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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec30uU0G56U

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.

May 1980 was practically still the 70's