Ashes to ashes...

Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Wed May 19, 2004 2:37 am

This day in history, 24 years ago, on a peaceful day in the NW USA....... It was a nice Sunday morning. I was peacefully whiling the day away by doing basically nothing. Then, about noon, the sky began to darken to pitch black. Puzzled, I went to ask my mother what was going on. She had the TV on.... <img src='http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/MSH/SlideSet/5.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /> Mt. St. Helens had erupted for the first time in over 100 years. The top one thousand feet of the mountain had basically vaporized. Huge landsides were triggered by the eruption, wreaking havoc on the surrounding countryside (which is slowly recovering). I watched the news for a time, watching footage of the eruption and the landslides. This explained why it was pitch black outside. A huge cloud of ash was moving across eastern Washington, dumping ash everywhere. When the cloud moved on later that afternoon, it looked as if we had been hit with a snowstorm. But it wasn't snow, it was ash, up to 2 feet deep in places. Spokane basically shut down for 2 days as people spent their time shoveling ash. The school district I attended from kindergarten through 12th grade seemed to take a perverse pride in not closing when other school districts did. It didn't seem to matter what winter threw at us, my school was open (I remember only getting 4 days off for weather, and two of those weren't for snow but for 20-below-zero temperatures). The school did shut down for those 2 days after the eruption. So, I can proudly say, "yes, I had volcano days."

Doctor Fred · Postby **Doctor Fred** » Wed May 19, 2004 2:40 am

Once I slept in the basement for the fun of it. So yeah, I'm exciting too.

Arloest · Postby **Arloest** » Wed May 19, 2004 2:53 am

I've had flood days. Wow, youre life is much more eventful than mine.

Salad Man · Postby **Salad Man** » Wed May 19, 2004 3:16 am

Yeah, well... uhhh... there's a thunderstorm going on right now here. Your move.

Henohenomoheji · Postby **Henohenomoheji** » Wed May 19, 2004 3:48 am

Iye fold, unless boredom is a force of nature...

Tavis · Postby **Tavis** » Wed May 19, 2004 3:54 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Dragon Wing @ May 18 2004, 08:53 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I've had flood days. Wow, youre life is much more eventful than mine.  </td></tr></table>  Hey, those flood days were eventful.. I think Pasadena had one snow day too.. but I can't remember which year that was.. I remember the family still had the Ford Aerostar that year. Eh..

Softpaw · Postby **Softpaw** » Wed May 19, 2004 4:41 am

My school closed for rain. It's sad.

Burning Sheep Productions · Postby **Burning Sheep Productions** » Wed May 19, 2004 6:51 am

Closed for rain!? You lucky... um... yeah.

Henohenomoheji · Postby **Henohenomoheji** » Wed May 19, 2004 11:18 am

was it torrential rain or just a drizzle or somewhere in between or what?

norsenerd · Postby **norsenerd** » Wed May 19, 2004 12:09 pm

Beign buried in ahs bropapy wasn't to good for your lungs. IT woudl be wierd to experiance that though. *Is a little jelous but dosn't wan tto push my luck*

Ankaris · Postby **Ankaris** » Wed May 19, 2004 4:27 pm

I've unfortunately had bomb days.

Softpaw · Postby **Softpaw** » Wed May 19, 2004 6:15 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (iyestorm @ May 19 2004, 06:18 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> was it torrential rain or just a drizzle or somewhere in between or what?  </td></tr></table>  It wasn't really hard rain. This happens because there's a bridge in this county that floods when it rains a lot, and rather than fixing it, they just close school across the entire county. Seems a bit silly to me.

Muninn · Postby **Muninn** » Wed May 19, 2004 7:29 pm

Zaaphod, how old are you to remember those events in 1980? Forgive my ignorance. I could get earthquake days but it hasn't happened during the school year yet. Once however i got almost a week off because of a faulty alarm system. On a Tuesday some person in my class (not a friend of mine) pressed the fire alarm for kicks. We got a half day and went back tomorrow only to be sent after 10 minutes (yes 10 minutes) of school because the alarm was broken. We were told there wasn't to be school the next day either. On friday we got another half day, by the next monday it was fixed. The person was caught, we the class found out who it was before the teachers did though. There's no chance of either flood or volcano days here though. Maybe avalanche, asteroid or moon-crashing-on-the-earth days.

Dr. Dos · Postby **Dr. Dos** » Wed May 19, 2004 7:43 pm

I've yet to have a volcano day. We never had anything major like that happen since 1972 with the Agnes flood. My grandparents' home is still very damp in the basement, the river which is like 10-12 blocks from there normally was only like 3 houses away from theirs.

The J.A.M. · Postby **The J.A.M.** » Wed May 19, 2004 8:00 pm

[...unWARP!!!] Good evening. Dude, you haven't been through a hurricane that took 19 hours to enter and leave your city. Isidore, September 22-23 2002. Statewide: 5,000 utility poles lost (including TWO near my house) 2,000,000 farm animals killed 16 km of foliage destroyed (the following summer it contributed to huge fires) And basically water everywhere. Meteorologists and physicists calculated the amount of water in the air and the aggregerate air movement, and the energy spent *just in my city* was equivalent to the energy spent by the Hiroshima bomb, only a lot more humid, lol. Thank God less than 10 people were killed. Volcano? The Popocatpetl is a bit far away, but it only affects a few tiny towns in Puebla. Zacatepngolas! Until next time, remember: I AM THE J.A.M. Good evening. [WARP!!!]

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