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!
Prayers for all of you folks up there.
Thank you, its irritating to say the least, many people I know that need to fly out for work have been grounded.
And its going to affect air shipping pretty good as well since most everything is flown in.
LMAO!
Horse-pucky! The gravitational impact of the galaxy on the solar system, and on Earth in particular, are sub-microscopic in comparison to the gravitational impact of the sun and to a lesser degree the moon. And those influences have been with us since before life started on this planet.
Your 'some scientists' wouldn't be astrologers or or 2012 Apocalypso-nuts, would they? There's no 'Science' in a statement like that.
We got a small amount at our house in Wasilla. I could barely see it on the snow. It was most obvious on the car windshield.
Hard to say how much here on Turnagain arm. Had 8 inches of snow and high winds so its drifted and layered into the snow. A lot of it sure melts off the boots when you come inside.
Why isn’t there better video of this? All I see are stills.
True, but it doesn't necessarily get inside. Blocked/Plugged air filters are more common. My family drove a Toyota Corona 120 miles back home through Mt. St. Helens ash, on backgrounds because the highway was closed. When home I carefully removed the air filter. There was a lot of ash on the external filter media, but it was not completely blocked. I was careful not to drop any ash inside the carb throat. There was no visible ash whatsoever inside. A few years later a relative bought the car, and sold it some time later. I still saw the car being driven until about 15 years ago. It must have had a hundred thousand miles put on it AFTER the jaunt through the ash.
Silicon footprint.
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Bretwood Higman / groundtruthtrekking.org via AVO
Lightning from Redoubt's 11:20 pm, March 27, eruption.
"PLUME LIGHTNING" !
To: American in Israel
>SOME FOLKS PUT WOMEN’S HOSE OVER THE CARBORATOR/AIR BREATHER
>INTAKE IIRC.
>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!
Another “St. Helens Survivor” here. I remember my dad taking a strip of foam the same width as the air filter and long enough to cover the outside of it, dipped it in motor oil and wrung it out before wiring it on to the outside of the stock air filter. Basically what you do with a lot of your foam lawn-mower/small engine filters. He’d wash it out with soapy water, rinse it and dry it each day, re-oil it and be good to go. Seems I remember it working pretty well.
In Spokane, I remember the ash being pretty deep—the stuff hung on for a long time after she blew. People couldn’t stay cooped up forever, so we just adapted.
x2 on the good-quality dust mask, btw.
Our Prayers are with you...
That is a great idea! I think that would solve the issue nicely.
Very good information. The dust from logging was so fine it was getting past the filters. Or at least a small portion of the dust.
Dont you just love FReeperville? So much good experience on tap!
I think they put pantihose on their carburetors in eastern Washington when Mt. St. Helens went off ... (she said, not knowing a thing about cars).
Yes, I was helping my dad dig out for several weekends running down at Williams Lake, near Cheney.
On the air filter thing, the filter-to-airbox seal is critical. On offroad motorcycles, if that seal is poor, a top end can be ruined in as little as one ride around here (where the dust is mostly fine ash). OTOH, if the seal is good (and some grease helps), a paper or lubed foam filter will suspend most all of the particles. I have a couple dirt bikes from that very era, the 80s, which still have the original top end. Low miles, but they do get ridden.
Watch your back there. You and yours are in our thoughts and prayers.
Regards,
AR
“Somebody trll Bobby Jindal, He thinks volcano monitoring is “wasteful””
As part of a ‘stimulus’ package - he is correct.
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