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For those of you who don't know, I live some fourty miles from Mt. St. Helens. On May 18th 1980 Mt. St. Helens blew and blew big. Now as an interesting side note, she is once again beginning to stir.

Link

If she blows, I will be sure to get some shots of her and post them. That is if I survive. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Cool.... I have a vial [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon24.gif[/img] of dust from when it blew [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Bomb.gif[/img] in 1980, as to which box [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Barrel.gif[/img] in the shed it is in - now thats a very difficult question! (like the shameless use of Graemlins? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif)

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We must embark upon our qwest to qwell the demon that sleeps within the mountain. For if the demo awakens all are in peril.

Those who are brave enought to stand with me, willing to march the 40 leuges to the face of the Mt. St Helens, and then climb the razor rock face to the summit and decend down into its lava dome, trek across the heaving face of moving liquid earth to the doom of death itself, cast aside its stones and decend into the depths of hell and prevent the awakening of the evil demon that lives below, shall forever be known as the brotherhood of the damned stupid.

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No no no... All you have to do is through a virgin in there to appease the angry god of the volcanon and all will be well.

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I assume then that you have volunteered for the job? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Hits the floor laughing

My advice for vanquishing demons is the virgin path. Of course it is not fair to sacrifice virgins who are nice decent folk. We must find ourselves a virgin who has become a menace to society.

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Does Anyone know how to reach Bill Gates? He's the perfect candidate, although the chances are that through the EULA he already owns the demons soul!

*Can Imagine the firey pits of hell being dominated by millions of rows of Microsoft computers running the "Windows: Infernal" Operating system to torture it's victims.... *

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Bill Gates or Micheal Jackson would do nicely I would think.

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"Certainty of death, small chance of success... well, what're we waiting for?" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smirk.gif

Sounds like your Average game of D&D to me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I am DORK, weilder of the Cork Cannon and high leader of the infently under blessed.

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Well, isn't 2004 supposed to be when the "Polar shift" thing happens and cause all kinds of volcanic and weather activity? Maybe it's finally beginning? Muahahahahaha

hmmm, maybe I should make preparations just in case.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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God I hope not. I hope something like never happens in the life time of man.

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Yep, but it was tech jobs, not the poles, that shifted.

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I vote for Michael Jackson.................. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif

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I say both! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif Although doesn't Micheal Jackson have kids?

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Well, after surviving 4 hurricanes back to back, I'm a believer. Just hope Mt. St Helens eruption is just a burp, and nothing like the 1980 event. Good luck, Atrocities. I know how it feels now to live under the gun.

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Oh, problems like that you just ask a certified mad, scientist.

Giant water balloon will take care of all your troubles.

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Alert Level 2!
Press Release

Time to practice the ol' Duck and Cover...

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Since so many people here seem to be constantly Online, you can watch for signs of eruption yourself at the government supplied webcam:

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

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My TV program was just interrupted to say that it has just errupted.

RUN! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif

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It has, indeed, begun a steam eruption. My local TV channel website has a video posted that I can't view at work, but HERE is a link to it. Kinda makes me glad to be back in California where earthquakes are our biggest threat.

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well i know what will be on tv for a few weeks... Damn And I thought huricanes still had a few more weeks of life...

One can only wish for the sharks to come back


P.S. I am attempting to poke fun at doom and gloom news... as I understand it is quite serious for the people that live near the problem

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I remember 1980 eruption. That ash chokes air filters on cars, grits up you hair, gets in the corner of your eyes, aggravates your existing hayfever, and makes for gray boogers. And unlike a silica based ash or pumice, it does not insulate against electricity. It conducts quite well and sometimes will short out electrical serivce. Just think gray snow. If it's on your car you can't wipe it off 'cause it will scratch paint; gotta bLast it with a hose. It took about 4 years to make it totaly disappear.

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Ya I could see the steam from my house. Looks like a cloud at this point, kinda hard to distinguish it. Not like the eruptions of the 80's. Those buggers were like looking at atomic bLasts up close.

I will try and take some digitals of it if I can get away from the house to a better vantage point. (Broke no gas no money.)

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That Mount St. Helens webcam looks like just a screen full of static... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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Fear not, the eruption today from our POV looked more like a could floating over the moutain than an eruption. I am on the south east side of the moutain and unless it blows HUGE, it will just look like a small eruption to us.

Although we did get a light, very light, dusting of ash. It has been over twenty years seens we have seen ash fall from the sky. I can remember the ash after an erutption, being so thick it was breaking branches off of trees because it stuck to the leaves like snow.

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Volcano sites evacuated. http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

News alert.

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Here is a Link to some older Pictures I took a while back.

My Pictures

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I used to live in Portland and many of my relatives still do. Knowing them they are probably wigging out over it right now. I am still waiting for the never-ending phone call. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smirk.gif

Sadly, I wasn't born in time to see the first eruption but at least I can see this one! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Gates does too.

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Yes indeed he has (sort of)

But that's why I vote for Michael Jackson, to protect those kids http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Gandalph, it must be a big newsday, because I didn't see any reference to Mt. St. Helens on the front page of that website. I'm looking at Atrocities' link. I hate listening to talk radio at work, and then not being able to watch the news when I get home. That's what happened on 9-11. I hate to wait until that evening before I actually saw the devestation. Hopefully for you guys who live in the area, it won't be a big eruption. I don't think anything can match what happened in 1980, but then again, lightning has actually been known to strike the same place twice. So God speed and good luck.

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I'm not too worried about Mt St. Helens, I for one, welcome our Giant Insect Overlords ...

It's coming right for us ...

{clip courtesy of Fark.com}

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Whenever I look at that webcam page it just shows a dark purple screen that looks like a TV screen full of static. I just realized - DUH - that it's probably because I've always been going to that page at night. Maybe I should try during the day when there's actually some light... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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I'm getting the same picture, but that's because there's a 3 hour time difference between Florida and Oregon. That means I still got to wait another hour or two before it gets light enough for me to see anything on the screen. Hope there's something to see.

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I just looked , and YES I saw smoke http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Well, I've been checking since I came back from lunch. There's definitely something going on. But is the Big One coming anytime soon? From my understanding, this could take awhile.

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Still (only) smoke !!

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Yeah, and that smoke is thinning out compared to what it was an hour ago.

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Indeed I checked 30 minutes ago and the smoke was almost gone. BUT I also looked 2 minutes ago, and it's back again. (even more I guess)

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Looks like there probably isn't going to be an eruption. The geologists have reduced the alert level now...

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Weather there will be an erruption or not will depend on nature's rules not the geologist's. Those guys are still trying to figure out the 'why' let alone the 'when' factor in natures rules.

my 2 cents for free.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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It was all about driving up the tourist revenue. We have eruptions like this all the time. It really is a big joke here about all the people who came because the news hyped it so ravidly.

I am honestly laughing my arse off at all the people who bought into the BIG ERUPTION hype from the media. This just goes to show you that the free press and media of the US are driven by hype, Bull****, and sensationalism based upon weak information and questionable executive decisions.

THERE WAS NO DANGER OF AN ERUPTION. It was all designed to generate interest in the mountain and see how many stupid people we could get to come see it. In a way I wish the MT had blown, that way we could have wiped out an entire hurd of STUPID PEOPLE in one shot.

"Hey the news says that Mt. St. Helens is going to blow!"
"Get the kids and gas up the car! We're heading for the MT."

Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I wonder what those stupid SOB's would do if the Mt had blown up? After it was all said and done you would first see them on the news saying "We had no warning." and then in court claiming damages from both GOD and the Owners of Mt. St. Helens. YES WE DO NEED TORT REFORM!

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Hmmmm...It looks like you bought into the hype in this post, AT. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif A few other Posts also showed you were hoping it would not blow like it did in '80, so that shows you thought there was a chance it could blow.

Also there hasn't been any activity of this sort at the mountain in quite some time. If these small eruptions were normal I am sure they would not have made it the center of news for a few days. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Oh yes, because the news media never exaggerates stories or makes things up... where oh where are my killer bees? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

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I didn't say they never exaggerate stories or make things up...They do that quite often. But there has been no activity of this sort, on this particular mountain, since either the late 80s or early 90s.

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I did not buy into the hype. I heard about it, posted because it was interesting. From that point the NEWS made a huge deal out of it, and the those in charge felt that they had to give them something so they elevated the alert to 3. Everything from Last week to now was just to drive up revenue.