Clouds of ash descended on the streets as if in some macabre snowstorm.
Thousands were taken from us, as clouds of fire and metal and ash descended upon a sun-filled morning.
11.47am: Adam Gabbatt notes on our other live blog that David Cameron has condemned the volcanic ash descending on the UK.
Thousands were taken from us, as clouds of fire, metal and ash descended upon a sun-filled morning.
Because, for much of last week and indeed right now, Air New Zealand, Qantas's trans-Tasman rival, has maintained much of its schedule by flying below or around the cloud, using more fuel in the process but generally getting its passengers where they wanted to go.Last week, at least, other airlines were following suit, except on the days the ash descended.
Like the impenetrable, sulfurous smoke from the cannons that often rendered opponents unable to see one another, Church's ash cloud descending the Andean slopes threatens to blot out the sun.
Graham Rowe, a senior lecturer in molecular ecology at the University of Derby, said that because most of the country's ash was descended from trees from south-west Europe, they might have some resistance to the disease.
After the 1982 eruption of the Galunggung volcano in Indonesia, for example, a Boeing 747 flying to Australia from Malaysia lost power in all four engines because of ash and descended to 12,500 feet from 36,000 feet before pilots could restart the engines and make an emergency landing in Indonesia.
We saw one during the demo when the sky got all pretty and then huge Ash Titan enemies descended.
On January 30 , 2009 scientists from the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) warned that an eruption was imminent, sending experienced Alaskans shopping for protection against a dusty shower of volcanic ash that could descend on south-central Alaska.
