pro_junior Report This Comment Date: May 18, 2020 04:59PM
40 years ago today in Vancouver, Washington, I stood atop a pile of gravel in
my neighborhood and watched mount Saint Helens erupt approximately 50 miles
away.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: May 18, 2020 11:11PM
Spent a week with a chic in Yakima who was campin w/her then husband about 60
miles away.
She told me they heard the eruption and thought it was thunder just as she
started to do their morning dishes. She said several minutes later she told her
husband "Look, it's starting to sprinkle!".
Then she said she noticed when the droplets hit her jacket they were igniting it
and said they knew instantly what it was.
They threw everything in the bed of their truck and started the 30 mile trek
back to Yakima but she said in another few minutes the ash fall was so thick
they couldn't even see the road.
She said the usual 35 minute drive home wound up takin 6hrs
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: May 19, 2020 04:34AM
Sounds like they were lucky to get out of there..have heard a few stories like
that over the years here in the Pacific Northwest..We're also a little concerned
about Mount Rainier..if that goes the Puget Sound area (Seattle, Tacoma,
Olympia, etc) will be fucked.
