[Leica] Mt. St. Helens Eruption 49 years ago today

[Nathan Wajsman]

Impressive! I remember watching this on the news, in Buffalo at the time, just finishing my gap year before going back to Denmark.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

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> On 19 May 2019, at 04:04, Aram via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> We were living in the small town of Odessa, WA. I do not have any of my own 
> photos of the ash hitting on May 18, 1980 as the camera club was on a field 
> trip to Idaho and Canada.  We were sitting in a drive-in in Nelson, BC when 
> on the radio we heard, "By now you know Mt. St. Helens blew its top this 
> morning.  I-90 is closed and Spokane is in total darkness..."  It was about 
> 3 PM and we looked at each other in shock.  We had the town doctor, 
> pharmacist, post master with us.  So, we headed home, driving around road 
> blocks by Davenport and on ash covered roads.  A harrowing ride.  So may 
> stories.  I started taking photos the next day, and here is a collection of 
> a few that were taken over the next few days as we looked about in disbelief 
> at the "snow" that would never melt, then tried to figure out what the heck 
> to do, and then did it.  We really had no choice.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/msh/
> 
> View them large if you can.
> 
> Comments welcome.
> 
> Aram
> 
> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
> 
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