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!
Well that's what you get for talking to someone who's standing on top of a shakey scaffold without a saftey. I guess I over re-acted just a TAD! But, for the record, the conduit is allmost all up and wire circuits are just about in.
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.
That's a lot of heat for it to drive the dust up to 36,000 feet. And since I have Asthsma I think I'll stay here for a while.
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="" />
You was so excited when you called the other night, getting you gear ready and all. I just missunderstood your details. With all the commotion in the background it sounded like a big deal to me..... NEVER MIND!! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
I would kill to be that close, when it went off.
I would like to watch it from closed circuit TV... That way I don't have to worry about a big rock to the head! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />
Take care Bud!!!!!!!
CJ
