Mount St. Helens Lets Off Some Steam 342
jdray writes "The cube farm is all a twitter right now, as Mt. St. Helens is spewing out a steam plume, and you can see if from our building. The cam for the volcano seems to be down, but we just saw a news helicopter from KATU, one of our local news stations, headed that direction. They should have some content up shortly." Other readers suggest: KOIN, KOIN webcams, Kiro TV, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, or CNN.
Well sheesh... (Score:5, Funny)
Be polite and say "God Bless you" and move on....nothing to see here...
Re:Exit Here (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Exit Here (Score:2)
"Naw, it just plugs up the hole."
Re:Well sheesh... (Score:5, Funny)
The cam for the volcano seems to be down...
Yeah, and if it wasn't down because it got pyroclastic-flow-dotted or flash-steam-dotted before he posted this story, it's certainly been slash-dotted to oblivion by now...
Re:Well sheesh... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well sheesh... (Score:2)
Re:Well sheesh... (Score:5, Funny)
And you forgot: generally filled with a lot of hot air.
Re:Well sheesh... (Score:2)
Re:Well sheesh... (Score:2)
Re:tekiegreg, you are bound by law to stand down (Score:3, Funny)
Re:tekiegreg, you are bound by law to stand down (Score:5, Funny)
"Here, have a tissue."
Re:tekiegreg, you are bound by law to stand down (Score:2)
Actually, that should be (Score:2)
Re:tekiegreg, you are bound by law to stand down (Score:2, Funny)
-Mark
Re:tekiegreg, you are bound by law to stand down (Score:2)
How you assume! My universe is guided by no-one, you insensitive clod!
Re:tekiegreg, you are bound by law to stand down (Score:3, Funny)
(with due acknowledgement to the late R. Zelazny)
Re:tekiegreg, you are bound by law to stand down (Score:3, Funny)
The appropriate non-demoninational response to a sneeze is "You're SOOO good looking."
Mount St. Helens, you're sooo good looking.
Re:tekiegreg, you are bound by law to stand down (Score:5, Funny)
Really? And here I was all along thinking it meant the opposite of "comes out loose".
Re:tekiegreg, you are bound by law to stand down (Score:2)
Thanks for the friday laugh!
Re:tekiegreg, you are bound by law to stand down (Score:3, Funny)
The Separation of Church and Slashdot (Score:2)
Slashdot readers shall make no guidelines respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
That's how it reads, isn't it?
Where was the kaboom? (Score:5, Funny)
Kaboom (Score:3, Funny)
? Iludium Pu-36 Space Modulator Missing at Line 335 [chuckjones.com]
Here ya go (Score:2)
nothing to see here folks (Score:5, Informative)
Eruption (Score:5, Interesting)
I haven't been up there but did hike up Lassen Peak in 2000. Much of that area is still bare from the eruptions that occurred around 1915.
good for the soil (Score:2)
Re:nothing to see here folks (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:nothing to see here folks (Score:2, Insightful)
All Things Considered, September 30, 2004. Researchers upgrade the chance of a mild to moderate volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens to 70 percent -- possibly within the next few days.
. . . and . . .
Day to Day, September 30, 2004 Scientists in Washington state are predicting an eruption of the Mount St. Helens volcano in the next few days. NPR's Noah Adams talks with Dan Dzurisin of the U.S. Geologic Survey about th
Mt. St. Rongbad says (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mt. St. Rongbad says (Score:2)
Giant Fly Emerges! (Score:3, Funny)
VolcanoCam (Score:3, Informative)
Now that the link is front and center on
It sure looks (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:It sure looks (Score:4, Interesting)
For comparison, look at These pics [und.edu] of a volcano in Japan I used to live near. The pics show ash not steam, so it's a different color but you get the idea. The ash cloud would regularly blanket the nearby cities like a fog, and settle on everything. Keep in mind there was a major city across the bay about 3km away, about as far as Bremerton is from Seattle.
I'm suprised that a volcano like St. Helens only does that much ash and steam, to be honest.
Re:It sure looks (Score:2)
Video of the "eruption" (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Video of the "eruption" (Score:4, Informative)
Vocanoworld (Score:2)
or for some kid related information, great if you have young ones asking about Mt. St helens, head on over to VolcanoWorld [und.edu]
Try this: (Score:2)
Re:Vocanoworld (Score:2, Informative)
They've had their helicopter over the mountain for about 40 minutes now with a live feed, and have had some good shots of inside the volcano crater, looking at the hole that was created from the blast.
Need an update (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Need an update (Score:3, Funny)
"My fellow Americans, thankfully, Poland was here to help us because the volcano, much like Kerry, flip-flopped on if this was a good, honest eruption or just some venting".
The new "All your base" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The new "All your base" (Score:2)
Re:The new "All your base" (Score:2)
Bush accuses God of wielding WMDs (Score:5, Funny)
Theres one in Mexico also. (Score:5, Interesting)
KABLOOEY!
Re:Theres one in Mexico also. (Score:2)
In related news (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In related news (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In related news (Score:2, Funny)
All over? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:All over? (Score:5, Funny)
All the US Geological Service people or whoever monitors all this stuff is going to pack up soon, leaving behind one middle age man who wants to go out with the town mayor. Pretty soon they are going to start drinking sulfer water, find naked skinny dippers floating in boiling water, and ultimately drive a truck into an abandoned mine shaft that will amazingly suffer no damage other then a colapsed mine shaft from the volcanic explosion. Thanks to NASA and their radio signal that has absolutely no problem penetrating solid rock, everyone will be fine with the exception of our hero's right arm snapped in two.
Re:All over? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:All over? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:All over? (Score:5, Funny)
My wife read that over my shoulder, patted my head and snickered. Then I read your response, with her still there.
There's a sexual joke to be made there, but I just can't get the bat off my shoulder.
*Snicker* The smack in the head was worth it.
Soko
It reminds me... (Score:5, Funny)
You go out to lunch, come back, and go to a meeting. During the whole meeting, your stomach is growling in such a horrible way as to sound like you've shit your britches. People look at you, and boss asks, embarrassingly, if you have to leave the meeting. You say, redfaced, "I'm OK, and plod through the rest of the meeting while your co-workers roll their chairs a little farther away from you."
At the end of the meeting, you rush to the bathroom, which everyone giggles about as they see you make the mad dash, lock the door, drop your trousers, and sit down for what you think will be mother of all bowel movements. And then you...
All that buildup and embarrassment for...a single tiny turd.
Looks like the other mountains in the area laughed at Mt. St. Helen's before she popped her piddly piddle today.
IronChefMorimoto
Re:It reminds me... (Score:3, Funny)
Stock up on pantyhose (Score:5, Interesting)
I live a couple hours south of Portland and we got only a light dusting after the first eruption. My wife lived further north and was cleaning ash off of cars for days.
Re:Stock up on pantyhose (Score:2)
...and snow boots, and shovels, and... (Score:2, Interesting)
Sorry...my bad (Score:4, Funny)
Sorry to get all your panties in a bunch...
webcam (Score:5, Funny)
So clearly by putting a link to it on the
From first hand account (Score:2, Interesting)
the camera is back (Score:2)
neat-o (Score:5, Interesting)
The past may have had extreme natural events similarly, but were they so "focused" like in the last 3 months?
Maybe the earth had to reboot itself due to some Y2K issue?
Re:neat-o (Score:5, Funny)
Re:neat-o (Score:4, Informative)
Not quite [snopes.com].
Re:neat-o (Score:2, Insightful)
Or, as I like to say: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:neat-o (Score:2)
Keep in mind that hurricanes fall under meteorology, not geology.
I guess I missed the earthquake news on the East Coast, I'm not sure what you mean.
KING 5 streaming live helicopter video (Score:2, Informative)
This isn't it (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:This isn't it (Score:3, Funny)
ahh the Simpsons, couldn't help myself.
Re:If we're lucky... (Score:3, Insightful)
The rest of cali is worlds better.
Re:If we're lucky... (Score:2)
Re:This isn't it (Score:2, Interesting)
Japan's earthquakes and volcanoes are part of the Pacific plate's subduction zone.
California has earthquakes because of the pacific plate sliding along the north american plate (heading up toward Japan...).
The pacific northwest has volcanoes and earthquakes because it's the subduction zone for the plate of Juan de Fuca.
Hawaii, however, is in the middle of the pacific plate. Like Yellowstone, it's just a small place with some volcanic activity unrelated to plate tecton
Ok (Score:5, Funny)
Who Was St. Helens? (Score:3, Informative)
Good to see the system work (Score:3, Insightful)
If people in the Ring of Fire areas get as much lead time as people in Florida do about hurricanes, there should be no reason for a large amount of fatalities due to predictable volcanic activity... except maybe that Tacoma doesn't have an evacuation plan in case Mt. Ranier goes. I'm not sure what the probability is of unpredictable, sudden, catatsrophic volcanic activity, though.
What if... (Score:2)
Just curious is all....
Viewable from the office? (Score:2)
[insert nutty mad scientist voice]
HAHAHAHA!!! TWITTER WHILE YOU CAN, MONKEYBOY!!!
For soon, you will be made DEAD by the evil Evil EVIL PYROCLASTIC FLOW that will DO MY BIDDING and slaughter all of you chortling little fools in your pathetic little weepy office buildings!
JUSTICE WILL BE MINE!!!! MINE!!! MINE I TELL YOU!!!
[/nutty voice]
RS
I remember that as a child (Score:2)
We moved May of 1981. About a week after the eruptions, and my first impression of Washington was ash gray. Ash gray everywhere, like snowflakes that refused to melt. You'd sweep it off the porch, maybe if you were unlucky shovel it away. Eventually, it dissolved and the rains of Washington car
Love those TV Reporters (Score:2)
Heard that while watching this video link from KATU:
easylink.playstream.com/katu [playstream.com]
Just remember... (Score:2)
Cheers,
Richard
Mount Hood next? (Score:4, Insightful)
Mount Hood is awfully big. Obviously, it'd depend on the size of the explosion, but the potential exists for something that would make Mount St. Helen's 1980 event look like something mild.
Despite comments by other posters on this, before, I can't help but feel that the Cascades affect each other. Even if there is no direct connection, the mere proximity means that the internal structure of each volcano may be affected by earthquakes caused by the others.
Mount Hood hasn't (so far) had a major increase in pressure build-up. However, isn't it within the realms of possibility that the Mount St. Helens quakes may block vents, compress the magma, etc? Sure, the shock waves haven't been big (so far), but that's relative. It might not take a whole lot to set Mount Hood off.
The Cascades are part of the so-called "Ring of Fire", which is a massive chain of volcanos. KATU talked about it having 3/4s of all the volcanos on Earth. That's a lot. I don't know if this Mexican volcano that's also gone off is also part of the Ring, but if it is, I (for one) would be very much in favour of increased monitoring over the whole of the Ring. Things seem a little too active, right now, and it probably isn't sensible to just sit back and wait.
Even if the probability of any further eruptions in the near future are extremely low, and even if the probability of either of these events triggering further volcanic activity elsewhere is minimal, it might be prudent to make sure of that.
Living downtown Portland (Score:3, Funny)
Re:We're all gonna die! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Mild volcanic event happens on volcano (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Mild volcanic event happens on volcano (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Mild volcanic event happens on volcano (Score:3, Informative)
First, it is a few hours drive from a major city (Seattle), and even then population density in the Seattle area is well below that of any place south of San Francisco on the California coast or north of Arlington, on the Eastern seaboard, all the way to Boston or so.
Re:Mild volcanic event happens on volcano (Score:2)
Re:Mild volcanic event happens on volcano (Score:2, Informative)
Mt. Hood and Mt. Rainier are, however.
And then there is the area around Yellowstone Park.
Probably not as big (Score:3, Insightful)
Death toll? (Score:2)
Natural selection (Score:2)
Hey, natural selection might not work very well for the human race anymore, but it doesn't mean it is non-existent.
Re:The real truth (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Where's Duke Nukem at a time like this? (Score:2)
Re:Please let this die! (Score:3, Insightful)
No one is panicking, it is just kinda cool. Of course I also think it is neat when it rains, and I like lightning storms and even forest fires... Even the recent hurricaines I found fascinating. If you don't like it, don't read!