volcanic activity
Jan. 30th, 2009 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acchikocchiSo, Mt. Redoubt's about to erupt! Um. Wow.
The last major eruption I can remember is Mt. Spurr, when I was six years old. My mother was reading the beginning of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe to my brother and me, and we looked out the window and saw that it was completely dark outside, at 8 PM in the middle of August. (In August the sun still doesn't set until 10 PM). At which point my dad came in and told us it had erupted. I remember hosing ash out of the gutters outside a couple days later but I don't remember much about the eruption itself except the dark sky, and that we never did finish reading the book.
Redoubt is 100 miles from Anchorage, Spurr was 75, so whether we get hit with ash really depends on the wind when it erupts (which could be, er, any minute now). This is, of course, the week my parents are at a business conference in Hawaii. I think I'm all set, though. I have plenty of supplies, the car's covered up, there is no way I'm letting kitty out of the house.
*deep breath* Okay! Bring it!
The last major eruption I can remember is Mt. Spurr, when I was six years old. My mother was reading the beginning of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe to my brother and me, and we looked out the window and saw that it was completely dark outside, at 8 PM in the middle of August. (In August the sun still doesn't set until 10 PM). At which point my dad came in and told us it had erupted. I remember hosing ash out of the gutters outside a couple days later but I don't remember much about the eruption itself except the dark sky, and that we never did finish reading the book.
Redoubt is 100 miles from Anchorage, Spurr was 75, so whether we get hit with ash really depends on the wind when it erupts (which could be, er, any minute now). This is, of course, the week my parents are at a business conference in Hawaii. I think I'm all set, though. I have plenty of supplies, the car's covered up, there is no way I'm letting kitty out of the house.
*deep breath* Okay! Bring it!
