We are off to Mount Saint Helens today. What a way to learn history up close and personal. It is clear and sunny which is unusual here.. When Mt. St. Helens erupted, it was the largest landslide in history. The ash went 300 miles/hour, Spirit Lake had 800' tidal waves and the sky turned day to night. The earth truly is a living planet. The large eruption was May 18,1980 ; gases and ash went 80,000' in the air for 90 minutes. It took ash only three days and it reached Washington, D.C. The mud line on the trees was 30' high- 40 miles away, burying homes with ash like cement. Only 57 deaths. Two months later steam and gases still erupting. In 1986 it stopped eruptions. But, Sept. 26, 2004 the earthquakes started, the volcano was bulging and then eruptions with steam and ash, again. Today, you can see steam coming from the crater.
Mount Saint Helens
Devastation still remains.
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