<!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 6.00.2900.2722" 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>I was in the geyser basins from about 0730 until 1400 today, about 50-50 UGB and LGB. Totally (100%) cloud free, but a strong wind at times. And wet 40s forcast for next weekend.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Silex was active this morning, a bit less than 3 days from last Friday's action. I was there in time to see some of the last minor eruptons as the crater filled. By the way, though quite opaque, the water was blue during the eruptions.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Fountain was ie at 0740, ended at 0802, and it quite clearly had erupted again a fair time prior to my visit at 1330. Meaning short mode today.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Plume gave intervals of 56, 51 and 51 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>From initial to #2, Lion had an interval of 90 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Unless missed during very short spans when it was out of sight, Daisy did not erupt between 0900 and 1300.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Another odd start by Grotto. Grotto Fountain was 1004 very near start (it might have been 1003, but definitely not earlier than that). Grotto did not start until 1018, so a 14 minute delay, and the start was exceptionally _weak_. Ten feet? Maybe? And Grotto Fountain kept on and on, resembling some the eruption I saw in 1988 that I referred to as the "steam break" eruption; that one would repeatedly die down to nothing, or even a weak steam phase but then restart with full force over a total duration of 53 minutes. This one was not that extreme, but the play did nearly stop then pick up and etc several times. It finally quit after 29 minutes, _exactly_ when Mike Lang radioed the start of a Giant Hot Period.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>That hot period was not much, Mastiff maybe to 1 foot, duration about 5 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Finally, though there appear to have been no eruptions, two items from the Westside Group, seen Saturday and again today. The largest pool in the area, which of all those features is closest to the trail, is doing something intermittent, generally standing an inch or two below its scalloped rim but producing a gently washed area at its east side. And YM-210 is intermittently overflowing its rim, flooding areas that have been dry for months/years.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>A non-geyser request, please. I have a step daughter who is the family's "black sheep" (some in the family do not care what happened to her, but...). She and her husband live(d) in Bay St. Louis, MS. There is little doubt that they were wiped out by Hurricane Katrina, but at this point we have heard absolutely nothing. We cannot even seem to learn the status of their property address. Might anybody have a hint of a Website, Internet mail query, or phone number that might help? We (several family members) have tried some to no avail.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Off list, of course: <A href="mailto:TSBryan@aol.com">TSBryan@aol.com</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>