Mt St Helens Research Paper

Mt.Saint Helens
By:Kailey Olson
7W
Have you ever been through a natural disaster? My mom,dad and grandma have all experienced one.They all had to find new ways to live their daily lives but with more percussions.The Mt. Saint Helens eruption was hard on my mom because she couldn't play outside for a while. My mom was eleven, when Mt. Saint Helens erupted.It was May 18,1980 at 8:30 in the morning and my mom was play outside in the parking lot with her friend. She was about to go to Sunday school.She needed to get her energy out.The sky started to become dark and hassy.Her dad(the pastor)came out and said “I don’t know what is happening but you need to come inside.”After that her dad went in and turned on the radio. The radio said Mt.Saint Helens just erupted and if you
are outside go in.When the church service was over her and her family all went home but vary careful because they didn't know what the ash would do to the cars.Janice(my mom) now 46 still remembers having to put a white mask on every time she went outside. My dad on the other hand , a little bit older. He was fourteen years old.The family was at a barbeque and the sky started to get dark.One of the family members went over to their car and turned on the radio.The whole family listened to the radio.Oh no! Mt saint helens just blew.We have to go.All the family members got into the car and drove away.When they got to the house they all stood at the window watching the snow like ash falling from the sky.They lost a barbeque that day but it was ok because he got out of school that week. In my research process(Mt.Saint Helen eruption disaster) I found that there was fifty-seven deaths that day,one of the people that died that day was a man named Harry Randall Truman refused to leave his home after he was told to leave because it mountain was going to erupt(the man who refused to leave his home).He and his wife lived there their whole marriage and he was going to die there.Another thing I found was that the ash traveled at 300 mph,and within three minutes the ash had covered 230 square miles of forest.The eruption was thirty-six years ago and people still remember the things they had to do.
After that,I brought my class a jar of Mt.Saint Helens ash thinking that they would just feel it and move on.But Gauge a kid in my class decided that he was going to eat some of the ash.So he took the jar and stuck his finger in and then proceted to stick his finger in his mouth an eat it.He look at one of his friends and said “ this dosen’t taste good and you should try it. And so his friend took the jar and did the same thing.They both got to decide that the ash did not taste good. All in all, Mt. Saint Helens was a bad disaster but we got to learn about what can happen when nature
strikes.