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[Neville Roberts]

with the disaster in iceland iit looks like we need a couple of trans atlantic liners back in service, hows things in UK . I remember the Mount st Helens blowing up in the cascades western Us ,Iwas in NY at the time and about 3 days after it my cars were covered in fine grey dust from it , 3000 miles away

[Captain Kong]

In 1980 when St HELENS blew, my car over here was covered in the grey dust about a week later nearly 8000 miles away. In August 1990 I went to stay in Seattle, Washington State, with my son who was living there at the time, We had a trip up St Helens, the whole place looked like a nuclear hlocaust, 200 square miles of devestation,All the trees in the forests were flattened like millions of matchsticks all lying in the same direction away from the volcano. The scenery was grey with the ash for miles. I spoke to a lady who was a farmer down the hill and she said the day turned into total blackness even with high intensity lights they could see nothing, just black. The ash/ dust was 8 feet deep outside the door, she lost all her cattle.The lake opposite the Mount was just full of dead trees and on the cliff face was a tide mark 800 feet high where the blast had made a huge wave
The blast removed 1300 feet from the height of the mountain even tho` it blew sideways
The photo taken in 1990 ten years later still shows the devestation, Where I am stood was once a great forest.
It is still smoking, it has had a few blasts since out of the dome that is biulding up inside the crater, the dome is over one mile wide

[happy daze john in oz]

Saw some figures a few years back that said the eruption of Mount St Helens put more crap into the atmosphere than China could in ten years from its polutions.