I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelens
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing your unique experience.
I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelens
Damn we are connected in some odd way. I too was in Riverfront Park that afternoon. Eating an ice cream with dust flakes on it with my friend Corey. I remember riding my bike thru 6 inches of powdery ash for sometime after.
I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelens
Damn we are connected in some odd way. I too was in Riverfront Park that afternoon. Eating an ice cream with dust flakes on it with my friend Corey. I remember riding my bike thru 6 inches of powdery ash for sometime after.
History Channel has another Titans Who Made America three parter going. Watching part 1 and it was the US Mail that got first Ford, then Boeing to see the profit in air travel as more than a novelty. Both made millions off of Air Mail contracts. Boeing ended up beating Ford out. Then Ford hired Lindy to get passengers to think air travel was safe and away we went.
It reminded me that in my lifetime there was an air mail stamp where you could pay extra to get it sent by air. Now its all by air.
Speed speed speed became very important at the dawn of the 20th century. All of which lead to this website.
I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelens
Damn we are connected in some odd way. I too was in Riverfront Park that afternoon. Eating an ice cream with dust flakes on it with my friend Corey. I remember riding my bike thru 6 inches of powdery ash for sometime after.
Was washing my sweet ride and couldn’t figure out WTF was happening.
No school that week and got busted trying to bootleg some beer at Rosauers.
I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelens
Damn we are connected in some odd way. I too was in Riverfront Park that afternoon. Eating an ice cream with dust flakes on it with my friend Corey. I remember riding my bike thru 6 inches of powdery ash for sometime after.
Was washing my sweet ride and couldn’t figure out WTF was happening.
No school that week and got busted trying to bootleg some beer at Rosauers.
Was in Spokane for older sisters marching band in Lilac Festival parade. Parents never listened to radio in the car. Drove around all day oblivious and only found out when getting gas around 4 in Airway Heights the volcano blew that morning. My father the Korean War vet of course decided to soldier on and make it home to Omak. Darkness descended before we made it to the end of Airway Heights, where the Texas BBQ place had the goat tied up to entertain bratty kids like us.
Like midnight at 5 pm. Headlights were worthless. Three inches of ash at least every hour. Wrecks everywhere. Something out of Mad Max. Had to stop twice and huddled with people we barely knew. My father, always hard headed, fashioned a filter out of cardboard and tshirts for the Ford fairmont wagon and we soldiered on into the darkness. Relief came first around Grand Coulee, ash cloud was getting light enough to see more than 20 feet ahead.
Normally a 3 hour trip, took 9 hours. Still have the bag of ash I got off the car somewhere.
I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelens
Damn we are connected in some odd way. I too was in Riverfront Park that afternoon. Eating an ice cream with dust flakes on it with my friend Corey. I remember riding my bike thru 6 inches of powdery ash for sometime after.
Was washing my sweet ride and couldn’t figure out WTF was happening.
No school that week and got busted trying to bootleg some beer at Rosauers.
Didn’t realize all the Spooks on this board. Especially surprised grumble is one. Spokane had about an inch of ash. Darkness came at 4 o’clock. And didn’t see the Sun for 3 days. The ‘Rents were coming back from a Softball tournament from Yakima and their truck choked out somewhere on I-90. They were road rescued by the WSP and had to share a Moses Lake hotel room with about 8 people and ration food for 3 days. They had about 5 inches of ash in Moses Lake.
One of the first known photo shops. DuPont wanted to pretend the 250 foot tower on top had a purpose because Chrysler said it shouldn't count. This photo ran in all the papers. An airship never docked there
One of the first known photo shops. DuPont wanted to pretend the 250 foot tower on top had a purpose because Chrysler said it shouldn't count. This photo ran in all the papers. An airship never docked there
One of the first known photo shops. DuPont wanted to pretend the 250 foot tower on top had a purpose because Chrysler said it shouldn't count. This photo ran in all the papers. An airship never docked there
Race was there, and did it again.
Race was using photo shop before photo shop was a thing.
One of the first known photo shops. DuPont wanted to pretend the 250 foot tower on top had a purpose because Chrysler said it shouldn't count. This photo ran in all the papers. An airship never docked there
Race was there, and did it again.
Race was using photo shop before photo shop was a thing.
I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelens
Damn we are connected in some odd way. I too was in Riverfront Park that afternoon. Eating an ice cream with dust flakes on it with my friend Corey. I remember riding my bike thru 6 inches of powdery ash for sometime after.
Was washing my sweet ride and couldn’t figure out WTF was happening.
No school that week and got busted trying to bootleg some beer at Rosauers.
Didn’t realize all the Spooks on this board. Especially surprised grumble is one. Spokane had about an inch of ash. Darkness came at 4 o’clock. And didn’t see the Sun for 3 days. The ‘Rents were coming back from a Softball tournament from Yakima and their truck choked out somewhere on I-90. They were road rescued by the WSP and had to share a Moses Lake hotel room with about 8 people and ration food for 3 days. They had about 5 inches of ash in Moses Lake.
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It reminded me that in my lifetime there was an air mail stamp where you could pay extra to get it sent by air. Now its all by air.
Speed speed speed became very important at the dawn of the 20th century. All of which lead to this website.
Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting (REACT): Armageddon with a Floppy disk and trackball!
No school that week and got busted trying to bootleg some beer at Rosauers.
Like midnight at 5 pm. Headlights were worthless. Three inches of ash at least every hour. Wrecks everywhere. Something out of Mad Max. Had to stop twice and huddled with people we barely knew. My father, always hard headed, fashioned a filter out of cardboard and tshirts for the Ford fairmont wagon and we soldiered on into the darkness. Relief came first around Grand Coulee, ash cloud was getting light enough to see more than 20 feet ahead.
Normally a 3 hour trip, took 9 hours. Still have the bag of ash I got off the car somewhere.
May 1980 was practically still the 70's