Understood.
Be careful out your way.
I thought Mt. Ranier was the one they figured would go next?
RDL mentions it in post 14.
Just stay safe out there, keep yer heads down if you have to.
I keep hoping to see Rainier go for the spectacle of it, but it's not active.... If it was, it would be much more damaging.
Remember all that choking gorp that filled the streets of New York after the towers collapsed? St. Helens' expulsions were much worse. I lived far enough north of St. Helens, in south Seattle, when it blew in 1980 that I just got the fallout of the fallout, while the winds took the ash largerly east and south (although the ash rolled over Olympia in heavy quantities). It was absolutely appalling, no sunlight, cars couldn't be driven, etc. When the towers fell, it brought back some memories. The noise of the eruption was a shock coming out of "nowhere" -- never heard another sound to equal it.