I don't know if it'll be serious or not, just wanted to let everyone know though before they start seeing it on the news and wondering about us.
This is what the National Weather Service posted about it.
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ANCHORAGE AK
1133 PM AKDT SUN MAR 22 2009
AKZ145-231200-
/X.NEW.PAFC.AF.Y.0001.090323T0733Z-090323T1200Z/
SUSITNA VALLEY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TALKEETNA...WILLOW...CANTWELL
1133 PM AKDT SUN MAR 22 2009
...ASHFALL ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM AKDT MONDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ANCHORAGE HAS ISSUED AN ASHFALL
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM AKDT MONDAY.
REDOUBT VOLCANO AT 60.5N 152.7W HAS ERUPTED AT AROUND 1040 PM
AKDT. VOLCANIC ASH IS FALLING AND IS EXPECTED TO REACH THE SURFACE
ACROSS THE SUSITNA VALLEY. PRELIMINARY INDICATIONS ARE THAT
ASHFALL WILL BE VERY LIGHT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
AN ASHFALL ADVISORY MEANS THAT ASH WILL BE DEPOSITED IN THE
ADVISORY AREA. PEOPLE IN AREAS OF ASHFALL SHOULD SEAL WINDOWS AND
DOORS. PROTECT ELECTRONICS AND COVER AIR INTAKES AND OPEN WATER
SUPPLIES. MINIMIZE DRIVING. LISTEN TO YOUR RADIO STATION FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION.
And here's the website link if you want to keep a watch on it.
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/Redoubt.php
And I just got this off of Alaska Daily News
Mount Redoubt erupts 4 times in 3 hours
A fourth explosion rocked long-threatening Mount Redoubt at 1:39 a.m. after three eruptions earlier tonight sent an ash cloud an estimated 50,000 feet into the air, the Alaska Volcano Observatory reported.
The first eruption came at 10:38 p.m. Sunday followed by another at 11:02 p.m., and a third at 12:14 a.m. today.
Winds are carrying the ash plume north toward the Susitna Valley, and an ash advisory has been issued for the area until 4 a.m., the National Weather Service said.
Ash is not expected in Anchorage or Wasilla at this time, the Weather Service said.
An ash cloud is headed up the Susitna Valley west of Willow and is expected to arrive in the Talkeetna area around 3 a.m., said Dave Stricklan at the Weather Service's Anchorage office.
"It looks like (Anchorage) might dodge the bullet," Alaska Volcano Observatory geophysicist Peter Cervelli said.
An FAA official at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport early Monday said there were no immediate plans to close the airport.
The AVO describes the eruptions as "three large explosions."
Observatory staffers notified Federal Aviation Administration officials immediately following the eruption.
The AVO staff also warned authorities at the Drift River Oil Terminal -- on the western shore of Cook Inlet downriver from the volcano -- that mud flows and flooding from melting glaciers might be headed their way.
Protective dikes have been constructed at the terminal since Redoubt last erupted in 1989.
For two hours, prior to the eruption, AVO scientists reported heightened seismicity at Redoubt and warned there could be a quick escalation to eruptive activity.
The volcano had been on Orange "watch" status for most of Sunday after activity began increasing Saturday.
