30 years ago today...

[classic]

It was 30 years ago today that Mount Saint Helens blew her top here in Washington State! Man how time flies!!! I remember the day she blew and we were frantically trying to cover all the open holes on our 747's here on the Boeing Everett flightline. My bosses dad and step-mom were the ones in the camper that literally got blown away. St Helens has definetly changed the landscape in SW Washington as well as many lives.

[Hank70SS]

30 years, really? You're right it just doesn't seem that long ago. It's a long way from here but we saw plenty on the news about it.

[shadowgray396]

I was working at Mt Saint Helens surveying logging roads. I was lucky I was at home when it blew. I had just been there a few days before it blew. I work on some of the after math of the destruction and saw a lot of things first hand that most people never saw. It blew on a Sunday, had that been Monday I would have been up there.
Ray

[rak1]

Yep, I remember it well; my parents were living in Olympia, WA at the time. Come to think of it I have some statues lying around made from the hot ash.

[classic]

Boy Ray you are sure fortunate that she blew on the weekend! Pretty much everybody that was in the area perished but there were a few survivors. We have a lake house vacation home on Lake Mayfield (Mossyrock) that we were freak'n out about but the ash went east.