Volcanic ash issues - just another day at the office

I am back and forth to Boston about every 6 weeks or so but this week was a little bizarre.  A volcanic eruption in Iceland has spewed so much ash in the air that so far there have been 17,000 flights grounded across Europe.  I'm sitting right now at Zurich airport where we are reassured that our flight is going to take off just fine in about 2 hours.  Meanwhile the ash has come as far south as Paris closing airports there and in Amsterdam, Germany and everyplace else north of that.  My guess is that this same flight tomorrow won't be going.

Not only does this affect me but it creates a small work emergency as it is leaving au pairs stranded both in Europe heading to the US and those that have finished their year in the US and need to head home.

It seems slightly bizarre to me that today's major challenge for work involve a volcano in Iceland.  Go figure.