It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by My.mind.is.mine
reply to post by TrueAmerican
Wait, why is seeing steam good, and NOT seeing steam bad?
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
Well I see what you are getting at with the steam, and to answer the question, I would seek someone locally, very close to that mountain who looks at it every day and ask them if they've seen that kind of steam before. Perfect, unbiased answer.
Let's hope they've seen lots of that steam. Just heaps and mounds of steam. Lord, give us steam, please. Much steam. Steam much?
If they haven't, and we've got thousands of microquakes, and a melting glacier...umm... might be time to call Houston.
Part of a labyrinth of caves that underlies the summit snowcap like the tunnels of a giant rodent, the grotto contains one of the planet's highest lakes. Meltwater dripping from the glistening ice walls and scalloped ceiling collects in the cavern bottom, creating a crescent pool up to 20 feet deep
Read more here: www.thenewstribune.com...=cpy
Attracted by the United States' most dangerous volcano, Le Guern has mounted two expeditions to Mount Rainier and hopes to return again this year. He spends much of his time in the ice caves because they provide one of the most direct links to the mountain's fiery interior.
Nearly 5,000 people trudge across Rainier's broad top every year, but few realize what is under their feet. Early climbers often sought shelter in the caverns, recording in their journals the misery of being alternately blasted by cold air and scalded by steam from hissing fumaroles.
It is these fumaroles, or steam vents, that create the world's most extensive network of ice caves. The hot gases rise from deep within the volcano, escaping through cracks and crevices in Rainier's bowl-like crater. The heat has melted out nearly two miles of caverns and worm-like passages beneath the plug of snow and ice that fills the crater like a scoop of ice cream in a giant cone.
Read more here: www.thenewstribune.com...=cpy
When Rainier awakens and fresh magma starts to move in, one of the earliest clues will be changes in the gaseous emissions.
Originally posted by TrueAmerican
reply to post by westcoast
As to the other poster questioning why I dramatize? I'd say an eruption at Rainier would qualify as pretty dramatic, wouldn't you? But in reality it's more traumatic than dramatic for those that live there. And it is to those I mostly speak. Just saying, beware that thing if you going to live there. Keep an eye on it. Beware your environment or get caught like a bird in a cat's mouth at the birdbath. Dead.
Originally posted by quietright
Activity jumped up quite a bit in the last 4 hours...
old.pnsn.org...
Originally posted by angelchemuel
Sky news TV UK....gunman found dead in Park....cause of death currently unknown
Rainbows
Jane
Originally posted by FailedPlanet
From a guy that lives VERY close to Rainier, and been to paradise point many times.