Fortunately, we’re not too close (106 miles see map below) to Mt. St. Helens which erupted earlier today for the first time since that fateful day in 1980:

The eruption was nowhere near what happened 24 years ago, when 57 people were killed and towns up to 250 miles away were showered with rock and ash. About 20 minutes after Friday’s eruption, the mountain calmed and the plume began to dissipate.

I remember it blowing in 1980. At the time I lived in Vancouver and we were shoveling the ash like snow. Ash is really, really dense stuff. It looks like it would be light but it’s really heavy if you have a shovelful. It was kind of sad what happened to Harry Truman who believed “his” mountain would never hurt him.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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