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When Mount St. Helens began spewing chaos and destruction across the Northwest last week, TIME correspondents and photographers rushed to the scene - and could barely believe what they found. "It was beyond anything in my experience," said Correspondent Paul Witteman, who flew over the volcano for this week's cover story. "The whole terrain had been altered by the force of the explosion, and maps were next to useless." Cor respondent James Willwerth found the roads to one especially hard-hit town - Ritzville, Wash. - closed for 50 miles in every direction, so he hitched a ride...
Mount St. Helens explodes, spreading death and destruction in the Cascades "Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!" The frantic warning was radioed at precisely 8:31 a.m. on that fateful Sunday by Volcano Expert David Johnston, 30, who had climbed to a monitoring site five miles from Washington State's Mount St. Helens in the snow-capped Cascade Range, 40 miles northeast of Portland, Ore. He wanted to peer through binoculars at an ominous bulge building up below the crater, which had been rumbling and steaming for eight weeks, and report his observations to the U.S. Geological Survey center...
...fell upon an inhospitable stretch of land on the edge of Mexico City, known as El Pedregal, a huge lava desert left from the eruption of the Xitle volcano 2,500 years ago. Fascinated by the savage beauty of the lava's shapes, Barrag�n and a partner bought 865 acres of the land and began to transform it. Each plot was to be a walled garden, celebrating the lava's strange forms, the cacti and the twisted trees known as palo bobo (silly tree). Each house was to be as simple as possible and should not occupy more than...
...always said I wanted to live long I enough to see one of our volcanoes erupt," said Dixy Lee Ray, the Governor of Washington. She got her wish last week when Mount St. Helens, a peaceful-looking 9,677-ft. peak in the white-topped Cascade Range, suddenly spewed out a spectacular 20,000-ft. plume of gas and ash. The eruption was the first in the continental U.S. since 1914, when Mount Lassen, part of the Cascades in Northern California, came to life. Said Robert Tilling of the U.S. Geological Survey: "It's fabulous! We can actually monitor...
...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...