I live in Southern Wisconsin... we lost power for 3 days last month due to a series of heavy snowstorms.. the temperature dropped to minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit... the water pipes in my neighbor's two story house started to burst... I kept my house from freezing by burning 50 tall glass enclosed candles (from the Dollar Store).... I didn't sleep for three days... saying a prayer for all the Icelanders without heat and electricity...
Turn off the water where it enters the house and empty the pipes, if you are not sure that is enough call a plummer to empty them totally with airpressure. 🤗
The workers that are working so hard to fix all the electrical, hot water and drinking water systems and build the barriers are incredible people, and deserve huge recognition from the government and people of Iceland...
I didn't know anything about how these houses are heated. Thank You for this video. I've been following from Boston. I hope you are all warm, safe, and w loved ones.
After the back slapping, there will be questions asked as to why no contingency plans were drawn up for such a 'surprise' event, even though everyone saw it coming, except the woke media & woke politicians.
@@JustIcelandicSir, because of your videos I’m going to bring my family to Iceland 🇮🇸 for an adventure holiday. You should do treks Sir. we would book with you for sure!
And if there is a serious problem with engineering, there are competent and skillful people all over Europe and the rest of the world that can help out in times of need. With shelters and generators or whatever else is needed.
@@JustIcelandic Germans are the total opposite: they always plan for a case when a metorite hits the crater and melts the glacier and causes a flooding and avalanches, earthquakes and tsunami at the same time. It is insane what German companies keep in stock, just to be safe if WWIII breaks out. For example, every water plant has all equipment threefold. First in operation, the second if you need to maintain the first and the third in reserve if the second fails. Then they have spare parts and a spare pump in store. That seems reasonable. But besides that, there are separate emergency wells, a double pipeline to the next water plants even in other districts. Then they have a 12 hour or 24 hour contract with the supplier that they can replace any spare pars in that time frame. The water tanks have enough water for one day. Then there are tankers that can distribute to a whole city in case of emergency. Then there is a Bundeswehr military water treatment unit that can set up a functioning water treatment everywhere in the world in three days that can use water out of any river inside the Kongo. I never experienced an interrupted water supply for more than a few hours, which is unavoidable but scheduled when they upgrade the water grid.
Apparently 40% of Iceland was covered with woods when the settlers came, but they cut everything. I'm saying that because in Canada there are still people heating large houses with 100% wood...
@@kunstnersjael On average climate was slightly COOLER 1200 years ago (ie cooler than the last decades), when birch woods and forests covered 40% of the island. Much longer ago Iceland was covered with sequoias and other larger trees (maybe 100%), but that was millions of years ago, long before men even existed.
Thank you for the update. With a warning of less than 30 minutes it is impossible to be there in time from the north, but there will be a next time. I have seen the workers still building walls close to the fast moving lava. They worked so hard, too bad the water pipes could not be saved. Another lesson learned. My thoughts go out to the people who have limited options to protect themselves and their homes from freezing 🙏.
This has really turned into a disaster for those depending on hot water from the Svartsengi power plant. I'm hoping that other Icelanders who still have heat will take them in until repairs are made. Major kudos to those working on the repairs and the excavator operators who were racing the lava to close the gaps in the barrier wall protecting the power plant. And all the thanks to you, Gylfi, for giving us such down-to earth, thorough updates.
Not to make light of this very serious content, but since I started watching these videos, I am getting lots of content about Bjork on my Facebook feed. Best wishes for those impacted.
I hadn't thought about it before, but it unfortunately makes sense that people wouldn't install heat pump based climate control & hot water if they always have a seemingly infinite reliable source of geothermal hot water-meaning they can only fall back to resistive heating.
The fortitude of Icelanders is inspiring. Your reporting is phenomonal. Do not be disappointed you didn't make this eruption, you had the resources for this video and gave credit where it was due. This is only one reason I watch your channel for news of Iceland. Wishing for the best outcome of this tragic event.
Thanks, Gylfi, for such well-rounded coverage: dramatic footage, geological background, explanation of the varied impacts on the population, and description of infrastructure. I visited the area 8 years ago, including poor Grindavik, and have been watching the ongoing struggles with a heavy heart. All best wishes to Reykjanes residents!❤
I live in the Pacific Northwest, the risk of volcanic eruptions and large earthquakes constantly looms large. The last major eruption here was Mt. St. Helens in 1980, but Tahoma (Rainier) and Wy East (Mt. Hood) both pose a very large risk because they are close to Seattle and Portland, respectively. These volcanoes don't produce the rivers of lava, but more explosive clouds of ash and steam, with pyroclastic flows, mud and lahars. Stay safe out there!
Thank you, Gylfi, your work is top notch as always. I think you’re right about this being a man-made disaster due to the infrastructure. I think the government really underestimated possible natural disasters. Need a more robust power system. It would be a great way to create jobs and revenue to build more infrastructure, power creation, houses etc.
It is so sad to be watching this disaster as it is happening, but I love your coverage. Your maps are so spectatular and colorful, and I can easily understand exactly what is happening, where it is happening, and why it is happening because your maps and your reporting are so clear. The Photos from Borganes are spectatcular, even while it was still a disaster. Thanks to your friend Omar. My heart goes out to the Icelandic people as you struggle to fix the pipes and I do hope noone dies from the extreme cold. February is such a bad month to be without heat in the Northern Hemisphere.
ugh, I have been without electricity AND running water in my house in the winter before, for up to 10 days due to a massive storm. It is very uncomfortable to say the least. I hope this can be resolved quickly for the people who are affected😔🥶
Looks like, the lava hit an Achilles heel… I am very sorry to hear. I always looked at Iceland as one of the most progressive countries, when it comes to clean energy. And it still is! Great idea to use mother earth´s ground heat to provide energy and fresh water to the people. But any system without redundancy will cause a crisis when there is a single point of failure, which can make it stop working. Bad timing now in the winter on top of it. I hope, your country and your people find a way to deal with the crisis and make the energy system redundant in the long run. Thanks for your great video footage! Greetings from New Mexico!
Thank you Gylfi for the latest update. The Reykjanes Peninsula certainly doesn't have its sorrows to seek with this eruption 😢 hopefully the new black bed pipeline will work but hot lava & cold temperatures certainly don't mix
Many thanks for this report, and all the effort you put into keeping the world informed. Reykjanes Peninsula seems to be having many troubles. Here in wintry Canada, my home has 3 sources of heat: electric baseboards, a heat pump, and a wood stove. The last two I installed for heating/ cooling and energy efficiency, and the wood stove in case of very cold weather, power outages, which can also be used for cooking.
The only positive thing I can see is that rebuilding all of the water infrastructure for the entire Rekjanes Peninsula could create many jobs in the short-term. As Gylfi said, though, this could have been prevented. Perhaps with pipeline redundancies and better oversight. 😢
I'm Canadian and I like volcanoes. This is very cool. Well not cool in the fact that it's lava. But an amazing event to be witnessing. Also about your accent, I can understand you perfectly.. similar to Irish accents. I don't need subtitles when watching people from other countries speak English. And I do appreciate the accents and all that it's very soothing. Your accent is really nice
I can't imagine what you are experiencing. You all must feel like those on the big island of Hawaii just a few years ago when they also experienced a large volcanic flow. But their situation was certainly more favorable than yours. They don't have to deal with the cold temperatures that you folks do. My prayers are with you and all the Islandic people, particularly those in Grindavic. They are not only losing homes but their livelihoods as well.
Thank you so much Gylfi for this. You do such a great job putting all the information together. It's all so unbelievable. The perfect storm with no pun intended. Driving and walking those areas only a few months ago feels surreal. So glad you made that video driving around Grindavik and reminiscing. But now to see that this very small part of Iceland is causing so much trouble for so many. It sure brings up the short sightedness of the government with no plan B. With sadness and worried thoughts from Canada to the people of the Volcano Island, Iceland!
I can only hope that the pipes can be fixed quickly and that they turn it on again slowly in order not to rupture anything else in the process.. Thanks Gylfi for another very informative video!🌟. Please all of us here keep The Icelandic people without warm homes right now in the middle of a cold winter...keep them in our prayers and send good energy to them and hope their homes become warm again very soon!🌟🌟
I have been following your stories for several months. Thank you for posting. I live in the Northwest United States. Winter is not a time for heating problems and travel issues.
Where I live, power outages just happen. Depending on just one source to heat your house, isn't wise. Having a plan B, like propane, wood stove, possibly a generator, to heat your house just makes good sense! Prayer for the people to stay warm!
Hello Gylfi. A few weeks ago we went through a cold snap where temperatures stayed below 0°C for two weeks. Temperatures went as low as 18.9°C. I live in a camper and my water was frozen the whole time. Electric heating was inadequate. My poor cat's water bowl froze on the floor. My heart goes out to all on the peninsula. Indeed this is bad news.😢 Let's hope Iceland has a warm snap.
Sounds like insulation issue. Please put plastic over windows to keep our draft, use blanket ls in front of door. Sorry you are leaving being in such cold. Very unfair. There are ways to create heat pumps using crisco in cans with wicks over ceramic pots with holes in center of bottom upside down. There are videos on it. Can use electric heater fans like vornados that circulate the warm air. What is this country coming to making people live in units that can't be kept above zero inside.
From the bottom of my heart I wish you all, in my favorite country, the very best for the coming troubled period. I'm sure the Icelandic nation is strong enough to overcome these major problems. Anyway, if things get starting harder we need to rumble up the international community to give help As always Gylfi, thank you for your efforts to keep us informed and keeping yourself safe!
Your channel is one of those about which I wouldn't care normally but to me you are gifted with an eye and ear for presenting world in u a nique way. Every time I watch next stuff from you is like a feast.
Thank you as always Gylfi. I do keep an eye on the local news sites, but often their graphics are in icelandic and don't really give enough context for those of us without knowledge of the area. Your video overlays are so much clearer and paint a much better picture of what's going on. They are of great value to those of us watching from a distance.
I can't imagine how this feels. Thank you so much for your updates, the best by far. No extra sensationalism, just straight, clear reporting. Please keep extra safe yourself. Greetings from England.
Thanks for sharing, take care and stay safe. As a Canadian, I understand your concern with winter heating and freezing pipes, it is terribly difficult to fix while it is still cold out.
Everytime he says oven, he indent to say radiator. In icelandic we use the same word for baking oven and water heating radiator, that word is ofn, meaning oven. In iceland almost everybody heat up the houses with geothermal water radiators. Almost nobody has a water heater in their homes in the towns or cities. There are houses in the country site that have water heaters, but it´s much cheaper to get the geothermal hot water. We get the geothermal hot water with pipes, just like the cold water. There is no gas pipes in Iceland, and we generally do not have heating stoves in normal homes, some have it in their summer houses. So when the geothermal hot water goes, there is almost no backup. But there is a another thing I´m worried about: I live in Gardabaer, town in the capital area, few km from Reykjavik. Few months ago they had to turn off the hot water pipes because of road work for around 12 hours, just in a part of the town. It was advertices in advance so everybody was suppose to know about it. When they turned the water on again, pipes were bursting in couple of places in the town and it took couple of days to fix everything. I had to call in one case when I drove into my street after a night shift and there was a plume of steam greeting me, and hot water sizzling up throught the street pavement at a rate maybe 2 liter/per second. When they came to fix it in my street I went to talked to one of the workers and he said that this was very normal, that pipes can burst when the water pressure is turn back on. So I´m waiting for report of bursting pipes all over the Reykjanes peninsula when they finaly will get the hot water back on. P.s. look how the lava flow was like it was suppose to take the water line, because just after it reach the pipeline the flow stopped.
It was coincidence, after lava reached pipes eruption was already decreasing in intensity, so flow did not have enough power to continue forward. Even though it was biggest Iceland eruption since 2021, both in terms of area and volume. But initial eruptive discharge was biggest since Bardarbunga eruption, 1000m3/s
I lived in the east fjords for a while many years ago. I’m trying to remember what the heating was like as there was definitely no geothermal power there. I think it must have been electric generated by a hydroelectric power plant?
thank you! I would love to see that documentary of yours someday! Looking foward to it. This is a special time to witness for sure. I hope heating can be fixed soon for the people though 😢. It’s still so very cold. Wishing all the best for you and Iceland! 🩵
Makes me appreciate our ability to heat with wood stove here in Canada when our hydro goes out. I don't image that is a possibility with no lumber source and wood pellets are probably very expensive to have shipped in to Iceland. What an awful situation but I have no doubt in the skill and determination of Vikings to get through this. 💪🏻
Best of luck, we know here in Alaska the peril of being without heat in the winter! I’m guessing you mean ‘furnace’ instead of ‘oven’ but we get the idea.
A day or so without central heating is a big annoyance, but a week is a real emergency. Sympathy for all the people affected by these outages. It seems like the current volcanic activity is happening in one of the worst places in the area. I hope the next intrusion takes place somewhere far from infrastructure.
So sorry to hear that the replacement pipe burst. Suffering through a winter that cold is terrible. I do hope they find a solution soon. Long term that seems like a problem with no easy answers, though. A small translation detail... In the US, an oven is what you bake food in. A portable heat source is a "heater." I'm just not sure if your terminology is different in Iceland, or if was a translation error, but I thought that if it was you would want to know.
Thank you for your reports. It is a challenging time for Iceland and its people. My prayers are that everyone stays positive and works together to forestall any further damage from ongoing eruptions.
Wow thank you for the detailed information i really hope they find a solution for the pipes hopefully some people can come with some ideas to help fix this issues is so sad please safe also i love your content is informative educational calm and detailed ❤
Friend, greetings from Spain. Thank you for your great work in informing us. I hope that Mother Nature calms down in that beautiful place, and everything fix quickly. Thanks again for your great reports.
Thanks for the update. Lots of good information. Drone footage is awesome as always. I can't even imagine what it must be like to deal with all the eruptions, and earth quakes on a daily basis.
This eruption could not have been worse timing for you in Iceland. My heart goes out to you, and like others here have said, I hope those with warm houses open them to those without and that a permanent fix is not far away. Greetings from Canada, where we have the ice, but not the fire. And thank you for your informative videos that are always so visually appealing.
It seems that long term alternatives will need to be explored; that cold with no heat, is not acceptable. My heart is with you and the people of Iceland. Best regards.
Much concern, love, and hope to all of Insula Gardari. You have, and will always be in the hearts and thoughts of my fellow Canadians. ((Hugs)), my Nordic friends. 🇨🇦❤🇮🇸
I live in Southern Wisconsin... we lost power for 3 days last month due to a series of heavy snowstorms.. the temperature dropped to minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit... the water pipes in my neighbor's two story house started to burst... I kept my house from freezing by burning 50 tall glass enclosed candles (from the Dollar Store).... I didn't sleep for three days... saying a prayer for all the Icelanders without heat and electricity...
So ........ after age 50, no need to buy a generator. A birthday cake and 3 days' worth of meth will do?
@@raymond3803 Oof.
Turn off the water where it enters the house and empty the pipes, if you are not sure that is enough call a plummer to empty them totally with airpressure. 🤗
To prevent the pipes from bursting, close the main valve, open all watertabs and empty your pipes in the basement.
@@josefmauer2220 if you have a basement 🤗
The workers that are working so hard to fix all the electrical, hot water and drinking water systems and build the barriers are incredible people, and deserve huge recognition from the government and people of Iceland...
Absolutely ❤
I didn't know anything about how these houses are heated. Thank You for this video.
I've been following from Boston. I hope you are all warm, safe, and w loved ones.
Yes. A huge job, really hazardous
After the back slapping, there will be questions asked as to why no contingency plans were drawn up for such a 'surprise' event, even though everyone saw it coming, except the woke media & woke politicians.
Sounds like they dont have much choice between that or freezing to death.
No clickbait thumbnails or title just good factual information.👍
Respect for the engineers having to figure out how to fix this issue and the ground workers out there working on the pipe in this cold weather.
Favourite channel from an actual Icelandic person.
Appreciated with greetings from Iceland :)
@@JustIcelandicSir, because of your videos I’m going to bring my family to Iceland 🇮🇸 for an adventure holiday.
You should do treks Sir. we would book with you for sure!
My heart is with you Iceland.
Appreciated...
Way to make it about you
@@stevedallas9529 They didn't, they expressed support.
I have faith in the resourcefulness of the people of Iceland.
We are good at sorting things out because we are so used to messing things up with bad or no planning at all :)
@@JustIcelandic I love your all's humor! got have it!
And if there is a serious problem with engineering, there are competent and skillful people all over Europe and the rest of the world that can help out in times of need. With shelters and generators or whatever else is needed.
@@JustIcelandic Germans are the total opposite: they always plan for a case when a metorite hits the crater and melts the glacier and causes a flooding and avalanches, earthquakes and tsunami at the same time. It is insane what German companies keep in stock, just to be safe if WWIII breaks out. For example, every water plant has all equipment threefold. First in operation, the second if you need to maintain the first and the third in reserve if the second fails. Then they have spare parts and a spare pump in store. That seems reasonable. But besides that, there are separate emergency wells, a double pipeline to the next water plants even in other districts. Then they have a 12 hour or 24 hour contract with the supplier that they can replace any spare pars in that time frame. The water tanks have enough water for one day. Then there are tankers that can distribute to a whole city in case of emergency. Then there is a Bundeswehr military water treatment unit that can set up a functioning water treatment everywhere in the world in three days that can use water out of any river inside the Kongo. I never experienced an interrupted water supply for more than a few hours, which is unavoidable but scheduled when they upgrade the water grid.
@@JustIcelandic 😅
Apparently 40% of Iceland was covered with woods when the settlers came, but they cut everything.
I'm saying that because in Canada there are still people heating large houses with 100% wood...
the climate was warmer too. Luckily Icaeland now has a big treeplanting programme going on, planting millions of tiny trees these years
@@kunstnersjael On average climate was slightly COOLER 1200 years ago (ie cooler than the last decades), when birch woods and forests covered 40% of the island.
Much longer ago Iceland was covered with sequoias and other larger trees (maybe 100%), but that was millions of years ago, long before men even existed.
Thank you for the update. With a warning of less than 30 minutes it is impossible to be there in time from the north, but there will be a next time. I have seen the workers still building walls close to the fast moving lava. They worked so hard, too bad the water pipes could not be saved. Another lesson learned. My thoughts go out to the people who have limited options to protect themselves and their homes from freezing 🙏.
Thank you very much :)
Appreciate the update but, to be honest, I could spend hours listening to you talk about anything. What a voice. 😊
Wow, thank you :)
He could read the phone book and I'd still be captivated 😂
Yes his voice is the nest part 😊, Greetings from Iceland 👍🎉👏✨
I send links to these videos to family, and say, Listen to this beautiful voice! All the very best. From South Africa❤
Hope friends open doors of warmth for the ones without
But shut them quickly afterwards not to let the heat out!
@@drunkenhobo8020 😀❤️
This has really turned into a disaster for those depending on hot water from the Svartsengi power plant. I'm hoping that other Icelanders who still have heat will take them in until repairs are made. Major kudos to those working on the repairs and the excavator operators who were racing the lava to close the gaps in the barrier wall protecting the power plant. And all the thanks to you, Gylfi, for giving us such down-to earth, thorough updates.
Best wishes, Gylfi, to you and all your fellow Icelanders.
Thank you :)
Not to make light of this very serious content, but since I started watching these videos, I am getting lots of content about Bjork on my Facebook feed.
Best wishes for those impacted.
I hadn't thought about it before, but it unfortunately makes sense that people wouldn't install heat pump based climate control & hot water if they always have a seemingly infinite reliable source of geothermal hot water-meaning they can only fall back to resistive heating.
The fortitude of Icelanders is inspiring. Your reporting is phenomonal. Do not be disappointed you didn't make this eruption, you had the resources for this video and gave credit where it was due. This is only one reason I watch your channel for news of Iceland. Wishing for the best outcome of this tragic event.
How do you know he didn't make the eruption?
@@acr08807 😄
@@acr08807 I sure hope all Icelanders don't think like 'ceceliaroberts1475', sadly the consequences have answered my own question.
Thanks, Gylfi, for such well-rounded coverage: dramatic footage, geological background, explanation of the varied impacts on the population, and description of infrastructure. I visited the area 8 years ago, including poor Grindavik, and have been watching the ongoing struggles with a heavy heart. All best wishes to Reykjanes residents!❤
Great Iceland, you are in my thoughts and prayers, greetings from Circassia/Russia
Thank you very much and greetings to Russia :)
I live in the Pacific Northwest, the risk of volcanic eruptions and large earthquakes constantly looms large. The last major eruption here was Mt. St. Helens in 1980, but Tahoma (Rainier) and Wy East (Mt. Hood) both pose a very large risk because they are close to Seattle and Portland, respectively. These volcanoes don't produce the rivers of lava, but more explosive clouds of ash and steam, with pyroclastic flows, mud and lahars. Stay safe out there!
Nobody wants to see another mt st Helens
Thank you, Gylfi, your work is top notch as always. I think you’re right about this being a man-made disaster due to the infrastructure. I think the government really underestimated possible natural disasters. Need a more robust power system. It would be a great way to create jobs and revenue to build more infrastructure, power creation, houses etc.
You Icelanders are Vikings 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 you will go over this and arise stronger; even stronger. Much love to all of you
Much appreciated and greetings from Iceland...
@@JustIcelandic ❤️ greetings from Spain
I pray for all of you to be safe, strong, and well. TY for the video.
It is so sad to be watching this disaster as it is happening, but I love your coverage. Your maps are so spectatular and colorful, and I can easily understand exactly what is happening, where it is happening, and why it is happening because your maps and your reporting are so clear. The Photos from Borganes are spectatcular, even while it was still a disaster. Thanks to your friend Omar. My heart goes out to the Icelandic people as you struggle to fix the pipes and I do hope noone dies from the extreme cold. February is such a bad month to be without heat in the Northern Hemisphere.
ugh, I have been without electricity AND running water in my house in the winter before, for up to 10 days due to a massive storm. It is very uncomfortable to say the least. I hope this can be resolved quickly for the people who are affected😔🥶
Looks like, the lava hit an Achilles heel… I am very sorry to hear. I always looked at Iceland as one of the most progressive countries, when it comes to clean energy. And it still is! Great idea to use mother earth´s ground heat to provide energy and fresh water to the people. But any system without redundancy will cause a crisis when there is a single point of failure, which can make it stop working. Bad timing now in the winter on top of it. I hope, your country and your people find a way to deal with the crisis and make the energy system redundant in the long run. Thanks for your great video footage! Greetings from New Mexico!
Sending our love from Memphis, Tennessee … we have followed this story close with all 3 recent eruptions. Stay strong, Iceland 🇮🇸
As usual . Straight forward info with no sensationalism much appreciated .
Thank you Gylfi for the latest update. The Reykjanes Peninsula certainly doesn't have its sorrows to seek with this eruption 😢 hopefully the new black bed pipeline will work but hot lava & cold temperatures certainly don't mix
Many thanks for this report, and all the effort you put into keeping the world informed.
Reykjanes Peninsula seems to be having many troubles. Here in wintry Canada, my home has 3 sources of heat: electric baseboards, a heat pump, and a wood stove. The last two I installed for heating/ cooling and energy efficiency, and the wood stove in case of very cold weather, power outages, which can also be used for cooking.
Wood stoves pretty useless in Iceland...not many trees there certainly not enough to produce firewood in useful quantities.
@@arthol51. Pellets are used now, but they’d have to be imported.
I can see heat pump + extra wind power work for Iceland.
Could provide crucial additional power in situations exactly like these.
Thank you for telling us the human story behind the geologic one. disasters like this could set back a country a hundred years.
Yes this is a major setback...
The only positive thing I can see is that rebuilding all of the water infrastructure for the entire Rekjanes Peninsula could create many jobs in the short-term. As Gylfi said, though, this could have been prevented. Perhaps with pipeline redundancies and better oversight. 😢
I'm Canadian and I like volcanoes. This is very cool. Well not cool in the fact that it's lava. But an amazing event to be witnessing. Also about your accent, I can understand you perfectly.. similar to Irish accents. I don't need subtitles when watching people from other countries speak English. And I do appreciate the accents and all that it's very soothing. Your accent is really nice
Excellent channel, photographer and narrator. Wow. Thank you for sharing this story. We hope that ALL heating problems will soon be fixed.
I can't imagine what you are experiencing. You all must feel like those on the big island of Hawaii just a few years ago when they also experienced a large volcanic flow. But their situation was certainly more favorable than yours. They don't have to deal with the cold temperatures that you folks do. My prayers are with you and all the Islandic people, particularly those in Grindavic. They are not only losing homes but their livelihoods as well.
Thank you so much Gylfi for this. You do such a great job putting all the information together. It's all so unbelievable. The perfect storm with no pun intended. Driving and walking those areas only a few months ago feels surreal. So glad you made that video driving around Grindavik and reminiscing. But now to see that this very small part of Iceland is causing so much trouble for so many. It sure brings up the short sightedness of the government with no plan B. With sadness and worried thoughts from Canada to the people of the Volcano Island, Iceland!
I can only hope that the pipes can be fixed quickly and that they turn it on again slowly in order not to rupture anything else in the process.. Thanks Gylfi for another very informative video!🌟. Please all of us here keep The Icelandic people without warm homes right now in the middle of a cold winter...keep them in our prayers and send good energy to them and hope their homes become warm again very soon!🌟🌟
I have been following your stories for several months. Thank you for posting. I live in the Northwest United States. Winter is not a time for heating problems and travel issues.
Where I live, power outages just happen. Depending on just one source to heat your house, isn't wise. Having a plan B, like propane, wood stove, possibly a generator, to heat your house just makes good sense!
Prayer for the people to stay warm!
Damn! It seems one problem after another. Please be safe. I sure hope that these power problems get solved quickly.
It's gonna take week sadly so it's very hard on the 30.000 people there...
Hello Gylfi. A few weeks ago we went through a cold snap where temperatures stayed below 0°C for two weeks. Temperatures went as low as 18.9°C. I live in a camper and my water was frozen the whole time. Electric heating was inadequate. My poor cat's water bowl froze on the floor. My heart goes out to all on the peninsula. Indeed this is bad news.😢 Let's hope Iceland has a warm snap.
Sounds like insulation issue. Please put plastic over windows to keep our draft, use blanket ls in front of door. Sorry you are leaving being in such cold. Very unfair. There are ways to create heat pumps using crisco in cans with wicks over ceramic pots with holes in center of bottom upside down. There are videos on it. Can use electric heater fans like vornados that circulate the warm air. What is this country coming to making people live in units that can't be kept above zero inside.
From the bottom of my heart I wish you all, in my favorite country, the very best for the coming troubled period.
I'm sure the Icelandic nation is strong enough to overcome these major problems.
Anyway, if things get starting harder we need to rumble up the international community to give help
As always Gylfi, thank you for your efforts to keep us informed and keeping yourself safe!
Your channel is one of those about which I wouldn't care normally but to me you are gifted with an eye and ear for presenting world in u a nique way. Every time I watch next stuff from you is like a feast.
Thank you kindly :) and greetings from Iceland
Thank you as always Gylfi. I do keep an eye on the local news sites, but often their graphics are in icelandic and don't really give enough context for those of us without knowledge of the area. Your video overlays are so much clearer and paint a much better picture of what's going on. They are of great value to those of us watching from a distance.
Reminds me of an old saying here "Don't put all your eggs in one basket".
Just thinking that
Wow...that's just nuts...I'm praying for all of you...and hoping for better and warmer days ahead...stay safe and God bless...
Much appreciated
If God were real then that meant he caused the eruption lol
I can't imagine how this feels. Thank you so much for your updates, the best by far. No extra sensationalism, just straight, clear reporting. Please keep extra safe yourself. Greetings from England.
Thanks for sharing, take care and stay safe. As a Canadian, I understand your concern with winter heating and freezing pipes, it is terribly difficult to fix while it is still cold out.
Hot water was trucked to Keflavik today to pump it into the system to keep it warm, we hope it helps
Thank you, Gylfi. Stay warm.
Balanced and objetive comments. Beautiful videos ! Great work !!
Much appreciated!
Thank you for your videos and straightforward news! I look forward to seeing your videos every day!
Thank you very much :)
Everytime he says oven, he indent to say radiator.
In icelandic we use the same word for baking oven and water heating radiator, that word is ofn, meaning oven.
In iceland almost everybody heat up the houses with geothermal water radiators. Almost nobody has a water heater in their homes in the towns or cities.
There are houses in the country site that have water heaters, but it´s much cheaper to get the geothermal hot water.
We get the geothermal hot water with pipes, just like the cold water.
There is no gas pipes in Iceland, and we generally do not have heating stoves in normal homes, some have it in their summer houses.
So when the geothermal hot water goes, there is almost no backup.
But there is a another thing I´m worried about:
I live in Gardabaer, town in the capital area, few km from Reykjavik.
Few months ago they had to turn off the hot water pipes because of road work for around 12 hours, just in a part of the town.
It was advertices in advance so everybody was suppose to know about it.
When they turned the water on again, pipes were bursting in couple of places in the town and it took couple of days to fix everything.
I had to call in one case when I drove into my street after a night shift and there was a plume of steam greeting me, and hot water sizzling up throught the street pavement at a rate maybe 2 liter/per second.
When they came to fix it in my street I went to talked to one of the workers and he said that this was very normal, that pipes can burst when the water pressure is turn back on.
So I´m waiting for report of bursting pipes all over the Reykjanes peninsula when they finaly will get the hot water back on.
P.s. look how the lava flow was like it was suppose to take the water line, because just after it reach the pipeline the flow stopped.
It was coincidence, after lava reached pipes eruption was already decreasing in intensity, so flow did not have enough power to continue forward. Even though it was biggest Iceland eruption since 2021, both in terms of area and volume. But initial eruptive discharge was biggest since Bardarbunga eruption, 1000m3/s
I lived in the east fjords for a while many years ago. I’m trying to remember what the heating was like as there was definitely no geothermal power there. I think it must have been electric generated by a hydroelectric power plant?
Very much hoping people in Iceland can find warmth with friends and family. Wishing everyone there safety and good health from Canada 🇨🇦
Thank-you Gylfi for your continued updates. Sending best wishes to yourself and all Icelanders from the UK.
This is just heartbreaking....For those that have never been there, Iceland is a remarkably beautiful....just heartbreaking.
thank you! I would love to see that documentary of yours someday! Looking foward to it. This is a special time to witness for sure. I hope heating can be fixed soon for the people though 😢. It’s still so very cold. Wishing all the best for you and Iceland! 🩵
Thank you from Russia, hope the Icelandic people will cope and improve comfort in their homes and in life in general❤
Thank you very much for your kindness and greetings to Russia :)
Makes me appreciate our ability to heat with wood stove here in Canada when our hydro goes out. I don't image that is a possibility with no lumber source and wood pellets are probably very expensive to have shipped in to Iceland. What an awful situation but I have no doubt in the skill and determination of Vikings to get through this. 💪🏻
Thankyou once more Gylfi - this is a terrible situation for your country. Wishing you well
Thank you Gylfi, and Ómar too!
Best of luck, we know here in Alaska the peril of being without heat in the winter!
I’m guessing you mean ‘furnace’ instead of ‘oven’ but we get the idea.
They are actually radiators; it's essentially liquid steam heat.
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by liquid steam, you mean water?
Your photography is stunning! Thanks for the update.
A day or so without central heating is a big annoyance, but a week is a real emergency. Sympathy for all the people affected by these outages. It seems like the current volcanic activity is happening in one of the worst places in the area. I hope the next intrusion takes place somewhere far from infrastructure.
-15° makes it a crisis.😢
Thankyou for the up date, much appreciated , I hope they manage to fix the pipe as soon as they can , best wishes
Appreciate your updates Gylfi. You are giving us great info without the sensationalism I see in several other channels.
I appreciate that!
Thank you for these insightfull posts. Feeling for all those directly affected. I continue to hope all remain safe!
Good luck Gylfi and all icelanders, this is a indeed a tough situation
Thank you so very much for your reporting! It’s fascinating and informative.
Thank you for your always outstanding reporting!
So sorry to hear that the replacement pipe burst. Suffering through a winter that cold is terrible. I do hope they find a solution soon. Long term that seems like a problem with no easy answers, though.
A small translation detail... In the US, an oven is what you bake food in. A portable heat source is a "heater." I'm just not sure if your terminology is different in Iceland, or if was a translation error, but I thought that if it was you would want to know.
I wish the people in Island all the best and a lot of strenght to survive this. Lots of love.
Much appreciated and greetings from Iceland...
Thanks for the update, Gilfi. 🥰
Welcome :)
Thank you for your reports. It is a challenging time for Iceland and its people. My prayers are that everyone stays positive and works together to forestall any further damage from ongoing eruptions.
Words of encouragement to you from Estonia.
Much appreciated and greetings from Iceland...
Thank you for the update and best of wishes for all of you!
Thank you too!
Wow thank you for the detailed information i really hope they find a solution for the pipes hopefully some people can come with some ideas to help fix this issues is so sad please safe also i love your content is informative educational calm and detailed ❤
Very informative and obviously heart felt description of the impacts of the most recent eruptive event
Thank you for the update. I hope your country can upgrade both electric and heating production as the weather warms.
Friend, greetings from Spain. Thank you for your great work in informing us. I hope that Mother Nature calms down in that beautiful place, and everything fix quickly. Thanks again for your great reports.
You are all in my thoughts and prayers 💜
Thanks for the update. Lots of good information. Drone footage is awesome as always. I can't even imagine what it must be like to deal with all the eruptions, and earth quakes on a daily basis.
Thanks for watching!
I loved my visit few years ago. Thank you for this reporting. My prayers are with the beautiful country and people.
best wishes to the icelanders on the penisula gylfi
thanks for the information and update
stay safe
Thank you very much
Thank You Gylfi, keep up the good work with your continued reporting. Greetings and best wishes from NZ.
Always good information.
Thank you.
Thanks for the update. Best wishes to all Icelanders.
Sending my thoughts and prayers to all in Iceland. May you recover quickly.
Appreciate the work. Please Stay safe❤
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Welcome :)
Thank you for the update.
Any time!
Thank you for a very clear appraisal of this event. It is appreciated.
This will have long term repercussions. I hope everyone survives the winter.
Appreciated with greetings from Iceland :)
This eruption could not have been worse timing for you in Iceland. My heart goes out to you, and like others here have said, I hope those with warm houses open them to those without and that a permanent fix is not far away. Greetings from Canada, where we have the ice, but not the fire. And thank you for your informative videos that are always so visually appealing.
Excellent coverage and I like your commentary and voice. Blessing to all Icelanders.
Thanks for the update. Hoping for the best for all of you Icelanders. ❤
Fingers crossed!
Thanks for the update,stay safe and warm🙏🙏🙏
The Icelandic horses are my favourite horses ❤❤❤ ! They are so beautiful! I wish I could visit your country one day! Love from Germany 🌹
Great job! Thanks for all of your updates. Much appreciated!
My pleasure!
It seems that long term alternatives will need to be explored; that cold with no heat, is not acceptable. My heart is with you and the people of Iceland. Best regards.
Much concern, love, and hope to all of Insula Gardari. You have, and will always be in the hearts and thoughts of my fellow Canadians.
((Hugs)), my Nordic friends. 🇨🇦❤🇮🇸
Prayers 🙏 and blessings from Scotland, Ty for your efforts and amazing news, videos.
Thank you kindly
Great update although it continues to be bad news. Thank you, be safe and take care