[RookieDude]

"I'm an animal lover...they taste great!"

I was a first year P.E. and science teacher when Mt. Saint Helen's blew. We were studying volcanos at the time...so she blew at the perfect time. (Of course ol' Harry Truman might not think so)

I was teaching near Boise, ID...so we didn't really get any ash...but my buddies in the Tri-Cities, where I'm from and currently live, certainly did!

They said they woke up that Sunday morning to a big black cloud coming toward them from the west. They thought it was a giant rain storm coming...untill the ash started falling and the cars started "choking" out. Man, the mechanics got rich that year...with all the ash infected engines breaking down.

You guys from the east might have trouble believing the POWER of that blast! The trees around the mountain were blown over like matchsticks. The government left them laying like that to this day to show the magnificent display of force the explosion had.

Does anyone have a pic they could share of the explosion or of the trees laying down?