volcanoes

Today marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most cataclysmic natural events to hit North American soil in my lifetime. At 8:32 AM PDT on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens blew its top off in a spectacular, and devestating, eruption. As a kid fascinated by this stuff, I was all over the story...

I have been following events in Hawaii quite a bit over the last week or two. No one I know is in the danger zone, just my natural interest in volcanoes coming out. Kilauea is rather different beast from, say, Mount St. Helens or Mount Pinataubo (to name two other famous eruptions from my...