volcano activity

My husband and I went out on a HOT date last night after dinner to look at the volcano . We saw a lot of people doing the same thing. :) We were able to see a range of mountains but Mt Redoubt was obscure, covered with clouds or steam. It was an interesting sight with the sun just above where the mountain is located. We all missed the activity by about 3 hours. Mt Redoubt erupted about 11:30 last night. We don't have any ashfall as of this morning but they are predicting that we get some today. A lot of air traffic has been affected. Mt Redoubt is a beautiful sight to see on a clear day. You can be driving in the middle of town and see the mountain in all it's majesty just sitting there---just so awe inspiring. Thank you, God for your marvelous creation!

Mt Redoubt

I heard that Mt Redoubt erupted last night. Actually, I heard it from my daughter, Julie who lives in the Seattle area. She woke us up early this am with a phone call letting us know. :) I had to run to the window to see if I could see any ash on the freshly fallen snow. There wasn't any ash to be seen, so we escaped the ash fall in the Anchorage area for the time being. Hopefully, the mountain will settle down so we don't have to worry about it spreading ash everywhere. My hubby and I saw Mt Redoubt on Friday evening as we were driving up from Soldotna and saw a plume of steam coming from it. The mountain actually looked very small on the horizon but certainly spectacular. Our son, Jordan flew across the inlet with a friend on Friday to climb a mountain quite a few miles from Redoubt. They got back on Saturday, thankfully, just before a major snow storm that flew in. We got somewhere between 6-9 inches on new snow. OH MY, what a way to start the first day of spring!

Volcano

When I flew down to King Cove this past summer, I took this photo of a volcano. I'm not positive on what volcano this is, it is one of the numerous and beautiful volcanoes here in Alaska.

Here is an excerpt from the Alaska Volcano Observatory web page. As you can tell, they posted this message sometime around 2:30 this afternoon. We live close to the volcano and it depends on the wind path as to if we experience ash fall or not. When Mt Redoubt erupted in 1986, the wind pattern brought the ash onto us in Kenai. It was pretty scary seeing the ash fall down like snow. I have to say that I'm not prepared for an ash fall. We need to get the masks yet. I went to buy them yesterday but the store that I went to was out of them.

2009-01-30 14:35:54
Intense seismicity continues at Redoubt this afternoon. Clear webcam views, satellite, and radar data from earlier today indicate that the volcano has not yet erupted.