Shirley Lawson needs our prayers dear POE friends!

lancashirelove...you know when it blew in 1980, it wasted 35 miles of forrested ground around its perimeter..I mean it knocked down the largest trees, like toothpicks.. and covered everything in an deadly gray ash grave...like an black and white picture in reality. They thought it would take years to recover, but sure enough, one year later green started emerging and an few small animals started coming back, and God/creator was indeed at work once again. That summer 350,000 local boy scouts, the Forrest Service, and tree nurseries combined efforts for one weekend to replant Mount Saint Helens. It was probably the largest force ever combined for such an undertaking, and the boys walked every square inch of that mountain in steep terrain, putting in new seedings with coverings that would eventually come off to make sure those little trees got an good start..you should see those trees now. We have our forrest back again. Of the 57 some people died that day, those survivors did so because they were "blasted" away and fell beside the large trees, saving them from the heat wave that followed, which in some cases simply melted off the skin of  those that didnt' make it, Many of those they say had their lungs literally cooked in an few breathes. It brings tears to your eyes to read their stories. No one thought what happened really ever would, as an whole side of the mountain literally collapsed. Water from the snows on it, fell into the cracks and made it build up like an pressure cooker blowing...it came without warning, as the last of the  people were evacuating...supposeely even then in an "safe" zone. It was indeed an life time expereince wherever you were at...and pictures of it in National Geographic and Look/Time magazines  captured it well. She then bubbled out slowly lava re-building her top, but quit before doing it. She still laid enough lava to make an four lane freeway from Oregon to New York City 4 feet thick before stopping. Mt. St. Helens is one of the mountains in our area that holds back the clouds and keeps our area green, it stabalizes our climate. I can already see the effects of letting those clouds go over and not dropping rain, as we have been having huge trees out here ever since dying off for lack of moisture...randomly they are all over here, and there, one at an time. We were lucky back then, as her side farthest away from Portland, Oregon /Vancouver, Washington was the side that blew out..there are an estimated nearly 2 million people that would be affected in the area if it had been the other side. It is somethng an person see's ussually once in their lifetime.. if ever in this area....It has gained our upmost respect for nature and its awesome workings on planet earth.  

I hadn't heard this - hope everyone is out of harm's way.  That's what I'm praying for, Shirley.