Twenty-five years ago today....

Ponine · 05-19-2005, 08:19 AM

San Diego, California....
I don't know what day, I know that I was home from school... I would have been eleven.
We walked outside onto the street, myself, my mom, and a bunch of other moms and kids from the block.. we all stood in the middle of the street to watch the closest thing to snow we were ever going to see on our street.
Our cars were covered in a light film, and it was very easy to write your name on the cars, and windows. So much easier than dirt!

I dont remember how long we stood out in the street, but it was a good while. In retrospect, i dont know that we ever stopped and thought as kids that anyone was seeing it any worse than we were, or that any one was in danger.

wendybeth · 05-19-2005, 08:38 AM

That morning, my mom and I had gone outside to lay in the sun. It was supposed to get pretty warm that day, and the sky was clear. Our backyard was filled with tall pine trees which limited our view of the horizon, so we didn't notice anything at first. Suddenly, my mom, who is from Nebraska (AKA Tornado Alley) sat up and said "Run inside- get in the basement!" I looked in the direction she was staring, and then I ran like hell. There were dark, churning clouds moving in over the treetops, and within minutes the sky was dark. Mom turned on the TV while I ran downstairs to hide from what we supposed was a tornado. The wierd thing was the silence- no thunder, or loud winds, or even the sounds of birds. Anyway, a minute later mom yelled downstairs for me to come up- it wasn't a storm, but volcanic ash. I was like "Volcanic ash? Wtf?" We wound up getting tons of it, and it took years to clean it up.

I've been through the Mt. St. Helens zone, and gotten pretty close to the mountain. They haven't taken down the old utility poles and trees that were scarred by the blast but managed to stay upright. (They just put in new utility lines next to the old). They all lean in the direction of the blast, and in the distant hills some of the trees are missing their lower branches, while others on higher hills are minus their top branches.

05-19-2005, 08:19 AM	#1
Ponine Virgin Ears Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: San Diego Posts: 2,075	San Diego, California.... I don't know what day, I know that I was home from school... I would have been eleven. We walked outside onto the street, myself, my mom, and a bunch of other moms and kids from the block.. we all stood in the middle of the street to watch the closest thing to snow we were ever going to see on our street. Our cars were covered in a light film, and it was very easy to write your name on the cars, and windows. So much easier than dirt! I dont remember how long we stood out in the street, but it was a good while. In retrospect, i dont know that we ever stopped and thought as kids that anyone was seeing it any worse than we were, or that any one was in danger. __________________ There's something strange, There's something wrong. I see a change - It's like when love dies.
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05-19-2005, 08:38 AM	#2
wendybeth Nevermind Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,847	That morning, my mom and I had gone outside to lay in the sun. It was supposed to get pretty warm that day, and the sky was clear. Our backyard was filled with tall pine trees which limited our view of the horizon, so we didn't notice anything at first. Suddenly, my mom, who is from Nebraska (AKA Tornado Alley) sat up and said "Run inside- get in the basement!" I looked in the direction she was staring, and then I ran like hell. There were dark, churning clouds moving in over the treetops, and within minutes the sky was dark. Mom turned on the TV while I ran downstairs to hide from what we supposed was a tornado. The wierd thing was the silence- no thunder, or loud winds, or even the sounds of birds. Anyway, a minute later mom yelled downstairs for me to come up- it wasn't a storm, but volcanic ash. I was like "Volcanic ash? Wtf?" We wound up getting tons of it, and it took years to clean it up. I've been through the Mt. St. Helens zone, and gotten pretty close to the mountain. They haven't taken down the old utility poles and trees that were scarred by the blast but managed to stay upright. (They just put in new utility lines next to the old). They all lean in the direction of the blast, and in the distant hills some of the trees are missing their lower branches, while others on higher hills are minus their top branches. __________________
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