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Mount St. Helens Lets Off Some Steam

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the look-out-below dept.

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.

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  1. Well sheesh... by tekiegreg · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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    1. Re:Well sheesh... by MikeMacK · · Score: 5, Funny

      Slashdot is the pyroclastic flow of the Internet.

    2. Re:Well sheesh... by MikeMacK · · Score: 5, Funny
      Yeah, that fits - Fast moving, overwhelming, and if you're a server, generally fatal...

      And you forgot: generally filled with a lot of hot air.

  2. nothing to see here folks by crapnutassneck · · Score: 5, Informative

    watched it out my window here at work and it was nothing. my folks are 25mi from it and got no ash. still more to come.

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  3. Mt. St. Rongbad says by Bombcar · · Score: 5, Funny

    My mountain asplode!

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  4. Need an update by fluxrad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Any news yet on possible terrorist involvement?

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  5. All over? by SiliconEntity · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the Post-Intelligencer:
    Small earthquakes had been occurring continuously in the crater since Sept. 23. They grew steadily stronger, finally reaching a magnitude of 3.3 Thursday and Friday, but the earthquakes quit after the eruption, said University of Washington seismologist Tony Qamar.

    "That makes us think this is the end of the eruption," Qamar said. "All this buildup was leading to that relatively small eruption."
    1. Re:All over? by cdrudge · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

  6. It reminds me... by IronChefMorimoto · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    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... ...fart rather loudly a few times and drop a turd the size of a peanut into the commode.

    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

  7. Bush accuses God of wielding WMDs by dygituljunky · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  8. neat-o by recharged95 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Geologically, this is fascinating. For the last few weeks, high concentration of hurricanes (on both coasts), a few earthquakes (on both coasts), now dual volcano events. I wonder if the collection and fusion of all this data is gonna identify that some global event happened within the environment?

    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?

    1. Re:neat-o by Jormundgandr · · Score: 5, Funny

      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?

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