[Gaffer]

I remember it well. That was the volcano Democrats and experts were saying it would take ‘generations’ from which to recover. Vast quantities of money would be needed for government to fix it.

Untold devastation and protracted misery that somehow was implied to be the fault of Freon gas (or whatever other bugaboo product econuts and pandering Democrat politicians were against at the time).

Perhaps someone here could post some pictures of Present Day Mt. St. Helens and surrounding.
I also seem to remember some three or four years hence a news report about how miraculously mother nature was rebounding from that implied manmade catastrophe - I remember the reporter’s exasperation at the indignity of having to report that, too. {don’t fear, they’ve since dispensed with guilty scruples like that}

[Blood of Tyrants]

Spirit Lake filled with alternating layers of ash and trees. The trees have compacted and formed the basis for coal. Give it another hundred years and it will be coal.

[Old Sarge]

I remember the reporter’s exasperation at the indignity of having to report that, too. {don’t fear, they’ve since dispensed with guilty scruples like that}

No kidding...

[Red Badger]

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/