27 years ago today

[Dinsdale]

Mountain go "BOOM" right before our very eyes.




At this very moment --

[indyfrisco]

And 31 years ago today, I was born. My birthday wish is to play a complete round tomorrow without seeing any coons or Mexican Buttfuckers.

[Goober McTuber]

And 31 years ago today, I was born. My birthday wish is to play a complete round tomorrow without seeing any coons or Mexican Buttfuckers.

mvscal plays at your course?

[Dinsdale]

Since everyone is a transplant, they don't realize that an entire range of hills (that's "a really huge mountain range" to Midwesterners) was built alongside I-5 to get rid of the shit. Battalions of heavy equipment worked on it for literally years and years. Looked like --





But after 20+ years, it no longer big mounds of grey ash, and is mostly covered with vegitation.


A 600 foot wall of boiling water and ash coming straight at you would suck...for a few seconds...then you're no longer worried about it. Killed everyone in the upper Toutle Valley, which was very sparsely populated. Buncha inbreds in trailers in SW Washington, anyway...Darwin was taking out the trash.

[Dinsdale]

That was a cool one, from about 3 months later. Watching the mountain spew became the #1 spectator sport in the Portland area for a few months.

[Wolfman]

question:

don't the folks in Portland, courteous drivers that they are, worry just a little bit about Mt. Hood ??

[Dinsdale]

question:

don't the folks in Portland, courteous drivers that they are, worry just a little bit about Mt. Hood ??

Not oner person I know does, including those who own cabins and spend good chunks of the year there.

Probably for 2 reasons -- Because the odds of some big eruption happening any time soon are slim, and the odds that it would happen without plenty of warning are about nil...on paper, anyway.


And for us Originals, we made it through the last one fairly well. Sure, we're upwind and upstream from St Helens, and sitting right under Hood, and Hood has wayway bigger glaciers, but BFD.


The geologists tell us explosive eruptions of Hood are rare. And on paper, the last eruption was just finishing up with the lava dome when Lewis and Clark srtolled by, so theoretically, it's not due for awhile. Theoretically, anyway.

Other side of the coin, when St Helens boiled its glaciers, there was a couplefew dozen people in the very small valley below the side of the mountain that gave way. Hood is a whole different story, and there's a shitload of people living in the vallies that would drain silt and glacier melt. If a 600 foot wall of boiling shit came down the ZigZag and Salmon vallies into the Sandy Valley, it might be the deadliest natural disaster this country has ever seen. Nowhere near the carnage that would ensure if Rainier did its regular deal of wiping Tacoma and the sounthern end of the Eastern Abomination off the map, but would be pretty ugly, nonethless.



At any rate, I won't worry about it too much. Mt Hood and the vallies that drain it are way way out past the northeast part of town, and I'm way southwest. And I think anyone that lives in the spot that gets all the snow, freezing rain, and the constant blasting wind is making effort to Darwin themselves anyway. I'm a couple of vallies west of there. I'll take my rarely-snowing, wind-sheltered, rain-shadowed digs over the shorter drive to the Mountain anyday.


Not worried about Hood. If I lived farther south, like around the Eugene/Bend areas, I'd might be concerned about South Sister, which is fixing to erupt here, sooner or later. The ground around it is swelling at an increasing rate, so it's probably just a matter of time. But it doesn't have nearly the volume of water stored in its glaciers that Hood does, so any massive eruption would probably be limited in its devastation.

[smackaholic]

vallies?

that is quite possibly the most horrendous butchering of an attempted pluralization, evah.

[indyfrisco]

Birthday wish came true. Fuck the back nine.

37-44-81

[Dinsdale]

vallies?

that is quite possibly the most horrendous butchering of an attempted pluralization, evah.

Close, but I didn't use an apostrophe, so it wasn't superlative.

The saturday morning "auto-pluralization" feature kicked in.