Word: castlerock
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...danger of fresh flooding and mudslides, forced an exodus of residents from the nearby towns of Cougar, Ariel and Amboy to makeshift refugee camps. It was their second evacuation, and the volcano's continuing assaults were beginning to fray tempers. Said Otis Bouchard, a gas station operator in Castlerock: "I'll tell you one thing. I'm getting damn tired of this mountain." Tom Nelson, a supervisor at a devastated timber camp, echoed that frustration with an understandable, if implausible suggestion: "Why don't they just take a couple of jets and bomb the mountain...
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