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Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]

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581 points zdw | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 23:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nickpsecurity ◴[07 Dec 25 00:54 UTC] No.46178218[source]▶
The threat level for airplanes is set to orange... for anyone dumb enough to fly over an erupting volcano. The orange flying from the ground would be all the motivation I need to stay clear of it.

It was an awesome video, though.

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jcranmer ◴[07 Dec 25 04:20 UTC] No.46179117[source]▶
An erupting volcano can spew ash over a large distance. When Eya.... that Icelandic volcano (that's hard to spell because I don't know Icelandic) erupted several years ago, the ash cloud traveled far enough to disrupt travel over most of Europe for a few days.
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1. kzrdude ◴[07 Dec 25 11:19 UTC] No.46180922[source]▶
A favourite tidbit from that time: Icelandic post released stamps of that eruption and it was used for European postage (mail to Europe).

https://findyourstampsvalue.com/news/stamps-created-from-eyj...

(Stamp is marked "Bref til Evropu" - European postage)