Boom!

[PNWbrit]

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.

Post video of you lifting wheels onto roofrack..

We'll all chip in a few $s for the hernia surgery.

[philth]

Vancouver, Vancouver.......this is it..........

[Meadow Skipper]

If I lived around there I'd go full mental on an escape vehicle.

Seems like most everyone that reads that article freaks out. It's an interesting phenomenon in itself.

I'm in on the iceman herniates himself in jeans video pool.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

When MSH erupted we were doing yard work and heard a big boom. I grew up north of Seattle in near Bryant. We thought it was just someone blowing stumps. My step dad was at Arlington airport working on his plane and he called and said MSH had just erupted and told us to get in the car and drive down to the airport. We got in his plane and flew to PDX and refueled and then spent about an hour just flying back and forth SW of the erupting mountain. It was awe inspiring. You could see huge house sized chunks of rock falling out of the plume and it towered over us, you couldn't see the top. My mom is a decent photographer and she got some good images that appeared in our local paper and on a couple post cards. One of the coolest things I've seen in my life.

I'd be way more worried about Rainier than Glacier, if Rainier blows Seattle and Tacoma are most likely fucked from lahars and ash. Even if it's just a giant earthquake Tacoma could be fucked from a lahar.

[riser4]

UVM?

She wants to go anywhere and everywhere but UVM.

[iceman]

Post video of you lifting wheels onto roofrack..

We'll all chip in a few $s for the hernia surgery.

Who said anything about me putting them up there?

[iceman]

She wants to go anywhere and everywhere but UVM.

Well then, pro tip, Wisconsin is a great school and super cheap compared to most for our-of-state. And Madison is an awesome town. Also I read that if you move to Texas 90 days before school starts you can get in-state tuition, and it's cheap. Graduate high school, move to Austin, score.

[seano732]

Vancouver, Vancouver.......this is it..........

That quote is burned into my brain..... From the USGS dude camped on the side of the mountain right? Jesus........

[riser4]

Well then, pro tip, Wisconsin is a great school and super cheap compared to most for our-of-state. And Madison is an awesome town. Also I read that if you move to Texas 90 days before school starts you can get in-state tuition, and it's cheap. Graduate high school, move to Austin, score.

Canada is super cheap for her. I married a Canadian and had kids just so I could save on University. I just wish I could pay for all four years now while it is cheap. The only US school she is interested in is Mt. Holyoke. I can't afford that.

[oftpiste]

Back to May 18....

I think I post this every year somewhere, but here it is again. The eruption began one of the most memorable few weeks of my life.

I lived and went to school in Ellensburg, WA at the time; directly in the path of the ash cloud. I was the nighttime weekday DJ on the local radio station and that day my room mate was doing the Sunday morning shift and called to tell me what had happened.

I went out on my west-facing front porch and saw a line of pure black sky coming toward me as far as I could see in any direction. It was pretty crazy. Within a few hours it was like night in our town. The big difference being that you could hear the tiny airborne particles hissing on the reasonably new spring leaves and grass.

Over the next two weeks our radio station became the clearinghouse for pretty much everything that went on in town. We went from being on air 18 hours a day to 24, all devoted to eruption related stuff. Ash was everywhere. Phones were down, tv was down, no one wanted to drive, trucks couldn't deliver stock to grocery stores, authorities were saying we shouldn't go outside or breathe without a mask and so on.

It was questionably OK to drive (car damage), and people had gone temporarily missing due to communication infrastructure not working. Radio waves still got through though, and people would come into the station where we were all working 12 hours a day, asking us to broadcast messages to loved ones who couldn't be otherwise reached, and we managed to connect a lot of folks who were worried about each other.

The townsfolk brought us food, drink, and company all day long and in the middle of the night because we were the only voices everyone could hear and we were fucking hungry. It was a remarkable thing to be a part of, and an extraordinary example of a community rallying forces in the face of adversity.

After a couple of weeks things got back to mostly normal and the station went back to normal operations, but the rest of the summer and really another year or so we lived with the impact of that eruption. Fine grey dust was everywhere, all the time, and covered everything. The trees and plants upon which the ash had hissed were all killed or stunted, and few if any flowers bloomed. Leaves were curled and small. Summer was dusty, colorless and just felt strange.

It was really something.

[iceman]

Granted I just had a daughter graduate from there last Saturday and am prejudiced but Wisconsin is awesome, it's probably not even on your daughter's radar, so do yourself a favor and make sure she knows about it. It was an A+ experience for both her and us, I would highly recommend it to anyone. Topnotch education in a fun environment for short money, beat that.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Granted I just had a daughter graduate from there last Saturday and am prejudiced but Wisconsin is awesome, it's probably not even on your daughter's radar, so do yourself a favor and make sure she knows about it. It was an A+ experience for both her and us, I would highly recommend it to anyone. Topnotch education in a fun environment for short money, beat that.

Yeah, but there're no volcanos dood.

[iceman]

Yeah, but there're no volcanos dood.

True true. Sorry. Got a little derailed there with all the crazy talk of riser sending his kid to C-eh? for college.

[char_]

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

It isn't the earthquake and tsunami that are scary, it's how unprepared we are for it. The Oregon Resilience Plan outlines the consequences pretty well, but the short version is that basic services on the Oregon Coast will be out of service for 6 months-3 years. Water, power, roads, healthcare facilities etc. The Willamette Valley: 1month to 18months, maybe up to 3 years for some water supplies.

Comparable events occurred in Chile and Japan (Tohoku) and they were able to restore many, many services outside the tsunami zone to 90% within weeks. Phones, power, water, etc all back online because we know how to deal with earthquakes for the most part. It isn't an event that is impossible to prepare for, we just need to get moving on upgrading infrastructure, changing codes, etc.

50 year time frame probabilities are ~35-40% chance an M8.8-9.0 affects N California and S Oregon and ~15-20% that the whole fault unzips and effects the entire PNW.

If it happens soon, it will be a good time to be a contractor.

[Meadow Skipper]

It isn't the earthquake and tsunami that are scary, it's how unprepared we are for it.

Exactly. That was the part of the article that really hit home.

[iceman]

The most important part is Fukushima. Japan is by far the most-prepared nation for earthquakes, and it still fucked them up, hard. We have nothing. Nothing.

I was in Tokyo last year for a 6.4. It didn't do anything to anyone, because they were prepared. I have a decent story about it if anyone cares. A 6.4 in the US fucks some shit up. A 9.6 in a coastal zone is basically unimaginable. But it's coming for sure.

[wyeaster]

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.

where ya gonna run? where ya gonna hide?

[wyeaster]

When MSH erupted we were doing yard work and heard a big boom. I grew up north of Seattle in near Bryant. We thought it was just someone blowing stumps. My step dad was at Arlington airport working on his plane and he called and said MSH had just erupted and told us to get in the car and drive down to the airport. We got in his plane and flew to PDX and refueled and then spent about an hour just flying back and forth SW of the erupting mountain. It was awe inspiring. You could see huge house sized chunks of rock falling out of the plume and it towered over us, you couldn't see the top. My mom is a decent photographer and she got some good images that appeared in our local paper and on a couple post cards. One of the coolest things I've seen in my life.

I'd be way more worried about Rainier than Glacier, if Rainier blows Seattle and Tacoma are most likely fucked from lahars and ash. Even if it's just a giant earthquake Tacoma could be fucked from a lahar.

man that must have been mindboggling and outrageous in the plane

[sb]

Dust in the wind

All we are is dust in the wind.

[Meadow Skipper]

Dust in the wind

All we are is dust in the wind.

I have a friend that was certain those lyrics were "ducks in the wind, all we are is ducks in the wind..."

Wasn't there a misheard lyrics thread here? That probably belongs there.

[KQ]

Satellite image of May 18, 1980

[oftpiste]

Wish I'd had the presence of mind to take pictures that morning in Ellensburg. And over the subsequent days.

[Buke]

I grew up across the road from the Toledo Airport, which was a base for mobilizing recovery. Of course, I don't remember it because I was only a month old.

My grandparents had a house on the Toutle river that was swept away by the mudflows. A few months later someone recovered a box of slides from their house. The Longview Daily news published a photo that had been recovered and facilitated the return of the recovered items.

Here's a view of the blast from approximately where I grew up.

[AK47bp]

I grew up across the road from the Toledo Airport, which was a base for mobilizing recovery. Of course, I don't remember it because I was only a month old.

My grandparents had a house on the Toutle river that was swept away by the mudflows. A few months later someone recovered a box of slides from their house. The Longview Daily news published a photo that had been recovered and facilitated the return of the recovered items.

Here's a view of the blast from approximately where I grew up.

Holy shit!

That’s an amazing shot. Cool story too.


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[altasnob]

Was St. Helens ever skied pre-eruption? That north face looks choice