Destructive Mount St. Helens

                        Mount St. Helens erupted May 18,1980 at 8:32 Sunday morning.  An earthquake started the beginning of the blow.  As it erupted, it caused a massive debris avalanche on the north side of the mountain.  A mushroom shaped cloud thousands of feet tall fell over nearly 150 square miles of forest, destroying the area.  That turned the bright sky into a very dark color.  The eruption lasted for nine hours, but the area that was hit changed within moments.  It will take a hundred years from the eruption to change back to what it was before the terrible destruction.

                                                                                                    One day after eruption

                                                                                                    4 months after eruption

                                                                                                        4 years after eruption