A few months later, America fired Jimmy Carter.
Would that we remember that truth today.
I remember that, too...
The photos of it were awe inspiring and showed just how little we are on this planet.
I still remember that guy Harry Truman. What a cantankerous stubborn bastard. And I grew up to be just like him.
I was living in San Diego at the time, working for a ceramics company - we made molds, glazes, sold kilns, etc.
A number of the guys who created our special glazes jumped in the truck and drove north until they found ash. They created some outstanding ceramic glazes with that ash. Wish I still had a few pieces of that pottery!
I was stationed at McChord, and remember having a mini-earthquake in the barracks at the time. Strangely....we all wanted to go drive down and actually see the thing up close and personal.
I have a jar full of ash my aunt brought me from the eruption.
A buddy of mine father had a car wash down town LA I worked there we bottled ash from my fire place and made labels and sold them for a while we made bank till the dad said no more Cant believe ts been 35 years ago
I still have a small jar filled with the ash taken from my grandparent’s yard in Ellensburg, which is about 100 miles to the northeast.
I lived in Santa Cruz, CA at the time and we got dusted from that thing.
You’d go to San Jose, CA and everything was dusted.
Nasty
>God can move the mountains at His will.
Doing it without killing 57 innocent people would be more impressive.
Pretty sobering when you consider that Mt. St. Helens threw out more carban green house gasses in 1 day than all of mankind up until that point in time.
Vancouver, this is it.
A puny volcano is no match for the destructive power of SUVs.
I thought how cool it would be to be around St. Helens when I was a kid. That lasted up until 2012 when I WAS in the path of a volcano in Bariloche Argentina. Mt. Puyehue blew in Chile and the ash cloud blew right over the town. It was not a fun event. After the initial 15 minutes of thinking, “how cool” the novelty wore off once the ash started falling.
I was living in a waterfront shack on Commencement Bay in Tacoma when it blew. We had been dusted with ash a few times before the main eruption but the winds that day carried most of it to the East. We could see the plume clearly.
I was working for Tektronix at the time.........in Atlanta.............
We’re about 100 miles away as the crow flies. I remember driving to a local promontory where we could watch the ash cloud as it rose and blossomed. The ash was headed away from our town so we knew that we weren’t in immediate danger but all the worry-warts on the radio were talking Armageddon.
Then we turned on the boob-toob and got the reports from Eastern Washington where they were in the path of the ash-cloud and it got dark in the middle of the day. My wife bought into a bunch of the “end of the world” jabber and was frantic for several days.
Ash alert!
I remember dust on our cars and house. We lived on the coast in Washington state, about 262.3 miles from the event.
Yellowstone should be quite spectacular.