Augustine is restless – check out the webcam
Do check out the link behind the button above – fascinating pictures of Augustine. It is pretty cool to see the difference in the mountain – prior to this eruptive phase and now. Lots of beautiful white snow before and now Augustine’s flanks are covered with gray ash.
Very cool pics, though. Be sure to check them out.
And, in case you were wondering how far the moose family is away from all this – you can see on this page. The map shows all of the volcanoes that are near the Kenai Peninsula.
We have seen eruptions in all of the mountains marked in red since we have lived here. I think the only one that covered us in ash was Augustine back in ’86. The wind favored Kenai in the other eruptions – carried the ash to Anchorage.
This disrupts commercial air flights as you might imagine. Even the puddle jumpers between Anchorage and Kenai aren’t flying right now. I imagine that if there are no more eruptions this morning that ban might be lifted. Alaska Air cancelled 28 flights yesterday. One couple took a taxi (!!!!) from Homer to Anchorage – that’s over 200 miles – can’t imagine the fare. They hoped to be able to make their flight out of Anchorage, but were told it wouldn’t fly once they arrived at Ted Stevens International Airport. Poor guy – he wants to so badly get to Seattle to see the Seahawks play today. Doubt that happened.
