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Main road to Grindavík (Iceland) is covered under lava (i.redd.it)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://apnews.com/video/volcanoes-iceland-reykjavik-287e34942e69442db34e0ea13b8c291f

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 4 months ago (19 children)

Boss, you'll never guess why I can't make it today.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Wonder if you could drive on that obsidian, or is it too hot/sharp for any vehicle to drive over that area.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Obsidian forms when lava cools very rapidly, limiting crystal growth. The lava pictured above most likely cooled slowly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Cool. I guess I used lava and obsidian as synonyms.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Minor inconvenience

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's been raining more than average here... So yeah. Same difference?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

I think we need more photos from the #Iceland.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Mother nature is scary AF

Do you dig it out or just go over top with new road it's gotta be pretty effed up underneath all that, before chiseling through it and clearing it off, and where do you go with the slag if you do dig it out? Do you treat it like snow?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

On that note of a million questions, the soil looks pretty soily; How long would it take that new lava rock to become as soily on top?

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Bro that's the new Iceland, anything underneath has been Pompeii'd

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is worse than Pompeii. The ancient Roman city wasn't buried under lava, but under ash, rock and boulders. While that is still very deadly, it isn't nearly as destructive as lava. That's why we can still experience Pompeii architecture, art and culture. Excavating this road, covered in solidified lava, is extremely difficult and costly. Just go over it, once it's cooled.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Is this normal in Iceland? What's the current situation there?

Edit: Found Details link

Edit2: looks like the town was evacuated

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (7 children)

It happens. Times past they’ve used buckets of seawater to save villages from encroaching lava. Icelanders are built different.

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