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Mt St. Helens Erupts near Portland


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[url="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134186,00.html"]FoxNews Article[/url]

Whoa. Helen used to be a pretty quite volocano, now it's erupting every 20 years or so. Hopefully this won't wind up being as bad as the 1980 eruption...

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Thy Geekdom Come

I just heard on FoxNews a couple days ago that they thought this would happen again soon.

Happened sooner than I thought.

Huh...

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[quote name='Mrs. Bro. Adam' date='Oct 1 2004, 03:02 PM'] Hopefully not. I never dreampt that it'd errupt again in my lifetime. [/quote]
Were you alive during the first eruption? I was thinking you were younger than that ...

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[quote name='T-Bone' date='Oct 1 2004, 04:32 PM'] What time did it happen?

mariel- You live nearby, or was it just a suvunier? [/quote]
haha I live in Fort Walton Beach. I can't remember how I got some of the ash. My mom gave it to me. It might have come from a relative or friend who traveled there, but the only places I've been to west of the Mississippi River are Colorado, San Antonio and Las Vegas.

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Thy Geekdom Come

My high school debate teacher told me that she was in high school when it happened and went out a few days after the eruption and ash was falling on her car...this was in Omaha...

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Ash Wednesday

Trust me, this was a burp or a spider bark compared to the deafening roar that was 1980. This was a small eruption, that was a mountain blowing its whole top and side out. I was born in Washington and we were right in the thick of the ash back then. I remember my dad having to ride a bike because the cars and roads were done for. I was pretty young at the time but I remember him coming home from work later that week on his bicycle, and wearing a doctor's mask.

Apparently our family was driving home from Mass (this happened on a Sunday) when my dad got out of the car and noticed it was raining ash.

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