Cancel weekend boating plans
Any plans to go boating in the Barren Islands or Kamishak Bay this weekend should probably be deferred. The marine forecast, reprinted below, predicts fast moving flows of hot debris. And six foot seas with freezing spray. Otherwise, might make for a nice outing.
PKZ130-141500-BARREN ISLANDS AND KAMISHAK BAY WATERS
645 PM AST FRI JAN 13 2006
AUGUSTINE VOLCANO ERUPTED AGAIN AT ABOUT 658 PM AST THIS EVENING. THE INTENSITY OF RECENT EXPLOSIONS AT AUGUSTINE VOLCANO SUGGEST THAT FAST MOVING FLOWS OF HOT DEBRIS HAVE BEEN GENERATED. THESE FLOWS CAN REACH THE SHORELINE OF THE ISLAND AND CONTINUE OFFSHORE. VESSELS IN THE VICINITY OF THE ISLAND SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION.
...VOLCANIC ASHFALL ADVISORY THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING...
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY TONIGHT....
TONIGHT...W WIND 15 KT GUSTING TO 25 KT. SEAS 6 FT. FREEZING SPRAY..
SAT...W WIND 20 KT. SEAS 4 FT. FREEZING SPRAY. .
SAT NIGHT...VARIABLE WIND 10 KT BECOMING E 20 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT.SEAS 4 FT. FREEZING SPRAY. .
SUN...NE WIND 30 KT. SEAS 6 FT. .
SUN NIGHT...NE WIND 35 KT. SEAS 9 FT. .
MON...N WIND 30 KT. SEAS 12 FT. .
TUE...NW WIND 30 KT. SEAS 11 FT. .
WED...NW WIND 35 KT. SEAS 11 FT.
posted by President in exile at 10:25 PM
2 Comments:
The prospect that this might continue for months is an increasinly bleak one.
I think the local evening newscasts need a blasé weather announcer, ala Red Dwarf's Holly, to say something like, "Eruption. Eruption. There's an eruption going on....it's still going on."
It's impressive how daunting it is to face the waves and winds even without the explosions, lava and pyroclastic flows, or the deadly classic rock Sirens on Augustine that lure fishermen to the their deaths with the irrestible strains of "Barracuda" on the stereo and haunting visions of a wet T-shirt contest at Koots.
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