Jude 2

Hey Tim,

Are you anywhere close to Mt Redoubt? Hope you stay safe no matter what.

I remember St Helens blowing her top and all the ash we had from it. Definately a mess.

Praying for protection on all.

Paully_44 wrote:Are you anywhere close to Mt Redoubt? Hope you stay safe no matter what.

Thanks, Paul. That's nice of you to say. We here in Juneau are safe because the volcano is closer to Anchorage, but we got a bulletin yesterday telling us what to do with our computer systems under different color code alerts if it blows. It's primarily a concern over ash getting into the hardware.

I'm reading James Michener's Alaska right now and gaining more appreciation for this state's history. It was a crude bunch that settled this state, given that the US Congress refused to grant it the kind of status that would have allowed protective laws to be enabled. Michener mentions Mt. Redoubt as being a noted geographical marker during the coastal exploration eras of navigator Vitus Bering and Captain Mike Healy.

I remember St Helens blowing her top and all the ash we had from it. Definately a mess.

Where were you when that happened? I was traveling through eastern Oregon on my way to the state competition for COGOP's first (and only?) International Speech Competition (which, by golly, I won at the General Assembly!), and I heard what I thought was a sonic boom. Later that day I heard the news and realized that the boom was Mt. St. Helens exploding. We in Oregon didn't have to deal with much ash. Were you were you got walloped by it?

Tim Elston wrote:

I remember St Helens blowing her top and all the ash we had from it. Definately a mess.

Where were you when that happened? I was traveling through eastern Oregon on my way to the state competition for COGOP's first (and only?) International Speech Competition (which, by golly, I won at the General Assembly!), and I heard what I thought was a sonic boom. Later that day I heard the news and realized that the boom was Mt. St. Helens exploding. We in Oregon didn't have to deal with much ash. Were you were you got walloped by it?

Centralia Washington which is only a couple hour drive to the Mtn. May 18th a Sunday morning, I was down at the river fishing. I remember looking up and seeing this huge mushroom cloud rising into the sky. A few days later, it erupted again, and that eruption sent ash over our town. I was in 8th grade then.