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23 March 2009

Mt. Redoubt is currently errupting. →[More:]

I hope this means I won't have to go to work tomorrow, because that's as prepared as I got.

post by: rhapsodie at: 02:18 | 12 comments

So far I can only find pictures from two days back.

posted by arse_hat 23 March | 02:38

The big band of red at the bottom of this activity graph is the eruption. I just took the screenshot.

Crazy.

arse: It's almost midnight, doubt there are any photos of it.

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by rhapsodie 23 March | 02:42

No your Flickr is fine and yes the midnight thing may explain the lack of pictures :)

posted by arse_hat 23 March | 02:48

KTUU, our NBC affiliate, is saying that flights to Anchorage have turned around.

I just put water bottles in the fridge, though I'm not expecting a heavy dusting of ash.

posted by rhapsodie 23 March | 02:56

Wild. Good luck up there... hope the ash is minimal.

posted by BoringPostcards 23 March | 06:33

Wow, that is pretty cool. Not cool if it causes human harm, neat if it doesn't.

posted by LoriFLA 23 March | 08:02

Cool. They've been monitoring this for a few weeks, right?

I grew up on the Atlantic coast of Canada and I remember the coating of ash on my grandfather's car after Mount St. Helens quite vividly. I wonder if that will happen again?

posted by loiseau 23 March | 08:17

They've been monitoring it for a while, yes. So long that no one really cared any more.

There have now been five eruptions, but no ash advisory for Anchorage. Which means I have to go to work. Here are some more links before I go shower:

My friend Mitch went out to the 24hr Safeway stores and found the water aisles empty.

Seismogram at 3.30, three hours ago.

Radar image showing 5th eruption. And here's the 3rd eruption.

And the Anchroage Daily News article. Though I hear it's hit the National news.

posted by rhapsodie 23 March | 09:46

I was living in Anchorage in 1989 when it erupted then. One of the most memorable times of my life. And there were some fabulous sunsets in the weeks afterwards.

Stay safe, don't stir up the ash, and oh, how I envy anyone who is in Alaska. I miss it with all my heart.

posted by Savannah 23 March | 10:00

They've been monitoring it for a while, yes.

*snort*

posted by scody 23 March | 16:01

The webcam got a shot of tonight's eruption. That would be the 6th and the smallest.

posted by rhapsodie 24 March | 00:32

Christ, what an ash-hole.

posted by stilicho 24 March | 01:34

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