KaBoom
Our beloved? mountain blew up again today. Nothing like in 1980, when we lived in Longview and stepped out after church to see Mt. St. Helens shove a plume 60,000 feet straight up right in front of us. That day people died, car filters clogged, trees fell like dominos, the river flooded the valley with ash and trees. One of our friends had to dig down to the top of his home to salvage what little he could inside up through the roof. Those days we wondered if anything would be left, including our town.
Now it makes the news, but it isn't the same. We are used to the mountain puffing, even the 36,000 feet it managed today. Choppers hovered right over the magma and took photos. Nobody got hurt, no cars died, no trees fell, no rivers flooded. Ah nature, tame again.
So, this time we were lucky.
Now it makes the news, but it isn't the same. We are used to the mountain puffing, even the 36,000 feet it managed today. Choppers hovered right over the magma and took photos. Nobody got hurt, no cars died, no trees fell, no rivers flooded. Ah nature, tame again.
So, this time we were lucky.
posted by John | 7:22 PM
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We were in a meeting this afternoon, when all of a sudden, a plume showed on the horizon. Although we are about 70 miles north of the mountain in Olympia, we could still see it. Anyway, everyone stopped to watch, but it was a little plume so we had to go back to work.
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