When mountains disappear!

[Theres]

it was 22 years ago today that Mt. St. Helens blew it's top.
1700 feet of mountain disappeared that day!
i can see St. Helens from my house on a clear day. it looks like an enormous, snow-capped mound these days, but it was quite a beautiful peak prior to 1980.
i've spoken with a number of my witchy friends who lived here at that time and asked them if they had the opportunity to do any serious earth-power magick in the days leading up to the blast. almost to a person they said that the prevailing mood was one of self-preservation and forboding, and that magick was a difficult thing to think of at the time. yeah, no kidding!
and with gray snow-like ash falling for a week, and noticable earthquakes registering every few hours, the post blast environment was not very conducive either!

here's more...
http://www.thehistorychannel.com/tdih/index.html

[Danustouch]

LOL..I can imagine that the last thing on their minds was doing magick. Oh..geesh..my house might be getting a ton of molten lava poured into it, and if I don't escape, i'm going to sizzle...but..heh..wait..I wanna form a circle, and do a ritual....anyone wanna join? LOL.

I'm glad your friends all survived it. I remember hearing about it when it happened..I was very young then. But I remember my brother sent away for a packet of ashes from Mt. St. Helens.

[Theres]

i was in Northern California at the time, working as a chimney sweep. we were doing a house renovation, and the roofers were using cedar shingles from Oregon. every time they opened a new flat of shingles, a fine gray cloud would form over the house from the ash. very light, but very gritty. i hear it played hell with the cars up here.