Mount Saint Helens erupted violently, killing 57 people and spewing ash across Washington and other northwestern states. Here's your one-stop shopping for any and all information about the volcano, both then and now, provided by the USGS.And here's a video about the impact to eastern Washington days after the cataclysmic event. Fortunately I was still a graduate student at Colorado State University in 1980, and not yet a resident of eastern Washington.
Image courtesy of NASA's Earth Observatory.
I don't know about 'fortunately', because it was actually an amazing experience. One that not many can recount. I certainly have stories to tell about it.
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