{"id":58,"date":"2004-05-18T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2004-05-18T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2004-05-19T02:00:16","slug":"blast-from-the-past-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/18\/blast-from-the-past-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past &#8211; literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/gpnf\/mshnvm\/\">Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument<\/a> webpage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At 8:32 Sunday morning, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted.<\/p>\n<p>Shaken by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, the north face of this tall symmetrical mountain collapsed in a massive rock debris avalanche. Nearly 230 square miles of forest was blown over or left dead and standing. At the same time a mushroom-shaped column of ash rose thousands of feet skyward and drifted downwind, turning day into night as dark, gray ash fell over eastern Washington and beyond. The eruption lasted 9 hours, but Mount St. Helens and the surrounding landscape were dramatically changed within moments. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, that was 24 years ago today, and I remember it pretty well. I was  living in Grants Pass at the time, still in gradeschool. We of course watched the news about it, and were fascinated by nature&#8217;s fury, but it became more real the next morning when we discovered nearly an inch of ash had fallen overnight, turning the city into a grim parody of a winter wonderland. <\/p>\n<p>Put a whole new perspective on learning about Pompeii, lemme tellya.<\/p>\n<p>This was not the first natural disaster I had near-personal experience with. Just a couple years prior to St. Helen&#8217;s eruption, my family had to be evacuated from our home in rural Oregon due to forest fire. I still get twitchy whenever I see the sky turn a particular shade of red.<\/p>\n<p>I guess they call it the Ring of Fire for a reason, eh?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from the Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument webpage: At 8:32 Sunday morning, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted. Shaken by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/18\/blast-from-the-past-literally\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscelleny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}