Thirty years ago today, at 8:32 AM, Washington experienced this:
Where were you when Helens erupted?
2 thoughts on “From Your Corner of Washington: St. Helens”
I was with a course (Spring Block) from Huxley College at WWU in the Pasayten Wilderness Area in northcentral WA when we heard low level rumbling and booming off in the distance. We all thought it was thunder but we saw no storm clouds.
Later that day or early the next, the District Forest Service Ranger hiked up to check on us. He told us the mountain had blown and there was ash everywhere (but not where we were). When we hiked down to the trailhead in the next few days and headed back to Bellingham, we fully experienced the mountain’s impact of ash fall. An amazing event.
I was in the back yard in our home in the Sumner Valley and even at that distance the ash cloud looked like many of the apocalyptic scenes from disaster movies. By the next morning we had about 1/2 inch of ash that looked like dirty snow. I still have several copies of the Tacoma News Tribune Special Edition for that day. Patrick R
2 thoughts on “From Your Corner of Washington: St. Helens”
I was with a course (Spring Block) from Huxley College at WWU in the Pasayten Wilderness Area in northcentral WA when we heard low level rumbling and booming off in the distance. We all thought it was thunder but we saw no storm clouds.
Later that day or early the next, the District Forest Service Ranger hiked up to check on us. He told us the mountain had blown and there was ash everywhere (but not where we were). When we hiked down to the trailhead in the next few days and headed back to Bellingham, we fully experienced the mountain’s impact of ash fall. An amazing event.
I was in the back yard in our home in the Sumner Valley and even at that distance the ash cloud looked like many of the apocalyptic scenes from disaster movies. By the next morning we had about 1/2 inch of ash that looked like dirty snow. I still have several copies of the Tacoma News Tribune Special Edition for that day. Patrick R
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