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Montserrat letting off steam?
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:58 pm
by Nannerz
So I saw the headlines and volcanic ash on the forcast, more ash shooting into the stratosphere. I guess St John is seeing the haze pretty bad today from Montserrat. Anyone down there care to comment? Just hoping things calm down for everyone living and visiting. I leave on Thursday morning, hopefully our flight wpnt be affected.
Re: Montserrat letting off steam?
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:12 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:40 pm
by bayer40601
There is some noticable haze today on STJ, but there has been since Saturday when we arrived, but it does not appear to be as bad as it was at this time last year. I was just remarking to pj last night how much more blue the sky seemed to be this year, but then today there is some additional haze.
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:45 pm
by RonUSVI
It rained this afternoon and now all the cars have a white film on them!
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:58 pm
by captainjay
Yes,
We have lots of ash here. I cleaned the pool this morning before we went sailing and when we came home this evening it was full of ash and dust. Its all over the deck and patio as well. It rained here this morning pretty hard for a little while and it appears to have washed the ash out of the sky.
Jay
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:22 pm
by pipanale
I've read a few things about Montserrat, including an oddly interesting section in the book The Road to McCarthy.
Inspired by this thread, I went to Google and mapped Montserrat. I zoomed in.
Holy Jesus. What a mess...zoom in on what remains of the houses near Soufriere. Nothing the people here don't know...but what an utter disaster
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:35 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:44 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:34 pm
by California Girl
Jorge, in checking your link, I found a space after the end of the web address. Click on "edit" in the upper rt. hand corner and put your cursor at the end of the address and backspace once. That'll fix it!
Or I could just do this: http://www.mvo.ms/ 
Seeing the pyroclastic flow in the picture on that website shows exactly where all that dust in the air is coming from! Active little piece of real estate, isn't it! 
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:27 am
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:51 am
by MIke
Cool site,Jorge.
Thanks