ALASKA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY CURRENT STATUS REPORT

[DainBramaged]

Source: Alaska Volcano Observatory

REDOUBT VOLCANO (CAVW #1103-03-)
60°29'7" N 152°44'38" W, Summit Elevation 10197 ft (3108 m)
Current Aviation Color Code: ORANGE
Current Volcano Alert Level: WATCH

Unrest at Redoubt Volcano continues. No eruption has occurred.

Seismicity is currently dominated by small discrete earthquakes. There have not been any significant earthquake swarms in the past 24 hours.

Light steaming near the summit has been visible in the HutCam this morning. Nothing unusual has been observed in satellite views over the past day.

AVO continues to monitor Redoubt Volcano closely, and the observatory is staffed 24 hours a day.



Read more: http://www.avo.alaska.edu/

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And Booby Jindal thinks we are waisting money monitoring these volcanoes. This one is outside of Anchorage, I wonder what Sarah Failing thinks about this. And I wonder if she'll be screaming for FEMA if it blows.

[MadMaddie]

1. No she will claim that the government did nothing while the

Volcano erupted. Typical Repug backwards ass thinking.

[kestrel91316]

2. Wrong. She won't ask for FEMA help at all. She'll just expect Alaskans to

help themselves, and anyone who can't bootstrap themselves will be called lazy and blamed for their own problems.

Just watch.

[MadMaddie]

4. whoo you are probably right.

[8 track mind]

5. You Betcha! (wink) n/t

[iamjoy]

7. I Think You Are Both Wrong

The people of Anchorage will do all right. The population is about half that of New Orleans, poverty rates about a third.

These people have the means of protecting themselves from a natural disaster. They can get the heck out of town or whatever.

So, Alaska will come through its natural disaster okay and then point out how they did fine while the people of NOLA did not. They will see it as further "proof" that black/poor people are lazy, stupid and dependent upon the federal government.

Alaskans are a little more accustomed to dealing with extremes in nature than residents of a Southern city. Many of the people who live in our 49th state do so because they love (or at least appreciate) the outdoors. They know to respect "mother nature" and how to deal with it. Urban dwellers have a different set of skills, but they don't come in as handy in a natural disaster.

So, see, Anchorage will not do as poorly as New Orleans.

I really hope I'm right. I wouldn't want to see people get hurt or die unnecessarily, even if their survival means more right-wing talking points.

[suzie]

13. Lawsie, lawsie, those poor stoopid southerners.

2.5 million of those dumb urban southerners (in Louisiana) evacuated during Katrina over about 4 bridges/roadways in the time between Friday, when the forecast changed from Florida Panhandle/Mobile to Biloxi/New Orleans and Monday morning when Katrina made landfall.

I don't remember the numbers that evacuated in Mississippi, but I heard tell that some of those folks remembered the last time they had a Cat 5 hurricane hit right in the same place as Katrina and they left.

'Course I guess that living in the South, they still didn't understand about "mother nature" like those Alaskans.

Funny, though, I've never been a place where so many people spent so much time outdoors on the water as in New Orleans. Or known so many folks who went offshore to work on the oil rigs, or tugboats, shrimpers that worked the coastal waters. But, all those boat-handling and water rescue skills, now they wouldn't have been any help in dealing with a natural disaster, would they?

[iamjoy]

15. It's Not The Same Thing

What's more I never characterized them as "dumb urban southerners" that was what I perceive many Right Wingers as thinking. My thought is that many in NOLA could not evacuate - as in it takes money. You have to own a car, for one.

I doubt some one in poverty in any city has the means (or time) to enjoy water activities even if the city is near the ocean, a river or lake. I doubt people living in the Lower Ninth Ward had motor boats to enjoy the waterways, or that they had a swimming pool in their backyard. I don't think they have the leisure time or equipment for camping, either. Before Katrina one quarter of the people in the Lower Ninth had annual income of less than $10,000. Half had incomes less than $20,000 a year.

Southerners deal with hurricanes, but big ones come infrequently enough as for some of to become jaded by hurricane warnings, to get the feeling that meteorologists are crying wolf. We don't get hit by a hurricane every year, much less a major one. So I do think there are people living in the southeast who don't respect the awesome destructive power of nature. And I think some people in the northeast may believe they are immune from major hurricanes even though history tells a different story.

[suzie]

28. Since Ivan hit the Gulf Coast the year before Katrina, I don't think

people were quite so jaded as someone who doesn't live on the Gulf might assume. I do believe that New Orleanians evacuated in huge numbers for Ivan, which caused state and local authorities to change the evacuation procedures. Which enabled all but about 100,000 out of 2.5 million people to 'get the heck out of town' on their own during Katrina, even before the mandatory evacuation orders.

State, local and federal authorities failed the poorest citizens of the central city of New Orleans by not using the only transportation that would have successfully gotten those without cars out, the trains. I believe that they used trains in evacuations for Gustav.

With all due respect, I think that everyone around the nation has a better understanding of evacuations after Katrina. I also think that local governments have a greater comprehension of how much they're on their own--that the bumbling behemoth of Homeland Security will never be able to provide assistance quickly. So, I would expect that Anchorage would do a better job--but not because of the greater 'outdoorsmanship' of the locals.

Nor do I buy your argument that people who live on the Gulf Coast had forgotten the hurricane season of 2004, in which I think that 4 storms made it into the Gulf and hit Florida.

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. Sorry, but a mountain blowing up is NOT weather,

and 8 feet of volcanic ash is not something you just 'deal with'.

I hope it doesn't blow, but if it does it WILL be a disaster. If the wind is wrong, Anchorage will simply cease to exist.

[iamjoy]

20. They'll Get Out Of Town

I guess the point I was making is that they will get out of town. They'll load their SUVs with their camping gear and get the heck out of the way.

At least, I hope that's what they'll do. Unlike the people of New Orleans, they have the means and won't need to go to shelters that are ill-equipped. I imagine those who stay can afford to keep a few days supply of food, water, etc. and may even have dust masks.

Of course, in any disaster, there are always people in denial. They have the means evacuate, but they don't because they don't believe it will really happen. Right now, it seems the most likely scenario is an eruption like the one in 1990 - and that certainly didn't wipe out the city.

I guess I have a lot of respect for the hardiness of the people of Anchorage in part because of what happened in 1964. On Good Friday, the ground shook for almost 5 minutes in a 9.2 quake. It boggles my mind that the death toll was not staggering, although I suppose it's no comfort to those who were themselves or had someone they cared about among the 131. Most of those were along the coast - from resultant tsunamis - not in the city as a direct result of the quake.

I think they will be fine. Even if you discount all that other stuff I've written above, this disaster won't be as bad as Katrina. They will still use it to claim they are better/stronger/smarter/etc. than the people of New Orleans.

If the worst case scenario such as a Flank Collapse comes to pass, those that didn't leave are dead and the city is heavily damaged if not destroyed. As much as I usually take schaudenfraude in supposedly self-reliant right wingers finding there are things they can't deal with on their own and being put in a position of needing government assistance to survive, death and destruction isn't worth it.

[Viking12]

26. I think you optimism is not very realistic

There's only one road out of harm's way. If the eruption comes earlier than monitoring may predict, it's gonna be ugly.

[Nihil]

29. "It's gonna be ugly"

Remember, we've been told that
>> They'll load their SUVs with their camping gear and get the
>> heck out of the way.

Isn't a major traffic jam during an evacuation with armed people
in a panic just what the frontier spirit is all about?
He who has the biggest truck and the biggest gun (and enough
ammunition) wins?

:shrug:

[rainbow4321]

18. Or she will tell them to bake cookies

Cuz that is what SHE brought with her for the residents of the remote AK villagers (who are having to choose between heat or food) last week when she went there (6 weeks late) with the two evangelists in tow for photo ops.

[grannie4peace]

21. that sounds sickening!

[ashling]

3. Sarah had better make sure that all those Bushie Pilots

and snowmobilers have got their gear inspected and insured ... otherwise they will have to arrest Bobby Jindal!

:rofl:

[CatholicEdHead]

6. Not really LBN, better for GD

[DainBramaged]

10. Thanks for being the LBN police

:eyes:

[theblasmo]

8. Nothing To See Here

Not important. More money for American flags and TV's.

[MasonJar]

9. Take that Bobby!

[SpiralHawk]

24. "Shut off that monitor now." - Bobby Jindal (R)

"We should be using that money for Diaper research so Louisiana Republicons can wear them in comfort. Smirk."

- Bobby Jindal (R)

[Bluebear]

11. Why are we paying tax dollars to fund this thing?

:silly:

[pitchforksandtorches]

12. Palin should camp out

at the center until it blows.

[rasputin1952]

14. I am neither a volcanologist nor a geologist...

but the view shown here shows past evidence of immense pyroclastic flow. If this one goes, considering the glaciation, it's gonna be really ugly. 200mph flows of mud, ash and gases are nothing to mess with.

[grannie4peace]

22. i'm impressed :)

[RaleighNCDUer]

16. What's this nonsense? Are we actually wasting our tax money

monitoring this rock? It's a ROCK. Whataya expect it to do? Blow up or something?

[liberal N proud]

19. I wonder, does Bobby Jindal even know what a volcano does when it erupts?

Jindal as President would mean a return to the bu$h type stupidity.

[grannie4peace]

23. i second that!

[libodem]

25. Heck, all I need is a nice volcano report

to send me from zero to sarcastic in 60 seconds. And for the very reasons you stated.

[phantom power]

27. Without volcano monitoring pork, how would geologists afford their lexus payments?