As usual and I feel a little sad saying it, is that nobody can ever claim to be an expert on ANYTHING here in Alaska unless you have lived her a full calender year, or several years of southern and northern Alaska.
I live here, I have no PHD or fancy diplomas or drive a Beemer, I’m an Alaskan, I may not be the best person to quote state facts but I do know what we live with.
Its like Alaska is a whole new world, I give up trying to educate the out of staters that say oh no it cannot be that way up there, its America so it must be as we think its like the lower 48.
OK, you can stay there wherever, the basement, the penthouse, or blogging from another country, you are still viewing from the outside, good luck with your theories!
I am not going to argue with the internet experts about whether Redoubt is just a passive volcano venting some ash and steam compared to a possible Krakatoa, preach what you believe I suppose.
And I appreciate your comments Virginia Ridgerunner, I’ll keep posting what I see around me.
Unk, I have been to Alaska twice in the past 2 years. The reason I LOVE Alaska is cos it’s like a whole ‘nother world (which is why my kids live there (by Wasilla).
So, you keep telling us what you know. You’re there, we’re not (but I am still offering that free appendectomy to that other poster!)
Now for the stupid “lower 48” questions. Is there worry about a tsunami? I love the “Tsunami evacuation route” signs by Valdez! I mean, of course I hope that doesn’t happen, I just found it really funny (in my mind, stupidity) that not all tsunamis happen around tropic islands.
I see that Anchorage and the Mat-Su valley schools plan to open today, so that means the ash clouds are not expected to head up the valley?