Going Home This Weekend?

[Overbuilders]

Yo, Northup!

I hear there's a run on tires that not only help navigate snow and rain, but also volcanic ash.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/sci...laska.volcano/

[bkerley]

Let's hope it won't do anything to trigger this one.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-...no-update.html

[davenorthup]

Screw the tires, gotta buy a new air filter for the truck.

I went home last weekend and awoke to a 5.7 quake it shook like crazy for almost 30 seconds. Was the largest I have ever felt up here - I was out of town when we had the 7.9 a few years back. The 5.7 was the start of the increased seismic activity in the area.

The general wind patterns of the last few days will put that ash closer to Anchorage than Homer; but we'll see it either way as the wind shifts.

The last volcano we had erupt was a few years back - about 80 air miles from our place. We had a nice 1/4 to 1/2" of ash at our house. That is nasty stuff; but what are you going to do.

My only wish is that it is a clear day when it erupts, we have a great view of the volcano from our current job site!!!!!

[David Meiland]

We had a nice 1/4 to 1/2" of ash at our house. That is nasty stuff; but what are you going to do.

I guess you could be totally stoked that it's not four feet of coal sludge. Half an inch of ash sounds well tolerable by comparison.

[bread and roses]

This makes me remember the eruption of Mt St Helens, which was basically my introduction to public events. We had to wear masks outside for a bit. My mom told me it was because of the ash in the air, and I was confused, because I knew all about ash- that's what flies out of the draft slots in the wood stoves sometimes. So why aren't the woods on fire from the ash falling on them? I think the reports on St Helens were the first TV coverage I ever saw.

[philthegreek]

bread, you're either very young or Grizzly Adams. Man, I thought I wasn't that old ............ but ............. HONEY?!!
GET MY WALKER, IN NEED TO GET TO THE JOHN!! :-) Heh Heh

I think I read on the AP wire that there have been almost 500 earth quakes as high as 3.2 all around yellowstone in the last month. If that one goes, ........ civilization? What civilization?

[bread and roses]

bread, you're either very young or Grizzly Adams.

Not sure exactly what you mean- I'm 34, which I don't think qualifies as "very young" in anyone's book.

Maybe I am Grizzly Adams, though (It's hard for me to know due to my lack of television exposure). I was raised in a log cabin with a wood stove for heat and cooking with no TV, and the coverage I remember of St Helens was at other people's houses. But I was 5, which doesn't seem like a late age to be introduced to TV... er.. in my little world, anyhow.

(One year we went to my grandmother's house for Thanksgiving. She had the turkey in oven and suggested that we all take a walk before dinner. What? who's going to stoke the stove?)

Anyhow, Dave, I hope your ashfall is light and manageable. I hear that sometimes it solidifies like cement when it gets wet, so it's important to get it off cars and such as soon as you can. But my experience is old and obviously warped.

[davenorthup]

Anyhow, Dave, I hope your ashfall is light and manageable. I hear that sometimes it solidifies like cement when it gets wet, so it's important to get it off cars and such as soon as you can. But my experience is old and obviously warped.

Thanks - we shall see. I am in Anchorage and if it went today we would be relatively OK. The low level ash forecast is bearing on my house apparently.

http://www.arl.noaa.gov/data/web/tra...c2_GFS_006.gif

My wife is home trying to come up, but was thwarted by a blizzard today. Will try again in the AM....

Thankfully we are cold so no liquid will really get into the ash making it heavy and nasty... That means that it will not wash away either.

Never a dull moment...

[Overbuilders]

Watch her blow, here:

http://www.avo.alaska.edu/webcam/web...h=1&size=large

http://www.avo.alaska.edu/webcam/web...oubt%20-%20Hut

[always-learning]

Thanks - we shall see. I am in Anchorage and if it went today we would be relatively OK. The low level ash forecast is bearing on my house apparently.

http://www.arl.noaa.gov/data/web/tra...c2_GFS_006.gif

My wife is home trying to come up, but was thwarted by a blizzard today. Will try again in the AM....

Thankfully we are cold so no liquid will really get into the ash making it heavy and nasty... That means that it will not wash away either.

Never a dull moment...

Good luck to you and your family, Dave. We wish you the best.....


Stay safe !

[davenorthup]

Good luck to you and your family, Dave. We wish you the best.....


Stay safe !

Thanks Chuck - Not too much of a concern as there is really nothing to do; except wait and hope it happens on a clear day and stay in doors... My wife did make it up yesterday, guess it took her 3 hours to plow out our road so she could get the car out.

Here is the photos from another one that went a few years back - this one is 80 air miles from our house and we have a great view of it year round...

(not our photo)

Rick it must have been on CNN or something b/c yesterday the AVO site crashed for the entire day and they had to scramble and put up a text version only.