Some folks on Anchorage's Hillside may have noticed Monday what looked like an eruption at Mount Redoubt, that moody volcano across Cook Inlet. In fact, it was just a steam plume, said Game McGimsey, a volcanologist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory. The meteorological conditions made for an impressive show, with one observer describing what looked like a small mushroom cloud. Redoubt's rumbled off and on for a year now. The last time it was in the news was in late December when a swarm of small earthquakes were reported near Redoubt's summit, prompting the AVO to briefly raise the volcano's alert level to yellow. The alert level Monday was green.
Silent film clip of men in Seward, Alaska, pouring barrels of alcohol into the street and breaking bottles of liquor during Prohibition. From the Alaska Film Archives.
