Comments | celestlyn: 35 Years!

celestlyn

35 Years!

May 18, 2015 12:57

Just thought I'd post this tribute to Mt St Helen's. My mother was an artist and I remember at one time she had painted a beautiful picture of the mountain and a lovely lake reflecting it. That was long before it blew the top and side of it all over the country. I often wish I had that painting. No clue who purchased it, but I hope it was well ( Read more... )

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kittyhelix May 18 2015, 20:19:44 UTC

Wow! Hard to believe it was that long ago. Time sure flies!

celestlyn May 18 2015, 20:46:51 UTC

It totally is, and yet I remember it like it so clearly.

kittyhelix May 18 2015, 22:17:42 UTC

Me too.

oakstone730 May 19 2015, 02:06:17 UTC

I'm so glad you posted this reminder - I was in a sophomore in HS when it blew. We had volcanic on our car -- and we were living in Illinois! Such an amazing force of nature. Always wanted to go see it and finally got the chance two years ago. We were blessed with a perfectly clear blue sky MtSt Helens is covered in clouds so we were very lucky). The slow rebirth of the land was stunning to see.

I don't know how post a photo as part of a comment on LJ so I tweeted one to you over on twitter.

celestlyn May 19 2015, 03:06:20 UTC

Thanks!! The pics were great! Still not trees returning. :( I am amazed that you got ash in Illinois! It was so thick here. It blew around the roadways for months and was visible in the fields off-road for years. I could probably still find some buried under the dust out in the desert areas.

I think the only way you can post a pic in a comment is to put it on a hosting site like photobucket or flickr and post the html coding they give you.

oakstone730 May 19 2015, 03:32:32 UTC

the ash we got was just a dusting - also I remember the sunsets - they were quite brilliant and that was attributed to the volacanic ash in the atmospheres.

How far away were you from it?

celestlyn May 19 2015, 04:26:51 UTC

I'm in Spokane, which is 300 miles due east of Seattle, but around 400 miles northeast from St Helen's. The wind pattern blows from the west to the east, so it blew it directly over us about 2 hours after the event. The sky turned almost black and it was like night had fallen. Weirdest thing ever. People wore masks--like they do for coughs-- for weeks. They were afraid of lung issues and also worried about the dust getting into car radiators and into machine motors. None of that really happened. At least, not that I heard, but I'm sure the folks with lung issues stayed inside most of the time for awhile.