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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / October 2004Volcano purrs
This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume of steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption had been preceded by a few weeks of seismic activity. The earthquakes started out at levels smaller than 1 on the Richter scale, but grew to over 2 shortly before the eruption. Within an hour or so of the end of today's eruption the east side of the lava dome was again experiencing quakes at the 2 level again. In addition, the nature of the quakes is such that they indicate movement of magma below the earth's surface. It's been 18 years since this volcano had a really big eruption, and it's unlikely that it will have another huge eruption like that one again in our lifetimes. But I think it would be appropriate to be purring for the residents of the Pacific Northwest that MSH decides to continue to behave herself. And this is not an entirely altruistic request - as I type this message I'm sitting at a shipping dock in Seattle getting ready to run down Interstate 5 past Mt St Helens! >This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume of >steam and ash. So *this* is why that volcano has that name... It does exactly the same as the fat one does after she's had too many beans, a chilli or a curry! Purrs, Waffles --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune h*$el*$$e*nd**$o$ts**i*$*$m*m$o*n*s@$*a$o*l.c**$om$ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- >> This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume >> of steam and ash. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Purrs, Waffles ROTFL  SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. > This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume of > steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption had [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > I'm sitting at a shipping dock in Seattle getting ready to run down > Interstate 5 past Mt St Helens! It's certianly something to see!! The first one was so bad, but also bad because habitations had built up so close to it. That at least is not the same situation now. Someday I would love to see it. Hopefully, she is just letting off a bit of steam. > This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume > of steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > message I'm sitting at a shipping dock in Seattle getting ready to > run down Interstate 5 past Mt St Helens! Purrs that nobody gets hurt. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. I lived in So. Oregon when MSH blew the first time, 2 of my sisters were and are still in Portland. No ash in Klamath Falls, where I lived, but I remember the sky all around us had an eerie haze to it for about a week. My sisters told me words just couldn't describe the effects of Mother Natures work on that one. -bonbon I'm curious as the news media has itself in a knot over this one. They keep saying Helen last blew in 1980, that it was 18 years ago and go on to describe all the damage and number killed, etc. Sorry but my math is better than that. I'm guessing it erupted again in 1986? I don't remember that one. Jo > This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume of > steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption had [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > I'm sitting at a shipping dock in Seattle getting ready to run down > Interstate 5 past Mt St Helens! > I'm curious as the news media has itself in a knot over this one. They keep > saying Helen last blew in 1980, that it was 18 years ago and go on to [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Jo Yeah, I think the last real eruption was 1986, but it was not like the first one (well, "first" in our lifetime). The damage and killing stuff is from the first eruption. Many articles do not make that clear. Purrs are on their way. -- Joy "You can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late." - Ralph Waldo Emerson > This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume of > steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption had [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > I'm sitting at a shipping dock in Seattle getting ready to run down > Interstate 5 past Mt St Helens! >This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume of >steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption had [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >I'm sitting at a shipping dock in Seattle getting ready to run down >Interstate 5 past Mt St Helens! Purrs for you and anybody in the vicinity! Ginger-lyn who has a small bit of ash from Mt St. Helens from when it exploded last time. >> This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume >> of steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >> addition, the nature of the quakes is such that they indicate >> movement of magma below the earth's surface. I believe they have requested residents to begin evacuating tomorrow. > Purrs for you and anybody in the vicinity! > > Ginger-lyn > who has a small bit of ash from Mt St. Helens from when it exploded > last time. Funny story: my ex-fiance, Ray, was up there after the big eruption in 1980. I don't remember why. He told me he got a small bag of the ash. When he left he rode on a Greyhound bus. Some guy (a loser type, I gathered) sitting next to him saw this bag in his carry-on when he opened it. The dude thought it was cocaine and offered to buy it from him! He figured if the guy was that stupid, why not? So he sold him the bag of ash which the guy promptly stuck in his pocket before heading off to the lavatory in the back of the bus. I gather he was snorting some of it! Jill ROFL!!! Yeah, I think you're right about him being the lose type! I guess when nothing happened when he snorted it in the lavatory, he was too embarrassed to confront Ray about being ripped off. LOL! SignatureBritta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > >> This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume > >> of steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Jill Funny story: my ex-fiance, Ray, was up there after the big eruption in > 1980. I don't remember why. He told me he got a small bag of the ash. > When he left he rode on a Greyhound bus. Some guy (a loser type, I [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > lavatory in the back of the bus. I gather he was snorting some of it! > Jill Wow, I have no idea what cocaine feels like, but I bet that ash was pretty rough on that guy's nose. As I mentioned in an earlier post, we were in Eastern Washington when the mountain erupted in 1980. I rinsed some ash off in the tub, and when I rinsed the tub, that ash polished it really well. Most likely, it was finely powdered pumice. That's the same as the gritty stuff used in the soap aptly called Lava soap. Annie > Wow, I have no idea what cocaine feels like, but I bet that ash was pretty > rough on that guy's nose. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Most likely, it was finely powdered pumice. > That's the same as the gritty stuff used in the soap aptly called Lava soap. Clarkston, Washington? We (son Jason and I) were living in Spokane, Washington, at the time and scooped up a jar of the stuff from our back deck. It polished the varnish off the deck, and the finish off the porcelain sink in the kitchen. A pottery in Lewiston, Idaho, still uses a bit of MSH ash in some of it's pottery. We have a piece or two of it and love it. Pam S. who suspects that the ash is no more than a pinch in each pot .. > Clarkston, Washington? We (son Jason and I) were living in Spokane, > Washington, at the time and scooped up a jar of the stuff from our back [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Pam S. who suspects that the ash is no more than a pinch in each pot Yes, we were in Clarkston. I don't remember the name of the Lewiston pottery after all these years, but I'm glad it's still in business. Shortly after the volcano blew, he was gathering up and saving the ash. Of course, people were happy to have him take it. He must have had a lot if he's still using it. He was using the ash for the glaze on the pottery. It fired to a beautiful blue. The pieces had a mountain design on them. I bought some items as gifts, but unfortunately, I did not get anything for myself. We had some jars of the ash, but I don't know what happened to them when we moved to Texas. Annie >> This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume of >> steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption had [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > who has a small bit of ash from Mt St. Helens from when it exploded > last time. I just caught the new reports. Looks like it may be a bigger event than originally thought! > This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume of > steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption had been [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > I'm sitting at a shipping dock in Seattle getting ready to run down > Interstate 5 past Mt St Helens! It must be so scary to live in the USA. Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions My main complaint here in UK is that it rains too much and we never get a nice summer. Puts it in perspective. Tweed >It must be so scary to live in the USA. Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, >volcanic eruptions >My main complaint here in UK is that it rains too much and we never get a >nice summer. >Puts it in perspective. Well, if I remember my geography from school (oh so many years ago), the USA land mass is almost equal to Europe. SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html >Well, if I remember my geography from school (oh so many years ago), >the USA land mass is almost equal to Europe. But the UK is a little group of islands off the coast of mainland Europe. We are *tiny* Cheers, helen s --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune h*$el*$$e*nd**$o$ts**i*$*$m*m$o*n*s@$*a$o*l.c**$om$ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- >>Well, if I remember my geography from school (oh so many years ago), >>the USA land mass is almost equal to Europe. > >But the UK is a little group of islands off the coast of mainland Europe. We >are *tiny* Well, some one else made my point clearer than I did. The US is big enough that most people are a long long way from the vulcanos, tornados, hurricaines, and earthquakes. It helps that the population density here is much less than Europe, so when one of these natural events happens, chances are no one is in the area. Course, this isn't always true. Some people insist on living right on top of known earthquake faults or in the historic path of hurricaines. SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html >>>Well, if I remember my geography from school (oh so many years >>>ago), the USA land mass is almost equal to Europe. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >known >earthquake faults or in the historic path of hurricaines. Unfortunately, most of the Gulf and Atlantic coast qualifies as "in the historic path of hurricanes". The USA does have the world's highest rate of tornados, even when you adjust for the large size of the country. Someone in the world has to have the highest rate, and we are the "lucky" ones. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria >Unfortunately, most of the Gulf and Atlantic coast qualifies as "in >the historic path of hurricanes". > >The USA does have the world's highest rate of tornados, even when you >adjust for the large size of the country. Someone in the world has >to have the highest rate, and we are the "lucky" ones. Right on both counts. The problem with the hurracaines, as I understand it anyway, is the the population is booming right in those paths - especially in Florida which has really been slammed this year. Living here in SW Oklahoma, nicknamed Tornado Alley, I realize we have lots of tornados. Thankfully, most tornados still have wide open spaces to do their thing without causing nearly as much damage and suffering as they could. There are the exceptions, like the big one a few years ago which started just north of us here in Lawton and stayed on the ground until it reached Oklahoma City. Even that one spent most the time where there few people in the way. And when it reached the City it would have been much worse had it not lifted when it did. SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html > > This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume of > > steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption had been [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Tweed It really isn't for most of us most of the time. The news blows a lot of things out of proportion, and it really is quite a large country. Most of us have never been near one of those things in our lifetime. Jo >It must be so scary to live in the USA. Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, >volcanic eruptions >My main complaint here in UK is that it rains too much and we never get a >nice summer. >Puts it in perspective. Come to East Anglia Tweed, and you will find it's entirely possible to experience a tornado up-close-and-personal :-) The UK gets about 30 tornadoes per year. Whilst we don't get the biggies the States does, due to our smaller land mass, we have a higher density of them. I've seen a twister touch down in fields on the outskirts of King's Lynn and a *nasty* funnel cloud, really black, snake down out of a thunderstorm over Dereham. Thankfully it didn't touch down as that one was really nasty. It was scary. We also get quite a few dust devils across the fields during the hot summer months. Only last week a tornado went through the high street at Attleborough, damaging roofs of several buildings apparently. I watch the skies quite closely when we have thunderstorms build up... Having been a tad too close to even a small tornado makes you look at the skies in a new light. Of course, we also get earthquakes, but they do tend to be very minor ones, as we are in the middle of a tectonic plate, not on the edge of one, but we do have underground faults and they move from time to time. There's a lot to be said for living away from the edge of a tectonic plate! Thankfully, we don't have any active volcanoes, but we have had in the distant past. Hadrian's wall is built on the Whin Sill for quite a bit of its length, which is a lava intrusion between layers of sedimentary rock. As for hurricanes, we technically don't get them, but we do get some nasty Atlantic depressions which can have hurricane speed winds. This summer was not a good one, but the summer before was positively glorious in Norfolk - I was out on my bike nearly every day. I want one of those next summer :-) Cheers, helen s --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune h*$el*$$e*nd**$o$ts**i*$*$m*m$o*n*s@$*a$o*l.c**$om$ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- > This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume of > steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption had [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > I'm sitting at a shipping dock in Seattle getting ready to run down > Interstate 5 past Mt St Helens! Purrs forthcoming for all experiencing a little too much of nature's fury. Very impressive from a safe distance perhaps, but a volcanic erpution is really NOT something I want to see from too close a range. I remember that even three weeks after the original eruption, the sheer volume of volcanic ash over northern Oregon was pretty impressive--and scary. Melissa Purrs and best wishes, SignaturePolonca & Soncek > This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume of > steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption had > been preceded by a few weeks of seismic activity. <snip> But I think it would be appropriate to be > purring for the residents of the Pacific Northwest that MSH decides to > continue to behave herself. > > And this is not an entirely altruistic request - as I type this message > I'm sitting at a shipping dock in Seattle getting ready to run down > Interstate 5 past Mt St Helens! ... But I think it would be appropriate to be > purring for the residents of the Pacific Northwest that MSH decides to > continue to behave herself. > > And this is not an entirely altruistic request - as I type this message > I'm sitting at a shipping dock in Seattle getting ready to run down > Interstate 5 past Mt St Helens! Dan, I hope your trip went well. You probably don't have much to worry about unless the wind is blowing toward the west. We were in Eastern Washington in 1980, when the mountain really blew her stack. Even though we were about 250 miles away, we got some ash. It was the weirdest thing ever. This huge black wall of cloud come toward us from over the horizon. It was midafternoon when it got to our house, and it blotted out the sun and it was pitch black. The birds became silent, and pale gray ash drifted silently down like snow. I don't remember how long it took to pass by. The darkest part probably was less than a half-hour, but I could be wrong. Annie > ... But I think it would be appropriate to be >> purring for the residents of the Pacific Northwest that MSH decides [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > probably was less than a half-hour, but I could be wrong. > Annie ISTR The ash from the 1980 eruption was detectable in the atmosphere worldwide 2 years after the eruption. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. > We were in Eastern Washington in 1980, when the mountain really blew her > stack. Even though we were about 250 miles away, we got some ash. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I don't remember how long it took to pass by. The darkest part probably was > less than a half-hour, but I could be wrong. We were in Spokane, Washington, at the time and received that dark cloud from about 2 pm to sometime during the night. In the morning we had a half inch of ash on our back deck. I asked my MIL to get me a quart jar full if they get any in Lewiston, Idaho, this time. As I told her, I have a lot of science teachers that I work with. Pam S. who still donates a "little" ash to various schools. |
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