MT. Redoubt huffing and puffing again

[radfringe]

http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/Redoubt.php

[Blue_In_AK]

1. I'm flying back to Alaska tomorrow.

I've been in Santa Monica for the birth of my fourth grandchild for the past three weeks, but hope to get home tomorrow. I just hope this volcano holds out for another day or two. I'm watching it really closely on that "useless" volcano monitoring website. Travel in and out of Anchorage was totally messed up for a couple of weeks when Redoubt went off in March.

[Fireweed247]

6. How sweet!

How's the baby? :hi:

BTW- you might have missed Alaska's summer. The last two weeks have been more sun than we got all last year! Today, not so much. I really hope the volcano goes back to sleep. It is still really dusty around here and I don't want to worry about it all summer too.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. Yes, I heard the weather has been great up there for a few days.

It bodes well for a nicer summer than last year -- I'm hopeful anyway.

The baby is fantastic. If you go to my daughter's blog here http://alaskatoaustralia.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/aiman-merrick-fredericks/ you can see a picture of him. He's so cute. I'm going to hate leaving him, but I'm missing Alaska, too. We got our crazy politics, but I still love the place.

[pansypoo53219]

2. steam.

but it has been spitting out ash recently. you could see the fresh snow was 'ashy'. can sorta see when on my blog. been posting random volcano cam pics for weeks since i found the volcano cams. last night the moon was in the pic of redoubt.

[katanalori]

3. volcano spewing AND.....

severe flooding in the Villages. Where is Sarah? In New York City with family screeching about abstinence only (and more word salad).

[Mist]

4. Chevron needs to move their damn 6,000,000 tanks of crude out of the area. Now. nt

[Blue_In_AK]

5. I believe they did get most of it out of there last week.

This from The Mudflats on May 1

Drift River Oil Update

OK, now we’re talking!

The potential threat posed by the stored oil at the Drift River Oil Terminal has been reduced approximately 93 percent. The Chevron-flagged tanker Mississippi Voyager completed an out load of oil and water from the terminal’s tanks and departed for a refinery in Hawaii at 6:30 a.m. Thursday. “We have effectively removed the majority of the oil at the facility,” said Gary Folley, state on scene coordinator, unified command. “Thus we have significantly reduced the potential threat to Cook Inlet.”

The unified command will continue to monitor the facility and discuss the situation on at least a weekly basis until information is received from the Alaska Volcano Observatory indicating the volcano has entered a dormant period.

About 60 percent of the initial 6.2 million gallons (148,000 barrels) of the stored oil in tanks 1 and 2 at the Drift River Terminal was removed in the April 6 draw down.

That volume of oil has been further reduced to about 7 percent of the initial 6.2 million gallons.

[Mist]

7. Great news! Thanks so much for posting this Blue_In_AK. It got by me that they'd

actually done something about it.