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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWA State Emergency Management tweeted this yesterday--a lesson about listening to scientists
Link to tweet
WA Emergency Management
@waEMD
40 years ago today, people pushed the state to reopen areas around Mt. St. Helens citing tourism & the economy against advice of scientists. Five days later, the volcano erupted.
Stuart G
(38,453 posts)malaise
(269,237 posts)Send it to the Con in chief
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Initech
(100,114 posts)"We have tremendous buffets, really tremendous. The best shuffleboard court in the business. Go use our fabulous pool. It is your duty as a Titanic ticket holder!"
Rabrrrrrr
(58,355 posts)Jackass fuckputzes.
I wish we could just open a large space in the desert of Nevada and ship all the anti-science pieces of shit there and let 'em live their glorified libertarian life, and in a couple weeks we'll come in and cover their corpses with urethane and leave them there as a memorial against stupidity for eternity.
Initech
(100,114 posts)Only sell it as the world's biggest anti-COVID "own the liberals" party! Want to stick it to your liberal friends? Join us out in the desert in Nevada! It will be huge! You can see them aliens even!
crickets
(25,987 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,578 posts)rocktivity
(44,581 posts)I was quite impressed with how grand the Grand Canyon looked even from several thousand feet up. But flying over Mount Saint Helen's had the opposite effect on me -- it looked like God had bitten its top off. Dang, indeed.
rocktivity
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Bunch a egghead know-it-alls tellin me how to live ma life!
Who da they think they are?
hadEnuf
(2,221 posts)Staged by Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy to steal your freedoms!
tblue37
(65,502 posts)iluvtennis
(19,885 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,052 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,509 posts)somaticexperiencing
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AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)My parents were some of the people that ignored the warning, and drove within 40 miles of it the day it exploded. (I was 3)
Still have several mayonnaise jars full of ash from it.
Anyway, guess who my mom voted for?
SunSeeker
(51,762 posts)HuskyOffset
(891 posts)And as a result, someone died most painfully, with her legs being eaten by a pond turned acidic by the volcano. Be at peace grandma, you stubborn old lady.
Also, Mr Brosnan had to buy a new set of tires for his truck, as they were melted by lava.
Seriously, people should fucking listen to scientists. When they're all telling you you're about to do something monumentally stupid, believe them.
jO456
(61 posts)I was living in Poulsbo, WA and remember the morning. My Dad and our neighbor were smashing some rocks with a jack hammer and sledge hammers to build a wall in the back yard. I still remember the boom and the shaking. I thought my dad was blowing up the rocks. we then spent the rest of the day, as a family, watching the news. We never got ash, but i still have the peanut butter jar my Great Grandfather filled with ash from his back yard in Wenatchee.
central scrutinizer
(11,665 posts)Heard this huge thunderous noise off to the north. Then the Forest Service radios started squawking. We were SSE of Mt. St. Helens on the slopes of Mt. Hood. The winds were carrying the ash cloud NW of the eruption but we fled, not wanting to have our crummy be immobilized by ash clogging the air intake. We bought lots of masks to wear at work to avoid inhaling fine ash and getting lung cancer.
yonder
(9,683 posts)are just not "acceptable."