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ruckus666 t1_ja6lp0j wrote

And it will still look gorgeous while it's murdering us all! Ahh, the wonder and power of nature.

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starfyredragon t1_ja8gk0q wrote

Actually, with the prevailing easterlies, other than the people immediately around it, it's more likely to murder Idaho.

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ruckus666 t1_ja8ped6 wrote

>...other than the people immediately around it...

How immediately around it? Because there's a decent chunk of Washington between Mt. Tacoma and Idaho lol

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starfyredragon t1_jad6iso wrote

Basically those in the area of the immediate blast zone (the red area on the graph). Things will be high unpleasent for everyone else in its area of effect, but not murder-zone unpleasant. After the blast zone, the next biggest murder-doom is the smoke, which the prevailing easterlies will push over Idaho. The bigger concern for WA isn't if Rainer blows or its ash, it's if it triggers the fault lines.

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