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Know What Today Is?
Horse Plains Drifter
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May 18, 1980:
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Was in line for an Air Show at the local AFB and they came down the line telling us the mountain blew and the show was cancelled. Went into town for lunch and came out into an ash snowstorm.
Hard to believe it was 37 years ago.
Brad Steele
to the ones who refused to leave there Home
I agree time sure has flown by [:(]
is that your personal picture ?
My wife took that picture before I met her.
NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
RIP
to the ones who refused to leave there Home
I agree time sure has flown by [:(]
Haven't thought about Harry R. Truman since probably one year ago today.
Brad Steele
Nature is a fearsome beast.
There are hints the magma chamber is refilling, too. It had a little "hiccup" back in 2008, but there could be another major eruption on tap for the near future. "Near future" in volcano terms, of course. That might mean half a century for us. Or not.
Came back and took my dad back down for a second look. By then, the river had washed out a logging camp and took out the railroad bridge. One of the rails was still intact and spanned the river, probably 2-3 hundred feet.
I was blown away by the sheer size of the plume and all that was taking place.
Something I will never forget and hope to never see again.
Later on, I would fly down and go around the rim and check out the dome building up in the bottom of the crater. The air smelled really bad too!
I remember the day. If Yellowstone blows, I dought if I'll know it happened. They say the heat wave from it will fry most of the intermountain region before we would hear the blast
I hope to be sitting on the deck of the cabin in Island Park on the day it happens drink an ice cold beer. I can't think of a better way to go.
I remember the day. If Yellowstone blows, I dought if I'll know it happened. They say the heat wave from it will fry most of the intermountain region before we would hear the blast
Hope I am picnicking with family at Sedge bay on north end of Yellowstone lake. It is our centrally located picnic spot several times a summer.
We are all in the fry zone, so be good to all go together.
Not really loosing any sleep over the possible event though, nothing we could do to change it but move, and that's not happening.
On original post, we got dusted pretty good with ash back then.
Mule
Blew my mind that the ash would carry that far.... 2000 miles
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I was a freshman at Eastern Washington University. I had a job as Residential Adviser that evening and a paper due the next day. Got the job. The paper was "postponed". I still have a big jar full of ash somewhere. It was nearly 5 inches deep and we were several hundred miles away.
We were neighbors. At the time I lived around 20 miles west of Spokane. Worked the wheat and barley harvest that year north of Ritzville, running a John Deere 55 Harvester. We were cutting some fields that had up 6" of ash in August. It was a dusty, disgusting mess in an open air cab. It took a number of years for things to return to normal.
Brad Steele