Here's what happened to Mt. St. Helens last night, an hour's drive from my house.
It looks like someone detonated a nuclear weapon just sixty or so miles away. The photo you see here was taken from suburban Portland. Amazing that I had no idea this happened until this morning. If I had looked to the northeast I would have seen it myself.
Posted by Michael J. Totten at March 9, 2005 2:23 PM
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