Mount Hood's last major eruption occurred in the 1790's not long before Lewis and Clark's expedition to the Pacific Northwest. In the mid-1800's, local residents reported minor explosive activity, but since that time the volcano has been quiet.
Signal Colors and Their Meaning. The colors used in today's signals are green, yellow, red, lunar, and white (remember, we're talking about signals in North America). The color of a signal tells the engineer what he has to do, the location of that color, determines the speed at which he is allowed to do it.We will get to the speed thing in a minute.he colors used in today's signals are green, yellow, red, lunar, and white (remember, we're talking about signals in North America). The color of a signal tells the engineer what he has to do, the location of that color, determines the speed at which he is allowed to do it. We will get to the speed thing in a minute.
Color, or colour (see spelling differences) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, blue, yellow, etc. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light power versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors.