RDP Monday: CASCADE

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Mount Rainier is part of the Cascade Mountain range here in Washington state.

It’s a pretty impressive mountain. It’s huge. It’s also killer.

That aside, I have a funny story about what it is like to live next to a giant, very much alive and able to wipe you out in one good belch volcano.

In toilet town- where I exist- we have  a LaharWarning System and according to plan if you hear the alarm you have time to run for you life. Well they don’t say that, but that’s what it amounts too.

There’s a sign like this on the street I walk my dog on.

First of all, if everyone jumped in their cars and tried to get on the freeway they’d end up like those people in Pompeii who are now on display in museums. Second. I know there was this drill where people were supposed to run up this hill called Meridian-  because you’d be safe at the top.

Nobody made it in time.

Photo A.M. Moscoso

I guess when your ticket gets punched, its time for you to go and that situation is NOT open to debate.

However, I do hope that I don’t get done in by Mount Rainier because of all the ways to go this one has to be the lamest.