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May 18, 2005
Safe To Say at this Point, Harry Truman* Probably Didn't Make It
Twenty-Five years ago today at a little after 8:00 a.m. Mount St. Helens erupted, sending 1/3 of it's mass into the atmosphere as ash. I was 11 years old and was standing on the porch of my family's beach house near Port Townsend Washington, when we heard three very loud explosions. My grandfather was in Eastern Washington (Tieton), hundreds of miles away from Mount St. Helens, and when the ash started to fall, he went out and put an empty bucket in the front yard. So much ash fell that it nearly filled the bucket.
If you know anyone who needs 5 gallons of Mt. St. Helens ash (Version 1.0); let me know. =)
Google Satelite Image of Mt. St. Helens
*http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/mountsthelens/hary11.shtml
Posted by David Adams at May 18, 2005 12:30 PM