Hi Charlie and Meo,
Here is little article with some imagination:
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/features/857/857
DEAR Mt. REDOUBT
ALASKA DISPATCH
The Observer
Feb 24, 2009
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"Dear Mt. Redoubt,
We don't know if you elevated your seismic activity because you got jealous of Governor Palin's media explosion or what, but we're tired of this simmering tantrum of yours. In geologic terms, her fame should seem an instant to you, so get over yourself and blow up already. We, The Concerned, remember that when you blew in '89, you had enough courtesy not to hold us hostage for so long before you inconvenienced us. You did end up erupting continuously from December that year until June the next, but at least you got right to work, you didn't overdo it, and prevailing winds kept your damage low. If you're really going to go through with it this time, be quick about it so The Concerned can clean up and get on with our lives.
You may not know it, but those of us in your potential fallout zone have been on "Orange Alert" for almost two months now. The Concerned are completely stocked up on food, water, nostalgic board games, and piles of assorted ash gear: Respirator masks, tarps, tape and Visqueen, air filters, vacuum bags, electronics covers, mason jars to collect local samples for the Alaska Volcano Observatory (whose logo, you'll be proud to know, features an homage to your last, majestic ash cloud), and even brand-new Ziploc bags for all our remote controls. Heck, we keep waiting to see HEPA tube socks-we would totally buy those.
Which reminds us, thanks for the welcome boost to Southcentral's economy. We've done alright so far, but we're eager to cash in even more. We bought 5 gross of those little, clear glass vials from a dude we know in Wasilla so we can sell your ash to tourists next summer or send it to our Outside relatives for the holidays. It's a good thing we haven't based our entire economy on the possibility of your eruption, but with the price of oil so unpredictable lately, we might as well have. Without you and the hope of a poisonous, earthen plume blotting out the sun, these would truly be dismal economic times. . . "
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and another . . . .
http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/022709/new_292784705.shtml
"TO ERUPT OR NOT TO ERUPT?: AVO must remain prepared, vigilant at all times"
PENINSULA CLARION
By Dante Petri
Feb 27, 2009
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"Only a month ago, Mount Redoubt came roaring back to life in a fit of seismic activity that prompted experts to issue warnings that the peak could erupt within a matter of hours.
Hours have since faded into days, days into weeks, and while the peak has remained active, it has yet to erupt.
John Power, a geophysicist at the Alaska Volcano observatory in Anchorage, said the peak has continued to show signs that have led him and his colleagues to believe the peak will still erupt.
"The signs of unrest are still there, and what is apparent is that what's causing the current unrest is that we've moved some new magma under Redoubt at some depth," Power said.
Whether that magma boils to the top is hard to predict, but Power thinks it's likely.
"I still feel that the likely outcome will be some kind of eruptive activity," he said.
Just the same, he admitted it's possible the volcano may cool off.
The activity on and surrounding the prominent peak that sits 50 to 60 miles west of Kenai has been anything but ordinary, so far.
When the peak first started showing signs that it might erupt in the early morning hours of Jan. 25, staff at the observatory anticipated a similar eruption to the series that began in December 1989.
"In 1989 we went from what was apparently no background activity to a full eruption in 23 hours," Power said.
Staff expected a similar event Jan. 25. To their surprise, however, things have gone differently.
"We went down to the track thinking we were going to be running a sprint, and now we're running a marathon," he said. . ."
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