Click to save the rainforest (#52 - Down but not out)

http://www.pnsn.org/NEWS/PRESS_RELEASES/MSH_09_2004.html

PNSN crater station SEP was broken or destroyed in the blast

G'day, ul!


Another fine earthturn to all the wildclickers. Last week, it was warm enough to wear capris and sandals and tank tops. We have a frost warning for tonight. The seasons change so rapidly.

aktbird57 - You and your 282 friends have supported 1,547,878.9 square feet!

"Listen to all the teachers in the woods.
Watch the trees, the animals and all
living things - you'll learn more from
them than from books"-Joe Coyhis, STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE

from the inspiration of the day that I get from Hohawk
(thanks Quinn for hooking me up with a great friend)

ehBeth, wonderful quote ~ you've made my day!

About volcanos and earthquakes <thanks Matrix and Ul> ~

Civilization lives by geological consent - subject to change without notice.

-- Will Durant

Have a great day wildclickers!

clicked

stradee - if you wander over to west coast buzz :wink: , you'll find the narrative that the inspiration sender wrote to accompany the quote.

ehbeth, just returned from the site.

The complete text quite beautiful <and God!> so appropriate.

Hi all,

clicked!!!!!

Haven't forgotten - I'm dilligently following orders.... And, have been talking w/ ehBeth via emails. It's really exciting that our Andrew and Aa are working on the new thread!!!!! We are lucky Wildclickers!!!!!

I just now checked and the leaderboard is UP!!! Listen to this =

akteam= 35.558 acres
Carolyn= 35.591 acres

Damn - er Darn!! That means that maybe tomorrow will be the day we become the first team!!!!! At least by Monday - - - GREAT CLICKING AKTEAM!!! We seem to have surged in our clickiness. It's a good thing.

ehBeth,
Your 'Woods' quote brought back a wonderful memory. Years ago when Patti and I first moved here from Seattle - Patti was all city girl. Wouldn't move past an open window unless fully clothed (even though we are living out in the country miles from town and have no immediate neighbors - only birds and squirrels and such)
NOW!!! She takes out the poodle in her underwear and tells me all about what's going on with the animal kingdom outside when she comes back in. That's because right after we first moved here I took her for walks in the woods. The only thing I asked her to do was "Listen to the woods". She is good at it now, and also the smells. We all have the ability to detect smells if we try. It's really neat to walk in the forest and smell an animal before actually seeing it. All it takes is the doing.

Matrix,
I was actually living in Seoul Korea at the time St Helens blew. When I returned to the states, I worked in the Tacoma area for the last four years I was in the Army - then retired. After that was when I began to fly the camera plane for the photogrammetric company. My first flight over the SH was '90 - the dome in the crater was just forming then. I watched the dome grow in size over the years - but, aside from steaming - nothing exciting happened on my watch.

The USGS is holding a news conference right now, and has moved the alert level on Mt. St. Helens up to a level 3...There was another steam event about an hour and a half ago, and there have been rock slides on the mountain. The earthquake activity is now listed as "constant" on the mountain and they are right now in the process of evacuating the Johnston Ridge Observatory - there were (approximately) 3000 visitors to the area today, and they are all being asked to leave - mostly because they don't want a "panic" if there is a large ash release...The experts believe that there could be a release of lava today because of the constant trembling in the mountain - When asked by the reporters, they've said that they just don't really know what to expect today - even the media is being evacuated now. The USGS just said that all three factors are in place now for the mountain to erupt. Keep a look out, today!

Live Volcano Cam

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


danon...
Too bad you missed the '80 event. From flying over the area, though, you have to have seen how much the landscape was "plastered" over by the mud flows, right?

Saturday, October 2, 2004 / 1:47 PM
KOMO TV NEWS ALERT:

Government seismologists raised the alert level for Mount St. Helens on Saturday after its second steam eruption in two days, saying the next blast could threaten life and property in the remote area near the volcano. The hundreds of visitors at the Johnston Ridge Observatory just five miles from Mount St. Helens were asked to leave. They went quickly to their cars and drove from the scene.
http://www.komotv.com/

Yes Matrix,
The entire landscape surrounding the North side of the mountain was totally flattened - huge trees blown down, all laying parallel to each other in a fan shape around the blast area. Awesome!!!! Back then I drove to the viewing area (where the camera is now) and the river itself was filled with ash all the way to the I-5.

danon...(are you the man dressed in brown paper???)

Yeah, that's the stuff I was talking about around Mt. St. Helens. When you got up there, was it bigger than what you expected to see after looking at video of it on the tv or seeing pictures of it in print? It was so much larger than anything that we could have imagined.

First time we went up there after the 1980 event, there was only a basic parking area at the present lookout site. I remember you had to climb up dirt hills with exposed roots to get to an area where you could see the mountain's crater. It was worth it for the view.

Fires have a tendency to remove nearly everything at the earth's surface, but the pyroclastic flows and the mud flows totally changed the geography of the earth's surface where they went.

Here's the link to a couple of Portland, Oregon T.V.
station sites:

KOIN TV, Portland
http://www.koin.com/

KGW TV, Portland
http://www.kgw.com/

That webcam has been amazing to watch.


and most importantly ... the KOIN website tells me that the CBS soap operas will be re-broadcast

University of Washington, Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network, Seattle, Washington

Mount St. Helens Notice of Volcano Alert, October 2, 2004

A notice of Volcano Alert (Alert Level 3) was issued today at 2:00 p.m. PDT

Immediately after the small steam emission at 12:15, seismic activity changed from principally rock breakage events to continuous low-frequency tremor, which is indicative of magma movement. We are increasing the alert level to Volcano Alert the highest alert level indicating that an eruption could be imminent.

The cause and outcome of the accelerating unrest is uncertain. Explosions from the vent could occur suddenly and without further warning. During such explosions the dome and crater floor are at greatest risk from ballistic projectiles, but the rim of the crater and flanks of the volcano could also be at risk. Explosions would also be expected to produce ash clouds that rise several to tens of thousands of feet above the crater rim and drift downwind. Currently wind forecasts from the National Weather Service, combined with eruption models, show that ash clouds will move to the northwest. If ash emissions are large, drifting ash could affect downwind communities. Minor melting of the glacier could trigger debris flows from the crater that are large enough to reach the Pumice Plain. There is very low probability that downstream communities would be impacted by these hydrologic events. .

We continue to monitor the situation very closely and will issue additional updates as warranted, whether activity escalates or returns to background levels.

link

Couple year old picture a buddy took from the south ridge of the rim of the crater.

Fantastic shot, husker; I don't think I've ever seen that perspective before. That would be looking north towards Seattle area?

We had another strong earthquake in California today: epicenter in Paso Robles (central CA), magnitude 6.0.
Mother Earth is rockin' and rollin' in the good ol' US of A.


All clicked.

Geological Survey pic taken yesterday-AP-John Pallister

Thrilling and chilling.



What's the old saying? Don't mess with Mother Nature.

A much calmer photo of Mt. St. Helens/ Mt Adams.

Stradee, GREAT photo of the two mountains!! I like pics like that.....

Husker, Nice photo from S rim. I took one with my airplane from there that looks very much like that except it's from back off the rim. It's at Walker and Asso. also.

Matrix, 'Am I the man in brown paper?' - I could be, whatcha got in mind? grin
Oh, you betcha the devastation was much bigger than imagined. Such a large, large area of damage. The lake was still almost totally covered with trees and other stuff. It's a BIG lake too.



Carolyn = 35.591 acres

AKTbird57 = 35.560 acres

GREAT CLICKING AKTEAM FILLED WITH WILDCLICKERS!!!!!!!