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Mount St. Helens: a case against Evolution – The TRUTH SOURCE

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Mount St. Helens: a case against Evolution – The TRUTH SOURCE

We had to wear masks when we went outside. It took a long time to clean it up, and for years after, you could see the ash on the side of the roads.

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The club was large enough, so periodically I would book an expensive national act for special one-night concerts. For May 18, I had booked a very popular piece country-swing recording act, Asleep at the Wheel. They traveled in their bus — I think it was an older Flexible model. The Wheel was on a tour up from the Southwest through California. The Thursday before the show I got a call from Ray Benson, the leader of the band, telling me his bus had broken down somewhere in central California. He and the band were stranded so he was going to have to cancel the Friday and Saturday shows plus my show and the shows early the next week.

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It seems because of the age of the bus, it was very hard to find parts and mechanics to work on it. I had so much invested in the show already, print and radio advertising, extra supplies I had ordered, deposits to the band, agent fees, rental fees on a larger sound system, baby grand piano and such. I was looking at a huge loss if they canceled, and even if we rescheduled, it would be costly. So I put my thinking cap on and begin figuring out how to get The Wheel to my club on time.

I had spent the previous 15 years in the music business as a player, manager, road manager, concert promoter, agent, babysitter to the tragically famous and other stuff all over the continent, so I had experience with this kind of disaster in the making. I spoke to Benson again and found out they were within limping distance of Redding, Calif. I remembered I had a friend whose father owned a new car dealership in Redding. A few calls later, I was talking to the owner explaining my dilemma. He had on mechanical staff an old timer who was familiar with the Flexible bus.

I put Ray and them together over the phone, and they worked out a plan to nurse the bus to the repair garage by Friday.

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Then of course there were problems finding parts, and mechanics working late on Friday and early Saturday morning. Finally they loaded up and headed to Spokane. We had our fingers crossed that the repairs would hold, and if they drove like crazy they would make it to their hotel late Saturday or early Sunday morning. I received a call in the wee hours of Sunday morning. The plan had worked. Back at Hauser Lake, we were watching the news for updates on Mount St. Helens while we set up the club for the evening show. Eruption, then ash, commenced and soon things began looking gray.

Several calls back and forth with the band about what I wanted to do, finally deciding to go for it because, well, just because. I informed the media the show was a go. I called on a good friend as devious and hard-headed as I and told him of my trouble. He was up to the task and immediately left for Spokane using back roads and cattle trails. He reached the band at the hotel, loaded them up in the bus and set out once again on the back roads and cattle trails through Spokane Valley, around the back side of Newman Lake and through the mountains, and the back way leading them to Hauser.

As the dust settled, the bus door opened with a belch of ash, and out stumbled the band, coughing and hacking, dressed in their stage clothes, covered from the crowns of their Stetsons to the toes of their Tony Lamas in the gray menace. Of course we were all stressed out, so to keep up our courage and clear heads, I ordered the band along with my staff and myself to begin drinking.

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By show time we had about half of the crowd I needed, but as they say the show must go on. All night long we kept the air conditioning running to cool the club and clear the air, but of course people were running in and out all the time dragging more ash in, so we had a minor ash storm in the club for about four hours. The show started out great, but as the night wore on the ash began to take its toll on everything. The sound system started to fail as speakers fried and the mixing board controls sounded like the point of a stick being dragged through gravel with every adjustment.

Over the next few days we surveyed the damage: The club — cleaning and shampooing for days; my pocketbook — moth preserve. I went out for a run on the day Mount St. Helens blew, but I was home before the sky began to get dark. It was like nightfall by midafternoon. The next day i went to work at the University of Washington Primate Field Station and was counting monkeys for the morning checklist when I was attacked by a male pigtail macaque monkey, weighing about 40 pounds.

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Someone had left the door of the room in which he resided slightly ajar and he bounced against it until he got out. He walked on down the hall and came up behind me. He wrapped his arms around my knees and began chewing on my right knee. I slugged him in the head, but that had about the same effect as a fly landing on him would have had. He bit my fist and returned to chewing on my knee. I tried to move, but his grip on my legs made me fall over. I was in fear that he would then try to bite my face or other areas, but he seemed to know that he had won, and he walked back down the hall.

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Helens erupted with a catastrophic Lateral blast explosion estimated to be the equivalent to about 24 megatons million tons of TNT note: Kapai and the Frozen Treasure. We thought that was very appropriate and added to the weirdness. Read our May 19, , story here. If any of these apply to you, then this is the book for you. Also, a grand canyon was instantly created at the mountain. Voted Best Exhibits on the Highway!

I walked down to the infirmary and got treated for the wounds to my knee and hand, which were slight. In gripping my knees he had scratched the backs of my legs which were quite sore and would prove to be the most discomforting result of the experience. I stayed off work for a week to heal. I was living in Medical Lake at the time and it was eerie how quiet it was. Every now and then someone would race their car down the road near our house, apparently not believing that it would be bad for their engine.

The rooster tail of dust was impressive and it was quite a show. The monkey who attacked me was netted by my good friend and returned to his room. I bore him no ill will, but never felt as comfortable when counting monkeys for the morning checklist. And, as a result, I remember the Mount St. During the several weeks before the major eruption, minor eruptions blew bits and pieces from the top — an obvious signal of what was about to happen.

Hikers and campers were banned. An old man, Harry Truman, had lived for many years in his cabin below the mountain and overlooking beautiful Spirit Lake. Many who knew him desperately urged him to leave, but he chose to stay. I was at the Air Show watching the dark cloud approaching, then hurried home to my anxious spouse. This meant cleaning the quarter inch of ash from my Volkswagen oil bath filter before leaving for work. I lived in Elk, Wash, at the time it blew. I was on my deck and the sky got dark, and the deer came out from the woods early, and my chickens started cackling.

Then my daughter said the mountain blew. We lived in Battle Ground, about 25 miles from the base of Mount St. We did not hear, see or feel a thing. The only way we knew about the eruption was when we saw it on the TV news. Yet a friend who lived in Vancouver, Canada, told us that he heard it and felt the vibrations from it. When it was all dark and eerie, our neighbor went out on the porch and howled like a coyote. We thought that was very appropriate and added to the weirdness.