Today is the 42 anniversary of the eruption of #MountSaintHelens (I feel a tad old now). I would love to hear your memories of it, should you have any.
I heard the boom, but didn't realize what it was at the time. We weren't in the path of major ash fall, but did see dustings now and then over the next few weeks. I wrote about it a couple of years ago in my newsletter. #volcano
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@librarianguish I would've been 9, in a suburb of Portland, OR. We watched the smoke pour out of the mountain.
That was the last time people started wearing masks (because of the ash). Banks were little nervous about this.
@peterdrake I lived just north of Seattle, and while we couldn't see the initial eruption sometimes we were able to catch a glimpse of the ongoing ash clouds if we were in the right spot. We also go some light dustings of ash in the later small eruptions.