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Dave and Jan's travels:
Mount St. Helens
 

So there you are, you're an old-growth forest tree, maybe 250 feet high, about 1,500 years old. Next thing you know, along comes a hundred mile an hour pyroclastic flow, a kind of wind with house sized rocks in. And all that's left are the roots.