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May 17, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
May 17, 1980, Mt. St. Helens:

Local property owners threaten to run roadblocks at gunpoint, saying lockdown can't last forever, mountain quieting down, geologists exaggerate

WA Gov relents, allows caravan to Spirit Lake

Second caravan to go morning of May 18th.
#MSH40
Photos show before / after of the lake. Two hours before the May 18th caravan would have arrived, the lakeside houses were first smashed by a nuclear-style blast wave then moments later buried by a 200 foot deep, oven-hot landslide moving more than 100mph
Here's a 2005 article remembering the May 17th "caravan" from a local reporter who went along with the property owners

tdn.com/business/local…
Since this is taking off a bit, a previous anniversary thread of mine on the eruption -- I'll reup tomorrow too

For all you'd ever want to know about Mt St Helens, check out @USGSVolcanoes . They've been doing "40 years ago today" posts all spring, and I imagine will have plenty of info tomorrow (or anytime on their website volcanoes.usgs.gov)

Yet more good #msh40 sources

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Not to pick on @ProfPaulPoast specifically, but analysis of policy taglines w external definitions, common understandings, theories is likely to be wrong -- policymakers frequently mean other things entirely than what the words 'really' mean 1/
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I used to think geothermal only worked in very rare geologic hot spots, but I'm increasingly sold it can be done lots of places -- and by the same drilling firms / drilling workers who'd be displaced from oil & gas wellfields.
Tbf, "sold" overstates my ability to judge the technology and economics, but there are at least serious people making the case, which wasn't really true 20+ years ago.
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For earlier generations, to see why just look at the New Deal housing maps where the federal govt redlined just about any neighborhood of with a concentration of immigrants -- even German, Poles, etc -- or significant use of languages other than English in public.
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"uniformed military can't comment on military policy bc that's political" is just now how it works

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