Mt. St. Helens errupts

[mopar611]

I was outside today doing yardwork when I noticed the mountain blew. So I took some pics of it. Too bad I wasnt closer to it. I didnt get much. Then I went back to watching tv....I mean yardwork.....

Mopar

[JT]

I can tell you exactly where I was and what I was doing on May 18, 1980. That was one seriously weird day.

I'll have to turn on the news and check it out.

[jinx]

Are yuo sereus. My wife and I just moved from Portland, Or.
Where we were when it blue on May 18,1980. Still remember
the show and the cleanup. Had over 1 in. of ash from the
June 80 eruption.

I am watching the news now just mentioned it.

[mili]

Those who underestimate Mother Nature are rarely left alive to adjust their attitudes :)
I wonder if there were advanced warnings this time?

mili

[JT]

It wasn't much of an eruption really. On the whole scale of things, not much more than a hiccup. Ash was suspended to an altitude of over 30,000 feet though. The new lava dome that was building collapsed onto itself. We could see many more eruptions of this magnitude at any time since the new dome is building so fast. The May 18th, 1980 eruption took 3,000 feet off the top of that mountain, so it's pretty unlikely the hill will ever blow like that again.....at least not in mans future. Wonder what's going to happen to Seattle if Mt. Rainier ever blows? It's a volcano too. People think California is the highest risk area in the states due to faults, but there's just as many fault lines under Seattle too, only there is a huge volcano right next to Seattle as well.

[HITEKREDNK]

I was in Colorado Springs during the 1980's eruption, several hundred miles away and everything that didn't move got covered in ash, one of my buds wrote a song about it. He used to play in the small clubs around the area. Kind of humbling to see mother nature get at you from that far away.
HITEKREDNK

[Rax]

I was in Yakima WA during the 1980 eruption visiting relatives geez what a mess it left

[mopar611]

I was in Centralia, Wa. in 1980 riding my bike when my dad told me to go inside the house. I didnt know why but it did snow....alot. I didnt know it was ash but remember my dad wearing a dust mask and I wasnt allowed to go outside.

The mountain has been spitting for months now. Even a small earthquake (2.0) was registered an hour earlier. Its no big deal I guess. Oh weyerhauser just started to log off a few thousand acres it planted after the 1980 eruption. I hope nobody died logging up there.

Rainier....Shitty little town eh? Go over there all the time. No tax. Anyway I can stick it to the man!!!!

Mopar