It's amazing when mother nature decides to show her face how much chaos it can really produce. As I'm sure you've all heard the volcano in Iceland has disrupted thousands of flights all across Europe and even the globe. Thousands more remain stranded in airports around the world, without money, food or a place to stay. Of course greed usually raises its ugly head when a tragic event like this happens and seriously, the ones involved should be shot.

"Andrew and Debbie Jackman of Britain spent more than two years saving up for their family vacation to Australia. They probably wish they'd saved a little longer.

On Friday, they found out their Qantas flight from Sydney to Britain had been canceled thanks to a volcano erupting in Iceland. So the Cambridge couple and their two teenage sons squeezed into a 150 Australian dollar ($138) hotel room to wait out the night. On Saturday, the hotel raised the price of the same room to AU$350 — simply because it could, Andrew said ruefully. After endless negotiations, the hotel brought the price back down to AU$160, but the family, broke and frustrated, opted to move Sunday to a hostel"

Are you serious? These vultures more than doubled the price for a stay at their hotel ?. I think this is horrific that they can get away with something like this. Usually when something like this happens people (most people anyway) try to come together and help each other out, but of course there will always be the greedy ones that take advantage of other peoples misfortune.

"Steeper-than-usual hotel prices is another passenger complaint. In Hong Kong, Busi Daniel, a 39-year-old French tourist, said he spent Sunday night in a hotel after his flight was canceled. But a huge jump in price meant he would be forced to sleep at the airport on Monday.

"Yesterday, we had a hotel room at 250 euros. At midday, it was 460 euros, and in the evening, the price was 800 euros for a room — we can't pay that," he said Monday as he waited at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines' counter in Hong Kong's airport. "

The excuse of course is supply and demand:

Asked if the hotel was guilty of price-gouging, the hotel's general manager, Alan Burrows, said simply, "We dynamically price much like the airlines do, according to how many rooms we have to sell in the hotel."

This whole event is very depressing, on top of people losing money because they can't get back to work, airlines losing millions, it also happens in the middle of a troubled economy.

I'm also upset because my mom was suppose to be here this Friday to celebrate a special occasion with us and now may be unable to