Boom!

[KQ]

On This Day in 1980: Mount St. Helens Awakes!

[sb]

I remembers that.

[TBS]

One of my college roommates died in that.
RIP Bruce Faddis

[wyeaster]

i was 13 in eugene and portland was the big city off in the distance. i had no concept of where what and how big. i just remember the little vial of ash my mom brought back from pdx and reading about truman.

[Kenny Satch]

One of my college roommates died in that.
RIP Bruce Faddis

Wow that's unfortunate

Those time lapse photos of the eruption still burn in my mind.
Makes me wonder about the Caldera in Yellow Stone.

[babybear]

the new nat geo issue on yellowstone has a pretty cool pull out map of the caldera.
altho I generally try not to think about it lol

[Buster Highmen]

Saw it from the Reed College campus on graduation day (year after my graduation). It looked like an enormous stalk of days old cauliflower poking up into the sky.

Also saw the Dead that spring a month later when MSH blew again with a wind blowing from the N/NE.; the encore was 'Fire On The Mountain'.

Leaving the Portland Coliseum coming down off loads of vitamin L and it was like it was snowing, but 55F.

Really, really weird night/morning. Grit in everything, walking miles in dust.

[TBS]

the new nat geo issue on yellowstone has a pretty cool pull out map of the caldera.
altho I generally try not to think about it lol

Heh I live about 15 miles from an area between two dormant volcanos that is bulging - like 8" in the last 20 years. My working theory is the ground is porous enough that major pressure will dissipate.

Look at the bright side though - volcanic eruptions have a short term cooling effect

ETA - the experts think ejecta will stay within the wilderness area
http://www.livescience.com/17727-mag...on-uplift.html

[wyeaster]

Saw it from the Reed College campus on graduation day (year after my graduation). It looked like an enormous stalk of days old cauliflower poking up into the sky.

Also saw the Dead that spring a month later when MSH blew again with a wind blowing from the N/NE.; the encore was 'Fire On The Mountain'.

Leaving the Portland Coliseum coming down off loads of vitamin L and it was like it was snowing, but 55F.

Really, really weird night/morning. Grit in everything, walking miles in dust.

most excellent story!

[MakersTeleMark]

Damn. Reed was my first choice, and I got in, but I couldn't afford it. Got a baggie of ashes sent to me by my aunt. Never understood how she got it. No pun, but blew my mind as a five year old.

[Kenny Satch]

Not long ago PBS did a Doc on how the flora and fauna has recovered. Can't recall if it was trout or salmon that adapted to the changed river system. I never thought that possible.
That line from Jurassic Park is so true
Nature finds a way

[Buster Highmen]

Not long ago PBS did a Doc on how the flora and fauna has recovered. Can't recall if it was trout or salmon that adapted to the changed river system. I never thought that possible.
That line from Jurassic Park is so true
Nature finds a way

That's the Toutle River and it's the native steelhead.

Not that the years of dredging near the Columbia confluence had anything to do with their recovery.

[iceman]

You guys worry about the Yellowstone caldera (and it's worth worrying about, a little), but nobody seems to pay much attention to the Cascadia Fault. Holy shit that thing is scary, and it's regular, documented, and overdue. I would personally gtfo if I lived west of I-5 in WA, OR or NoCal, also Vancouver Island is at risk bigtime. This thing is coming for sure. It could be a hundred years or it could be 10 minutes from now.

The Really Big One

I'm not normally a fearmongering type but this thing is real as a motherfucker.

[Game Over]

That New Yorker article is great. I live 10 miles west of I-5 BTW

[babybear]

You guys worry about the Yellowstone caldera (and it's worth worrying about, a little), but nobody seems to pay much attention to the Cascadia Fault. Holy shit that thing is scary, and it's regular, documented, and overdue. I would personally gtfo if I lived west of I-5 in WA, OR or NoCal, also Vancouver Island is at risk bigtime. This thing is coming for sure. It could be a hundred years or it could be 10 minutes from now.

The Really Big One

I'm not normally a fearmongering type but this thing is real as a motherfucker.

it's funny you say that bc 2 different people recently have suggested buying cat bonds

and yeah I agree about the inevitability of it sooner rather than later

[iceman]

That New Yorker article is great. I live 10 miles west of I-5 BTW

I-5 is an arbitrary line, but if you're gonna be west of it you are better off being close to it, so good job on that at least.

[iceman]

"when"

glad to hear it though.

[AK47bp]

Not to mention Glacier Peak.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_Peak

Just sitting there in the North Cascades waiting.....judging.....watching.

[riser4]

My daughter's number one choice right now for a University is U Vic... I;m not sure when to break it to her. Maybe before she applies? U BC, Van is on her list. U of T, St George and U NB, Fredericton seem like safer choices from her list.

[iceman]

@AK: Never heard of that mountain, thanks, cool to read. That thing may be ready to go as well, the dates are fairly compelling. Cascadia is on a less-than-300 year cycle and it's more than 300 years since it last broke loose. Honestly that thing scares the shit out of me.

[iceman]

My daughter's number one choice right now for a University is U Vic... I;m not sure when to break it to her. Maybe before she applies? U BC, Van is on her list. U of T, St George and U NB, Fredericton seem like safer choices from her list.

UVM?

[Meadow Skipper]

You guys worry about the Yellowstone caldera (and it's worth worrying about, a little), but nobody seems to pay much attention to the Cascadia Fault. Holy shit that thing is scary, and it's regular, documented, and overdue. I would personally gtfo if I lived west of I-5 in WA, OR or NoCal, also Vancouver Island is at risk bigtime. This thing is coming for sure. It could be a hundred years or it could be 10 minutes from now.

The Really Big One

I'm not normally a fearmongering type but this thing is real as a motherfucker.

I was just about to reply with that article. Scary.

[iceman]

@bobby: If I had to prioritize I'd put the fault line way over the volcano, but I'm not always right, so...

[AK47bp]

We get a catastrophic quake, our house will probably fall into Lake Washington. The Compound is where we go once the Zombies take over the city streets. We're heading to the hills.

Your good. Zombies hate volcanoes.

[iceman]

If I lived around there I'd go full mental on an escape vehicle. OG Hummer, spare wheels on the roof rack, winch, extra fuel storage, water purifier, etc. etc.

It would be fun and hey it might work out.