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.
... a 'flight' of B-36 'Peacemakers' darkening the sky. I miss my childhood days (late 50's early 60's) when the USAF was much more keen on burning aviation fuel and scaring the barnyard chickens. All sorts of stuff used to go zooming over my small Ohio town. We got to see our "tax dollars at work!".
It was in fact reassuring and instilled some pride and sense of patriotism. For those of us that lived it; the Cold War was a very scary time!
This reminds me of my college special teams coach sending us out for kickoff coverage which I guess is the point. These dudes were bad ass and Ike MAGA
If I had any money, I'd pay a princely sum of it to do this tour. I'd pay even more if I could bring in an airsoft gun with which to order a fellow tourgoer to turn their key.
... a 'flight' of B-36 'Peacemakers' darkening the sky. I miss my childhood days (late 50's early 60's) when the USAF was much more keen on burning aviation fuel and scaring the barnyard chickens. All sorts of stuff used to go zooming over my small Ohio town. We got to see our "tax dollars at work!".
It was in fact reassuring and instilled some pride and sense of patriotism. For those of us that lived it; the Cold War was a very scary time!
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Antifa to boot
1950's ... the "Aluminum Overcast"
... a 'flight' of B-36 'Peacemakers' darkening the sky. I miss my childhood days (late 50's early 60's) when the USAF was much more keen on burning aviation fuel and scaring the barnyard chickens. All sorts of stuff used to go zooming over my small Ohio town. We got to see our "tax dollars at work!".
It was in fact reassuring and instilled some pride and sense of patriotism. For those of us that lived it; the Cold War was a very scary time!
And this is a very good point.
This reminds me of my college special teams coach sending us out for kickoff coverage which I guess is the point. These dudes were bad ass and Ike MAGA
But I don't, so I won't.
Blunderbus presented to King Louis XV by Catherine the Great.
Also fuck you fish!