Unreal. I was eight years old when it erupted in 1980. I remember watching the column of ash, that was once that mountain top, mushrooming into the e sky from our home in southwest Portland. It was a truly scary experience.
We wore N95 style masks for weeks afterwards when we outdoors, as a several inches thick layer of fine powdery volcanic ash had settled and covered everything in sight. And that was some 80 miles from the mountain
Mt. St. Hellens in 2019, 39 years post eruption. Washington State, USA [OC][4032x3024]
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Unreal. I was eight years old when it erupted in 1980. I remember watching the column of ash, that was once that mountain top, mushrooming into the e sky from our home in southwest Portland. It was a truly scary experience.
We wore N95 style masks for weeks afterwards when we outdoors, as a several inches thick layer of fine powdery volcanic ash had settled and covered everything in sight. And that was some 80 miles from the mountain