[Leica] A Day in May 40 Years Ago

[RicCarter]

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> On May 18, 2020, at 6:55 PM, 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
> 
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