March 23, 2009
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Winds Have Shifted
Elmendorf Air Force Base has told all non-essential personnel to stay home, but the Matanuska-Susitna Borough schools are in session. Air lines have been canceling flights to and from Anchorage, and ashfall was reported early this morning at Talkeetna. Now the ash cloud from Redoubt Volcano is blowing out toward the Alaska Range, away from population centers.
I guess we’ll go to the clinic after all… not an unmixed blessing.
I don’t have time now to run down all the Iditarod awards from last night’s banquet. Jen Seavey and her puppy team got to Nome at 3:47, only 17 minutes after the start of the banquet, with a time from White Mountain to Nome of 9 hours 46 minutes, very fast. The Leonhard Seppala Humanitarian Award, “based on specific criteria to determine who has best demonstrated outstanding dog care through out the Race while remaining competitive,” was awarded to Lance Mackey.
Five teams remain on the trail. Alan Peck scratched. Tim Hunt and Heather Siirtola left Elim a minute apart around midnight. One of them will probably get the Red Lantern.
More, later….
Comments (5)
I hope walmart or wherever you get your masks from is mildly prepared. I know they help.
I knew as soon as I heard “A volcano has erupted in Alaska….” on NPR this morning that it had to be Redoubt, and thought of you immediately. Stay safe.
Hugs! Be careful, thinking of you today.
I thought of you, too, when I heard and hoped you were unaffected…….
Stay safe and take care of you.
Hi Susu! Thank you for letting us know about the volcano. We don’t get much news about it here in Georgia, but I’m interested.
I hope your clinic trip can safely be postponed, and that you are all well and safe.
Your post about the clothing was very interesting as well. I see your point and am at a loss to know what to suggest. Unless you could use the dirty clothes you would throw away, in your fireplace. Then they’d have one more use.
I wish you well!
HUGS