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This unusual shaped clover was found growing in the blast zone of Mt. St. Helens about 20 years after the blast. Life is slowly returning to the area and so are the animals. Even this animal. I was about 4 miles out of the zone when it all happened. The sound of the blast was heard as far away as Spokane Washington but I never heard it. The scientists say that it was moving so quickly that it passed right along the ridge tops and anyone in the valleys probably never heard it. The first thing that happened to alert me that something drastic had happened was it started raining rocks and tree branches. Then the sky went black with lightning the color of which I have never seen before. It was blood red. I wasn't really sure, at the time, that the world wasn't ending. The temperature rose to about 100 degrees F (38 C) and then the ash started to fall. I was stranded there for 3 and one half days until the National Guard rescued us. What an experience. It took me 10 years to even want to go anywhere near the Mt. When I did I was absolutly amazed at the devastation.