<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Has Giant erupted by now? Seems like anytime Grotto does something odd, Giant responds in some way. Alas real life commitments in town forced me to leave early. But...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grotto yesterday was in marathon, apparently for something longer than 24 hours, and when Grotto Fountain started today at 1046, some were surprised that it was "so early." But the odd part is that Grotto then did not start until 1102 -- 16 minutes after Grotto Fountain's start. And further, there was then a Rocket major at 1114, yes, only 12 minutes after Grotto's start but it was very strong and had a duration of 9 minutes. So...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As of 11:44, Fan and Mortar were up to almost 5 days 5 hours without erupting, and without really acting like they wanted to.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>For the record, somebody radioed the VC that Great Fountain was "in overflow or almost so" (yes, a statement a bit odd) at [I think it was] 1025. Wrong. As of noon exactly it had not overflowed (it was several inches down) and had not erupted... Note that Lynn reported (yesterday? -- I should have paid better attention) Great Fountain either had an interval of 16h 48m (more than an hour longer than this year's previous long) or else that was a double with two intervals very much shorter than this year's previous short.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>'Tis all.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>