One......I was pretty lucky. The prevailing winds during the first eruption were from the west ..... Archived Message
Posted by MtHoodIllini  on May 18, 2022, 13:50:04, in reply to "How many air filters did your car go through?*"
and just covered eastern Washington, Idaho & Montana to a lesser extent if I remember correctly. One of the following smaller eruptions had wind from the NE that covered the Portland area with a dusting and my car got caught up in that one as I was in town visiting my girlfriend. Changed my oil & oil filter too.
Sometime shortly after the big eruption I was umpiring a softball game up in the city of Sandy where I lived on Mt Hood and St Helens blew. I called time and both teams, wives, kids & girlfriends and I climbed a little hill above the diamond and watched slack jawed as all this smoke/ash came billowing out. It was like a huge cluster of thunderstorm clouds coming out of a hole filling up the sky. We resumed play with one eye on it for the rest of the game.
Perfect vantage point as we were high enough up on Mt Hood to see over the foothills and lower ranges and could look right at St Helens.  Previous Message Previous Message
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