Posted on 05/19/2015 10:51:00 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Thirty-five years have passed since Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington, killing 57 people and raining ash throughout the state.
Lisa Rainey shared a photo of jarred ash with Seattle's KIRO-TV, writing: "Ashes and a newspaper from Mount St. Helen's blast from 1980 ... my grandma and grandpa scooped up ashes in their yard from the blast.”
When the photo was shared on Facebook, many viewers began to share their memories of that day – May 18, 1980.
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A few months later, America fired Jimmy Carter.
Would that we remember that truth today.
I remember that, too...
The photos of it were awe inspiring and showed just how little we are on this planet.
I still remember that guy Harry Truman. What a cantankerous stubborn bastard. And I grew up to be just like him.
She also has some hidden health issues.
She is getting old.
IMO she is either going to kill herself running or is just making the moves to justify the tens of millions donated to her foundation.
I was living in San Diego at the time, working for a ceramics company - we made molds, glazes, sold kilns, etc.
A number of the guys who created our special glazes jumped in the truck and drove north until they found ash. They created some outstanding ceramic glazes with that ash. Wish I still had a few pieces of that pottery!
I was stationed at McChord, and remember having a mini-earthquake in the barracks at the time. Strangely....we all wanted to go drive down and actually see the thing up close and personal.
I have a jar full of ash my aunt brought me from the eruption.
Did you mean to post that on another thread??
A buddy of mine father had a car wash down town LA I worked there we bottled ash from my fire place and made labels and sold them for a while we made bank till the dad said no more Cant believe ts been 35 years ago
Just think, that eruption was a small one compared to the Yellowstone one.
Poor Harry Truman’s bones will be found by a geological/palaentological dig sometime in the future... Ashed.
Remember that old man that would not come off of the mountain, Harry Truman? I thought he was one cool dude back then, still do. Heres to you Harry
Pretty awesome event.
Ouchy ouchy, you are right, I or my computer played tricks on me.
Sorry...
I still have a small jar filled with the ash taken from my grandparent’s yard in Ellensburg, which is about 100 miles to the northeast.
I remember it well. That was the volcano Democrats and experts were saying it would take ‘generations’ from which to recover. Vast quantities of money would be needed for government to fix it.
Untold devastation and protracted misery that somehow was implied to be the fault of Freon gas (or whatever other bugaboo product econuts and pandering Democrat politicians were against at the time).
Perhaps someone here could post some pictures of Present Day Mt. St. Helens and surrounding.
I also seem to remember some three or four years hence a news report about how miraculously mother nature was rebounding from that implied manmade catastrophe - I remember the reporter’s exasperation at the indignity of having to report that, too. {don’t fear, they’ve since dispensed with guilty scruples like that}
Yeah, I was only 7 at the time but I still remember it well.
The Yellowstone one that is to come.
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