Mayor Kane by Glenn Jacobs

Author:Glenn Jacobs [Jacobs, Glenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2019-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

The Volcano

On April 14, 2010, the volcano at Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, erupted, spewing ash into the atmosphere and creating an ash cloud that led to the grounding of commercial jetliners across Europe.

Which just happened to be where WWE was touring at the time.

Millions of people across Europe had their travel plans disrupted. For me, it was the most arduous few days of travel that I’ve ever experienced.

I hadn’t been following the news so I didn’t know anything about the eruption until I arrived in the lobby of our hotel in Hamburg, Germany, on my way to a workout at the local gym. I stopped to talk with our market rep about the travel plans for that day. We had planned to take a charter flight to Zurich that night after the show in Hamburg.

“Haven’t you seen the news about the volcano?” he asked. “Air travel is shut down. It looks like we are going to stay here tonight and then take a train to Zurich.”

Alrighty then! I still didn’t think much about it. WWE arranges all our travel when we tour in foreign countries, so it wasn’t like I could do anything about it anyway. My main concern was just getting to the bus on time. After that, I followed the rest of the herd.

When I got to the gym and saw that every television station was following the volcanic eruption story, I realized it was a big deal. By the time I got back to the hotel, WWE officials, road agents Ricky Steamboat and Fit Finlay, along with the local event staff were making sure that everyone was aware of the change in travel plans for that night. Plans for the rest of the tour, they said, were uncertain. At the same time, another WWE team was touring in the United Kingdom, where things were even worse. That crew was expected to be stranded in Belfast until conditions improved, whenever that might be.

Early the next day, we left the hotel to catch the first train to Zurich. We took just our gear bags. The rest of our luggage went into a cargo van, which was to meet us in Zurich. I had a ticket in the first-class cabin on the train. Unlike in an airplane, first class and coach in the train were the same, except first-class ticketholders had their own little room to sit in.

It’s a little over five hundred miles from Hamburg to Zurich, which meant about an eight-hour train ride. When the train first took off, I thought we’d be there in no time. We were flying at more than one hundred miles per hour. But I soon realized that would not be the case. The problem was we were stopping at a station every few minutes. We’d be at the station for a minute or two and take off again.

There was a snack bar on one of the other cars and, after a few hours on the train, boredom and hunger drove me to step out of my cabin and head that way.

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