Posted on 05/19/2015 10:51:00 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Thirty-five years have passed since Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington, killing 57 people and raining ash throughout the state.
Lisa Rainey shared a photo of jarred ash with Seattle's KIRO-TV, writing: "Ashes and a newspaper from Mount St. Helen's blast from 1980 ... my grandma and grandpa scooped up ashes in their yard from the blast.”
When the photo was shared on Facebook, many viewers began to share their memories of that day – May 18, 1980.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.whio.com ...
I have a jar full of ash that is my aunt.
As a kid I lived in the town of Cougar - ground Zero - but I was living in Spokane when she went and we all thought, it’s about time. A few hours later it was pitch black at 2 in the afternoon and you couldn’t see a street light from 50 feet away. When the sky cleared it looked like the moon. The ash was so fine if a car drove by the ash would be suspended for a half hour blinding any drivers, hence, only emergency vehicles for the first week. Stores were out of product, ash in every nook and cranny, clothes ruined. About a year later I had the opportunity to fly over the crater - frigging awesome.
I believe that a split second after death, one is quite impressed.
I was stationed at Travis on 26 Oct 1980, my first active duty assignment. I came to hate the place because it was always cold, windy and the winter rains seemed to never end. (Love the Bay Area though, some great times were had there)
Smart ash. ;>
Great memories, that was in the early '80's.
Chromium 0.02
Zinc 0.02
Copper 0.03
Lead 0.03
Barium 0.04
Strontium 0.06
Manganese 0.12
Phosphorus 0.35
Titanium 0.90
Potassium 1.20
Magnesium 2.59
Sodium 4.18
Calcium 5.36
Iron 6.02
Zirconium 8.02
Aluminum 16.60
Silicon 60.50
These numbers add up to more than 100%. 106.04%, actually, but I'm not certain where they're off, since I have nothing else to go by.
There's also a statement "Traces of sulfur and chlorine can be seen by x-ray but not enough to measure. Non-pozzolanic: Meaning when mixed with water will not form a cement or concrete. Will return to ash when dry. Used 2 grams of ash in 25 milliliters of water for testing."
The ash was collected in Richland, WA.
To be fair, they were warned well-enough ahead of time to leave the area.
Bought my Mom & Dad some commemorative Mt. St. Helens whiskey in this cool "bottle" as a gag:
They are both gone now. I wonder what happened to that jug? They had it on display in the family room for a long time (humoring the son, no doubt). Haven't thought about that in probably 35 years.
I’m in Silicon Valley — sure don’t remember any ashfall here. You sure it hit SJ? I thought the plume all went east.
They're ALL "off". Each of those measurements has an error bar, and I'd wager that if all the error bars were properly combined, they would add up to more than 6.04% ...
I lived in Nampa, ID at the time, east and south of Mt. St. Helens, and I don't remember any ash from it, either. The map in this link may explain why. It appears that it went just north of us heading east, before expanding out and going south. Nampa, ID is on I-84 about 30 miles southeast of the ID/OR border, or on the linked map, just south of the ash plume area.
Just asked my folks, we got trace amounts in our area - a light dusting at most. Which probably explains why I don’t remember any.
It’s a pretty spot to view from.
LOL! Entrepreneurs!
Watch the end of The Big Lebowski and take her to the beach in a Folger’s can.
Luke 13:1-5 applies.
Luke 13:1-5 applies.
Are you sure that isn’t the label off a vitamin bottle....
Looks like the ingredients off of one : )
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