CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 17, 1981

| St. Helens

By Patrick Connolly

VANCOUVER, WASH.
(AP) — As spring returns to
Mount St. Helens, so do
searing memories for people
who stumbled alive out of the
volcanic blast May 18, 1980,

They were, by sheer
chance, the lucky ones, They
were on the right ridge, ia
the safe gully, beneath the
providential tree.

Bruce Nelson, 23, and Sue
Ruff, 22, embraced in horror
and shock amid crashing tim-
ber scant feet from the tent
in which their friends, Terry
Crall and Karen Varner,
were crushed by the same
falling trees. That was along
the Green River 22 kilom-
etres north of the exploding
mountain.

Like almost all who died
when the mountain blew that
sunny, unthreatening Sun-
day morning, Varner and
Crall had felt safe, well out-
side the “danger areas” es-
tablished by state and federal
authorities, say Nelson and
Ruff, who eventually made
their way out of the smol-
dering desolation. Two other
camping companions, burned
and seriously injured, also
survived.

“Sometimes you stop and
wonder why it was Terry and
Karen and not me... but
nobody can answer that,"
Nelson, a baker in Kelso,
Wash,’ says today. “I
dreamed about it for three
months and Terry and Karen
would be involved in it most
times,

“In some dreams they'd
make it out. In some dreams
they. wouldn't.

Crall was the first of the
carefree campers to see the
boiling black cloud above the
trees. He thought it was a
forest fire.

SAVED BY TREE

“That's what I remember
most,” Nelson says, shaking
-his head, “the period from
when Terry said, ‘Look at the
forest fire, until it went
black with tremendous
speed. There were clouds
with bulges in them like arms
sticking out. I remember
Terry yelling, “Karen!
Karen!" and diving into the
tent...

A giant tree thundered
onto that tent, crushing it.
But trees .snagged above
Nelson and Ruff, freakishly
forming a natural protective
canopy that saved them.

blows

Ruff recalls incessant,
eerie nightmares that woke
her up, shaking, for three
months,

“I'd be trying to get people
to realize the mountain's
going off and nobody would
listen to me,” she says. “Once
in a while, sometimes, I
wouldn't even be in Washing-
ton but in a different state
entirely but it was the sasme
mountain going off and no-
body would listen.”

They returned to the ash
several months later and re-
trieved their truck — which
started right up with a twist
of the key. They also buried
strewn belongings of their
dead friends, So undisturbed
was the grey land that a bag
of marshmallows Nelson
dropped when he grabbed

. Ruff still lay where it fell.

“It's really humbling,” says
Ruff, who with Nelson, re-
mains an incurable camper.
“T feel I've just lived one
more year longer than I
should have.”

When the volcano ex-
ploded, Nelson told Ruff he
would marry her. They still
plan to but no date has been
set.

MT. ST. HELENS was under tha watchful ;
S.

eye of ofa

6 missing, 3A

survey team, as shown here on athe outer
tim of the crater, for several days prior

A few miles away along the
Green River valley Mike and
Lu Moore of Castle Rock
were camped with their chil-

Volcano's anniversary

By John Marlow

SEATTLE (AP) — In Yak-
ima they're calling it St.
Helens Sunday.

In Castle Rock, it’s Voleano
Days.

In the eastern Washington
community of Sprague,
they're planning an anniver-
sary picnic.

And in Silver lake, it's a
party to honor local folk hero
Harry Truman “in a style he
would have expected.”

It's the anniversary of the
May 18, 1980, eruption of
Mount St. Helens.

That clear, sunny Sunday
morning a year ago two quick
earthquakes jolted the south-
western Washington volcano
at 8:32 a.m. A blister of ice
and rock bulging outward
from the north slope of the
snow-capped 9,677-foot peak
broke off in a mile-wide
avalanche and plunged down
the mountainside.

Suddenly, the wall of rock
where the bulge had been
blew sideways with the force
of 10 million tons of TNT, re-
leasing a store of energy that
had been building since the
volcano last erupted in 1857.

PLUME OF STEAM

After its century-long
sleep, Mount St. Helens had
come ot life in March 1980
with a swarm of earthquakes
that shook the mountain for a
week before erupting on

. March 27 with a plume of
steam and debris shooting
several thousand feet into
the air.

Tourists came from around
the country, and — ignoring
the danger — hawkers set up
souvenir stands around the
mountain, while shopf€epers
conducted a brisk trade in
voleano T-shirts and bottles
of ash.

Harry Truman, who ran
Mount St. Helens Lodge on
Spirit Lake, became a legend
for refusing to leave his home
at the base of the mountain.

Now, Truman and
others are listed as missing
while thirty-four were con-
firmed dead.

The eruption chopped

1,200 feet off the top of the‘

mountain and devastaged a
fan-shaped area of about 155
square miles to the north,
More than 1.5 cubic miles of
volcanic debris blasted into
the air.
For nine hours the moun-
“tain disgorged gas and fine
ash, The cloud rose 10 miles
into the sky, lightning crac-
Kling and flashing in the self-
contained weather system.
INCHES THICK
Then winds fanned it intoa
1,000-mile long mantle that
* left an inches-thick coating of
ash over Washington, north-

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Deadly pyroclastic flows —
superheated waves of hot gas
and debris — poured down
the mountain. Floods and

_Mmudflows poured into the

Toutle, Cowlitz and Columbia
rivers.

The area around Harry
Truman's lodge was covered
with 30 feet of ash. Spirit
Lake was, turned into a boil-
ing cauldron of smashed
trees, mudflows and ava-
lanche debris.

In the year since the
explosion, the mountain has
erupted eight more times,
including three “non-explo-
sive” or dome-building, erup-
tions, None have matched the
power and devastation of the
May 18 event.

Alava dome began to form
in the crater after a June 12
eruption, then was blown
apart when the volcano
erupted again July 22. But
the internal pressures kept
forcing the molten rock up
the newly opened pipeline to
the surface and by mid-April
the plug of lava was 1,200
feet wide, 2,400 feet long and
375 feet high.

LOSSES IN MILLIONS

By the end of 1980, losses
to the state economy from
the volcano were estimated
at $860 million. More than
half, $450 million, was in
damage to standing timber.

The U.S. Forest Service
has estimated as much as
three billion board feet of
timber was blown or dam-
aged by the eruption —
enough wood for 200,000
‘three-bedroom houses.

There were fears that the
heavy ashfall would wipe out
the crops in eastern Wash-
ington and northern Idaho,
and some apples fell from
their trees shortly after the
eruption. Early damage esti-
mates were pegged at $200
million.

But agriculture experts
now put ash-related farm
losses at $60.2 million, much
of it damage to form ma-
chinery and equipment from
the gritty, abrasive particles
of volcanic glass. Hay had to
be left in the fields, but
apples and other crops sur-
vived.

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The Army Corps of En-
gineers has spent more than
$240 million to dredge the
mud and ash out of the
Toutle, Cowlitz and Columbia
tivera and estimates $600
million more will be needed
over the next six years for
food control and navigation
maintenance.

A state planning council
has recommended a 95,000-
acre national voleanic area
be created to protect Mount
St, Helens and also be used
for interpretive, recreational
and scientific purposes.

Along the fringes of the
blowdown zone, in isolated
pockets of timber that sur-
vived and in: wetlands and
along creek beds, the rebirth
of life ig already underway. |

More than 50 types of
plants have been seen. Por-
cupines, raccoons, mice,
grouse, hares, beaver —
about two dozen types of
birds and animals in all —
have been spotted.

NEW LIFETHRIVING

And in Spirit Lake, single-
cell organisms now thrive.
They are similar to those
around at the beginning of
life itself.

A Forest Service infor-
mation centre for people
visiting the mountain this
summer is planned only 100
yards from the restricted red.
zone around the. volcano. -

The voleano is expected to
draw more than two million
visitors to the area this sum-
mer. But, like May 18, 1980,
it’s possible that the tourists
will see more than they bar-
gained for,

Scientists warn the moun-
tain is not done yet, but feel
they are better prepared to
interpret the signs of another

eruption.

Scientists believe a large
explosive eruption is unlikely |
without seismic signals and’
ground deformation, which

can tell them magma is rising | :

within the peak. Seismolo-
gists at the University
Washington geophysics ce:
tre have identified three
earthquake patterns that
preceded different types of
eruptions the past year.
COMMEMORATION
Meanwhile, plans to mark

the occasion in an ‘approp-
riate manner are going
ahead.

Les McNary, general man-
ager of the Yakima visitors
and convention centre, said
“St. Helens Sunday" in Yak-
ima will be a “commemor-
ative event — not a cel-

ebration.”

ce.

dren, BonnieLv, 4, and three-
month-old Terra Dawn.
When the volcano went off,
they heard a low rumble.

Then, as the collapsing
mountain forced a drastic
change in air pressure,
Moore's ears began popping
and his wife's body felt like a
giant hand squeezed her
gently.

Moore, a Western Wash-
ingtom University geololgy
graduate, and his wife saw'a
tiny, black ash speck 21 kil-
ometres away swiftly grow
into a horizon-swallowing
cloud rushing over them.

Moore, quickly clicked pid

tures and his wife hustled the

to its eruption May, 18,
caused many persons to come face to
face with a once-In-c-lifatime experien-

all up?”

Td have a lot more ‘cameras
and a high-quality tape re-
corder.”

When the’cloud rolled on,
the Moores hiked through
fallen timber toward their
car six kilometres away. But.
they were upon

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Their memories are con-
stantly rekindled. Moore
shows his pictures and tells
his tale at college and PTA
gatherings and his wife be-
longs to the Mount St. Helens
Protective Association,

arriving ata tan-

which to preserve
for p

gle of blown down timber —
“lke somebody whipped up
those big trees with an egg-

beater” — and camped for

«the night,

“The baby slept through
the major part of the erup-
tion but we had to explain
things to the four-year-alds,”
Mrs. Moore says, “Mike and
I tried to put forth a feeling
of confidence for her. I told
her Indian legends about
Mount St. Helens and said
maybe Princess Helen was
throwing a fit.

The next day, they hiked
for four hours before being
rescued by helicopter.

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children into a dilapidated
hunting shed. .
They were engulfed in the.
darkest dark they ever saw.
“Memory tells me that
when the cloud first came
toward us it was a kaleidos-
cope of colors — reds, greys,
yellows, blues,” says Moore,
95. “But the phots show only
a bluish gray. Did my eyes
see only what they wanted to
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busy looking after the kids
and seeking survival to panic.

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area's economy,” she says.

“You can’t talk about it,”
Moore says. “You have to see
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Congratulations are extended to Mr. and Mrs. James
Gregory ‘Brooks, whose wedding ‘took. place. May 2 in *
Vernon, B.C. The bride, Phyllis Louise, is the daughter of

Mr. and Mrs. Reg. Robinson of Trail and the groam is the :

son‘of Mr. and Mrs. Gunnar Fredrickson.’ 238

“Congratulations to hy a Mré: Larry Peitzsche, who re
were married May 16 at St: Saviour's Anglican Church in
Nelson, The bride, Cathy, is the youngest daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. G.A. Broster of Nelson and the groom is the son

of Mr. and Mrs. F Ws: Peltzsche of Ross "Spur, BC.

Congratulations to ME ea Nee. David Farahat, whose
marriage took place May 16 atthe First Presbyterian
Church:in Trail. The bride, Wendy Susan, is the only
daughter of Mr. and Mrs: Stanley Gjukich of Trail and the
groom Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hanasi Farahat of

Calgary,
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‘Congratulations are extended to Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Norman Theodore Hanson, who were married May 16 in
Nelson. The bride, Norma Elizabeth, is the daughter of:
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Purvis of Nelson’and the groom ‘is.
‘the son of Mr. and Mrs: Norman Hanson of Agassiz, B.

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Shepherd, who were married May 16 in East Trail United
Church, The bride, Carol Louise, is the daughter of. Me

Mrs. Douglas Houndle of; ‘Trail and the’ groom
30n.of Mr. and’ Mrs. Martin, a SHepherd of Victe

Congratulations to Mr.

Mr dea Meat Norma; Siowe, whose

rriage took place May 16 at the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints’ in Trail. The bride, “Brenda
Kathleen, is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mra. Garth
FE. Barnes of Trail and the groom is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Stowe of Port Alberni, B.C.

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sixth-floor ward at Montreal
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symptoms to run their nat-
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Jason; has a condition
called congenital rubella syn-
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birth defects can occur when
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infected with reubella virus,
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were married May 16 at St.

Langley, B.C. and ‘the groom

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} Nelson. The bride, Charlene Lois, is thé oldest daughter
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Allen Savinkoff, ‘who were married’

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‘Congratulations to Mr. ‘aiid Mra: Ed Potekal, who were

matried May 16 in Creston. The bride, Lucille Margaret, ,

is the daughter of Mrs. Joy Theil of Trail and the groom is
the son of Mrs. Anne Burlingham of Crestor

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a Montreal hospital because

of a. cold. He: spent many.

he ae ‘who gawk at him
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happen to anyone.”

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the ‘ministry’: of
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