We left the airport early this morning. We arrived at the airport, and printed out our airline tickets. Coping with the new touch screens at the kiosk was tough, and we had to rush to get through Security to reach our flight. Evidently at Security you must remove all belts, shoes, and watches, or they will remove them for you. My wife found it extremely creepy that these old men took so much interest in patting her down.
The flight went relatively smoothly, and we landed in Seattle 15 minutes earlier than scheduled. Unfortunately, though, when we were retrieving our bags from baggage claim, a misplaced Grizzly Bear approached my precious two children. Fearing for their lives, the children ran. They ran for miles, until they found themselves trapped in the crater of a nearby mountain named Mt. St. Helens. Luckily though, a park ranger was on hand to witness this horrific account and he shot the bear, ending the horrific ordeal. On the way back, the park ranger showed us how Mt. St. Helens was an example of a subduction zone. As we learned, the Atlantic Ocean is widening due to a divergent boundary, and it is pushing the North American plate against the plate of Juan De Fuca. These two plates collide, and because one of them is more dense (heavier, sinks), it gets pushed under (subducts) into the mantle. It becomes lava, and gets shot out as a volcano. Before an eruption, there are many earthquakes. Scientists use these earthquakes to predict when an eruption will happen. Most recently, there was a major eruption in 1980, killing more than 50 people. Mt. St Helens sits at latitude 46 degrees N and 122 degrees W.
Below is a picture of me and my family before we drove to the airport, the crater that my son was rescued in, and a diagram of a subduction zone.
haha, that picture of the people is funny
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