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Post by sagebrush on May 17, 2020 15:41:23 GMT -8
I mostly remember the day after. I was in Salem and of course most of the ash went away from us, we got our share. My unit had 35 delivery vehicles, 2 different types. I got a phone call from our Vehicle Maintenance guy and was told to go out to every place that sold auto parts in South Salem and buy every car filter (2 types) that they had. Put it on your credit card, turn in the receipts and get your money. A coat, tie and a badge went a long way.. Only had to work at persuading one shop. We had a mechanic out to our unit every other day, changing out the filters, blowing them out trying to salvage them.
Came home from work, hosed off the car and water the yard to drive the ash into the dirt.
BTW, the geo employee on the mountain had some real balls.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 18, 2020 12:46:29 GMT -8
A great Mt. St. Helens video set to one of the best songs of the 80s.
On May 18, 1980, my father and my pregnant mother went fishing on a lake in Oregon. A little after 8:30 a.m., a huge wave, bigger than any other that day, came out of nowhere from the North end of the lake to the South end. After successfully navigating the wave (a necessity, as my dad never learned how to swim), my parents joked that Mt. St. Helens must have erupted. After getting into their car after they finished up fishing, they found out that they were quite right.
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Post by dK on May 19, 2020 14:53:40 GMT -8
A relative of mine was fishing at East Lake in the Newberry Crater that morning. There is a spot on the southeast corner of the lake that we always called the Hot Springs because the lake bubbled there. He was near there in a boat and the lake started bubbling far more than normal. Shortly after that they heard what they thought were two sonic booms. Found out later that St Helens has erupted.
I was outside at my farm east of Corvallis and heard the same two booms. I also thought it was a couple of military jets. I Went in the house, turned on the tv and watched the mountain erupting on live news.
I had a good friend who was a buyer for a women's clothing store and was returning from a buying trip to Seattle. They got stuck on I 5 north of the Toutle River. Apparently the authorities thought the bridges were in jeopardy. They had an up close and personal view of the volcano for hours.
Later that summer, I was coaching a girl's softball team in Philomath late one afternoon and we could see an ash cloud form from one of its eruptions.
Damn, has it really been 40 years?
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Post by sagebrush on May 19, 2020 15:49:53 GMT -8
Those bridges were in serious trouble and that river ran muddy for a long time.
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Post by spudbeaver on May 19, 2020 18:47:00 GMT -8
The Sediment Dam that was supposed to take forever to fill up is basically full. What now? Excavate jillions of tons of material, or just let it overflow? B. Let it run over the top. Natural timed deterioration.
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