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40 years ago today: Mount St. Helens popped it's cork

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(CNN) — Forty years ago, a volcano in the Cascade Mountains in Washington roared, expelling plumes of ash and killing 57 people in the most destructive eruption in modern US history.

Mount St. Helens eruption: Five facts - CNN
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57 dead
$1B in damage
100s of sqr miles of destruction to homes, bridges, highways, railways and wilderness
Blast was 24 megatons, 1600x the size of the Hiroshima bomb
 
Roadvirus said:
57 dead
$1B in damage
100s of sqr miles of destruction to homes, bridges, highways, railways and wilderness
Blast was 24 megatons, 1600x the size of the Hiroshima bomb
Click to expand...

I lived in the area...saw the mushroom cloud...experienced the ash.
 
Roadvirus said:
57 dead
$1B in damage
100s of sqr miles of destruction to homes, bridges, highways, railways and wilderness
Blast was 24 megatons, 1600x the size of the Hiroshima bomb
Click to expand...

Roadvirus:

Crikey, it seems like the eruption was just a few years ago. Time as well superheated gas and ash flies after a volcanic eruption. RIP again to the almost sixty people who perished in the monumental blast and collapse.

Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
 
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