Mt. St. Helens ..

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

Just puttering around with one of my test shows and noticed that
one of my favorite links (the volcano cam at mt. St. Helens) had
a series of pictures over the past little while. Grabbed them and
stuck them in the test show. Kinda cool (or hot as the case may
be). You remember Mt. St. Helens ?? 20+ years ago the top went
away ... somewhere else -- this is from their live camera they have
that lets us see what it is up to at any given time. That is either
smoke or steam from the new dome in the center

http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewsho ... 0956&alb=0

(the camera is at http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/ )

mikey

[alcain Profile Private messageWebsite]

Mikey,

Pack your bags and grab your Fluke HVAC Pro! We've got to climb that mountain and take some temperature readings! I'll stay on top and let you decend into the crater to get the close up readings...

~al

ps... that was a fun show!

[debngar Profile Private message]

Not that I'd want to see that erupt again but it would be cool to have a series of images in a show while it was blowing it's stack.

Don't know which is worse, living close to that or the chance of earthquakes living here in CA. LOL

Debbie

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

I'm maybe 2 hours north of St. Helens - the strange thing is that when it
went, the ash went everywhere --- except here (most of it went
Northeast through (and all over) Eastern Washington then on across the
country. My sister in law was in Yakima (Eastern Washington) that day
and it turned into midnight over there -- she was stuck there for 3 or 4
days if I remember correctly. If you drive around on the North side,
there is a road that goes up "Windy Ridge" and looks right into the
open face of the mountain (looking at the start menu for my little show,
the road goes up just under where the Photodex logo is). Pumice all
over up there.

mikey

[hardsoftware Profile Private message]

Yea, May 18, 1980 she blew. We got some ash over here in New Mexico. My brand new Toyota PU had what I thought was dust on it. I rinsed it off only to have it return within an hour. Scratched my windshield up pretty good when I turned on the wipers.

Ben

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

Yep - that volcanic dust is really nasty stuff -- most people don't
know (or care) the difference between regular dust and volcanic
dust, but there is a BIG difference. Regular dust is usually from
grinding regular dirt/rocks/stuff under tires etc. It becomes very
fine and round because of the grinding/rubbing motion. Volcanic
dust comes from the explosion and as such has not had a chance
to get the edges rounded off -- sort of like the difference between
a piece of broken glass from the bottle you just dropped on the
floor and the piece of glass you find on the beach that has been
ground down by the sand. It is particularly bad for aircraft
engines - it gets in the front seal and grinds a groove in the front
of the crankshaft (you know -- where the propeller is held on )

mikey