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Mt Rainier had some rumbling a couple of months ago but not too much. Maybe the two mountains are on the same tectonic (sp?) plates and hence the reason for both activities.

We have a friend in the Orting area and my husband asked him about evacuation plans if Rainier goes and he said the authorities know they can't get everyone out of there. I see Rainier out my windows and I love to look at it. I hope it doesn't act up in my lifetime, and no lives are endangered.

Yes, both of the mountains are above the same subduction zone. The Juan de Fuca plate is sliding under the North American one, and the Cascades are basically above the region where that plate becomes molten below us. That's why that last big quake here was so deep - thankfully. The Olympics are their own plate, but I'm not certain about the mechanics of that.

I'm fairly convinced that your hope about Ranier will not end up true.

Literally, all hell is going to break loose all around the planet in our lifetime.

The evidence has been building overwhelmingly for decades.

The fact that many don't see it is 0.000% comfort to me.

Thankfully, God is the GOD OF ALL COMFORT as the book title says.

Cheers.

We have a friend in the Orting area and my husband asked him about evacuation plans if Rainier goes and he said the authorities know they can't get everyone out of there.

Maybe Pierce Brosnan can drive up the mountain in a Yukon and get them all out in an aluminum boat that disintegrates from the acidic waters.

I see Rainier out my windows and I love to look at it. I hope it doesn't act up in my lifetime, and no lives are endangered.

I can see Rainier from the windows at work. I am new to all this and reeeally don't want to see either one of them act up. However, we were getting our emergency volcano eruption supplies (they give them to us at work) in place yesterday.

Now that I think about it, is it too weird to start carrying my own home emergency face mask in my back pack in case I have to walk home in falling ash?

We have a friend in the Orting area and my husband asked him about evacuation plans if Rainier goes and he said the authorities know they can't get everyone out of there.

There are other posts about this on the thread, but I'm not sure if anyone replied directly to you. The summit of Rainier is constantly being dissolved by volcanic gases, and it occasionally "slumps" due to the instability of the summit, releasing a debris/mudflow. Big ones could race down the mountain and get to Electron, Orting, Enumclaw and other locales (see the maps that are on this thread) quite quickly, and there would be little advance warning. This is a concern.

If Rainier became volcanically active again, there is a strong likelihood that there would be a decent period of time of build-up to eruption before it actually erupted. Volcanologists now have a considerably body of experience with study of the eruptions of St. Helens and Pinatubo to know what to look for, and also to know if what they're seeing means a minor, moderate, or major eruption is in the offing. So they're would probably be sufficient time to evacuate in the event of an eruption. Of course, the people would have to be willing to evacuate.