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Friday, January 3, 2025
Time-lapse images of Mount St. Helens dome growth 2004-2008
I didn't realize it was still so active. There are quite a few of these USGS timelapse videos out there, pretty fascinating. Very different to the big fissure systems we're used to seeing in Iceland or Hawaii.
I gazed into the crater about 1984... four years after it blew. It was surreal to drive through a landscape of twenty miles of trees lying flat on the ground.
An old client graduated from NCSU in '78 and went west to wait tables & be a ski instructor. After a year in Vail, moved to Washington. He lived 50 miles from there. When it blew, everything went black within 10 minutes, ash blowing into their apartment, no power. He and his fiancee were scared sh**less. At least they had water.
Moved to a hotel near Portland - closest they could find. Received his checks from both jobs two weeks later via USPS and drove back to NC.
I didn't realize it was still so active. There are quite a few of these USGS timelapse videos out there, pretty fascinating. Very different to the big fissure systems we're used to seeing in Iceland or Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteI gazed into the crater about 1984... four years after it blew. It was surreal to drive through a landscape of twenty miles of trees lying flat on the ground.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there is something similar for the caldera at Yellowstone?
Volcanoes gonna volcano.
ReplyDeleteAn old client graduated from NCSU in '78 and went west to wait tables & be a ski instructor. After a year in Vail, moved to Washington. He lived 50 miles from there. When it blew, everything went black within 10 minutes, ash blowing into their apartment, no power. He and his fiancee were scared sh**less. At least they had water.
ReplyDeleteMoved to a hotel near Portland - closest they could find. Received his checks from both jobs two weeks later via USPS and drove back to NC.