It's not doubtful now

[glacier_kitty]

Mount Redoubt finally erupted! It's been restless since at least January. It started erupting last night at 10:38 PM and it stopped at 4:30 AM, but at 7:41 PM today it erupted again. It's erupted six times so far. So mom couldn't go to Anchorage..all flights between Anchorage and Fairbanks were canceled (ash is very unsafe to fly in). The ash has got as far as Denali National Park. It MIGHT get to Fairbanks if the wind is right. Drift Glacier on the volcano is melting. *sniff* Here's the Redoubt webcam if you'd like to look (though it's getting dark now so you should probably look at it tomorrow): http://www.avo.alaska.edu/webcam/Redoubt_-_Hut.php. How exciting! The volcanic stuff in the air might give us sweet purple sunsets..I saw it before when another Alaskan volcano erupted



At some..place haha


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Comments

[witherwings7.livejournal.com]

Is that Mammoth Mountain? :P

I read about Redoubt earlier today, hehe. I wouldn't fly in ash, ack o.o

I hope Yellowstone doesn't blow it's top....

[glacier-kitty.livejournal.com]

Well I was in Mammoth so probably haha

Yeah..that would be really bad..

[rdyfrde.livejournal.com]

Ash is interesting. I remember when Mt St Helens erupted in 1980 and everything was covered in it. My mom grabbed some from our garden at the time and put it into a small container. I think she still has it somewhere :)

[glacier-kitty.livejournal.com]

Wow that's cool! I flew over Mt. St. Helens once in a helicopter when I was a kid..apparently I was obsessed with volcanoes lol

[foxydanish.livejournal.com]

Whoa I had no idea that it was erupting for such a long period of time! That's good that all of the flights were canceled and nothing happened in the meantime while the volcano was erupting to any other planes haha. That would be sweet if you actually saw some of the ash from it.