe that, but then again, road dust may well be underestimated as we're so used to that by now...

And the new projections show the cloud not closing up but rather pulling away from us and into Russia. Still doesn't mean we can fly to southern Norway, of course. There, they're expecting a nice big ash shower on Monday.

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

It's just crazy how this event has caused all sorts of chaos the world over - but it's really heartening to see that people are pulling together and making the best of it.