--------------------------------------------------------------- The following message was sent to you via AVO Web Email System: --------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Michael W Williams (EagleSong Farm) Email Address: eagle@eaglesongalaska.com Subject: AVO Web Email Message: My family has lived for the past 31 years (fulltime) approximately 42 miles west of Mt. Spur. I observe the upper 2000 feet of the mountain out my front windows daily. On Oct 23rd I came across an article in my news feed from Planet Earth written by Erik Kelmetti. He was reporting Mt. Spurr's status was elevated to yellow. In the article it stated the best defense in a potential eruption is keeping the public informed. Yesterday (Oct 23, 2024) was the first I heard of the upgraded status of Mt. Spurr. I am writing to find out if and how you are keeping the local population, especially those that live in the shadow of the volcano informed? This news took me completely by surprise. Not only does my family live here full time we also run our commercial farm here. An eruption and resulting ash fallout has the potential to cripple our operations and isolate us given our only access in summer months is small plane. I'm shocked this is the first I've heard of the elevated status. ---------------------------------------------------------------- REMOTE IP ADDRESS: 172.16.16.172 USER AGENT/BROWSER: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 REFERRING PAGE: https://avo.alaska.edu/contact