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Peter W's avatar

We came back from Iceland last Saturday. The airport was cosy and warm as commercial electric heaters had been temporarily installed but no hot water obviously. Not a great problem.

I am so impressed with how remedial work, even temporary, has been carried out such as pipe replacement and laying a new gravel road over the still hot lava! Amazing! In the UK we'd have to have interminable meetings, draw up plans, put work out to tender and H&S would tell us to keep away from the fresh lava for 2 years while it cooled! Makes us non-icelanders look pathetic.

M. Dowrick's avatar

Thought provoking thank you. You are probably aware of all the oil refineries being set on fire around the world. Also over the past two years in the usa alone there have been 100? Food production facilities burned to the ground. I do not remember reading anywhere how these fires started, who was responsible etc

I have often wondered about Iceland’s current erupting volcanoes. Hawaii’s devastating fire, the Canadian fires last summer. All natural disasters?

Bob - Enough's avatar

Do not forget the Turkish / Syrian earthquake, Acapulco, the sudden increase in chemical carrying train and boat explosions and fires, the floods and and ... the scores of food production facilities (farms mainly)... no offense but I think you refer to the 100+ food packaging facilities.

All natural disasters? - my rse !.

M. Dowrick's avatar

Thank you, yes I meant food production facilities. England is under water, deluge the past two weeks!

Bob - Enough's avatar

The ignorant masses lap it up like the jabs... ah well !. Cheers for now.