Big things rumbled, you could hear them from far off, and you had to work out where they would come, and get away from them.

He had slept through his usual bedtime snack, and his rumbling tummy sort of distracted him.

She hunches forward, carrying hertwo-year-old on her back. Then, as cars and trucks rumble past, she leads thegroup on a steady march into town.

Soon enough, though, she was back at it, rumbling around the back roads of Redford Township, just west of Detroit, where her family owned a sprawling dairy and potato farm.

But in the early spring three decades ago, Mount St. Helens began to rumble.