03-27-80

[PWC]

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]

In my 9th year of a 20 year police career.

[S.A. Boggs]

In my 9th year of a 20 year police career.

P.D, or S.O.?
Sam

[Papa Joe]

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]

S.A. Boggs, Metropolitan Police District of Columbia.

[S.A. Boggs]

S.A. Boggs, Metropolitan Police District of Columbia.

Tough place to police, at least now.
Sam

[jon_norstog]

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]

1st year college.

[Sandpebble]

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]

Where were you?
Sam

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