That must have been exciting. I think that eruption screwed up what was mostly a nice little country. My flight from Clark, which was buried by Pinatubo ash, to Travis was my favorite flight ever.
Exciting..if you like ash which covered the entire country. I thought it was snowing LOL My Dad on the phone started yelling at his boss in New York over the phone that he couldnt even travel out of the hotel to do his work for Shell.