Mount St. Helens!!!!
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From: Vancouver Island/Canada's
I lived in Vancouver British Columbia when my Wife first felt it. We quickly turned on the TV and seen the devastation. Pictures of cattle on fields trying to breath struck me worst. Some resident on the mountain refused to move.
I for one didn't believe that far North a Volcano would do more then burp. I think the dust had to be dealt with for months after.
I for one didn't believe that far North a Volcano would do more then burp. I think the dust had to be dealt with for months after.
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From: Montana Territory
I'm not particulary worried about Yellowstone, its a venting system, that is, it relieves it pressure from the many geysers. When the system is plugged, you need to start worrying. Think of the huge plug of cooled lava thats plugging up St. Helens.
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As interesting as that is... and if you believe the special the other night...
I CERTAINLY don't hope for yellowstone to go off....
they say that one would be a planet killer it is so huge...
Hmmmm....
what was that verse in the bible about ???
wars and rumors of war ...
earthquakes in various places...
fire from the sky ... ???
I CERTAINLY don't hope for yellowstone to go off....
they say that one would be a planet killer it is so huge...
Hmmmm....
what was that verse in the bible about ???
wars and rumors of war ...
earthquakes in various places...
fire from the sky ... ???
Last edited by jdadamsjr; Sep 27, 2004 at 11:54 PM.
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If Yellowstone blows, and it is overdue, nobody will have to worry about it. Almost nobody will live very long anywhere on earth. It will cover the whole NA continent with ash and block the sun for many many years. Yellowstone is considered a super volcano. The whole park is the caldera and some scientists are worried about the activity there. Nobody knows how one of those blow up because nobody has ever witnessed one and lived to tell about it or leave any records. If I remember right they have figured out less than 300 humans survived the last one.
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Yellowstone was last active estimated 600,000 years ago. There is evidence of several earlier events also. They seem to be spaced somewhere around 750,000 years apart, but it varies. The area just north of Yellowstone lake has been rising, about 3 feet in the last 10 years. There probably would be ample indicators of another event there, just like Mt. St. Helens is doing now. Really, there is just no way to tell what's going to happen this time around. It may have been last time was just a clearing of the throat. 5,18,80 
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I have seen that lake there in Yellowstone and the trees along the border. They have been there many hundreds of years and that that area that is rising is flooding them which will kill them. So that is a new type of activity that has not happened for hundreds of years. It has happened rather suddenly also. I have not been there since the lake water started shifting. Not a thing anyone can do about it and no sense worrying either. 
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I drove by St Helens yesterday on I-5 and was waiting to see something. There was a quake a minute at that time, largest being 2.8. In 1980 they were about 5, so they aren't expecting much - maybe something like the burp they had in 86.
I've done some work up there and know a back way in, but I'd hate to get cooked in my truck.
Heading out to Montana today. Maybe I should bring nylons to wrap the aircleaner like I had to do last time it blew. I was on my motorcycle then, going to my Aunts house in Centrailia. I got stuck shoveling ash for three days.
I've done some work up there and know a back way in, but I'd hate to get cooked in my truck.
Heading out to Montana today. Maybe I should bring nylons to wrap the aircleaner like I had to do last time it blew. I was on my motorcycle then, going to my Aunts house in Centrailia. I got stuck shoveling ash for three days.
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From: MA
You can also experience the "Mount St. Helen's Volcanocam" now too:
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
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From: iowa
Originally Posted by mrfixit31
There was activity like this in 98 and 01 and nothing happened. I was 30 miles away in 1980 but on the southwest, and she blew on the northeast face, that was awesome and something I will never forget.
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From: Valley of the Sun AZ
I was 8 when it happened and I remember it well. I taught about Mt. Saint Helen’s and all of the destruction that it caused due to the fact that it blew parallel to the earth and not vertical. It pushed the pyroclastic flow over Phantom Lake (I can’t remember it, but what I do remember was that a 80 year old man named Harry Truman stayed because his lodge was his life.) He and the lake were buried under 80 feed of earth. I hope is does not blow as bad as it did in 1980.
but my mom gave me a jar of ash from the first eruption.... wish i coulda seen that!
