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Mount St. Helens Lets Off Some Steam
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.
It just looked like it needed to sneeze....I mean if you had that much dirt building up in your crater you'd have to as well...
Be polite and say "God Bless you" and move on....nothing to see here...
...in bed
There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
My mountain asplode!
Fellowship 9/11
Any news yet on possible terrorist involvement?
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
President Bush vows to find the terrorists responsible for blowing up Mt. St. Helen
This big buildup to a little eruption reminds of me of how I feel when I eat something that might disagree with me more than it actually did.
...fart rather loudly a few times and drop a turd the size of a peanut into the commode.
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
This is Slashdot, you're not allowed to say God here unless it's associated with an epithet or you're railing against his followers.
Yeah the server running the cam will make a bigger crater and kaboom than the volcano.
Sorry to get all your panties in a bunch...
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
You forgot Poland. I fear it is just the beginning.
Wars, rumors of wars, angry volcanos, swarms of locusts, and more.
It's not long before the alien bastards from Mars or Hell find their way into our world.
Where is Duke Nukem in all this? Save us Duke Nukem, save us Forever!
I for one welcome the impending arrival of our underworld dwelling overlords.... (someone had to say it)
Um hello. Haven't you ever seen Dante's Peak?
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.
BREAKING NEWS: With the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, US President George W. Bush accused God of attacking the United States with multiple WMDs over the course of the summer. Bush counted several hurricanes, numerous tornadoes and thunderstorms, floods, and the recent earthquake in southern California as examples of God's terrorist activity. Bush said that the threats of detonating Mt. St. Helens in Washington and another volcano in Hawaii signalled great threats to national security. Bush said that his administration would immediately begin searching for God's forces "on the ground" so that the US might be able to fight back. A spokesman for the Vatican said that the Pope was preparing a statement in response to Bush's grevious threats. When asked what she thought of Bush's reponse to the eruption, a spokeswoman for the USGS simply shook her head, blushed, and asked for the next question. Bush tried to use the simultaneous eruption of a Mexican volcano to garner Mexican support for the War on Terror. The Mexican ambassador to the US said "Bush is loco. Muy, muy loco." No members of Bush's inner circle could be reached for comment.
The cam for the volcano seems to be down
/. front page we can bring it back up.
So clearly by putting a link to it on the
I stole this Sig
"That makes us think this is the end of the eruption," Qamar said. "All this buildup was leading to that relatively small eruption."
I realy need to get my mind out of the gutter. I read that and thought, "Maybe the volcano was just nervous."
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A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
So when do we start throwing the virgins in? ... I think some Slashdotters better watch out o_O.
So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
"That makes us think this is the end of the eruption," Qamar said. "All this buildup was leading to that relatively small eruption."
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
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
Did you see that map of 2000 election results in Florida superimposed on the last 3 hurricanes' paths? Avoiding democratic counties? Now the conservative interior of Washington state is going to be covered with ash? What does heaven have to do to get us to vote Kerry? Break out the locusts?
-sig removed for tax purposes-
"Would you say its time to crack eachothers heads open and feast on the goo inside?"
ahh the Simpsons, couldn't help myself.
sweet, now I don't have to watch the movie, I can just drive down and watch it live
"Chances are, unlikely things will happen."
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
If you try it, agents from the MPAA will shoot you down like a dog, you copyright pirate terrorist!
Its Friday. Be nice. ;)
A man flying in a hot air balloon realizes that he is lost, so he reduces his altitude and spots a man on the ground down below. Lowering the balloon a little further, the balloonist shouts "Excuse me Sir! But can you help me? I promised my friend that I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am!" The man on the ground replies, "Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering at approximately 30 feet. You are between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude, and between 58 and 59 degrees west longitude." "You must be a geologist," says the balloonist. "Why, yes I am," replies the man on the ground. "How on earth did you know?" "Well", says the balloonist, "Everything you have told me is well described. It is also technically and geographically accurate. However, I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact of the matter is I have spent much valuable time conversing with you and I am still lost. Furthermore, I will not be able to make my appointment now." The geologist below nods his head and says, "You must be a manager in an oil company." "Why, yes I am," replies the balloonist, "But how did you guess that?" "Well," says the geologist, "You have no idea where you are or where you are going. Also, you have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem for you. The real fact of the matter is that you are in exactly the same position now as what you were in before we met, yet now your predicament has somehow become my fault."
One more:
Here in California, when a bridge falls down, we know it must be San Andreas' Fault!
Hahahaha!! Sheer comic genius!
I for one welcome our Volcanic OverLords, as a matter of fact I am rounding up virgins for the volcano right now. Any interested parties should meet me tonight at the base of St. Helens were we can discuss further details concerning your last swan dive.
If we don't make light of everything, we are just stumbling in the dark - Blank