[j. earl carter]

Yikes! I’d get one to three feet of ash. I better go check on the snowblower

Note that the numbers given were in millimeters. If you are in the 10 to 30 zone on the map, that would mean you'd get up to 1.2 inches of ash. An inch of ash wouldn't be fun, but still survivable.

[Clay Moore]

Assuming that ash isn’t still red hot.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My grandparents in North Idaho and got a good ash dump from Mt. St. Helens. Grandma sent each of us grandkids large pill vials of ash. I probably have mine around here somewhere. The area got one to three inches of ash fall.

The Spokane Spokesman-Review Rand some good personal recollections of the ash fall: Mount St. Helens memories: Ash, May 18, 2010.

[BBB333]

I’m in the >1,000 area and have a pockmarked lava rock from then last explosion...it’s larger than a softball, smaller than a football.

It came from a excavation that went down 30 feet or so...deep for our area.

I also have a 32” Honda snow blower which would work for about two minutes until the engine would seize from the dust.