Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looks otherworldly! Cheers Jayanand On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:25 AM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > The 40th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. I can hardly > believe so much time has elapsed. We lived in the small (pop 1100) town > of > Odessa in Eastern Washington at the time. I was actually on a camera club > field trip with the town doctor, pharmacist, and postmaster to Idaho and > Canada. We were in Nelson BC when we heard of the eruption earlier that > day > and had to drive back through some harrowing conditions the last 40 miles > or > so. I have included two images of the ash cloud at about 1:30 PM on the > 18th that I did not take, since I was 300 hundred miles away. > > The start here: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/AM/Darkness+from+ash-4.jpg.html > > The cleanup took weeks. The first day no one quite knew what to do. Was > it > safe to be outside? The news media did not have too much information. > Some > of the photo kind of remind me of what we are going through now with this > virus thing. Masks were in order and our little town quickly ran out. My > parents in Seattle sent us some that we got as soon as mail started up > again. Our first order of business was to dig out snow shovels and wheel > barrows and shovel the ash off the lawns, drives and sidewalks. The on > the > next day we discovered we needed to do the roofs, too, so had to repeat > the > lawns etc. It was like snow that did not go away. We were beat by about > day 6. Not sure how many roofs I did for folks that could not manage it. > Then the National Guard came and we were glad to see them. > > Enjoy the photos. I have many more but don't want to bore you too much. > Comments welcome. > > Aram > > Aram Langhans > (Semi) Retired Science Teacher > & Unemployed photographer > > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself > would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information