So it is a good day to show you some of the pictures of Mt. St. Helens I have been collecting.
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And here are the web cameras, if you want to look for yourself. You have four choices, high and low resolution, with and without Java. All the pictures above are low resolution. The view sometimes changes very quickly, especially at sunrise, so you may want to refresh it frequently.
The web cameras do not show you the Crater Glacier. (I've found that the higher resolution pictures of the glacier make reasonable prints, by the way.) And if you work for Washington state, remember to call it the Tulutson Glacier.
Cross posted at Jim Miller on Politics.
Posted by Jim Miller at May 18, 2009 01:46 PM | Email ThisI especially like the photo of the giant mutant insect climbing the crater wall. That thing must be two or three hundred feet long!
Posted by: MSL on May 18, 2009 04:58 PM
I did not hear any blast as was reported from as far away as Vancouver B.C. In fact I did not hear a thing other than a low rumble as the north side erupted and then the entire top of the mountain blew off and I was standing right there watching the whole thing.
My friend, Bill Jackson, took quite a few photographs as the eruption progressed. They were widely published at the time. Oh and by the way, the bass started hitting anything you threw into the water as soon as the eruption started, we were planning to hangout and fish but the State Patrol gave us the bums rush. We got across the Toutle River Bridge right before they closed it and headed home.
A couple weeks later I was shooting rock chucks in eastern Washington and got caught in the ash cloud that resulted from the second major eruption.
I was a few miles east of Silver Lake (by Everett) when she lit off. I heard the rumble there quite distinctly. I always wondered how it could be heard so far north and figured that the geography from there to the mountain must have been very conducive to transmission.
Not as exciting as JDH but that's all I got man.
Posted by: G Jiggy on May 19, 2009 04:29 PMSpent a lot of time there as a boy, rented boats from Harry. Knew a couple that were blown to smithereens at Fawn Lake. Remembered how the national media lied about them having been in the red zone. They were camping well outside the red zone.
Had this happened on a week day, there would have been several times more deaths, as the surrounding woods would have been busy with logging operations.
Posted by: JoeBandMember on May 19, 2009 09:10 PMAmazing, I thought that with Global Warming, every single glacier was shrinking?
Posted by: Anon y mouse on May 20, 2009 03:10 PM