Mount Redoubt Update

Mount Redoubt has continued to erupt regularly (up to 9 times in one day!). Right now she "continues to emit a plume of gas, steam and variable amounts of ash to low elevations" (from AVO). Several of our friends who live north of us in Nikiski had some ash a few days ago, but at least where we are in Kenai, we haven't seen any (wheewww!!). A few times, the volcano has actually been visible from her throne across the inlet, but we either haven't had the camera with us or just haven't had the energy to go out and snap the pictures.

The other day though, we were at our friend's house having a joint birthday party for Abraham (post is in progress), when we realized that it was time for singing and birthday cake... but both dads were gone with the cameras. They were outside taking pictures of a magnificent ash cloud that moved right over us. We quickly called them back inside to get back to the really important stuff, but we did continue to watch the cloud. It was amazing how quickly it grew from a pretty, fluffy, concentrated cloud into a huge mass of spread-out darkness that just overshadowed everything in its path. I'm including the times when we snapped the pictures (according to our camera... which I don't think is right!), just so you can appreciate how quickly it spread.

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