I used to live in Subic Bay...:)
Did you have to evacuate because of Pinatubo? That must have been damned scary.
Yes. They completely evacuated Clark, and evacuated all non-essentials from Subic. The first day it erupted it wasn't any big deal. Just a huge cloud. Then about 16 hours later, the big eruption happened at a time when a typhoon was coincidentally striking the islands. What a mess. At high noon, the sun was completely obscured as to create a darkness that only happens during a new moon - if the new moon also extinguished the stars too. That, coupled with the 100mph winds, the falling ash (which is really more like beach sand) and the earthquakes, made for a memorable 12 hours.
If you were familiar with Subic and Cubi, the O-Club at Subic was completely destroyed. Many of the buildings at the Marine Base - forget it's name - were destroyed except for the Quonset huts, which were unscathed. And, the O-Club at Cubi, with 60 years worth of memorabilia - all those model ships and planes - were destroyed because the roofs collapsed under the weight of the ash and water. The funny part - actually there was nothing funny about it, many Filipinos lost their lives - was that they Philippine government was negotiating with the US on extending the lease of Clark. They were playing hardball. After Clark was destroyed - and it was destroyed - the US said, "No thanks, you keep it". It was sad, considering the history of those two bases.