It's -7.6 degrees, according to the Weather Underground station three blocks from where we live, headed for 6 above -- or so they're guessing. We received another inch of snow overnight, which makes 6" or so, since Friday.
Mt. Redoubt is still rumbling & shaking, but is otherwise decidedly non-spectacular. Areas near the summit are still melting, and there's a stream of mud running down from the steam plumes. The volcanologists still think it will erupt, but are saying that if the winds are right, Anchorage might see ... are you ready? ... 1/10 of an inch of ash-fall. The Apocalypse is upon us! Circle the wagons! Hoard bread and milk!
Or just go to work and live life as usual.
I don't mean to make light of it ... well, okay: I do, but it won't be the end of civilisation as we know it. It would be an inconvenience, and washing ash off of the vehicles will be tricky in these temperatures. Of course, AccuHunch is guessing we'll be 20 degrees warmer tomorrow. So we'll see whatever there is to see.
Everyone has relaxed, as the threatened eruption has been hanging over our heads for more than a week ... and we'll be fine.
In other news, our Legislature apparently has introduced bills to a) name a state dog, b) add a new verse to the state song, and c) eliminate daylight saving time. It seems there's nothing too serious on their agenda, this season.
I will be the first to admit that daylight saving time makes little sense for Alaska, at least in terms of saving daylight. We get 22 hours of sunlight in mid-summer, so what exactly are we saving? And if we're saving it, could we use it in December, when the days are only 5 hours long? Please?
Okay, I've officially run out of thing to babble about, so I'll stop. Let me hear from you - are there any pictures you want to see?
John 12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."
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Arizona does not participate in daylight saving time either. We barely survive during the very hot summers as it is - let alone adding to it. I would agree to add it to December too when our weather is "nice." Good Luck with that agenda.
what are they gonna name that state dawg?
Hey, be happy they have nothing else to consider. Or maybe I should say: they have chosen to consider nothing else. I'm a firm believer in the axiom: An idle Legislature is a good Legislature. The less they actually do, the better off the average citizen is. Hell, I'd vote for a drug store Indian or a totem pole rather than most of the idiots sitting in legislatures across the country if I could.
I'm with you, Joated. Most of them seem to have WAY too much spare time, and get into all sorts of mischief.
Still no news from Mt. Redoudt yet huh? That 1/10 inch of ash will be great for the soil I bet. Not sure if it will affect the airplanes like when Mt.St.Helens erupted.---I just realized I'm using my dogs blog sign-in.oops. Well,this is from Cassie, not my dogs!! ha ha. If you have a pet,you might want to stop by their blog. They're having a give away!!
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