I live right in the path of that (Reply #16)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 01:58 PM

gopiscrap (23,322 posts)

I was 190 miles east of St. Helen's (at WSU) when it blew in 19980. I was pretty awesome and fearful at the same time.

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17 replies	Author	Time	Post
Panic grips Iceland after volcano hit by biggest earthquake tremors in 40 years [View all]	Judi Lynn	Aug 2016	OP
"Katla, named after an evil troll, is in southern Iceland about 87 miles from Reykjavik."	Coyotl	Aug 2016	#1
Yes, and an eruption of Katla has been predicted for the last 3 years	Warpy	Aug 2016	#3
Nah, the ones that go "boom" every few hundred years arent the ones that I would worry to much	cstanleytech	Aug 2016	#9
Worry about the ones that release enough toxic gas to depopulate European areas downwind.	Coyotl	Aug 2016	#12
Right, most of North America will be wiped out in weeks	Warpy	Aug 2016	#14
Well the deep freeze parts debatable but it likely would cause massive famine and starvation	cstanleytech	Aug 2016	#15
I live right in the path of that	gopiscrap	Aug 2016	#16
K&R nt	lillypaddle	Aug 2016	#2
Hasn't erupted since 1918	canetoad	Aug 2016	#4
Iceland is always cracking open - fire and ice, the olde Gods awaken, Thor's hammer!	Baclava	Aug 2016	#5
Nice pix	canetoad	Aug 2016	#17
SO has planned an early Oct trip to Ireland a month long Katla eruption	HereSince1628	Aug 2016	#6
Oh no... Then translatlantic flights will be disrupted.	Helen Borg	Aug 2016	#7
Hurray! Clear skies!	Nihil	Aug 2016	#8
you live in the Atlantic Ocean?	snooper2	Aug 2016	#10
Nope, Southern England ...	Nihil	Aug 2016	#13
Panic grips newsreaders as they have to learn how to pronounce the latest Icelandic volcano	muriel_volestrangler	Aug 2016	#11

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