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Posted on 05/16/2008 7:15:49 AM PDT by Clint Williams
MOUNT St. HELENS, Wash. - On May 18, 1980, the once bucolic ice-cream cone shape that defined Mount St. Helens in Washington state disappeared in monstrous blast of ash, rock, gas, and heat.
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And inside the volcano, which was once a soft dome of snow but is now a gaping, steaming menace with an unpredictable streak, an unexpected phenomenon is taking place: a glacier is growing.
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But Walder cautions that a glacier inside a volcano leads a tenuous existence. A surge in volcanic activity, especially an eruption, could melt away the glacier in the space of a day, sending a torrent of water down the Toutle River in a flood that would bring widespread destruction downstream.
The damage could echo the devastation wrought by the volcano 28 years ago when the rapid melting of snow and glaciers during the May 18 eruption sent muddy walls of churning water streaming from the volcano, taking out bridges, homes and trees as it rushed downhill.
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This glacier is growing despite global warming and despite being on top of an active volcano. It must be something men in western countries is doing to the environment.
We need a picture of AlGore breathing fire and saying, ‘I’ll save you.”
Against what odds?
i was stationed at whidbey when that thing blew....we heard it and felt it...shaked dishes right out of the cupboard..we thought it was a nuke strike..
I was six years old and living in Centralia, about 100 miles from St. Helens, and I had a clear view of the eruption. It’s a vision that’s seared, SEARED, into my memory (in a real way, not in a John Kerry Cambodia way).
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Time to sacrifice a SUV to the fire god?
Is this absolute horse excrement or what?!?!?!?
That is scary in just so many ways.
Not to mention 20M is dead right now. FOrget 10M.
WOW! Gores carbon offsets sure worked quickly.
I was living in a different part of the country at the time, but all the natives I know (about the same age you were) all tell very vivid stories about witnessing it. My husband actually wants to see another one (we've established that he is nuts!)
The mountain has a sense of humor. It’s playing with Algore.
(Who took down the gnome in front of the webcam?!)
No news is news?
A lahar in Colombia 23 years ago killed 25,000 people.
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Hazards/What/Lahars/RuizLahars.html
I wouldn’t put myself in harm’s way to see another eruption, but I witnessed several St. Helens eruptions from my front yard in the early 80’s. I don’t blame your husband for wanting to see one...it is an awe-inspiring experience and one that you’ll never forget.
Glo-bull warming, aka climate change, never ceases to amaze me.
Bump. I know you are interested in these things.
I was a witness to St Helens as well...living up at McChord AFB in Washington, and standing there at the barracks window on a sunny day to watch the plume in the distance. We had several guys who had talked about going down and camping with ten miles of the mountain that week...but the boss wouldn’t let them take leave. I still consider the eruption one of the top twenty-five events of US history for the entire century. The curious thing is that the mountain was turning green with fresh grass and pine trees within three years. It is a huge lesson on how the planet recovers from things.
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