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Early Monday morning Erin and I drove down to the Mount Saint Helens National Monument.  Along the way I thought back to that day in May of 1980 when the mountain exploded.  In a matter of seconds, Mt. St. Helens had lost over 1300 feet of elevation.   Fifty-seven people had been killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, and nearly 200 miles of highway had been destroyed.  The eruption on May 18 caused the equivalent of 16 buckets full of dirt for e…