Good story, I was there, talk in our neighborhood was whether or not we were in the pyroclastic flow zone. When the mountain blew , I took my three children at the time to Florence Oregon on the coast so their little lungs wouldn’t be coated with the silica from the ash To this day you can still find ash in the gutters 100 miles away from that mountain if you like. Or you can buy an ashtray, do you remember ashtrays? Two or three stores along the route will be more than happy to sell you a souvenir of the volcano. The ash destroyed cars and any other mechanical apparatus that ingested that ash totally destroyed combustion engines. You had to cover your air filter with a ladies pantyhose ,shake it out every hour or so ! Interesting times for those that survived!
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