An Explosive Event.
45 years ago today, following a spring awakening from dormancy and slumber, the Cascadian Mountain Ranges' most famous volcano, Mount St. Helens, erupted violently with truly epic intentions and proportions. It was a morning and history-making occurrence unlike any other in the annuls of America's misfortunes over time with its countless volcanic areas of the nation. At least half of the hilly terrain literally got blown away in a unique type of eruption, one that has not happened very often, if at all, over the years including volcanoes across the globe. The rage of the event was imminent and immediate as an ash cloud and plume hovered over and then drifted east as far as Minnesota and north into Ontario, Canada and went even further. The angry activity lasted for days, even weeks thereafter, and given the sheer scope and speed of the devastation, it was truly unlike anything else of its time, forests were completely flattened for countless miles, Spirit Lake was gone in a fl...