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Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)
Thu May 14, 2020, 11:36 AM May 2020

WA State Emergency Management tweeted this yesterday--a lesson about listening to scientists





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.
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WA State Emergency Management tweeted this yesterday--a lesson about listening to scientists (Original Post) Mrs. Overall May 2020 OP
Great Post...Everyone should read this...K and R Stuart G May 2020 #1
K & R malaise May 2020 #2
He likes volcanos that don't erupt. SammyWinstonJack May 2020 #13
Let's reopen the Titanic after it hit the iceberg! Initech May 2020 #3
And look at the data-no ship in history has ever been hit by TWO icebergs! The Titanic is safe now! Rabrrrrrr May 2020 #16
Hey maybe we can have Burning Man this year! Initech May 2020 #19
Yes! Rabrrrrrr May 2020 #25
K&R for visibility. crickets May 2020 #4
indeed . wow 40 years , been that long? dang. AllaN01Bear May 2020 #5
That means my first flight to the West coast was about 3 years later rocktivity May 2020 #7
Experts schmexperts! Meh whadda they know anyhows? SoonerPride May 2020 #6
It was a fake eruption! hadEnuf May 2020 #8
The "Jaws" mayor has avatars everywhere. nt tblue37 May 2020 #9
K & R. nt iluvtennis May 2020 #10
At beginning of any disaster movie there is a scientist not listened to, including Trump Catastrophe Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #11
Polar opposites -- Obama / trump ... Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #12
Very interesting. Makes me wonder also if anybody ever saw a tiny movie called "Jaws"! somaticexperiencing May 2020 #14
My earliest memory, my mom freaking out all the way home in our van, about the volcano. AtheistCrusader May 2020 #15
K & R & Retweeted! SunSeeker May 2020 #17
Pierce Brosnan tried to warn people too, but some wouldn't listen HuskyOffset May 2020 #18
May 18, 1980 jO456 May 2020 #20
I was planting trees just across the Columbia River central scrutinizer May 2020 #23
Erupting volcanoes yonder May 2020 #21
I blame Obama central scrutinizer May 2020 #24
KR! Cha May 2020 #22

Initech

(100,113 posts)
3. Let's reopen the Titanic after it hit the iceberg!
Thu May 14, 2020, 11:42 AM
May 2020

"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)
16. And look at the data-no ship in history has ever been hit by TWO icebergs! The Titanic is safe now!
Thu May 14, 2020, 01:44 PM
May 2020

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

(100,113 posts)
19. Hey maybe we can have Burning Man this year!
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:17 PM
May 2020

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!

rocktivity

(44,581 posts)
7. That means my first flight to the West coast was about 3 years later
Thu May 14, 2020, 12:54 PM
May 2020

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)
6. Experts schmexperts! Meh whadda they know anyhows?
Thu May 14, 2020, 12:45 PM
May 2020

Bunch a egghead know-it-alls tellin me how to live ma life!
Who da they think they are?

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
15. My earliest memory, my mom freaking out all the way home in our van, about the volcano.
Thu May 14, 2020, 01:41 PM
May 2020

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?

HuskyOffset

(891 posts)
18. Pierce Brosnan tried to warn people too, but some wouldn't listen
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:12 PM
May 2020

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)
20. May 18, 1980
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:28 PM
May 2020

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)
23. I was planting trees just across the Columbia River
Thu May 14, 2020, 08:07 PM
May 2020

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.

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