Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Impressive chronicle. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right" > On 19 May 2020, at 00:55, 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