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Mar 23, 2009 3:58:11 GMT -5
Post by Teh Donut on Mar 23, 2009 3:58:11 GMT -5
For a little under two months, we've been living under the threat of a volcanic eruption. Two months later... Mount Redoubt has blown, probably about 2 hours ago (thanks for the advanced warning, NWS) and the ash is headed this way...more or less. We have about 1-2 hours to secure everything. I won't be online for a while. Maybe about a week...a day...maybe just a few hours; however long it takes for the ash to settle enough to no longer pose a threat to electronics and such. It would blow while I'm doing a project, wouldn't it...I do not like Mother Nature's sense of humor. Anywho, have fun. Some news on he eruptionMore news on the eruptionThe ash might very well miss us, but we're not taking that chance...
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Mar 23, 2009 17:17:58 GMT -5
Post by EJP on Mar 23, 2009 17:17:58 GMT -5
Wow... if I were you I would have freaked out a little. Not to mention I most likely wouldn't have posted this on the EAB. Good luck Donut, I hope nothing bad happens to you.
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Mar 23, 2009 17:22:11 GMT -5
Post by Ninmast on Mar 23, 2009 17:22:11 GMT -5
He's relocating out of the area, isn't he? Or is the standard procedure just to shelter in place?
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Mar 23, 2009 17:28:03 GMT -5
Post by Teh Donut on Mar 23, 2009 17:28:03 GMT -5
*shrugs* Business as usual, really. Just carry around a mask and get inside if the winds turn.
Thanks to our usual winds from the southeast (thanks to our unique geography, I suppose; the ash cloud has simply one straight north or so, hugging the other side of the inlet (it's pretty cool, looking over the inlet and barely being able to see the mountains on the other side that are usually so clear) and up into the Mat-Su. I feel sorry for the blokes in Talkeetna et al, though.
Can't really relax until the volcano quiets down and the ash settles, though; the winds here are notorious for shifting.
So, for the time being, I still have classes and I still go to work.
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Mar 23, 2009 17:37:22 GMT -5
Post by EJP on Mar 23, 2009 17:37:22 GMT -5
Classes and Work with impending doom... or well breathing problems. I'd say "F*** it" but then again, I've never had to deal with a volcano, let alone a real non temp job *Insert sweat smilely when available*so... I don't know what I'd do in your position. I do know I'd probaly ditch class.
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Mar 23, 2009 18:38:42 GMT -5
Post by Ninmast on Mar 23, 2009 18:38:42 GMT -5
It really doesn't sound that serious, EJP. A little dust in the air, if you'll pardon the underestimation.
But then, in my experience, people who are hearing about natural events they aren't accustomed to panic quite needlessly. There was a set of sisters that moved to our school from California while I was a sophomore. When we got a tornado warning later that year, the rest of us just went to the appropriate interior sections of the school, which was the library in our case. For the most part, we read books, played cards, pulled out the chess board or just generally gabbed for the hour or so we had out of class, but one of the sisters was in there with us, and she was just so upset, she was crying her eyes out. She thought for sure we were going to die just because a tornado was spotted somewhere. To the rest of us, it was nothing to worry about, an out for Algebra, little more, but she thought her life was coming to an end.
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Mar 23, 2009 19:01:42 GMT -5
Post by EJP on Mar 23, 2009 19:01:42 GMT -5
Thanks for the story Ninmast. I do understand your point, being a Californian in all and so use to earthquakes that I don't even duck and cover. But in my opinion I think a Volcano is very different from a Tornado. Everyone knows I'm not the smartest person in the world, but I do happen to watch a good amount of learning Television and from what I remember, the ash from a volcano can be very toxic and deadly. So the panic based on the knowledge I believe to be true is understandable.
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Mar 23, 2009 21:05:41 GMT -5
Post by Ninmast on Mar 23, 2009 21:05:41 GMT -5
Yes, and a tornado can send a single straw of hay through a foot of solid wood and can suck the air out of an open building. There are two cities around here that have completely been removed from the map by a single tornado just in the last five years.
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Mar 28, 2009 21:14:20 GMT -5
Post by Teh Donut on Mar 28, 2009 21:14:20 GMT -5
A tornado doesn't linger for months. Anywho, just thought I'd let you all know. Parents just called, and we have an ash cloud from one of the recent explosions on its way here right now; it's mostely fine particulate stuff, which is bad for electronics and automobiles, but the heavier stuff should come later. So far, we had been lucky, as it all went south and hit the Kenai, or North into the Mat-Su. Looks like it finally decided to get its aim right. Anywho, I'll see you all later, once it's safe to uncover the computer again. It really pisses me off, because here I was, preparing to re-enter some roleplaying... Have fun.
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