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Pretty amazing couple of updates at RUV at the moment (particularly with something like the opening scene of Dante's Peak in mind for the more typical way we respond to eruptions!):
Still some time for lava to reach Suðurstrandarvégur
The main task of civil defense tonight is to monitor the infrastructure in the vicinity of Grindavík, says Víðir Reynisson, director of civil defense. Two lava streams that run from the crater should be carefully observed. On the one hand, the one who crossed Grindavíkurveg tonight, and on the other hand, the one who is now lining up against the defenses at Svartsengi.
Víðir says that the lava flow that lies southeast still has a long way to go to Suðurstrandarvégur. Lava flowing along bulwark L12 has not reached its end.
Víðir says that ramparts are being added to the town of Hraun because lava flows towards it.
Electricity was cut off in Grindavík for a while. Víðir says that this was done to ensure safety in the power plant at Svartsengi if it were necessary to interrupt the current through the Svartsengi line. Electricity has been restored in parts of Grindavík.
16 minutes ago – updated
"The lava is now just under our paws"
Reporter Benedikt Sigurðsson was on a fortification east of Grindavík when he was interviewed on RÚV news at 2 o'clock.
"And the lava is now just right below our feet, so to speak, and it naturally gives off a lot of heat, apparently, 1,200 degrees hot lava. It just slowly slides down the park and approaches Suðurstrandarveðin, but it goes very slowly. It's kind of hopeless to say if and when it will reach down there."
"In the short time I've been here, it's moved maybe 50 meters. It is amazing to see how it lays along the rampart that has been made here. The road yard is working right up to ten."
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