the impact of Mt St Helens

• the blast flattened buildings and trees crushing people to death. they also knocked over telephone and electrical lines
• landslide buried the north fork turtle river by 200 metres
• the blast killed all plants animals 25 km north of the volcano. 7000 animals died.
• people were swept away by mud flows.
• the mud flow choked rivers with sediment, killing all fish and water life and completely filling spirit lake.
• most people were killed by poisonous gases that accompanied the blast.
• Dixie Ray was largely blamed for 57 deaths because she delayed the zones being changed and she had finale says over the zones.
• Harry Truman was the only person who was told to evacuate be refused to do so