Susan,

If you can pickup or request USGS Fact Sheet 034-02 (2002)

Mount Rainier--Learning to Live with Volcanic Risk

It has a nice discussion and map of potential lahar/mudflow/lava flow/flooding models.

Essentially the Elbe, Carbon, Puyallup, White and Cowlitz river valleys are at risk.

However this brochure and the presenation noted that lahar risk from Rainier is great due to its proximity to communities and all models are models only, and these volcanoes are not predictable.....preplaning is everything.

"Who knows what Mother Nature is going to do?!"

Yes!, -Just look what happened to a Fellow Cascade Volcanic Peak some 7000 years ago, -Mt Mazama, -now Crater Lake, Oregon. And it was on a Scale or Par with Ranier too!

Though Ranier might not be as Bad should it go, -Theres also No Guarantee it will be Tamer!

And then of course there are the World's Tobas, Tamboras, Yellowstones, et al! Which make even Krakatoa look like Child's Play!, -Let Alone Little Fellas like St. Helens!

Also, -regarding earlier posts in this Thread, -I recall seeing, -perhaps from National Geographic, -that while most Ranier Mudflows etc (or was it Hood or some other equivalent Washington area Cascade Volcano?), -are Most Unlikely to reach the Sound, -One is Quite Likely to! [color:"black"] [/color] [email]widget[/email]

A Small Correction Frenchy, -Reunion is not West of Madagascar, but rather East. Perhaps you meant to say "Mauritius", -though I'm unclear at the moment as to which, -Reunion or Mauritius, -is the Furthest East. In either case, -Madagascar is of course Furthest West.

(Incidentally, Frenchy, -I'm in the process of Teaching myself French! In the course of which, -I've found myself to be even More Into!, -and in Like / Love with French and much of French Culture / Lifestyle!, -than I even earlier Thought!

But though I know a Majority of the Words of your Fine, Upstanding Language!, -I Caution that I'm not yet Ready to Converse with you in it! Such Grammar is soon to be a Phase Two.

I've Found that I Really Identify With, -and Relate to!, -France, French, the French, and a Lot of Things French! But this Doesn't extend to our recent, Major Differences! <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> This Affinity includes in a Major Way, -your "Magnifique!" Cuisine! And Canadian Quebecois matters too!

Now I know Why a lot of French Gals round here that I've Run Across, -have Taken a Liking to me! <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> For I'm indeed more "French", -than I earlier thought!
It's occurred to me that if this parenthetical mention gets any longer!, -it might be more Appropriate in a PM! Ah!, -but Let Others in on it as well!). [color:"black"] [/color] [email]frenchy[/email]

Ooooopsss.... you're right of course !
I meant "East of Madagascar. <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
Mauritius is, AFAIK, east of La R?union.

Thanks for correcting my error.


P.S. : french is not very hard to learn. Well... I quite succeed .... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

It took over a month, -but I'm finally back at this public computer, -and can now Acknowledge your Reply. Tried doing so a few days ago, via a PM, -but at least that particular computer here, -spit up a sexual site screen message, -when I finally and suppossedly submitted my response to you. This Submission was then Lost. Don't want to Risk that again. And so this now appears publicly on this Forum.

I've had to Regrettably and Temporarily put my French Studies aside. For I am now, and for a while to come, finally homeless. And so have been preoccupied lately with my "Out Surviving" Preps and Activities.

So Far, So Good, -I'm doing Allright, -and I expect this to continue, -and to eventually get even Better.

I typically find an Adequate to occassionally even Abundant supply, -of Decent, Good, Food.

But being Busy with other Survival Prep Tasks lately, -much of my Food I've stashed away in the Outdoors, -(which once was Indoors), -has been gotten at by Animals.I was Hoping against Hope, -that this would somehow "Go By Them", -until I got more basically Settled In. -But in my Head, -somehow I knew it wouldn't. And thus I'm not Surprised. I've gotten it up into Trees now, -as another and Better stopgap, -and so far thats working very well.

I Look Forward to again, sometime soon, -to get back on with my French! Prior to this, -I've made a Good Scan and Familiarization through a majority of the Larousse Unabridged. (This is how I know so many of your Words. IMHO, -I do have at least something, resembling a Photographic Memory. And we all know what a Quality Source Larousse is!) (Along with other French Sources towards getting Grammar and other Aspects) And Naturally, -I'm Aiming for , and Determined to, -Finish this!

So it's "Settle In and Survive!" First and Now, -and This that I've Started, -Soon Enough and to Come!

Au Revoir! [color:"black"] [/color] [email]frenchy[/email]

Au revoir ... and good luck !