Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring of 1980. Instead of hopping in a car and making the drive to ...
When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, the landscape changed in an instant—the geologic version of an instant, anyway. It was the deadliest eruption the United States had ever seen, leveling ...
The warning did not arrive as a single dramatic sign but as a slow distortion of a familiar peak. As the north side of Mount St. Helens swelled outward in the spring of 1980, scientists watched a ...