Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Surly Horns

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Featured Replies

What to know about Mount Spurr’s likely eruption

It’s showing all the signs: There have been recent earthquakes nearby, the volcano’s surface has expanded, there’s melting snow on its peak and there’s higher-than-normal emissions of volcanic gases.

“It's almost like we have a checklist of the usual signs that volcanoes give us before they progress to an eruption,” said Matt Haney, the scientist in charge at the Alaska Volcano Observatory. “And now we're seeing all four of those are giving us those indicators.”

Condensed gas emissions from the summit of Mount Spurr during a March 11, 2025 overflight.

Located roughly 80 west of Anchorage.
image.thumb.png.3506eaa2b1bc77eeea676233699c6e74.png

A location map of Spurr Volcano, in Alaska's Cook Inlet region.

 

 

Shit, I wrote a response scenario based on this eruption. Um, yeah, you are fucked if close to it or the water.

  • Author
1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

Shit, I wrote a response scenario based on this eruption. Um, yeah, you are fucked if close to it or the water.

Other than "run for the hills," what did you advise?

Nah, we wrote response. So what happens AFTER one of these goes off. Group presenting was FEMA, DOD and State of Alaska.

Depending on the eruption, what direction does the Tsunami go?

All response gear, food, water, gensets, shelters, were going to need to be brought in by barge. So I ask, what if the port is gone?

Well we will fly it in.

What if airspace is fucked and the runways are covered in ash?

A whole room of this.

Confused No Idea GIF by Mashed

  • Author
1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

Nah, we wrote response. So what happens AFTER one of these goes off. Group presenting was FEMA, DOD and State of Alaska.

Depending on the eruption, what direction does the Tsunami go?

All response gear, food, water, gensets, shelters, were going to need to be brought in by barge. So I ask, what if the port is gone?

Well we will fly it in.

What if airspace is fucked and the runways are covered in ash?

A whole room of this.

Confused No Idea GIF by Mashed

About 15 years ago, I had a project in Mat-Su Borough, so we obviously flew into Anchorage. I seem to recall that the town was on very flat, low-lying ground. 

Just now, bolverk said:

About 15 years ago, I had a project in Mat-Su Borough, so we obviously flew into Anchorage. I seem to recall that the town was on very flat, low-lying ground. 

Yep, and if that river is running (snow melt, etc) then it is also going to flood.

The irony (NO CR) was we figured out we NEEDED Canada's support to do the movements.

32 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Nah, we wrote response. So what happens AFTER one of these goes off. Group presenting was FEMA, DOD and State of Alaska.

Depending on the eruption, what direction does the Tsunami go?

All response gear, food, water, gensets, shelters, were going to need to be brought in by barge.

So you say you used to work as an engineering writer, huh?

52 minutes ago, bolverk said:

and there’s higher-than-normal emissions of volcanic gases.

Hey, man.....not appreciating the judgment around here.

12 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

So you say you used to work as an engineering writer, huh?

Nope. Never said that. I do not rIgHT formal here.

I was a junior writer assigned to engineering teams. I worked with a lot of technical teams.

9C881A1A-AE0E-430E-B855-E5E314CF5EE9.thumb.jpeg.ccf519f5f0c73813e411b0436f1a8ec1.jpeg

I was skiing in the Tordrillos in 2018 and took this pic of Mt Spurr in the distance - about 80 miles WNW of Anchorage ….

Edited by JCHIL

  • Author

Hopefully, this won't be too disruptive.

From the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO): Based on all available monitoring data, AVO regards the following scenarios as possible. We consider scenario 1, explosive eruption(s) like those in 1953 and 1992, as most likely at this time. Scenarios 2 and 3 (smaller eruption, or no eruption) are possible but considered less likely, and the likelihood of a much larger eruption is currently low.

  1. Explosive eruption(s) like those in 1953 and 1992: In this scenario, one or more explosive events, each lasting as long as a few hours, would produce ash clouds carried downwind for hundreds of miles and minor (up to about ¼ inch) ashfall over southcentral Alaska. The flanks of Mount Spurr likely would be swept by pyroclastic flows (hot avalanches) and impacted by ballistic showers. Mudflows (lahars) could inundate the upper Chakachatna River valley.
  2. Lava-forming and/or small explosive eruption(s): It is possible that the volcano could erupt less explosively than it did in 1992 and 1953, and produce lava flows, a lava dome, and/or brief explosive eruptions. Such events would have less far-travelled impacts, but lahars (mudflows) in the drainages around the volcano are possible.
  3. Failed eruption: If the magma stalls and does not reach the surface, as happened in 2004–2006, we expect to see earthquake activity, ground deformation, gas emissions, and surface heating slowly decrease over several weeks or months.
  4. Large explosive eruption: Eruption(s) larger than those in 1992 and 1953 could occur. These would likely result in larger ash clouds, thicker ashfall deposits and greater overall impacts. No such eruptions are known in historical times, and the geologic record suggests these are rare. Therefore, the likelihood of such an event is low.

*****

Old video about the 1992 eruption that's a little less than 7 minutes. Actual footage begins at 4 minutes:

 

3 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

The way things are going these days, I fully expect hope for the Yellowstone caldera to erupt any day now. 

FIFM.

4 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

The way things are going these days, I fully expect the Yellowstone caldera to erupt any day now. 

85 South Praying GIF by BET Hip Hop Awards

2 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

FIFM.

Hey, fucker. I’m not very far away from that thing. 

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

85 South Praying GIF by BET Hip Hop Awards

You too, fucker. 

12 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:

Hey, fucker. I’m not very far away from that thing. 

You too, fucker. 

We will all be fucked. You’ll just be fucked a little quicker than us. 

I got stranded in Anchorage for a week in 2007 or 8 when Mt. Redoubt was spewing ash over the city. Continental wouldn't take a chance of frying their engines. Eventually the hotel wouldn't let people go outside lest you suck in ash glass. Got me out of jury duty and my next trip, so good times.

43 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

I got stranded in Anchorage for a week in 2007 or 8 when Mt. Redoubt was spewing ash over the city. Continental wouldn't take a chance of frying their engines. Eventually the hotel wouldn't let people go outside lest you suck in ash glass. Got me out of jury duty and my next trip, so good times.

Did the hotel have booze?  Porn?  Other people making bad decisions?

You may have just described a week in heaven.

49 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

We will all be fucked. You’ll just be fucked a little quicker than us. 

i'm pretty close and i'm counting on it. i am not interested in dealing with cannibals, they're the worst!

9 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

 

Depending on the eruption, what direction does the Tsunami go?

 

Tsunami? Do you mean lahar? That seems a long way from the water to cause a tsunami. I could absolutely be wrong though. 

2 hours ago, mchookem said:

i'm pretty close and i'm counting on it. i am not interested in dealing with cannibals, they're the worst!

I’m ready!

image.thumb.png.a21ee45f8eec9d20c2b7eab7abb1f778.png

1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

Good thing Alaskans have bootstraps to pull themselves up out of the ashes.

Wrong! that’s when those Canuck bastards are gonna make their move. 

i used to have a bag of ash from an eruption that covered anchorage. pretty sure i was in 8th grade and looking up dates that may have been this volcano's last major eruption.

 

 

i was not allowed to open that bag. i wonder what happened to it?

Edited by elfenix
/csb

6 minutes ago, elfenix said:

i used to have a bag of ash from an eruption that covered anchorage. pretty sure i was in 8th grade and looking up dates that may have been this volcano's last major eruption.

 

 

i was not allowed to open that bag. i wonder what happened to it?

Someone snorted it. Your avatar maybe?

I just returned to Jackson Hole from skiing at Tordrillo Mountsin Lodge.  It’s gurgling and has all Alaskas attention.  I guess I’m fucked either way.  Cheers genitals…

4 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Concern is it would be a big one. Cause earthquakes, etc. It was a scenario.

image.thumb.png.a2835273cb59ff5925e7606802c83c5f.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake

They still have a couple places downtown anchorage with splits in walls and shit to remember this earthquake. My ex dad was still pretty traumatized from it. Even a couple years ago feeling small earthquakes when visiting he would freak the fuck out bad. 

Edited by Zepol87

  • Author
13 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

They still have a couple places downtown anchorage with splits in walls and shit to remember this earthquake. My ex dad was still pretty traumatized from it. Even a couple years feeling small earthquakes when visiting he would freak the fuck out bad. 

Are you saying your dad lived through that? If so, come on. There's gotta be one helluva story behind that experience. Do tell.

Edited by bolverk
Please

6 hours ago, Zepol87 said:

My ex girlfriends dad

That's not your dad. At best he is like an eskimo uncle.

26 minutes ago, Bevo said:

That's not your dad. At best he is like an eskimo uncle.

a man and woman are kissing and the man is saying do you have a kiss for daddy

7 hours ago, Zepol87 said:

My ex girlfriends dad

 

32 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Rules

 

 

Weird ask but I'll go....  I've been married for a long time so its been a while since I had a girlfriend, but I was able to find a picture taken about the time I was dating her.

 

Spoiler

image.png.67faa644b2d88d3dac7372d5d87197ad.png

 

13 hours ago, mchookem said:

i'm pretty close and i'm counting on it. i am not interested in dealing with cannibals, they're the worst!

Not really - dealing with thousands of these guys on Attu, then having to live in a tent on Adak for seven months afterwards kinda sucked for my dad 82 years ago…..

 

IMG_9990.jpeg

IMG_9991.jpeg

IMG_2655.webp

IMG_2653.webp

I was born in Anchorage months after that big '64 earthquake.  Nothing shakes me.  9.2 just like South Austin's mom likes.  Ash me about it.

29 minutes ago, BottleRocket said:

I was born in Anchorage months after that big '64 earthquake.  Nothing shakes me.  9.2 just like South Austin's mom likes.  Ash me about it.

My middle brother was born at Fort Richardson in March 1942…..just before being evacuated with all the military dependents to Stateside because of the Japanese occupation of Attu & Kiska.

Edited by Armybrat

4 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

My middle brother was born at Fort Richardson in March 1942…..just before being evacuated with all the military dependents to Stateside because of the Japanese occupation of Attu & Kiska.

Brat, my uncle was a veteran of the ‘Devil‘s Brigade’ - the First Special Service Force.  They invaded Kiska only to find that the Japanese had left.  So they were sent to Italy to fuck up Germans (and so earned their nickname).

2 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Brat, my uncle was a veteran of the ‘Devil‘s Brigade’ - the First Special Service Force.  They invaded Kiska only to find that the Japanese had left.  So they were sent to Italy to fuck up Germans (and so earned their nickname).

My dad landed on Kiska too - the only living thing they found in the abandoned Japanese camp was a half-starved dog. 
It was quickly adopted by some of his troops and saved.

11 hours ago, elfenix said:

i used to have a bag of ash from an eruption that covered anchorage. pretty sure i was in 8th grade and looking up dates that may have been this volcano's last major eruption.

 

 

i was not allowed to open that bag. i wonder what happened to it?

Your dad sold it to the local mortuary who gave it to people who believed their loved ones remains were in the urns.  The real question is what happened to the bodies...?

Edited by Trey3216

If that thing blows up larger than expected we need to start harping the warning that this is God and Jesus getting pissed for fucking with migrants and Canada. This is their warning shot before going full biblical on America's ass. 

7 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

If that thing blows up larger than expected we need to start harping the warning that this is God and Jesus getting pissed for fucking with migrants and Canada. This is their warning shot before going full biblical on America's ass. 

Let me be the voice of reason here. What if it is God and Jesus?

 

17 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

Hey, fucker. I’m not very far away from that thing. 

You too, fucker. 

 

17 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

We will all be fucked. You’ll just be fucked a little quicker than us. 

Yeah, that will be a global catastrophe man. You're probably better off. 

53 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

Let me be the voice of reason here. What if it is God and Jesus?

Nobody puts the Holy Spirit in the corner.

1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

Brat, my uncle was a veteran of the ‘Devil‘s Brigade’ - the First Special Service Force.  They invaded Kiska only to find that the Japanese had left.  So they were sent to Italy to fuck up Germans (and so earned their nickname).

My grandfather was a combat engineer in the first special service force.  Small world…

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business & Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Advertise... Tailgate Donations

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.