If you ever get a chance watch "When Sleeping Giants Wake" - -a program produced by my station (KSPS - the PBS station in Spokane) about Rainier and the implications based on the history and activity all around the Pacific Rim. An eye-opener for sure.
I'm waiting for my place in lil' ol' Tum Tum to eventually be ocean-front condo property
If you ever get a chance watch "When Sleeping Giants Wake" - -a program produced by my station (KSPS - the PBS station in Spokane) about Rainier and the implications based on the history and activity all around the Pacific Rim. An eye-opener for sure.
I'm waiting for my place in lil' ol' Tum Tum to eventually be ocean-front condo property
just watched that program..........glad i'm in bonneylake and not orting!!!!!!!!!! i was thinking, and when this thing goes there won't be any seattle riding for a long time! crappis is gona need lots of help restoring softies and flow. and if ya want to go to whistler, how ya gona get there??? i hope this doesn't happin in my times.
Forget about Rainier. Ever hear anyone talk about the activity at Yellowstone? Apparently that whole area is a mega volcano that has blown big time in the past and it's been gradually building up pressure again over thousands of years. When that one goes I don't think you want to be anywhere near it but probably won't happen in our lives, or grandchildrens lives, or their grandchildrens lives.
As for yellowstone, if I remember correctly ...back to the days of geology classes at college... yellowstone is a hotspot. Basically its just a thinner spot in the earths crust. Its been drifting eastwards for thousands of years. Then again, I haven't had a geology class since about 2000-2001, so... yeah.
It was 26 years ago that St Helens erupted. If your between say 31 and 36 it was a pretty big deal. You would have been in grade school. Did you put together a scrap book of newspaper clipping and go collect some ash? Maybe you still have the scrapbook. My guess is that 80% of the member here either lived in another state or werent born so talking about St Helens is pretty foreign.
About once a year the Seattle Times or PI will run a story about Rainier exploding or Seattle sinking in an earthquake. Its always front page. They do it to sell a few papers. Its been slow around this forum. Thanks Skook for reminding us people need to get off their @ss and ride their bike.
It was 26 years ago that St Helens erupted. If your between say 31 and 36 it was a pretty big deal. You would have been in grade school. Did you put together a scrap book of newspaper clipping and go collect some ash? Maybe you still have the scrapbook. My guess is that 80% of the member here either lived in another state or werent born so talking about St Helens is pretty foreign.
I remember when it happened, and was in grade scool. Although living in Oregon we didn't see any ash, but my parents did buy a couple of little bottles of the stuff.
Personally I hope to be an old man when it goes, so I can be the Harry Truman of Rainier.
I watched it. I'm glad I live on top of the south hill and not down in the valley. My roof may collapse from ash, but at least I won't be buried in mud. I like the evacuation route signs up here, too. Man, if we aren't safe on top of the hill we sure aren't going to have the time to get to somewhere "safe" if the thing blows.
On another note, we did the carbon river hike on Monday and the glacier was resplendent in it's filthy glory. Never a shortage of dumbasses walking right up to it, too, despite the frequent sounds of large rocks and refigerator-size slabs of ice falling off of it...
One last thought on the show: if a volcano covered in snow and glaciers erupts, the snow might melt, ya think? The show treated that like a major revelation. I did like the digital footage of mud surging up the 512 hill toward the mall, though. Very specific!
One last thought on the show: if a volcano covered in snow and glaciers erupts, the snow might melt, ya think? The show treated that like a major revelation. I did like the digital footage of mud surging up the 512 hill toward the mall, though. Very specific!
Did you know there doesn't have to be an eruption for a Lahar to be created though? i read somewhere that the mountain can flash from the inside. Hot enough to melt off the glaciers and snow.
And a pyroclastic blast will turn you into ash regardless if you're on a hill or valley haha. That's why all the people in Everett who think they're safe are all in for a suprise when Glacier Peak kills them all.
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