A state of emergency has been declared in Iceland after lava from a volcanic eruption damaged key hot water pipes.

Thousands of people in the Reykjanes Peninsula have been urged to limit their hot water and electricity use as the pipes could take days to fix.

There are concerns that other crucial pipelines close to the Svartsengi power station could be affected if the lava flow does not ease soon.

It is the third such eruption on the peninsula since December.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    1 year ago

    It’s Iceland in the dead of winter, it’s -11°C and the heat pipes are severed, it’s an actual emergency.

    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
      115·
      1 year ago

      lol im not saying its not. I get why they declared this an emergency.

      • bean@lemmy.worldEnglish
        46·
        1 year ago

        Oh well we are sooo sorry it was l anticlimactic for you. I guess more deaths and destruction are deserved for your amusement. You doorknob.

        • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
          65·
          1 year ago

          Holy crap…calm your tits, its an obvious shitpost. Try not to go through life being this easily offended and you might find happiness :)

          • bean@lemmy.worldEnglish
            56·
            1 year ago

            Maybe it’s that I don’t see the humor here. Real people are stuggling in a very cold winter. Disasters aren’t funny. Anticlimactic?? What the actual fuck?

            • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
              75·
              1 year ago

              And this is the part where I simply leave because you are just…not the kind of person I enjoy having in my life.

              Best of luck to you :)