from Ben's mom
I was a school girl when Mt. St. Helens erupted last. We lived in Dallas, Oregon, and I remember finding some ash up in the woods, even there. For a long time I had a jar of ash someone gave me as a memento. Then I decided that it looked like someone had been cremated and left in a baby food jar.
Lately, we have had a few emails from concerned friends, mainly those in the East, who want to be sure we don't live at the foot of the mountain. Let me reassure all of you, we do not. Scientists assure us this eruption should only affect a 5-mile radius. However, we do live some 60 miles from the most dangerous volcano in the U.S. Mt. Rainier is expected to wreak devastation on Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia sometime in the next two hundred years. But for now, it sits majestically above us and is a nice place to visit in the heat of summer, now but a distant memory.
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