Posted on 03/28/2009 7:13:06 PM PDT by Species8472
Redoubt Volcano has been erupting all day. I am in south Anchorage where ash is falling. 1/8th inch in the last 20 minutes. visibility less than 500 feet. Heavy smell of sulfur in the air.
Hunkering down!
“But remember to turn off your lights between 8:30 and 9:30!”
Was that tonight? Did I miss it? Damn! I was going to turn all the lights on and turn the heat up to 80 and then I got distracted by this bloody volcano! I’ll have to fire it up tomorrow just because!
Local time: March 28, 2009 2120 AKDT (March 29, 2009 0520 UTC)
Redoubt Volcano Latest Observations 2009-03-28 21:02:52
Another explosive eruption of Redoubt volcano occurred at approximately 19:23 AKDT (03:23 UTC). Seismicity has declined, but remains well above background.
Ashfall from the explosion at 3:29 ADT has been reported in locations from Anchorage to Valdez.
For ash fall advisories, refer to the National Weather Service Redoubt Coordination web page.
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That’s one heck of a carbon footprint!
Thanks for the good news. Yikes!
The country is going to need her, maybe sooner rather than later.
PS: Redoubt probably canceled out today's insipid little demonstration in a few milliseconds.
Wouldn't you be if someone stuck you in a Flying Monkey costume?
Holy Moly!
Looks like a nuke, they get that lighting thing going too, sometimes.
We got about a half inch of ash from Mt. St. Helens here in Western North Dakota. Nasty, abrasive stuff, even though it was very fine powder. Dark in the daytime, too, and nothing anyone wanted to breathe.
False! Not going to help at all, your air filter is much better and finer of a mesh. You could spray some wd40 on the air cleaner but frankly, just dont drive. You do not want that abrasive crap grinding the guts out of your engine. Time to read a good book and kick back. As you cannot use the snowed in excuse in AK, now you can say you were ashed in!
Didn't the carbon lite in the pants contingent blame humans for glacier runoff in the arctic about the same time significant volcanic activity was increasing both on land and under water? Or was this totally unexpected, no idea where all that came from, gee it wern't there yesterday type event./s
I wonder how many centuries it would take the 660,000 people who live in Alaska to have enough barbeques and ride enough snowmobiles to match that!
There’s always room for more flying monkeys & moonbats in the WA state legislature
Agreed. We didn’t. Wife walked a block to work at the hospital.
I think the thought was that it would slow down the clogging of the air filter for those who desperately had to drive or some such.
God be with you where you are.
When I worked in the lumber industry we had a real dust problem. We piped the air intake into a can that was filled with about 3 inches of oil. the air was pulled down through the oil with a pipe and allowed to perk up through the oil in a perforated plate. A few inches of coarse steel wool over that to catch any oil droplets and the air taken off the top to the normal air cleaner.
The old fashoned oil bubbler air filter. It stops dust in its tracks. It catches the fines that go right through the paper filters.
PS: Redoubt probably canceled out today's insipid little demonstration in a few milliseconds."
Yes, I wonder if a calculation could be made comparing an eruption of this size with the efforts of however many carbon sequestration efforts and symbolic lights out efforts. I suspect that the volcano has a larger carbon footprint than millions could offset in the various schemes that have been proposed over an entire year or years.
The Demo-Socialists will probably claim that it’s caused by man-made global warming, just as they say earthquakes and snow storms are caused by man-made global warming.
One volcanic eruption probably equals all the emissions from all the cars in Los Angeles for about 10 years.
My sympathies. We lived in Eagle River in the 70’s and 80’s and experienced an eruption or two. (I don’t recall there being as much ash as you’re having.) No Matanuska Maid milk. Worried about the car’s engine. Thank goodness break-up carried it all away.
Oh the totus, I forgot about the totus. Maybe it’s solar.
Spectacular video. Thanks for posting the link!
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