Live volcano watch in Iceland

[Johnny Yesno]

End of an era:

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is terrible news. I got a bit behind on my RVK Newscasts and I was intending to catch up.

Look at him: smiling but walking all over the lava. Doesn't give a fuck now. Just waiting for the volcano gods to take Polly and him. Farewell ramshackle presenter and border collie and dachshund mix-owner of our hearts.

[NoSleep]

Looks like Mt.Fagradalsfjall is going for a trilogy, maybe in just a few days:

No sign of a Reykjavik Grapevine revival, as yet.

[NoSleep]

This report predicts it could happen in the next couple of hours:

No sign of a Reykjavik Grapevine revival, as yet.

And they're back, albeit minus Valur & Polly:

And an anticipatory livestream is already up:

[beanheadmcginty]

They really ought to rename the place Fireland

[NoSleep]

It begins; albeit just smoke at this stage:

They really ought to rename the place Fireland

Welcome to Smokeland, please keep the wind behind you.

Apparently it's started at Meridalir, where last year's was, rather than the more distant Keilir (the peak visible in the video), where it was expected. Looks like that livestream camera might not want to be situated where it is (almost on top of the eruption).

[NoSleep]

This guy is currently scrambling to film the first appearance of lava. Apparently the location is Litli-Hrútur.

[Johnny Yesno]

No sign of a Reykjavik Grapevine revival, as yet.

Did the RVK Newscast stop after Valur and Polly left? I'd not got round to watching for a while until you posted their farewell video here.

[NoSleep]

The regular newscast ended seven months ago (with Valur's farewell); there's been only ten (non-news) videos made subsequently (discounting the two volcano-related ones this week), with the first of those being Andie Sophia Fontaine's farewell, who now runs the Reykjavik Newsdesk channel elsewhere on YouTube. Seems like RG lost all their news journalism in one fell swoop.

The woman hosting the new volcano watch video advertises her own business (the "Lava Show"), in which people pay to watch lava that has been re-melted on site in a theatre or something.

[Johnny Yesno]

The regular newscast ended seven months ago (with Valur's farewell); there's been only ten (non-news) videos made subsequently (discounting the two volcano-related ones this week), with the first of those being Andie Sophia Fontaine's farewell, who now runs the Reykjavik Newsdesk channel elsewhere on YouTube. Seems like RG lost all their news journalism in one fell swoop.

The woman hosting the new volcano watch video advertises her own business (the "Lava Show"), in which people pay to watch lava that has been re-melted on site in a theatre or something.

Oh, bloody hell. That's sad to hear.

I'll always think of that show fondly as one of the things that helped with my mental health during the pandemic.

[NoSleep]

Looks like it's all rearing up again in the general area of the Reykjanes Peninsula. Various potential hotspots. Most noteworthy, at this stage, is the area around the Blue Lagoon, where visits have been suspended due to seismic activity. If this is the place where an eruption (like the previous ones we've seen) occurs, then this tourist spot may be overwhelmed

[Neville Chamberlain]

I really have to get fluent in Icelandic before the whole flipping place blows sky high. Making good progress so far!

[NoSleep]

It's back, but this time it's not a sightseeing attraction, more an imminent disaster:

[Johnny Yesno]

Damn! I only just saw this thread. More info from the Reykjavik Grapevine:

Volcano Watch 2023: The Eruption's Aftermath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Pt8LdYIPU

It's the first one I've watched in ages. I miss Valur and Polly :-(

[NoSleep]

It's the first one I've watched in ages. I miss Valur and Polly :-(

I saw a recent one, post the quake at Grindavik, where the presenter was interviewing an upset elderly woman in fear of losing her home and possessions, and his tone with her was, "Well, you win some, you lose some", kind of cold.

[Johnny Yesno]

I saw a recent one, post the quake at Grindavik, where the presenter was interviewing an upset elderly woman in fear of losing her home and possessions, and his tone with her was, "Well, you win some, you lose some", kind of cold.

This one?

Volcano Watch 2023: The Town Of Grindavík Evacuated, Eruption Probable In Near Future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lDpgxCHmOQ

That can happen.

[NoSleep]

This one?

That's the one.

[Johnny Yesno]

Yeah, I'm not liking that dude at all. Somehow less competent than Valur and with zero personality.

[Agent Dunham]

It's back, and dangerously close to Grindavik. There's been a fatality. Somebody fell into the fissure!

Bad news.

[Mr_Simnock]

thinking about it if I was going to lose my home I don't think it would be that bad because it was a lava flow, at least it might make the local papers or something

[NoSleep]

Livestream of the damage:

[Alberon]

thinking about it if I was going to lose my home I don't think it would be that bad because it was a lava flow, at least it might make the local papers or something

Dunno if it'd make the papers in Iceland though. Your home would have to eaten by a wild Bjork or something for that.

[Johnny Yesno]

It's back again!

Iceland: Grindavik volcano erupts again, witnessed by Sky correspondent on holiday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPS5qoDuBw

[Johnny Yesno]

Reuters livestream here:

LIVE: Volcano erupts in Iceland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blSY8UvI62M

[bgmnts]

You'd be well gutted to move to emigrate en masse to place called ICEland, only to find out that it's regularly flooded by liquid hot magma, spunked out by a terminally sulky volcano.

[Johnny Yesno]

You'd be well gutted to move to emigrate en masse to place called ICEland, only to find out that it's regularly flooded by liquid hot magma, spunked out by a terminally sulky volcano.

No, I wouldn't!

[NoSleep]

I don't like these new evil volcanoes.

[Underturd]

Don't say that, they might hear you!