Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clouds of hot ash made up of pulverized rock were belched twelve miles into the sky. Giant mud slides, composed of melted snow mixed with ash and propelled by waves of superheated gas erupting out of the crater, rumbled down the slopes Hiroshima, crashed through valleys, leaving millions of trees knocked down in rows, as though a giant had been playing pick-up sticks...
...moment of the explosion David Crockett, 28, a photographer for KOMO-TV in Seattle, stood on a logging road at the base of the mountain. He heard a huge roar and looked up to see a wall of mud rushing toward him. Because of the terrain, the flood divided into two streams that passed on either side of him. Seeking desperately for a way out, Crockett kept moving along the road, speaking into his sound camera to record his impressions of the scene. Said he: "I am walking toward the only light I can see. I can hear the mountain...
...When the mud starts sliding in Malibu or the smog hides the tops of the palm trees in Beverly Hills, movie executives console themselves with at least one thought: in bad times people will still go to the movies. It is one of the fondest myths in an industry that deals in myths, and everyone remembers Mom and Dad standing in line at the Bijou during the Depression. How much truth is there to that comforting accepted wisdom? None at all, according to a San Francisco financial analyst. When the rest of the country catches cold, so does Hollywood...
Next, as soon as the sun goes down, armored personnel carriers equipped with high-intensity searchlights rumble out of the mud-walled Soviet tank depot half a mile south of Chaghasaray. The APCs probe the mountains with their lights and shoot off silver-and orange-colored flares at areas of suspicious movements. On the night I stayed awake to watch, the light show came on every ten to 15 minutes. According to mujahidin, the most intense fighting is in the Pich valley, where Soviet tanks have been trying to secure the main road. As I listened for more than...
...week's end no lava had appeared, although there was still that possibility. There was another danger: the heat of the volcano might melt the 16-ft. snow cover on the mountain, flooding streams and causing massive mud slides. As a precaution, water levels in three reservoirs on the nearby Lewis River were lowered. Meanwhile, scientists and residents kept watching anxiously to see just how angry Mount St. Helens would get. Said Kurt Austermann of the U.S. Forest Service: "We don't want to panic anybody, but nobody really knows whether it's going to start spitting...