At the time, I was working at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in Portland. Within just a few days, people were coming in trying to sell our gift shop stuff made from ash, stuff stuffed with ash and just ash.
We actually did sell surgical masks and they were a big hit.
The museum eventually put together an exhibit on the eruption including footage shot from helicopters that flew over the crater. Many of the comments compared the landscape on the mountain to that of the moon.
My son Josh was born a few weeks after the eruption and when we brought him home from the hospital there were still pockets of ash along side the roadways.
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Yom HaShoah
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