Someone explain this to me,,
Sept 11 2001-
Bush declares a no fly zone over the US. All aircraft land immediately. Planes that couldn't turn back were allowed to land at a small airfield in Canada, pop 12,000, the Canadians opened up there houses, providing food and medicine for almost 10,000 stranded Americans .
2010
A volcano in Iceland erupts, stranding thousands in American airports, and we let them sleep on the floor!!! The passengers stuck in Europe are given hotel rooms,, the people here are lucky if we hand out a cot! I think it's shameful !

Mt Ruapehu

Volcanic activity at Mount Ruapehu is increasing and an eruption could occur at any time, scientists warned on Tuesday. The volcano, famed as a location in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, last erupted on September 25 2007, spitting two metre boulders distances of up to two kilometres. Ruapehu’s elevated alert level has not been changed, but scientists said on Tuesday that activity within the mountain was greater, with high levels of gas spewing out, a warmer than average crater lake and ongoing volcanic tremors. “The volcano remains in a status of unrest and the possibility of further activity remains. If further eruptions occur, they may occur without warning,” Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS) said in a statement.


This is a place that we visited, when we were in New Zealand. The sites of Mordor, Emyn Muil and Mt Doom, were all filmed here. The spot where Sam and Frodo were lost amid volcanic lava flows and where they first met Gollum. Gollum's fishing pool, where Andy Serkis was careful not to plunge over the waterfall! This was the spot were we hit a blizzard. See the pics below.