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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:37:29 PM EDT
[#1]
I was a few months shy of four years old. It’s actually one of my earliest memories I guess because it was plastered everywhere.
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NC, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:48:21 PM EDT
[#2]
I remember it as well
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USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:48:22 PM EDT
[#3]
Ash all over the place in SoCal for weeks.
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MO, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:52:44 PM EDT
[#4]
In Missouri we had overcast weather for several days because of the ash.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:55:08 PM EDT
[#5]
I was stationed at Ft. Lewis at the time.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:55:09 PM EDT
[#6]
I was in AZ visiting my grandparents. A buddy of mine was in Seattle babysitting his cousins kids during the summer.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:57:20 PM EDT
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Flying into SEATAC on mid tour from Korea, ATC enabled inbound international flights to do a single “hold” prior to landing clearance. Our flight did a nice pattern close enough yet safe enough away to make an impression on nature’s fury.
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MT, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:01:01 PM EDT
[#8]
Sure do
Painted my car that morning too... Luckily it dried before the ash fall. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:02:05 PM EDT
[Last Edit: JarheadPatriot]
[#9]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JMR: In Missouri we had overcast weather for several days because of the ash. My earliest memories are Three Mile Island, the Iranian hostage crisis, the eruption. But I feel like this made the biggest memory. Maybe because I was older than the other two, and had better understanding of things. We covered a lot about volcanoes in science class that year. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:02:47 PM EDT
[Last Edit: macman37]
[#10]
I had a small vial of Mt. St. Helens ash that someone in my extended family collected.
It was a big deal at the time. I was nine-ish. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:03:50 PM EDT
[#11]
Between gas lines, TMI, and the hostage crisis, some mountain in Oregon losing its snowpack a bit early in the season didn't really rate at the time. Lenon being shot. Reagan being shot. Mt St Helens didn't really sink in until probably summer of 1981, or whenever it was the cover of National Geographic.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:06:32 PM EDT
[#12]
My dad’s cousin is Keith Ronnholm and took a bunch of time lapse pictures.
https://petapixel.com/2013/02/26/photographing-the-eruption-of-mount-st-helens-from-10-miles-away/ |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:08:54 PM EDT
[#13]
I do.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:12:17 PM EDT
[Last Edit: JQ66]
[#14]
I found a garnet(?) geode fishing for steelhead in the south fork of the toutle river, would have been maybe 1998, it was february. I did hook up one fresh one, birght silver, over 30", but did not land it, broke off. I got too impatient. I was in the area on a work trip.
The geode is about baseball sized. I can see small crystals in a little hole in the side. Found some other nice rocks there too. Olivine may be one of the others. The museums on the road going up to Mt St Helens were worth going to see too. Got up to the last overlook, and the wind was blowing so hard you could see the big observation windows flexing, so the roped that sectiin of the building off. Still much of the area looked like a moon scape almost twenty years later. Was a good trip. Beautiful area of the country, shame what the people have done to those several states. Also went to AFrotc field training at McChord in 1986, and we went over to Ft Lewis sveral times, They had a display at the post museum at Ft Lewis and showed ash that covered some of the buildings. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:13:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jambalaya: Yes, it was a big deal. Yup |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:18:32 PM EDT
[#16]
I was 10 years old. We lived right on the beach in Deep Cove/Indian Arm British Columbia. It blew out all the windows on the south side of the house. I was upstairs and my mother started screaming at me, “What the fuck did you do you little shit”. Good times.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:20:31 PM EDT
[#17]
Who remembers the last time my penis erupted.
This is bullshit. 
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:22:59 PM EDT
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I was 40. My 1st cousin lived in Spokane. She and her husband were musicians and sealed their instruments in plastic. They also cobbled up a trash can air filter to strap on the front of their car. A conventional air filter would clog after just a few miles.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:23:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By stiff1: Eastern Washington checking in. I was a smaller lad (6) but yes, that day and the ones immediately following are etched well in the memory. We were out on the tractor that AM, and I recall the dark horizon and occasional lightning as it approached.Later, sky black as the ace of spades by early afternoon, with an uncomfortable stillness following by a gray “ snow”. We called the school early that year if I recall correctly due to the substantial amount of ash we received. I was 6 years old at the time too and I remember it clearly. My parents were glued to the TV when it was announced. I remember my dad cussing all the people that were too stupid to listen to the evacuation warnings. I also remember thinking that if the volcano blew up shouldn't the mushroom cloud be moving faster? I didn't realize how far away the news cameras had to be to be safe. |
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MI, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:23:49 PM EDT
[#20]
I was 10 years old living in MI. Didn't really see any effects in MI. Before the school year was over my 4th grade teacher had a vial of ash we could all touch. The news and the ash are my biggest memories of the event.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:24:21 PM EDT
[#21]
The eruption blew away 1/3 of the mountain.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:25:38 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Dagger41]
[#22]
 Was living in Osoyoos BC at the time. Watched the ash cloud slowly coming up the Okanagan Valley from the South. The following day everything was covered with fine ash. Everything. |
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FM, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:25:55 PM EDT
[#23]
Yes. It was a memorable day in the PNW
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:26:25 PM EDT
[#24]
I was six and remember hearing later that ash killed a bunch of engines. Was told vehicles with oil bath air cleaners fared better. Dad had one on his pickup. He had the engine rebuilt for more power and put on a new low restriction filter. Thought he might’ve jinxed us into another eruption.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:32:39 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SAE]
[#25]
It ringed Korea and Japan it seemed like forever. I owned a white Mazda Lucci and it was a permanent nasty shade of yellowish dirt that would build up significantly especially when deployed farther south where you couldn't tell except the sunsets in some locations were very vivid indeed. I also saw a couple of really beautiful sunrises and sunsets during that time in Hawaii too.
Special ones. I was there on December 7th 1980 and that part was a somber occasion as I remember. I had never seen so many veterans in my life not realizing that one day I would be one myself. I really never expected to live that long anyway. Hawaii was much different back then as well. I made some very good friends there and I lost one too. |
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MN, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:33:54 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GimpyPaw: I was living near Portland at the time. We got a few inches of ash, then it rained. Turned our deck grey. All the decks and wooden fences in the area turned grey. And Windshields. So many people didn’t realize the ash was powdered glass, so they tried clearing the ash off their windshields by turning on the wipers. For months you would see cars driving around with scratches where the wipers run. I remember the talk about car air filters getting plugged. Airplanes were restricted because the ash scored the cylinders and destroyed engines. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:34:52 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RAL: I was in second grade. I ordered a little bottle of ash from it. I gor one too 
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:41:34 PM EDT
[#28]
Got out of school for two weeks.
 I still find ash sometimes. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 9:43:52 PM EDT
[#29]
I do!
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USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 10:27:13 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RAL: I was in second grade. I ordered a little bottle of ash from it. I was in third grade. And my folks wouldn't buy me a bottle of ash! 
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Posted: 5/18/2024 10:29:32 PM EDT
[#31]
I was 4 and distinctly remember the eruption. Climbed that bitch in ‘22. It was cool.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 10:39:08 PM EDT
[#32]
Reporter Stan Wilson and crew land a helicopter on the peak of Mount St. Helens just 17 days before the May 18, 1980 eruption.
 Standing on Mount St. Helens Days Before Eruption - May 1980 | KATU In The Archives |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 10:41:02 PM EDT
[#33]
I remember it but it didn't seem like a big deal at the time. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 10:54:30 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SAE: It ringed Korea and Japan it seemed like forever. I owned a white Mazda Lucci and it was a permanent nasty shade of yellowish dirt that would build up significantly especially when deployed farther south where you couldn't tell except the sunsets in some locations were very vivid indeed. I also saw a couple of really beautiful sunrises and sunsets during that time in Hawaii too. Special ones. I was there on December 7th 1980 and that part was a somber occasion as I remember. I had never seen so many veterans in my life not realizing that one day I would be one myself. I really never expected to live that long anyway. Hawaii was much different back then as well. I made some very good friends there and I lost one too.  |
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USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 11:14:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mooreshawnm: Blew on my 6th birthday of course I remember. I was in WA at the time. Well Happy Birthday then!
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NC, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 11:14:31 PM EDT
[#36]
I was about 10 . My Granma & Granpa drove out from Ohio and scooped up some samples in a jar and brought them back .
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Posted: 5/18/2024 11:17:01 PM EDT
[#37]
I do, I was at the airport. I don't recall the reason.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 11:17:14 PM EDT
[#38]
I do, I was at the airport. I don't recall the reason.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 11:18:16 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/18/2024 11:20:02 PM EDT
[#40]
I was 20.… Wasn't she a convent Ho with large tata's?
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Posted: 5/18/2024 11:21:26 PM EDT
[#41]
I was 11 months old.
So no. 
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Posted: 5/18/2024 11:23:45 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GimpyPaw: I was living near Portland at the time. We got a few inches of ash, then it rained. Turned our deck grey. All the decks and wooden fences in the area turned grey. And Windshields. So many people didn't realize the ash was powdered glass, so they tried clearing the ash off their windshields by turning on the wipers. For months you would see cars driving around with scratches where the wipers run. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 11:29:08 PM EDT
[#43]
Yes I was in the 6th grade.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 11:37:16 PM EDT
[#44]
I was two, so no. Saw a lot of volcano and MSH related stuff on TV and in magazines and such growing up, though.
When I was little, I worried about lava coming out of a hole in my backyard.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 11:43:38 PM EDT
[#45]
I was -10 but I’ve watched every NatGeo and History Channel Documentary about it. Seeing it recorded with today’s tech would have been crazy.
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WA, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 11:52:22 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Tjcj]
[#46]
Was 3 years old when it happened . Live in Yakima. Remember bits and pieces. Remember dad coming and walking us to grandma's. Remember the sky turning dark , and the ash falling for the next couple days . Dad worked for the city and spent to next few weeks plowing ash to clear roads .
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Posted: 5/18/2024 11:59:47 PM EDT
[#47]
I was 6 and I remember it
 Footage of the 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/19/2024 12:01:50 AM EDT
[#48]
I was 5, but I remember.
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Posted: 5/19/2024 12:14:36 AM EDT
[#49]
I was 8 years old and living in El Paso, TX.
I remember ash on the cars in the driveway. |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 12:26:03 AM EDT
[#50]
My mom and dad took me to a high vantage point in the Seattle area and tried pointing it out to me. I couldn't really make it out well since it was pretty far and I was 3yo, but I technically saw it IRL.
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