Mt St Helens

[Treasure_Hunter]

Who remembers...

 

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[ArfieBoy]

I remember. I was working in my yard and I heard a rumble. I looked around the neighborhood and didn't see anything. Looked at my watch. After I heard the news about the mountain blowing I calculated the time and I heard the rumble at the time the blast noise would have reached here in N.E. Oregon! Then for a weeek or so afterward we got light volcanic dust fallout.

 

[tamrock]

The thing I remember about it was I lived in Buena Vista, Colorado. A day or two after the big eruption we were dropped off at our car pool parking lots after a graveyard shift. Your vehicle were covered in the cool early morning dew, but that morning there were these black specks of a tiny grained particles, pretty much all the same size covering all the vehicles. Someone said, What's all this black crap all over my car. Then someone said it's all over everyone's vehicles. Then someone said it's gotta be dust from the Mount Saint Helen's eruption. Looking back I wished I would've taken a credit card and piled up a small amount of it to collect, because those particals must've blown high in the stratosphere and came down more than 1200 miles from the volcano.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

I remember Harry Truman, the elderly man who refused to leave his home. I don't think they ever found his body...

 

[DizzyDigger]

I was still living in So. Cal. at the time, but my parents lived in a small town NE of Seattle. They told me about how the sky was just dark with all the ash in the air, and it covered their roof and cars, as well.

I now live about 10 mi. from the base of 10,800' Mt Baker, another of the volcano's in the region. So far, it's played nice..

 

[ToddsPoint]

I’m in the Midwest so the only thing I noticed were the pretty sunsets.