Matt Kuchta

In other words, a typical McCullough Tuesday…

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You only need to see ONE chainsaw accident X-ray to never want to take your gloves off again…

Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice

kristi noem is like a box of chocolates

they'll both kill your dog

You say #3 after you eat #1 after it has sat next to #2 for too long .

Same. But for sugar cookies…

That sounds great! I could use some additional sources for my “Dinosaurs, Diamonds, and Disasters” class

Saved so I can improve my “natural resource” lectures with more direct language about social effects.

Building on Blake's post, if there's one book I recommend everyone read about the eruption, it's Richard Waitt's work. IMHO, this is *the* book.

Also, if you're an audiobooker (my people), you can also find it on Audible.

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Between deep-frying turkeys and putting up lights I would be willing to bet the third week of November week ranks close to, if not above the first week of July for emergency calls

Even weirder to realize that while we are both fancy bags of water, a snail is a bag of water that moves by leaking.

Happy Birthday from a fellow Halloween kid!

Almost looks like a shipwreck in the lower right, but given that it’s aligned with the regional glacial flow direction, more likely to be erosion/deposition related.

Not much of any kind of vegetation sticking up. Some combination of dry, grazed, and maybe just after snowmelt?

Based on the exposed roots, looks like gully development followed the clear cut.

Poniatowski, wi. About 30 miles WNW of Wausau.

The intersection of 45 degrees north latitude and 90 degrees west longitude. The middle of the northwest hemisphere.

Was at ground zero for true geography nerds today

A banner advertising a company named “Kafka Granite.”

How gneiss…

In the path of destruction: eyewitness accounts of Mt St Helens. A book by Richard Waitt.

“In the path of destruction” by Richard Waitt (2014) is perhaps the most comprehensive and the one I would start with.

Most people in my grandfather’s generation switched to circuit breakers when they came out. But not my grandpa - he simply refused.

I get the feeling that O’Keefe/Baker left too late, but we’re able to overtake that point of no return by driving out of their minds on that mountain road. Between the blast cloud and going too fast around a curve, they threaded an impossibly small needle to survive.

Illustrator peaked as a software product in 1999.

A USGS photograph showing the edge of St Helen’s blast zone and an arrow pointing to a little speck of a wrecked car just 800 yards from standing, unscorched trees.

Follow the Saturday evening tableau with the panic and chaos of Sunday morning.

The raw emotional hit when comparing O’Keefe and Baker, who made it away from the blast, and the Rollins’ station wagon sitting crushed under fallen trees just half a mile from the edge of the blast zone.

A 3d contour map made of stacked acrylic sheets

I do something like this and also have them stack sheets of acrylic with each contour to help visualize topography. Can add water table elevations too.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Everyone in that plane is about to experience the entire span of human emotions over the next ten minutes

[Quietly sets the hickory chips and brisket down…]