[Diana in Wisconsin]

For all the devastation, it only lost about a thousand feet of elevation.

I was living in southern CA at the time, working for a ceramics company. A few of our guys that made our ceramic 'slips' and color washes drove up there and collected a bunch of ash from the explosion. It made the most gorgeous shade of blue pigment you'd ever want to see. Wish I still had the ceramic pieces I made with it. :(

[Red Badger]

Just remember, there is no such thing as an ‘extinct’ volcano................