Washington Trip - July 16
FRANK'S JOURNAL - Day 2
We got up and ate breakfast. After breakfast we started driving towards Mt. Saint Helens. This is the story of the 1980 eruption. Mt. Saint Helens had been acting active and people were told to leave the "blast zone." After a while the people were getting tired of waiting and the police let them go get their stuff from their house. Just 10 hours after the last person left the blast zone with their stuff the only people there were loggers. Just 10 hours after the people who lived there got their stuff and earthquake occured. The magma in Mt. Saint Helens had been pushing a
bulge out of the north side of the volcano. The bulge had been growing by a rate of 6 feet a day! The earthquake caused the north side to collapse causing the biggest landslide in history! It destroyed everything in its path. It destroyed all of the thick forest and carried it down the river. All the logs from the Fir trees looked like spaghetti going down the river. Then toxic ash started coming out.
The ash had rocks flying through it. It was the middle of the day but the ash turned all the light to blackness for hundreds of miles away! Ash from the eruption even reached Texas! No one could enter until all the toxic dust had cleared out. All the ground was barren after the eruption. All the destruction made Mt. Saint Helens 1500 feet shorter! It used to be a perfect cone-shaped volcano, now it is an odd-shaped volcano with a huge crevasse in one side. Harry (B) Truman died in the eruption (it wasn't the president Harry Truman). We went on some hikes.
Then we went back to Doug and Karen's house. My dad was excited because he got to see Sasquatch on the trip!
We got up and ate breakfast. After breakfast we started driving towards Mt. Saint Helens. This is the story of the 1980 eruption. Mt. Saint Helens had been acting active and people were told to leave the "blast zone." After a while the people were getting tired of waiting and the police let them go get their stuff from their house. Just 10 hours after the last person left the blast zone with their stuff the only people there were loggers. Just 10 hours after the people who lived there got their stuff and earthquake occured. The magma in Mt. Saint Helens had been pushing a
bulge out of the north side of the volcano. The bulge had been growing by a rate of 6 feet a day! The earthquake caused the north side to collapse causing the biggest landslide in history! It destroyed everything in its path. It destroyed all of the thick forest and carried it down the river. All the logs from the Fir trees looked like spaghetti going down the river. Then toxic ash started coming out.
The ash had rocks flying through it. It was the middle of the day but the ash turned all the light to blackness for hundreds of miles away! Ash from the eruption even reached Texas! No one could enter until all the toxic dust had cleared out. All the ground was barren after the eruption. All the destruction made Mt. Saint Helens 1500 feet shorter! It used to be a perfect cone-shaped volcano, now it is an odd-shaped volcano with a huge crevasse in one side. Harry (B) Truman died in the eruption (it wasn't the president Harry Truman). We went on some hikes.
Then we went back to Doug and Karen's house. My dad was excited because he got to see Sasquatch on the trip!posted by Linam updates | 9:23 AM
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