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PalenQ Jan 13th, 2011 02:59 PM

Mt Etna Blowing Its Top...
 
and two Sicilian airports closed. First major eruption since 1992, when an eruption severed the cable car that ascends to near the crater from the south side and even cut the circumVesuviana train line that circles the huge volcanic piles base.

CaliNurse Jan 14th, 2011 12:09 AM

Wow! thanks for the news!

hetismij Jan 14th, 2011 12:21 AM

Some nice video of it here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12185543

Apparently the airports were only briefly closed.

Pvoyageuse Jan 14th, 2011 12:55 AM

The circumvesuviana round Mt Etna? :-))

cathies Jan 14th, 2011 01:43 AM

Pvoyageuse I thought that too???

cathies Jan 14th, 2011 01:45 AM

I googled it, it's call the Circumetnea.

norrisken Jan 14th, 2011 04:15 AM

Wow, beautiful. But still scares me
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...r-fashion.html

PalenQ Jan 14th, 2011 08:43 AM

Well yes a brain fart about the CircumVesuviana - meant of course Circum-cission railway!


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