Mt. St. Helens (before)

Mt. St. Helens, March, 1980 (two months before the main eruption)

Incidentally, friends 'n neighbors, even though the mountain has been building up at the rate of a dumptruck-sized amount of material every second since it started rumbling again back in October, at this current rate of mountain building it is expected to take eleven years before the mountain would be the size it was in the photo above.

Good gosh.