Mount St Helens steam cloud (Update: Second eruption imminent; area evacuation reported)

Siegfried

[Siegfried]

Steam cloud just spotted -- Noon PDT from Mount St. Helens

More when I get some news over news feeds

[shield]

After watching that debate last night. Mt. St. Helen got steamed and she is blowing it off now. ;o) She thought skerry was an elitist creep and a pure jerk-off. She's letting us all know today...just how she's feeling. She is feeling like many of us Freepers...steamed and blowing it off.

[Salvation]

Thanks, Mr. Atos

I am looking for a posted picture right now.

[SunkenCiv]

D***. Nice shot.

[Strategerist]

There was a helicopter flying a USGS IR sensor near the mountain. CNN is showing a helicopter landing which I suspect was that helicopter.

[kruelio]

Yeah. She's upset that John Kerry lied several times during the debate last night.

[Howlin]

A guy on CNN says this doesn't involve lava -- yet.

[mabelkitty]

That's what I'm thinking, based on the the activity I am seeing and the people who are talking.
The smoke is starting to clear.......

[snopercod]

"The file you requested is temporarily unavailable. Please check back in a few minutes."

Nuts...

[Soul Seeker]

LOL!!! It's Rove's fault! The evil mastermind had this planned all along. These natural disasters are the October Surprise.

[Horatio Gates]

Ping

[Salvation]

Thanks!

[Izzy Dunne]

I suppose the old-timers around here will appreciate an

ASH ALERT

[mewzilla]

Anthropomorphizing, I'm imagining the ol' girl daintily covering her crater and saying Oh, excuse me!</>

[Salvation]

From koin.com

Mount St. Helens Erupts

More than a week after a flurry of earthquakes began -- warning that an eruption was on the way -- the volcano today released a thick plume of white steam.


Scientists aren't expecting anything nearly as powerful as the 1980 eruption that blew the top off the mountain and killed 57 people.

[Atlas Sneezed]

[mabelkitty]

Why the heck not??
I question the timing!
Bush did it!
We can't afford this volcano!
The volcano is a quagmire, and the President is too stubborn to admit it!
President Bush is out of touch with the eruption!
The tax cuts for the rich caused this volcano!
We can't fight the war on terrorism and have a volcano at the same time!
I was for the volcano before I was against it!
I have one position on the volcano!

[Orion78]

[The KG9 Kid]

:-\

[rdl6989]

Did they say a helicopter missing.
Fox showed an angle that showed what looked like the lava dome still intact. the eruption appeared to be comming from next to the dome near its base in the crater.

[frithguild]

It's Bush's fault.