The Mountain That Gave Fair Warning
On March 20, 1980, a 4.2-magnitude earthquake shook Mount St. Helens in Washington State. Over the next two months, the north face of the mountain...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Zephaniah 1:14-15.
On March 20, 1980, a 4. 2-magnitude earthquake shook Mount St. Helens in Washington State. Over the next two months, the north face of the mountain bulged outward five feet per day — a visible, measurable swelling that geologists called unprecedented. Authorities issued evacuation orders. Most residents left. But Harry Truman, the eighty-three-year-old owner of Mount St. Helens Lodge on Spirit Lake, waved them all off.…
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