Amazing Pictures - After the blast

[packman]

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Logs from the hills and area around Mr. St. Helens still on Spirit Lake 30+ years after the eruption being kept in its blast state for study. Some amazing facts and pixs about Spirit Lake and the power of the blast.



"May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, a volcano located in state of Washington, was one of the most destructive events in the history of the United States. In just a matter of hours, the north face of the volcano collapsed creating a huge landslide - the largest debris avalanche in recorded history – that moved swiftly towards the surrounding lakes and the North Fork Toutle River valley leaving a trail of destruction 27 km long. Located only about 5 miles north-northeast of the volcanic crater, Spirit Lake received the full impact of the lateral blast."

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/01/a-gigantic-mat-of-floating-tree-trunks.html

[hunter]

1. Mount St. Helens is an amazing place to visit.

The scale is astonishing; photographs and videos don't really describe it.

[progressoid]

2. My sister still has a vial of St Helens dust she scraped of her car.

And she was 250 miles away.

[central scrutinizer]

3. Weyerhaeuser lobbied state officials

to make sure the "red zone" did not include land they wanted to log - the various zones around the volcano were as gerrymandered as the worst red state Congressional boundaries. It has been claimed that some people died because of this. Recommended reading: Echoes of Fury by Richard Parchman