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Kthxbai.

Not funny...

I sure hope they get everyone out of there before she goes.

Yeah, it's been old news for a whole 2 hours.

We can only hope it takes out Redmond...

What's not funny? My post? How was that supposed to be funny? I was pointing out that it's old because Mount St. Helens erupted for a short period on Friday. But now it seems it's going to be a bigger boom. Yay! Eruptions are so cool, unless your in one >.>

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quite cool!

Now, as long as mount royal doesn't erupt!

I was surprised that nobody posted about this yesterday when it erupted for the first time. I had been home from school for only about an hour and started flipping through the channels when I noticed the footage of steam and ash shooting out. Nothing nearly as huge as the 1980 eruption, but fascinating to watch nonetheless. The whole thing only lasted about 20-30 minutes before stopping, but by the time it was finished, there was a tall, almost mushroom cloud-like column of steam that rose above a darker cloud of ash. At that time most seismic activity had ceased, but when I turned on the news today, there was more live footage and breaking news. Turns out that the earthquakes have started back up again, gradually increasing in intensity and frequency. Now they think that magma could be moving around underneath the "dome" in the middle, which could mean another explosion - likely even bigger than yesterday's. They're evacuating the surrounding areas now, too. I'm about 200 miles away from it on the Olympic Peninsula (pretty much out of harm's way), but it's still been fun to watch.

But SkuzzleButt can save the day!

I'm really starting to think we need to add a rule about replying to threads with posts like this. It's annoying, especially if someone doesn't even take the time to check if the news IS old.

I quite agree.

And this is very current news, SAJN.

Its cool, except of course the fact that I live near it... big boom = slightly deafened me.

Is anyone actually going to be in danger if it explodes big?
Well, they should be able to get out in time.

I hope no one loses their homes or anything

I've been watching it all evening and it hasn't blown up yet.

Who names a volcano after a saint? I mean, really, what are they trying to say?

..that Saints just can't hold their tops.

Interesting. Just yesterday i watched a discovery program about saint helens... and no, it wasn't too current document. it was about the '80 eruption.

Might have named it before they knew it was an active volcano

This U.S. site actually has a live webcam pointed at this famous mountain, and is updated every 5 minutes (so they say)!!!

Interesting.

It looks like its been destroied. I get a pic of static.

Me too.. .AHH THE MARTIANS ARE COMING!

Actually I think it was still dark there guys... the picture is looking clearer as the sun starts to come up there.

The 2 Mt. Saint Helens threads have been merged together.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/10/05/mount.st.helens.ap/index.html

Its supposed to go any day now. They said the lava dome swelled over 150 feet. I was watching CNN Friday when it was venting. I'm kinda glad they got more warning then before. I kinda hope they have news crews their 24/7 till that baby goes. I wanna see it. What do you think the scale of the eruption would be? Predictions? 1-10. 1= you call that an eruption, 10= Worse than 1980 eruption.

I'm guessing a 4. It will do some damage, but nothing too bad.

Meh, I don't think anything other than this smoke,steam and ash are going to come out. No lava.

No way in hell is it going to be worse than the 1980 eruption. That one was a *****.

The 3 Mount Saint Helens threads have now been merged. People, please take the time to check at least the first 2 or 3 pages of threads before posting a new thread about a current event, to make sure there arent any existing active threads on the subject.

Kindly up the number of threads on the first page.

It already was increased, a week or so ago. Maybe you've got it set to a low number on your own cp?

I've got it set to 40. I think it'd be in everyone's best interest to have the maximum at 200.

(yeah, it was set low. my mistake.)

So has the damn thing erupted yet or what? I want to see LAVA!!!

St. Helens isn't that type of volcano. When it erupts, it's because of built up pressure. Not the volcanoes you see in Hawai'i where they just have magma vents that go up to the surface.