Mt Rainier: Concerned it will erupt in the future.

[marita]

Enumclaw and buckley are too windy.Orting sit's right in the way of a lahar.Was just down there.They are building sub divisions like crazy.Graham sits high and dry,no lahar danger.The mountain is like a craked vase.It will split open and cause a lahar instead of it blowing.I lived in graham,now next door in spanaway.

[madicarus2000]

Moochdawgg, let’s considers some alternatives, you plop down $300k for a house anywhere in the country and you risk tornados, blizzards, earthquakes, hurricanes, droughts, etc… and the list goes on.

Unlike earthquakes, at least with a volcano you get advanced warnings. Personally you should be more worried about house fires, theft, vandalism, and other actions that are more likely to occur.

View the mountain as a beautiful piece of scenery and replace the batteries in your smoke detector every 6 months.

[dachmom]

Unlike earthquakes, at least with a volcano you get advanced warnings. Personally you should be more worried about house fires, theft, vandalism, and other actions that are more likely to occur.

View the mountain as a beautiful piece of scenery and replace the batteries in your smoke detector every 6 months.

I agree! Remember, with Mt. St. Helens we had warnings for weeks, if not a couple months that something was going to happen. It didn't "just erupt" one day or there would have been a lot more lives lost.

That was in the 80's, just think how far technology has come since then. Scientist are monitoring the cascade range for earthquakes, etc. I'm not saying I would move to the foothills of Mt. Rainer, but it sure wouldn't scare me off from moving to Western Washington.

[MichaelinWA]

I don't know what the odds are exactly, but I'm sure that they are a lot longer than they are for the Hayward Fault to let go in the East Bay. So you should feel safer Seriously, the base of Mt. Rainier is a tad scary (Orting, for example). I see all those volcano evacuation route signs when I go to the national park, and it reminds me of the danger. Interesting info in this thread.

Originally Posted by moochdawgg

Hello I'm considering a move to Pierce Co. anywhere from graham,orting, buckley to enumclaw. Currently living in east bay area and feel the need to get out of here for fresh start.

My concern is that Mt. rainier may erupt and living in that area, lahar flows and debris will wipe us out. Does anyone know the odds of that happening and the type of destruction in that region? Last time it erupted, was 1854. Or would most of w. wa. be wiped out alltogether. Bad move ?????

[madicarus2000]

Originally Posted by MichaelinWA

I don't know what the odds are exactly, but I'm sure that they are a lot longer than they are for the Hayward Fault to let go in the East Bay. So you should feel safer Seriously, the base of Mt. Rainier is a tad scary (Orting, for example). I see all those volcano evacuation route signs when I go to the national park, and it reminds me of the danger. Interesting info in this thread.

Not only that, in California how often do you hear about the “new fault line” that is discovered. Now when is the last time you hear about the newly discovered volcano in an area inhabited by people?

While some may think they are safer being out of the volcano evacuation route zone, look around to see if you’re near a tsunami evacuation route.

No matter where you live, there is always something.

[vagabondher]

I live in South Hill. All the articles I've read where Puyallup was mentioned seemed, to me, to only refer to downtown where the river is. What kind of dangers are there for me, living on the hill? Would a lahar reach here? Ash is a given and maybe some debris, but I'm moreso worried about lahars and floods.

[Lynda05125]

Orting, Buckley, Encumclaw Sit right at the base of Mt Rainier I would not live that close to the sleeping giant, Graham might be okay but depends how far into Graham you live when Mt Rainier blows there won’t be any place safe from the firer and ash that will happen.
I live in South Hill Puyallup and all the evacuation signs point to come up to South Hill Puyallup to be safe “but the traffic already in Puyallup Is crazy, I couldn’t imagine what it would be like in a disaster.
You say you’re Unsure about weather in the northern sound region also well the Summers and very nice starting around May to End of September we have sunshine and days that sometimes get in the nineties (90) but come fall and winter we have Rain-wind and snow and dark gray days for days and days.
Washington is the most beautiful place in the world, “but if it could only have more sunshine then rain it would be perfect”but then everyone would want to live here and the traffic would really be bad.

[XXclimberX]

I would not advise anyone to buy real estate in the valley communities in and around Mt Rainier. Yes the chance of an eruption may be low, but the consquences would be catastrophic to say the least.

That being said its to bad the state of washington did not have stricter growth management when it comes to letting people live on sites which are in the path of past lahars from Mt. Rainier. I guess the only good news is that if a lahar does hit all the ugly communities living in the path will be destroyed. Hopefully they make it into a national monument like Mt. St. Helens =) JK