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S.A. Boggs
03-16-2020, 03:28
Where were you?
Sam
jcg&jmbfan
03-16-2020, 07:43
Sitting in fourth grade classroom.
dryheat
03-17-2020, 01:01
I was 29 yrs old. The good old days.
lyman
03-17-2020, 07:18
Sitting in fourth grade classroom.

I was in the 11th grade
kj47
03-17-2020, 09:02
32 yrs old working shift work at the paper mill.
PWC
03-17-2020, 10:03
17 yrs in the USAF, in GE at that time.

In 21 yrs; two short tours, two long tours, 23 PCS's in 21 yrs.
JOHN COOK
03-17-2020, 11:54
Just had a birthday and was Chief of Police of a town in SC...

john in C
PWC
03-17-2020, 05:41
What is the significance of that date?
S.A. Boggs
03-17-2020, 05:56
What is the significance of that date?

Remember the big blow that was "dusty"?
Sam
Conductor
03-18-2020, 04:06
That was a Thursday. I was working as a Special Agent with the Virginia Department of Taxation in Falls Church, doing tax fraud investigations involving sales and withholding taxes.
pcox
03-18-2020, 09:25
Probably hanging on the side of a tank, welding.
PWC
03-18-2020, 09:42
Remember the big blow that was "dusty"?
Sam

Nope, I was in GE, what was it?
S.A. Boggs
03-18-2020, 09:55
Nope, I was in GE, what was it?

Mount St. Helen's blew it's top.
Sam
Viking Guy
03-18-2020, 10:36
I was on a P-3 Orion deployment on Bermuda. My little sister was driving home to eastern Washington from U of I in Moscow, Id in our grandma's 1959 Studebaker Lark. Luckily it still had the oil bath air filter.
TomSudz
03-18-2020, 06:56
8th Grade.
PWC
03-18-2020, 08:51
Mount St. Helen's blew it's top.
Sam

Well yes, I remember it well. Before I went to GE, I was at McChord in WA, wife and kids were still there waiting to come over. Still got the series from the Tacoma News Tribune she saved and the Nat'l Geo. St. Helens is south of Tacoma/Seattle so the ash plume went primarialy west.
remus
03-19-2020, 02:30
In my 9th year of a 20 year police career.
S.A. Boggs
03-19-2020, 03:50
In my 9th year of a 20 year police career.

P.D, or S.O.?
Sam
Papa Joe
03-19-2020, 09:24
Out in the Everglades making big noises and little rocks out of big ones. The rock pit was fun till about May so I loaded up and moseyed back north to Maryland.
remus
03-23-2020, 10:06
S.A. Boggs, Metropolitan Police District of Columbia.
S.A. Boggs
03-24-2020, 03:07
S.A. Boggs, Metropolitan Police District of Columbia.

Tough place to police, at least now.
Sam
jon_norstog
03-30-2020, 02:04
I was in Philadelphia. My sometime girlfriend, Darby, was hitchhiking on a 2-lane blacktop just eat of the mountain when it blew. No traffic, no rides and the hot dust started settling. She got in her sleeping bag and pulled her groundcloth over her, waited it out for a day. Didn't come out until the dust cloud blew east and traffic started moving again.

Hell of a woman.

jn
Dan in NH
03-30-2020, 02:51
1st year college.
Sandpebble
03-30-2020, 03:30
I read about the eruption in a local news paper while in Hobart, Tasmania . Small town on a small Island south of Australia and everyone there new exactly where the volcano was located .

I found that interesting as in my travels around the US half the population doesn't know where New Hampshire is ... not meaning to reference Dan in NH here, but his local brought on a memory.
Vern Humphrey
03-30-2020, 05:28
Where were you?
Sam

Headed for Korea and a tour with the 2nd Infantry Division.