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it was erie. Like Mt. St. Helens days…

 

I remember those days. God's Grace saved the Puget Sound area from that ash, but we were prepared with masks. Those who breathed in the ash usually developed, and died from, Silicosis.

 

Yeah, ditto on that

 

I lived in STL when that happened and we had days of the dust and gloom here.
We visited the St. Helens area 10 years after the eruption. By then it had started recovering beautifully.

 

Yeah, I was in high school during that time, on the Kitsap Peninsula (a little town called Poulsbo, "Little Norway"), and when the initial eruption explosion happened that morning, May 18th, I was riding my bike to the corner store to pick up a Sunday paper. I heard twin sonic booms, and thought a couple of the Air Force F-106's out of McChord field had come out of sonic speed (it happened fairly irregularly when flights came back from covering their assigned areas up in the Gulf of Alaska). Once I got home (and Mom had got home from her overnight shift at Providence Hospital in Seattle), Mom excitedly called me to come see what was going on, on the TV. And there was the eruption, video shot live by station KIRO's Chopper 7, in all its terrible power.

 

Yakima was hit pretty hard with ash. I wasn't here to see it. But I have heard many first hand stories. When you dig anywhere around here you will always encounter a layer of St. Helens ash.

 

Looks like my kind of neighborhood!

 

There were places the ashfall went over a foot deep. In addition to my story of the initial explosion of the May 18th eruption, I have my Uncle Marsh's account of that morning:

He told me that he was already on watch (he was ISP) in the area along US95 in Benewah County, when the call came over the radio for all units to head to the nearest county garage, for vehicle outfitting. So he hightailed it to the county shed just North of Plummer, and spent several hours as county and state police, fire and ambulance rigs were outfitted with 'Superfiner' air cleaners (like the ones big rigs have), as well as filters for the cabin HVAC units. He said he arrived just as the Western sky darkened, like a storm was rolling in, and by the time he rolled out, it was night in the afternoon.

 

Of course the Hurst Olds would be my house!

 

Natch!

 

Excuse my ignorance but what model is the Mustang?

 

Think it is a 68 Shelby 500 KR (King of the Road). Some neighborhood!

 

Any guess' as to what the third car is?

 

Not yet but I do know of a 68 Shelby that came with a 69 hood because they were running low on those…

 

Jack, You probably mean a 70 with a 69 hood or vise versa. The 69/70 are the same body shell, the 68 is not part of that body style cycle. Nothing from 68 would be interchangeable with 69.
64/65/66 are the same shell, 67/68 are the same and 69/70 are the same.