Mt. St. Helens

[meat.eater]

well im pretty excited about this, seeing as how i live about 45 miles away in Portland, OR. Do you guys think it will be as big as teh eruption in 80'? I do. theer is supposed to be magma as well. its is going to be tizzight! My city will most likely be covored in ash liek it was the 1st time, but i just cant get over the fact there is a live volcano in our very own backyard!


what do u guys think? excited? nervous [if u live by it]? curious?

[MANSLAUGHTER1]

Oh ya I remember someone telling me about this. Can't remember who it is tho. But it is aspuse to be big. That's what I've heard.

[T3km4n]

I think the whole world is going to blow up. I am excited.

[xerent]

I'm not worried at all. I live in Vancouver, WA... so it is very unlikely that I will suffer direct negative effects.

I would actually like to be closer when it decides to burst.

[emerald slasher]

I would like to be near when it erupts but im in Ohio so i guess ill just be watching it from my tv

[MANSLAUGHTER1]

I'm just curius not scared I live in NY on the other side of the country.

[Jeffery]

The eruption as predicted should be pretty mild. It will be nothing like the '80 eruption. Then one in 1980 had a solid cap over the magma well, which caused pressure to build and explode.
The current formation has many steam vents already, so the pressure is not building to anywhere near as high of a level.

But you should go and take a look at it. It will be a neat experience.

[cs_zero]

Originally posted by T3km4n
I think the whole world is going to blow up. I am excited.
the world doesnt have the guts to blow it self up.....

[T3km4n]

Wait, what? I live on top of Mt. St. Helen. Why haven't I heard of this?

[meat.eater]

the 80's eruption was all ash. lots and lots of ash. though it was enourmously loud and will probably be a bigger explosion then this one predicted to happen anyday now, the one happening soon is thought to have streaming magma. so in my opinion bothe will be equally cool. 1 had big BOOM! the other has warm goo. the stuff facinates me to no end.

and i would go to the museum jeff, but i think ill just watch from my house on a clear day. the lines are as long as The Matterhorn at Disneyland. takes 3 hours just to get in.

[Jeffery]

Originally posted by T3km4n
Wait, what? I live on top of Mt. St. Helen. Why haven't I heard of this?

Another fina example of tekman spam. I guess being a dumbass in DR's thread wasn;t enough, you needed to continue it to another thread with a serious topic.


The '80 eruption had more than ash. There was a lava flow. But there was a lot of ash, which was due to the fact that the entir side of the mountain was blown away.

[meat.eater]

which is why ash covered portland, it blew up to the southern end. and the lava flow is predicted to be much much bigger.

[Jeffery]

Lava flows are less dangerous. They move relatively slow compaired to pyroclastic flows.

[psychofireman]

I hope it blows. i live in st helens or and i have a good view of the mount from our windows. hopefully it will go at night that would be some fuking cool firework show

[cs_zero]

yup, right before u melt into nothingness.....

[meat.eater]

the city "St. Helens" is not in the same vicinity as the mountain. They're in different states.

[cs_zero]

oh....well im still gunna melt him anyway

[psychofireman]

right meat. but where i live i have an awsome view of the mountian

[Jeffery]

Originally posted by psychofireman
right meat. but where i live i have an awsome view of the mountian

I have several great views.....

Webcams are running live there 24/7

[meat.eater]

jeffery ur such a nerd. :D

[doubledown]

Are you guys nuts!? Why would you actually want a volcano to erupt in your backyard? You do realize that with the "cool fireworks" there will be wildfires and other destruction. Thats like building your house in the floodplains and saying "jee I hope the levy breaks so my house will get washed away"

[Jeffery]

Originally posted by doubledown
Are you guys nuts!? Why would you actually want a volcano to erupt in your backyard? You do realize that with the "cool fireworks" there will be wildfires and other destruction. Thats like building your house in the floodplains and saying "jee I hope the levy breaks so my house will get washed away"

1) You're an idiot to build your house in the floodway
2) You're an idiot to build your house on a volcano
3) The eruption will be very cool.

[Xiao Cloud inc.]

Originally posted by xerent
I'm not worried at all. I live in Vancouver, WA... so it is very unlikely that I will suffer direct negative effects.

I would actually like to be closer when it decides to burst.

why is every moderator, every tao forum moderator, every ADMINISTRATOR every tao CREATOR is from Canada? do we rock that much?

[doubledown]

Originally posted by Jeffery
1) You're an idiot to build your house in the floodway
2) You're an idiot to build your house on a volcano
3) The eruption will be very cool.

Yes, if you build your house in one of those areas then its not the smartest thing, however land is cheap in the floodplains.

You say the eruption will be cool? Cool like an earthquake or hurricane cool? Cool like the thousands of Florida residents without homes cool? How is a natural disaster cool? You realize that regardless where you live, this eruption will affect you. Your tax dollars will be diverted from building roads or improving schools so that people can recover and build thier next homes on another active volcano right?

[meat.eater]

teh eruption will be very cool. and destruction of land is part of the process. there is nothing we can do about that. you wanna try stopping an active volcano? didnt think so.

we also arent just going to let it run like a maniac. we do have firecrews manning the mountain every day. they're their to prevent massive fires and such when it does erupt. its not like were going into this thing knowing its going to happen and not doing anything about it. it will be very interesting. the technology we have now-a-days is amazing.

[Ali]

dag yo nothing will come all the way up to redmond washington
:( but i have a nice veiw of mt rainer if that one blows up :-D i can see it from my room!

[xerent]

Originally posted by Xiao Cloud inc.
why is every moderator, every tao forum moderator, every ADMINISTRATOR every tao CREATOR is from Canada? do we rock that much?

I live in Vancouver, WA

WA

WA

[Ali]

???

[meat.eater]

whats wrong with washington?


EDIT:
oohhhh...i soo just got your point. forget i said that

[Ali]

it rains every single freaking day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sub-Zero]

I hope it blows, i live in Sultan, Washington, so if it blows, i won't have school! ^_^ and yeah i hope it is bigger then the last one. that was the shiz.:cool:

[Ali]

dont get ur hopes up nothing that bigs gonna happen

[Xiao Cloud inc.]

sorry xerent. let me try a few

WA

WA!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Ali]

i still dont get it


WHOOT 400TH POST WHOOOOOOOT WHOOOOOT!!!!!!!

[Amaroth]

Oh no! I live in Massachusetts! I'd better get out of here!

[Sub-Zero]

LOL ach. yeah, run for your life! who knows it could blow that big, maybe a 1 outta a 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000..... Chance, lol :D

[King 6]

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!IM GOING TO DIE UGH DIEING IS SUCH A B**** UGH OHH WELL IM EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YEA KILL ME UGH.

[Sub-Zero]

^^ What an odd person ^^

[King 6]

i was using the stuff off the chucky i saw lol.

[psychofireman]

Originally posted by doubledown
Are you guys nuts!? Why would you actually want a volcano to erupt in your backyard? You do realize that with the "cool fireworks" there will be wildfires and other destruction. Thats like building your house in the floodplains and saying "jee I hope the levy breaks so my house will get washed away"

This is oregon, nothing burns in the winter...too wet

[crazyfrog49]

I'm pretty happy its gonna erupt also, but only because were (meaning my family and I) going to climb it next june.

[meat.eater]

so ur hoping it will be gone when u are going to climb it so u will just have to hike a couple miles instead of raise elevation?

[psychofireman]

it would be really cool if the mountian were leveled then it would make it hiking up to the peak rather easy

[meat.eater]

word

[meat.eater]

well, it happened! the lava dome opened up and there was...say it with me....MAGMA!!!! it was pretty freakin cool. we could see the smoke, or steam or whatever that was from my school ontop of Mt Sylvania. good stuff. and, it make some cool green lava stone from compressure and heat. its very valuble but i forget the name. not emerald. something else.

Look for the Green, You Can See It! (http://img97.exs.cx/img97/3066/magma.jpg)

Zoomed Out Shot (http://img97.exs.cx/img97/1446/magma2.jpg)

2004 Explosion (http://img97.exs.cx/img97/6109/2004helens.jpg)

1980 Explosion (http://img5.exs.cx/img5/3510/1980helens.jpg)

Most Famous 80' Picture (http://img97.exs.cx/img97/5358/blast.jpg)

[Jeffery]

The current lava flow is small and very subtle.
The glow of the magma is quite pretty though.

[meat.eater]

yea. wasnt as big as i hoped but still pretty. i might go up there with my dad saturday.

did you see the green toward the top of the pictur jeff? do you know what stone might be being formed? they were talking about it in the news but i forget what it was called.

[Jeffery]

Originally posted by meat.eater
yea. wasnt as big as i hoped but still pretty. i might go up there with my dad saturday.

did you see the green toward the top of the pictur jeff? do you know what stone might be being formed? they were talking about it in the news but i forget what it was called.

A new type of stone is not being formed. They are talking about what is refeered to as the fin. They are also calling it the "21st century dome"

[meat.eater]

im kinda dissapinted it just fizzled out instead of build up then BOOM, even though that might not have been good for the museum and the non-stop people half a mile away.

[psychofireman]

hummm maybe those people will end up in the darwin awards some day

[Hugh Junit]

Always look on the bright side, meat.
I've actually been following the story as well. I live in Washington.
Hell, I even remember when she blew in 1980. It was all over the television and, being only seven years old, I was glued to it.

[Excaliber]

Last year in science i had to do a report on Mt. St. Helens and i found that it was very interesting researching all of the effects that it had on the surrounding wildlife and forests but there were a whole lot of trajeties.