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Lorene Edwards Forkner
Jun 06, 2025
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Hello,

Forty five years ago, Mount St Helen’s, a peak in the Cascade range located a couple of hundred miles south of Seattle, blew her stack. On May 18, 1980, the mountain, whose summit once stood at 9,677 feet, was reduced to 8,365 feet. That 1,300-some-odd feet of stone, trees and soil turned into millions of cubic yards of ash that wafted clear to th…

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