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Post by lebaneaver on May 18, 2023 8:11:14 GMT -8
Remember it well. Surreal day. Awesome and tragic at once.
My wife’s mom was in the hospital in bad shape, and we were headed north on hwy 99 in Corvallis to see her when….. if we had cell phones back then, we’d have some awesome photos. Looked like a nuclear war had begun, but we had been following the news about the volcano, and were sure that’s what happened. Unbelievable power.
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Post by beaverdude on May 18, 2023 9:23:34 GMT -8
I was in Okinawa courtesy of the Marine Corps so I missed the event. The front window of my parents house faced Mt St Helens and they had a framed view.
When I got back from the rock my car had 8 months of concrete-like volcano dust to chip off.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 18, 2023 9:26:49 GMT -8
My mom was three months pregnant with me. My mom always tells the story that she and dad went out fishing that day on a lake down in Oregon. At just after 8:32 a.m., one huge wave swept across clear across the lake from North to South. My dad and mom joked that Mount Saint Helens must have erupted. It was not until they got into their car to get the boat in that they realized that that is exactly what had happened.
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Post by ag87 on May 18, 2023 17:13:09 GMT -8
I was at my aunt and uncle's house on Griggs Drive about 5 miles north of Lebanon. I don't remember 8:30 in the morning but later in the morning I went outside a few times to see if I could smell or see something. Negative, there were too many clouds.
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Post by EmeraldEmpire on May 18, 2023 17:35:57 GMT -8
My mom was three months pregnant with me. My mom always tells the story that she and dad went out fishing that day on a lake down in Oregon. At just after 8:32 a.m., one huge wave swept across clear across the lake from North to South. My dad and mom joked that Mount Saint Helens must have erupted. It was not until they got into their car to get the boat in that they realized that that is exactly what had happened. I am around the same age as you (it happened a few days before my first birthday) ... my dad has told me before he my mom and I were outside of Newberg that morning where he was cutting firewood and heard the blast ... he initially just thought it was a farmer in the area using dynamite apparently lol |
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Post by Werebeaver on May 18, 2023 19:49:18 GMT -8
I was at OSU. The ash from the first eruption all blew east and dumped mostly on E Washington and N Idaho. On May 25 (2:30 am), winds carried the second eruption's ash south and west. Not much of it made it down the Willamette Valley but I remember going out that morning to my bike parked in the racks at Sackett Hall and seeing the black bike seats all dusted with a very fine layer of ash.
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Post by dK on May 18, 2023 20:22:42 GMT -8
My mom was three months pregnant with me. My mom always tells the story that she and dad went out fishing that day on a lake down in Oregon. At just after 8:32 a.m., one huge wave swept across clear across the lake from North to South. My dad and mom joked that Mount Saint Helens must have erupted. It was not until they got into their car to get the boat in that they realized that that is exactly what had happened. My dad was fishing that morning at East Lake in the Newberry Crater. In the SE corner of the lake there is an area we always called the hot springs because it bubbled up from the bottom. They were fishing near there and the bubbling increased a lot and they noticed lots of fish jumping. Then they heard what they thought were sonic booms. Later that summer on 8/7 I was coaching a girls softball team Philomath. It was in the late afternoon and we saw a definite ash plume up north as it grew to about 8 miles high.
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Post by beavheart on Jun 2, 2023 14:32:59 GMT -8
I was 7 at the time. We got about 1/4" of ash in the first couple days of the eruption in the South Salem hills. By the time we even knew it was happening the ash had filled the sky so that you couldn't see far enough north to see the mountain itself.
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