John and Doves,

Mt. Rainier was in the news this week. Here are some reasons why it is so very dangerous.

* It could erupt without warning

*  A huge population would be in the path of the flowing mud, rocks and lava flow.

* Thousands of people would have to evacuate within a half hour (most likely impossible ).

* The mud, water, and rock flows at 80 miles an hour.

Mt. Rainier, coming to life ( most dangerous ) Nov. 3, 2015
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-most-dangerous-mountain-in-the-united-states-what-would-happen-if-mt-rainier-erupted
and
http://geology.com/usgs/rainier/

Mt. Rainier
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Rainier/framework.html
"Rainier, which has more glacier ice on it than all the other 12 Cascade volcanoes combined, is the only mountain in the contiguous United States where regional roads are marked with large white arrows and signs that say, "Volcano Evacuation Route."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42059-2003Aug10.html

Mt. Rainier [Washington State] and American Volcanoes
"To a layperson's eye, Mount Rainier looks unchanged from the way it appeared two centuries ago when a member of Captain George Vancouver's exploratory crew first sketched it--serene, stately, a symbol of permanence. Here, looks are deceiving. Rainier sits along the boundary of tectonic plates forming Earth's crust.

Off the coast of Seattle in the Pacific Northwest, a heavy chunk of seafloor called the Juan de Fuca plate has been ramming itself under the lighter North American plate at the rate of an inch and a half a year, about a third as fast as hair grows. Squeezed and heated, the rock melts into magma, blobs of which rise toward the surface into chambers where it becomes trapped, cooking and rolling like boiling oatmeal. When the pressure becomes too great, it bursts free, throwing out lava, gas, steam, ash, and hot rocks. Rainier is a series of successive lava flows broken up by centuries of ice, water, percolating volcanic gases, and the mountain's own internal heat. When scientists look inside Rainier, they find some of its rock crumbly and weak. The mountain is dangerously unstable, a tall, steep heap of loose rocks held together by the force of gravity and a cubic mile of glacier ice that could be melted or shaken loose."

"Of course, volcanoes unpredictably express themselves in several ways: Rainier could blow, or flow, or both. One danger is a ground-hugging avalanche of incandescent rock (as hot as 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit), ash, and gas racing downhill at 80 miles an hour.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1511/11_20/57042525/print.jhtml

Volcanic Mt. Rainier  ( Puget Sound area ...Seattle )
 “A monumental threat,” said William E. Scott, scientist in charge of the Cascades Volcano Observatory, a USGS center that monitors volcanoes from California to Alaska.
 Beneath its dreamy mantel of snow, Mount Rainier is an active volcano, and it is rotting from the inside out, especially on its western flank, which drains toward population centers. The volcano has a long, spotty history of spontaneous collapse and massive mudflows called lahars.
About 150,000 people now live atop lahars that have rioted down the slopes of Mount Rainier over the past 5,000 years. The lahars ran all the way to what are now the ports of Tacoma and Seattle, distances, respectively, of 50 and 75 miles."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/950829.asp?0cv=CB10

Our volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters are increasing as birthpangs. We can lift up our heads for our Redemption draws near. Luke 21.

In Him,
Angela Goodrick
http://hopetotheend.com/volcanoes.html