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.
Like hang up your chewing gum under a table for the last time!
Oh boy, the lahar is terrifying. I hope you don’t get one anytime soon!
Welp. I figure I’ll neve see it coming, so there is that lol.
Hopefully you’ll be on holiday elsewhere when it happens!
At least you may end up as a museum exhibit
When my son was young, if he saw on the news that people had to flee their village or town because a volcano erupted for the first time in twenty years, he would say ‘Why on earth did they live there?’
My Mom’s family is from Hawaii, so I guess if you’re born there you accept it as a part of your life. That’s how ai feel about Rainier. But would I have moved next to one without that element? Probably not.
One or two of our coastal towns have evacuation routes too from when Seabrook Nuclear Power plant was on line. we can choose how we want to be fried. Crispy, or glow in the dark!
Hopefully they didn’t recommend hiding under wooden desks.
Now, Now Anita, at least “duck, and cover” gives you something to do when the explosion happens and it’s too late ot evacuate.