re: #3 EmmmieG
I grew up next to Mt. St. Helens. You better believe we monitored it.
p.s. I cannot believe anybody ever paid for any of that ash. It was a total pain in the tush.
Why pay for it? When I woke up the morning after the eruption and went out to my car, it had a very thin coating of fine ash on it.
I live halfway across the country from Mt. St. Helens.