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Thunderbeast

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5. Looking at it right now over morning coffee.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu May 18, 2023, 09:44 AM

May 2023

All quiet today.

I witnessed the 1980 eruption (safely from Portland).

Growing up, the mountain was a perfect ice cream cone...the Mt.Fuji of the Cascades. I used to backpack on the ridge overlooking Spirit Lake.

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On this day, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves May 2023 OP

i was right in the middle of it..on a freeway. The ash came down and it was pitch black.. samnsara May 2023 #1

It rained ash in central oregon. clouds May 2023 #2

I was driving down 82nd ave in Portland Or. When St. Hellens blew it's top. Prairie_Seagull May 2023 #3

I lived in... 2naSalit May 2023 #4

Looking at it right now over morning coffee. Thunderbeast May 2023 #5

What a fantastic place to have a cuppa or 5. haha, Prairie_Seagull May 2023 #7

Saw it with my own eyes utopian May 2023 #6