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I was wondering if any of you guys live close to Mt. ST. Helens. I know that Dell lives in Washington (obviously), but don't know where. I thought there were some others on here from there. Any of you guys live there when it blew the first time in '80? Any of you guys there now getting any ash? I got some good seat time in today and saw the clip about the volcano while I was eating lunch, and that question poped into my mind. Take care!-----Rob

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I did gitt ashed on in 1980, enuff to dirty the windshield and frontdeck. I watched the big dustcloud miss me by about 5 miles. Kinda like a summer rainstorm passing by. My mother-in-law from Stockton Calif came up later that summer and went around scraping up gray ash and filling glass canning jars to sell when she got back to California. I guess iff'n they'll elect "Arnold", then they'll buy ennythang. When she died 4 years later, we poured out the ash into the garden along with hers.

Except for the blown-down timber, missing spirit lake, and chopped off loppsided mountian top, You'd be hard pressed to find any other permanant damage from the 1980 eruption. I went fishing up there several years BEFORE the eruption, beautiful place..... ....Dell

I am NE Missouri so earthquakes around here are real small and about 50 years apart.

I live in central virginia, and our earthquakes are small, and far between also. We had a small 4.2 this summer. The epicenter was 10 miles away from my house. I was sitting at my PC (looking at YTMAG oddly enough) when my dog came into the room and started whimpering. Then it hit really suddenly and really hard and lasted for about 10-15 seconds. It kinda felt like a big giant was shaking the house with both hands. I knew right away it was a small earthquake, and by the fact that we still had power, I knew it was nothing to be concerned about, but even though it was small, it was violent! I can't imagine what Dell felt up there in Washington, but it had to be big!! Good luck Dell, I hope those mountains settle down for at least another hundred years or so. -----Rob

One of my Taylor ancestors left TN for MO in 1812 when he was a teenager. Swam the Miss river on horseback. He recorded his trip and referred to the "Earth's great shaking" that happened shortly after his arrival in MO.

There really wasn't much of an earthquake eather even right there.

And while the 1980 Mt St Helens erruption was being carefully monitored, it still claimed 59 lives..... ...Dell who has lived thru real earthquakes and real volcano eruptions