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VIDEO: Alaska volcano sends ash plume 9 miles high
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| 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
Posted on 03/23/2009 10:05:35 AM PDT by JoeProBono
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted five times overnight, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles into the air in the volcano's first emissions in nearly 20 years. Residents in the state's largest city were spared from falling ash, though fine gray dust was falling Monday morning on small communities north of Anchorage. "It's coming down," Rita Jackson, 56, said early Monday morning at a 24-hour grocery store in Willow, about 50 miles north of Anchorage. She slid her fingers across the hood of her car, through a dusting of ash.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: alaska; volcano
To: JoeProBono
Half of Alaska's population lives downwind from the volcano in the Cook Inlet area; the distal effects of future tephra eruptions of Redoubt could reach this population readily.
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:16:30 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( Dear Mr. Obama - Please make it rain candy! P.S. I like jelly beans.)
To: JoeProBono
Ascending eruption cloud from Redoubt Volcano and its reflection in the waters of Cook Inlet. View is to the west from the Kenai Peninsula. Photograph by J. Warren, April 21, 1990.
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:22:22 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( Dear Mr. Obama - Please make it rain candy! P.S. I like jelly beans.)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:24:08 AM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(Want to make a conservative angry? Lie to him. Want to make a liberal angry? Tell him the truth)
To: smokingfrog
Wow!Thx.
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:26:50 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
That looks totally nuclear!
One ash-kicking volcano, I’d say.
An Indian a few miles away was sending up smoke signals; when he saw the enormous volcanic cloud, he could only marvel,
“Gee, I wish I’D said that!”
;^)
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:37:26 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("O Muslim! My cartridges are lubricated with pig grease!")
To: JoeProBono
Poor Sarah Palin’s screwed now. The entire state's allotment of carbon credits used up in one big poof!
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:39:28 AM PDT
by
2111USMC
To: smokingfrog
Can this be a scary omen of what is to come? It looks like the mushroom cloud from the Bikini Atoll H-bomb test of 1954.
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:39:42 AM PDT
by
DarthVader
(Liberal Democrats are the party of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
To: elcid1970
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:40:45 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(01-20-2009 : The end of the PAX AMERICANA.)
To: elcid1970
That looks totally nuclear!No... that's NU-CU-Ler
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:41:11 AM PDT
by
ThomasMore
(Hedonism cast its vote and we ended up with an ObamaNation!)
To: JoeProBono
Weird. On the far right of the cloud you can see one really ugly frowning facemask that looks like a pissed off native american warmask with a beard.
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:45:17 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(01-20-2009 : The end of the PAX AMERICANA.)
To: Centurion2000
Cool.Thx.
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posted on
03/23/2009 10:53:28 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: DarthVader
Just a note to all:
There are zero, zip, NADA photographs or video of the eruption today. It was at night in bad weather.
The photos on this thread are from the Redoubt Eruption 19 years ago.
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