preparing

• the Washington Department of Emergency Services advised everyone within a 15 mile radius to leave.
• local roads weren't closed off because the local authorities didn't lake the warnings seriously and the timber company still wanted to deliver timber.
• 300 of the Weyerhaeuser company, that was harvesting timber, were ordered to evacuate.
• during a conference Donal Mullineaux and Dwight Crandell state that:

  • the area may be decimated without warning by pyroclastic flows.
  • a landslide could hit the reservoir about 10 miles to the south and trigger a flood.
  • mud flows might sweep through the river valley.
• 2 hazard zones were put in place.

  • only scientists and law enforcement officials were allowed in the red zone.
  • loggers and property owners who only could come in the daytime and had to have permission were allowed in the blue zone.