SPLODY MOUNTAIN!
Sep. 28th, 2004 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperSo, news is coming in that Mt. St. Helens is restless. Half of me is intrigued by this news and half of me is just a tad nervous, because, well, ACTIVE VOLCANO IN MY STATE. I mean, it could be worse--it could be Mt. Rainier acting up--but still.
I barely remember when St. Helens blew in 1980; I remember it being mentioned on the news and talked about at school. But the only lingering impact it has in these parts is all of the various little touristy knickknacks made out of what purports to be St. Helens volcanic ash, which you see sold at places like Pike Place Market downtown. But I had to poke around a little about the eruption just because, what with setting Faerie Blood in Seattle and having a heroine who grew up here, that event would have been part of her childhood and I wanted to figure out what she would remember. "Ash all over the place" is the answer to that question, for a five-year-old who grew up in Fremont.
Here's hoping St. Helens is just shifting around in her sleep. I'm all for getting life experiences to add verisimilitude to my writing, but a volcano blowing close enough to have an impact upon my life is one experience I can do without.
I barely remember when St. Helens blew in 1980; I remember it being mentioned on the news and talked about at school. But the only lingering impact it has in these parts is all of the various little touristy knickknacks made out of what purports to be St. Helens volcanic ash, which you see sold at places like Pike Place Market downtown. But I had to poke around a little about the eruption just because, what with setting Faerie Blood in Seattle and having a heroine who grew up here, that event would have been part of her childhood and I wanted to figure out what she would remember. "Ash all over the place" is the answer to that question, for a five-year-old who grew up in Fremont.
Here's hoping St. Helens is just shifting around in her sleep. I'm all for getting life experiences to add verisimilitude to my writing, but a volcano blowing close enough to have an impact upon my life is one experience I can do without.