It is now 12 hours after my last post and things have calmed down a bit. Over the night there were 5 large eruptions and several small eruptions coming from Mt. Redoubt, the volcano that is about 50 miles from our house. The last large eruption ended around 5pm this morning and sent ash 60,000 ft in the air. Fortunately for us, the wind carried the ash almost entirely north-northeast. Some of the cities to the north report that accumulated ash fall is currently at about 1/4 of an inch. For those of you that perhaps haven't spent all night looking at volcano information, some of the dangers of ash fall are: breathing it in is hazardous to you health, it can cause damage to your eyes, ash destroys electronics, it causes damage to vehicle engines, and if a build up of 4 or more inches a roof can collapse. The experts expect Redoubt to continue to erupt for up to a period of several months, so we can expect more ash in the future. Am I strange to think this is exciting?
The above pictures are from KTUU, the local news station. The ash was falling just like snow up in Trapper Creek. :-)
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