[Leica] Mount St. Helens, 40 years ago

[Don Dory]

I don't know how modern life would be if Ranier did a St. Helens today.
Your old image of yourself with the Barracuda in the background makes me
very happy to be in mature(semi) digital age.

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:30 PM Peter Klein via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> May 18, 1980.  The day Mt. St. Helens blew up.  It's one of those events
> that a person always remembers.  I was in Spokane, over 200 air miles
> across Washington state from the mountain. But it got pitch-black in
> mid-afternoon. We were buried in 3/4 of an inch of volcanic ash, which
> is finely-powdered silica the consistency of flour.  There was quite a
> mess for days and weeks to come.  I didn't have a good camera then, as
> I'd sold my Leica M2 to help pay for my bassoon.  But I do have one
> photo of myself taken with a rudimentary film point-and-shoot the next
> morning.
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/49910974171/in/dateposted-public/
> >
>
> Today I commemorated the anniversary by photographing the jar of ash I
> saved that morning.
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/49910974146/in/dateposted-public/
> >
>
> I was doing a lot of freelance writing then. The eruption gave me the
> opportunity to write a first-person account of what happens when a
> volcano dumps on your city.  If you'd like to read it, use the two links
> below, and view large. Reading it today, I was struck by how similar
> people's behavior was then and now.  Click on the photos to view large,
> and the text is quite readable.
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/49910453643/in/dateposted-public/
> >
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/49911270277/in/dateposted-public/
> >
>
> --Peter
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Don
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