I appreciate everyone's positive thoughts and/or prayers on our behalf.
We dodged a bullet, it seems. The ash went north and northwest, rather than northeast toward Anchorage. Several communities did receive light ash fall, but I haven't heard of any real problems created by it ... so far.
Mt. Redoubt hasn't emitted any more ash since this morning, so we'll see what happens. The last time she erupted, 20 years ago, it was an on-and-off thing for about six months. The Alaska Volcano Observatory is saying that further eruptions could occur with little or no warning.
After being up - and dealing with worried tenants - for 14 hours, I came home early & slept for 90 minutes. We'll see what the next 18 hours hold - I pray it will include a good night's sleep.
Psalm 22:27-28: “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the Lord's, and he ruleth among the nations.”
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You are in my thoughts. I was visiting family, early in college, about 25 miles from St. Helen's when it blew. Being the typical teen/young person, when the quake hit, all I could think was. "I'm trying to sleep". Then guilt "I'm missing church, Mom and Dad are going to lecture me if big bro rats me out". Only when things started falling down off the walls did I go outside. Wow!!! We got about an inch or two of ash. It was quite corrosive. ATE the paint on my tiny Civic car (Fenry Honda it was called).
I hope you are well and will keep you in my prayers.
B.
I hope that you can get some decent sleep. Funny that you call your mountain a "she", I keep thinking a "he" everytime I see Mt. Redoubt.
Homer, Alaska, end of the road fame?
Brigid - thank you so very much. Your reaction to Mt. St. Helen's sounds about typical. We all tend to think in terms of personal inconvenience when something like that happens ... and then expand our awareness outward as the true significance sinks in.
Lanny - I never gave the 'gender' of the volcano much thought. It actually surprised me a bit when that phrase came out of my fingers as they typed that post. I'm not sure how coherent I was a that point, anyway.
Yes, 'end of the road' Homer: so-called because the Alaska Highway literally dead-ends there, at the end of the Spit.
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