Mount St. Helens: Before Mount St. Helens blew sky-high on May 18th 1980, it was a beautiful symmetrical cone, the smallest of Washington’s five volcanoes at 9,677 feet in elevation. The blast exploded 1,312 feet from the height of the mountain, leaving a mere shell: melting glaciers contributed to the massive floods. Sliding earth buried wonderful stands of virgin forest and recreational facilities and killed untold wildlife. Heat-stripped logs dammed a beautiful tree-lined lake; wind carried condensed rock vapor thousands of miles away. Clearly, man isn’t the only force capable of significant destruction.
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