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Project Four- History + Nerd Trope

Mt. St Helens Erupting due to feuding Greek gods

On May 18th in the year 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted in Skamania County, Washington. The first significant volcanic eruption in the landlocked 48 states since 1915, it shocked the country.  It killed 57 people directly through it’s eruption, and damaged hundreds of square miles- turning it into a wasteland. Animals were killed, and a serene mountain was left with a crater in it’s side. It was preempted by two months of earthquakes and steam episodes before it burst, but very little know of the true cause of it’s mighty eruption. Two months of feuds. Of bickers. Two months of Hephaestus, god of fire and forge, feuding with Apollo as they worked to come to a consensus on a project that would benefit mankind. Hephaestus prided himself on being a patient god, but as the annoyance blared in his ears, his irritation rose. At first he could disperse it with steam, pacing, and rants. Yet the longer he was locked down their in the forge beneath St. Helens, he could feel himself maddening. His boiling point was May 18th, the final straw and the final idiotic comment by Apollo. He erupted, and while Apollo merely felt the sting, shaking it off as any god would, the land around them feels their bickering to this day. 

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