signs that the volcano, mt saint helens, is awakening october 2004, mt saint helen comes back to life steam

and ash spewing from crater to ten-12 thousand feet quiet to unrest to eruption very rapidly headed toward a possible massive explosion 1980-rich in wildlife and the valcano had been quiet until recenlty may 18, 1980 earthquake rocked the mountain within ten seconds, mountain collapses, releasing magma forests flattened, four miles below summit, a lake is choked with debris, poisonous steam and ash enter atmosphere virtually all life was extinguished--57 people dead even as far as 13 miles away enormous scale of destruction--200 square miles billions of insects gone, hundreds species of birds, deer/elk wiped out spirit lake is unrecognizable--black water that turned into hot springs eruptions altered the shape of the mountain largest volcanic eruption in northern america in nearly a century 500 years ago, two eruptions four times larger than mt saint helens the pacific ring of fire--a vast arch of volcanos running for thousands of miles home to the most dangerous, active volcanos today first three months--nothing but dead uprooted trees signs of freshly disturbed earth it was a pocket gopher!!!!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOL HE SURVIVED THE VOLCANO WHEN NOTHING ELSE DID LOL!!!!! HAHAHHA <3 MORE GOPHERS OVER MOAR MONTHS LIFE IS RETURNED TO THE MOUNTAIN :3 spring 1981--life has returned to the cascade range but destruction from the year before is still obvious saw flash of color--LOL ITS A PLANT! a prairie loopen? ITS FLOURISHING! FULL FLOWER MODE! four miles from the volanoes crater how did he grow? special root structure that provides its own fertilizer :3 pioneering species (like the gopher hehe) lava is breaking through rocks and flowing through the crater floor dome building consists for five years, and can accurately predict when lava will begin to flow again 1986--seismographs go quiet--he go sneepy as debris settles and light penetration improves, three years after eruptions, microscopic plants!!!! phytoplankton capable of photosynthesis brought in by birds or wind basic building blocks to aquatic life--plankton grows! 136 species! sunlight, Oxygen and food--spirit lake is coming back to lyfe~ the gophers eat the loopens to survive hehe they burrow around the ground, mixing the soil, allowing new plants to spread<3 THE SALAMANDERS PLAY IN THE GOPHER TUNNELS :D EVEN THE ELK CAME BACK FOR FUN HA HA ELK FUNSTON september 2004--seismographs pick up new tremors under the volcano

UH OH HE's AWAKE AGAIN :o but after 14 days, he goes seepy again :3 BUT WAIT--something strange!~ seismographs pick up new pattern of tremors never seen before unique autograph of the spine pushing their way out of the ground solid blocks of rock grinding their way out of the volcano known as drum beats--continued for several years 2007--drum beats vanish completely NO MORE SPINES APPEAR :/ lava has run out of gas... how long to build up the gas again for another explosive eruption? THAT IS THE QUESTION HA HA roughly every thousand years, enough gas builds up for a violent explosion BUT NOT STRAIGHTFORWARD PATTERN!!!!!!