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OT: 30 years ago today...
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sirbrianwilson May 18 2010, 02:45 AM Post #1
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Mt. St. Helens erupted and Washington State was changed forever. This happened before i was born so it is amazing to me to look at pictures of st. helens pre-eruption. I'm used to the tall, wide mountain with a huge crater in the middle.

Something that's still amazing to me to this day is that the vertical ash cloud reached 80,000 feet in just 15 minutes. that's nearly 3 times the height of a passenger plane's cruising altitude.

I've talked to many people around this area about the eruption and the stories are all the same. a tall vertical ash cloud as high as you could see....ash pouring down hundreds of miles away that seemed like snow..the sound of the eruption heard everywhere. Many people didn't believe it was going to erupt. Many lost their lives.

I know that a Mt. Rainier eruption is right around the corner....it will be much larger that St. Helens. God save us all...


This mountain used to be 2 1/2 miles high.

Here's a video of a news reporter who was stuck in the eruption:


If you're interested in this stuff you should watch that second video. It show footage looking up at the mountain when it was erupting...unbelievable.

RIP everyone that lost their lives...

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panchen_lama May 18 2010, 03:45 AM Post #2
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shit...that's depressing...still got a vial of the ash on the bookshelf...

seems like yesterday...
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dreachon May 18 2010, 09:09 AM Post #3
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I did a paper on the Mt Tambora eruption of 1815. It put so much ash into the air that it lowered the temperature of the entire earth the next year. The following year is known as, "the year without a summer" because millions of crops were lost due to the cold and it even snowed in downtown New York in July.
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dedicatedIUfan May 18 2010, 11:02 AM Post #4
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Here is a nice little story I found on MSN about Mt Saint Helens.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37194878/?GT1=43001
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