Excerpt from Excape the Coming Night
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escaped the coming night by Dr David Jeremiah would see See Carlson, March 1980. An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale was reported near Mount ST Helens in southwestern Washington state on March 27th. Arranger heard what he thought was a sonic boom. The mountain had erupted. Scientists rushed to assess the explosive potential of the mountain. They painted a frightening scenario of future destruction. People listened, but many could not comprehend a disaster. Such magnitude. Old Harry probably read the news stories while he ate a solitary breakfast and fed scraps to his 16 cats. Nobody knows more about this mountain than Harry, and it don't dare blow up on him, he bragged. Days and weeks passed, and some became impatient with the geologists. Negative reports people would lose their concern of anything ever happening and wanted to get back to business as usual. Everybody kind of heard the geologists say what they wanted to hear them say they weren't really listening to them. When sheriff's deputies ordered all residents on the shores of Spirit Lake at the base of the mountain to leave for safety, Harry said, I'm having a **** of a time living my life alone. I'm king of all I survey. I got plenty of whiskey. I got food enough for 15 years and I'm setting high on the hog. Sunday morning, May 18th 1980 the mountain exploded and hurled pulverized rock and ash almost 14 miles high. The force of the blast flattened trees, Uprooting and smashing them like millions of dominoes spreading out from the crater. Steam, ash and gases spouted from the incinerated vegetation. Mudflows flooded the rivers and transform the beautiful mountain lands into a ghastly, charred landscape. The mountains vengeance was 500 times greater than the nuclear bomb, which leveled Hiroshima. The warnings were over. There was no longer any time to run.