It was 24 years after the major eruption of 1980, and the mountain had been restless. My son Charles who was 19 now and I decided to drive down from Olympia WA and sit vigil for a while just in case something dramatic was about to happen. I took notes. 6PM Oct 3, 2004 —We’ve …
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Mount St Helens Diary–part one
We’re approaching the 45th anniversary of the May 18th, 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington State in the US. I was there that day. I lived in Olympia, about 60 miles from the volcano. For months we’d been hearing news of the rumbling earth, increasing intimations that St Helens was restless. At the …
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