In early 1981 I was being recruited/interviewed for a job near Seattle and, as part of the process, they took me up in a nice pressurized Cessna for a tour of the Puget Sound area. Once we got down to Olympia we flew southeast to have an eagle's view the Mt. St. Helen's area. Evidence of the sweep and magnitude of that eruption event was stunning - difficult to believe that such enormous power can be so quickly unleashed from the Earth's crust.
Creation must have been quite an event.
