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Across the Fence:  Mt. St. Helens memories?  |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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 Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 4:10:21 PM
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When I can. My mom owns a couple pottery wheels and some kilns and we built a huge woodfire kiln at our cabin in the mountains. I have take a couple of pottery classes, but I need to learn tons more! I love throwing on the wheel though! It is very zenish. It is really hard to be stressed or angry or anything when you are playing in the mud!
Alee
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Huckelberrywine
True Blue Farmgirl
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Michelle
Rosalia
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Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 5:28:16 PM
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My first fishing trip was on Mt. Saint Helens. I have lots of special memories of when it was still whole. The year it blew up was the year I moved out of WA to Las Vegas. We left in Jan/Feb. and it blew in May. I rembember the news, and crying. I still get unreasonably weepy over it if I watch a documentary on it too long, and forget going to the lovely little visitor station they have there now, I had to leave and cry in the car...it was just so odd to cry and rationally know how silly it was, but to be unable to stop. Geeze, that guy with the cabins and boats we rented to go fishing, he had a president's name...he was just the sweetest grandpa type. My little brother fell in Spirit Lake, right off the dock and down. Dad dove in, and when we got home, carried my brother sopping wet into the kitchen to show Mom the big one he caught. Gone. All of it. Just gone. The whole unimaginable horror of how much of the mountain vaporized...gone!
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 28 2007 : 9:56:33 PM
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I was living in Illinois and remember the news saying that if there was ash on our cars not to dust it off. It would scratch the paint. I had a brand new black Mustang and when I went outside the next morning it was covered in a fine layer of dust.
Now I live where I can see Mt Saint Helens every day. Yesterday she had a small plume of smoke curling around the top. When I moved out here in 1985 there were still piles of ash along the sides of the road going north. We tried to go up to the mountain but none of the roads were passable. What we did see looked like a picture of the moon -- total devastation and gray everywhere.
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Sweet Harvest Homestead
True Blue Farmgirl
279 Posts
Lindy
Stanfield
NC
USA
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Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 05:50:54 AM
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I was all the way in Middle Tennessee when it happened. I don't remember the actual eruption but I remember entering into the 2nd grade that fall and my teacher, Mr. Grannis told us about being on vacation there when it happened. I remember him telling us about how his white shirt turned grey and black from all of the ash falling from the sky.
It seemed very scary and facinating at the same time.
Lindy
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Beemoosie
True Blue Farmgirl
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Bonnie
New York
USA
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Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 06:04:10 AM
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I was under 8 years old, b/c we lived in our first house still and I remember putting a piece of grass or straw to my mouth and mom said "Don't do that! there is ash from the Volcano all over!" ... we were in NY!
My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. Luke 1:46,47
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 12:00:25 PM
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My DH(at the time) was in the garden and heard the mountain blow on that morning and we lived 300+ miles away--to the east. He said it sounded like artillary fire. We turned on the TV and found out that it had finally happened. Later that morning we went to the Tucannon River to mushroom hunt and we could see the ash rolling in like the worst storm clouds you can imagine. Then it got dark and the ash started to fall and didn't stop for several days. It was eery. Chickens went to roost in the middle of the day....things like that.
We had friends that lived along the Toutle River. We didn't know where they were for several hours. They finally called that night from Castle Rock saying they were safe.
"Nature always has the last laugh." Mrs. Greenthumbs
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
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Posted - Jun 29 2007 : 2:09:25 PM
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MOUNT ST. HELENS UPDATE
Current Volcanic- Alert Level WATCH ; Aviation Color Code ORANGE : Growth of the new lava dome inside the crater of Mount St. Helens continues, accompanied by low rates of seismicity, low emissions of steam and volcanic gases, and minor production of ash. During such eruptions, changes in the level of activity can occur over days to months. The eruption could intensify suddenly or with little warning and produce explosions that cause hazardous conditions within several miles of the crater and farther downwind. Small lahars could suddenly descend the Toutle River if triggered by heavy rain or by interaction of hot rocks with snow and ice. These lahars pose a negligible hazard below the Sediment Retention Structure (SRS) but could pose a hazard along the river channel upstream.
Potential ash hazards: Wind forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), coupled with eruption models, show that any ash clouds rising above the crater rim today would drift north-northeastward this morning and northeastward later in the day.
Potential ash hazards to aviation: Under current eruptive conditions, small, short-lived explosions may produce ash clouds that exceed 30,000 feet in altitude. Ash from such events can travel 100 miles or more downwind.
Recent observations: Rockfall signals dominate the seismic records on crater stations as lava dome growth continues. No significant changes in eruptive activity have been detected during the past day.
http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/cvo/current_updates.php
Alee
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YiberryYadeeKarin
True Blue Farmgirl
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Karin
Spokane Valley
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 30 2007 : 4:23:52 PM
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I was bummed, in a way, because I missed it and have no real Mt. St. Helen's stories.
I was in Europe traveling around by train. I was 22 years old, going solo, with a backpack, and visiting pen pals, exchange students who had lived with us, etc. I was in Austria watching the news with my friend and her parents when we saw a story about the eruption and all of the devastation, etc.
This was 1980, not now. There was no email and calling overseas was very expensive. So I wasn't able to talk with my family to find out if they were okay. A couple of weeks later, when I got to Finland, my dad had sent me an article from Newsweek and something from our local paper (in Spokane, where they had some major ash fall-out). I found out it would only cost me $19 for a ten minute call from Finland(something like that) so finally called them.
When I got back home in September, besides seeing lots of ash, everyone had a story to tell me. My parents said there were little insect footprints in the ash on the driveway. My friend, Kathleen, talked of how quiet even the birds became before the ash started falling. Mom still has a jar of ash that we've showed to my daughter.
Gee, even though I wasn't here at the time, I guess I DO have some stories!
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 30 2007 : 11:03:06 PM
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[i]Originally posted by YiberryYadeeKarin
I was bummed, in a way, because I missed it and have no real Mt. St. Helen's stories.
I was in Europe traveling around by train.
Gee that sounds so much more romantic than picking mushroom on the Tucannon doesn't it? =~)
"Nature always has the last laugh." Mrs. Greenthumbs
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jo Thompson
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jo
the mountainside of the Chugach
in Alaska
USA
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2007 : 4:47:30 PM
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jo Thompson
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jo
the mountainside of the Chugach
in Alaska
USA
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