[Leica] A Day in May 40 Years Ago

[Don Dory]

I still have a main jar of Mt. St. Helen's dust to remind me that sometimes
things just happen.

On Mon, May 18, 2020, 5:55 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
>
> “The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself
> would ever have dared dream.” James D. Watson
>
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