Washington's Mount St. Helens erupts spectacularly
"I've always said I wanted to live long I enough to see one of our volcanoes erupt," said Dixy Lee Ray, the Governor of Washington. She got her wish last week when Mount St. Helens, a peaceful-looking 9,677-ft. peak in the white-topped Cascade Range, suddenly spewed out a spectacular 20,000-ft. plume of gas and ash. The eruption was the first in the continental U.S. since 1914, when Mount Lassen, part of the Cascades in Northern California, came to life. Said Robert Tilling of the U.S. Geological Survey: "It's fabulous! We can actually monitor the reawakening...
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