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Alaskans Prepare For Volcanic Eruption
An anonymous reader writes "Mount Redoubt, or Redoubt Volcano, is an active stratovolcano in the largely volcanic Aleutian Range of Alaska. The once quiet volcano has begun to roar once again. Its last eruption was in 1989 and geologists suggest that the next one is upon us. Alaskans who lived through the earlier eruption are stocking up on breathing masks and goggles. Starting on Friday, January 23 2009, the level of seismic activity increased markedly, and on Sunday AVO raised the Aviation Color Code to ORANGE and the Volcano Alert Level to WATCH. On the basis of all available monitoring data AVO regards that an eruption similar to or smaller than the one that occurred in 1989-90 is the most probable outcome. We expect such an eruption to occur within days to weeks." From the AP article: "Alaska's volcanoes are not like Hawaii's. 'Most of them don't put out the red river of lava,' said the observatory's John Power. Instead, they typically explode and shoot ash 30,000 to 50,000 feet high — more than nine miles — into the jet stream. 'It's a very abrasive kind of rock fragment,' Power said. The particulate has jagged edges and has been used as an industrial abrasive. 'They use this to polish all kinds of metals,' he said." The server for the Alaska Volcano Observatory appears to be overloaded and is unresponsive.
is looking out her window with anxiety, 'perparing' to obtain her PhD in Igneous petrology.
Oh yeah! And let's be sure to add redundant links, just in case somebody doesn't recognize that they missed their first chance to contribute to the problem.
I'll help out too: Alaska Volcano Observatory
How utterly clever. Did you think of it yourself or did you get your political thoughts from the great analytical thinkers of our time, like, Letterman, Rosie O'Donnell, the faculty of The View...
Mod parent up Funny
Reality: Sarah Palin forced herself into the spotlight and then said stupid shit on camera. If she wants to continue to be in the spot light, she deserves all the abuse the attentive public wants to dish out.
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Dislaimer: I live in Alaska, I have to live with the stupid shit she says and does everyday, like giving away our north slope natural gas to Canada after her election promise of building a pipeline to the south to deliver the gas to Alaskans and the lower 48. All Alaskans want access to our natural gas. Even staunch republicans talk of having access to it. For those outside, the interior heats and produces power with diesel and coal. We even pay the highest prices in the nation for diesel and gasoline and we have and refine our own north slope crude. WTF????
Palin is raping the system here and nobody complains. WTF???
She flies her children all over the country when she travels on state business @ taxpayer expense and acts like she is entitled to this.
She is never at her desk in the state capitol of Juneau, she is instead kicking back at her home in Wasilla, sleeping in her own bed, and charging the state enormous per diem fees for it. WTF???
She is even so fucking lame, she want to move the state capitol to Anchorage so she can be closer to her home. WTF???
Lets put this into the proper perspective here. As an Alaskan, to be proud of Sarah Palin, is the same as calling Illinous home and being proud of Rod Blagojevich.
She is raping the system here, and if someday she advances to federal office, she will do the same to the country, if given the opportunity.
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"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
Right, Alaskans are all pure and good, not like those evil people in New Orleans who sit around all day waiting for disasters to destroy their city so they can smash and grab everything in sight. And the shooting at rescue workers thing was a myth perpetuated by people trying to sell commercials.
The world you experience is only a close approximation of reality.