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goobster · 1650 days ago · link · · parent · post: May 17, 1980: "Only a few amateur optimists mused publicly that the volcano might simply 'go back to sleep.'"
That day had a huge effect on me. I was 12, about to be 13. I remember hearing a door slam downstairs... but there wasn't anyone downstairs... realized later that was the explosion I heard. My dad and I drove to Yakima and the tri-cities area a day later... complete blackout conditions at noon: The Mt St Helens eruption - and the day, May 18th - has always made me quietly introspective. It was such a huge once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing, to experience first hand a volcanic eruption... it implanted itself deeply into my psyche, and will always live there.
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