ruckus666 t1_ja6lp0j wrote on February 27, 2023 at 5:39 AM

Reply to comment by Gwtheyrn in Mt. Rainier (or "Tacoma", as the Puyallup Tribe calls it) from Dune Peninsula Park at Point Defiance in the City of Tacoma by TryingToBeHere

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

starfyredragon t1_ja8gk0q wrote on February 27, 2023 at 4:57 PM

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

ruckus666 t1_ja8ped6 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 5:53 PM

>...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

starfyredragon t1_jad6iso wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:19 PM

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.