Most of volcanos victims were in supposed safe areas(Jimmy Carter lied and people died)

The Associated Press ^ | May 18th, 2005 | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Bump.

[lepton]

If there's one thing Jimmah doesn't owe an apology for it's volcano deaths.

Not the deaths themselves, but for his slanderous remarks later.

[Right Wing Assault]

Are my eyes going bad or am I seeing an AP story criticizing Jimmah?

I think we should use the 'nook-yuh-ler' option on Jimmah.

And they say W is stupid because he pronounces it funny, but they never noticed Jimmah, supposedly a 'nook-yuh-ler' engineer of some sort, has been saying it wrong for the last 100 years.

[crazyhorse691]

On a side note, 4 timber camps were destroyed that day, but, because it was a Sunday no loggers were present. Just 24 hours later there would have been a couple hundred men in the forest. And, lets not forget about another hundred or so property owners around Spirit Lake that had received permission to remove their property that following week. Heck, the TV Guide for that week even featured an advertisement for Touttle River home sites(the Touttle river was the one that washed out all those bridges and closed the Columbia River because of debris)

[Right Wing Assault]

Oops! No, I guess the article itself doesn't really criticize Carter.

[crazyhorse691]

No one predicted that the volcano would blow out sideways.

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The rumblings had been going on since march 13(?) of that year and just about every geologist stepping off a plane was giving out predictions before they had even seen the mountain. Up until the second it blew, the whole thing was being treated as a harmless carnival sideshow. The mt. blowing its top scenario was becoming less popular as days passed with nothing happening.

[csmusaret]

I was up there a couple of days ago. I don't believe anyone could have predicted the magnitude of that eruption. 14 miles of rock and ash 185 feet deep.The power of 27,000 Hiroshima sized bombs unleashed in a matter of seconds. It was totally awesome and totally unpredictable as far as I am concerned.

[Wicket]

I think it's obnoxious that the victims were blamed for being in the wrong place. That said, geology happens. Down in the Bishop area in CA, I understand that volcano experts believed the mountain would blow and lots of actions were taken because of it. It hasn't, at least, not yet.

Scientists have few clues as to when a volcano or an earthquake will strike, or how extensive it will be.

It's amazing that more folks weren't killed given the power of the eruption.

And, "the government owes me an apology", frequently in vogue for Japanese internment, slavery, Indians' loss of "their land", etc. is just asinine IMHO. Poop happens - get over it.

As someone else mentioned, Yellowstone is a ticking bomb - problem is the date of a new eruption is completely unpredictable - tomorrow, 2 hundred years, 2 thousand years. If the government closed Yellowstone because of the danger, and there is danger far outside the boundaries of the park, they'd never hear the end of it.

[Verginius Rufus]

Didn't the governor encourage Harry Truman to stay put?

[conservative cat]

My husbands parents took him and his brother to Mt. St. Helens a few times when it was under warning (in supposedly safe places.) If it had blown, they would have been killed. I do think his particular parents are idiots, though...

[VeniVidiVici]

It would be the same thing as those insane tornado chasers suing the weather service for not warning them exactly where the tornado would break.

Agreed. Most of these folks who died in the shadow of Mount St Helens are Darwin Award nominees.

I like violent weather. Whether sticking out hurricanes or looking for tornados, the windier the better.

Maybe I'll try suing the government for not correctly predicting where Hurricane Charlie made landfall last year.