Curtis, I think you got my words confused. It's much worse than the 1st one, since it started going again. Not worse than the 1980 one by far. LOL!

Anyhow, the plume reached to 36,000 feet. It started drifting east, and then switched northeast. Mt. St. Helens is in the NW corner of my county, so there were some good views of the plume here. A ash fall advisory was put out until 9pm last night, with the first reports being most of the ash was to land in my county. Ash and Asthmatics don't mix well, so I was looking for a long night.

We lucked out though, as the plume traveled east towards Skamania county, it switched to the NE. The other thing that helped us, a storm was blowing in, so the ash was kept high up for quite awhile.

The seismograph showed that the recently added $$$$$ sensor, that the USGS put on the dome is toast. LOL!

It was just ash and steam, no landslides, or huge earthquakes here. Really cool to look at though. One of the Portland, OR news channels showed some magna near the "fin" in the crater. (Come on you big sissy mother nature, is that all you got?!) <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />

Funny, they were just talking about reopening the Coldwater Creek observatory. I'm guessing that will be post-poned. Wherehouser, had also restarted logging in that area too. I would kill to be that close, when it went off.