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Subject: [Leica] A Day in May 40 Years Ago
From: cartersxrd at gmail.com (RicCarter)
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 19:50:25 -0400
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ric


> On May 18, 2020, at 6:55 PM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> The 40th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens.  I can hardly 
> believe so much time has elapsed.  We lived in the small (pop 1100) town 
> of Odessa in Eastern Washington at the time.  I was actually on a camera 
> club field trip with the town doctor, pharmacist, and postmaster to Idaho 
> and Canada.  We were in Nelson BC when we heard of the eruption earlier 
> that day and had to drive back through some harrowing conditions the last 
> 40 miles or so.  I have included two images of the ash cloud at about 1:30 
> PM on the 18th that I did not take, since I was 300 hundred miles away.
> 
> The start here:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/AM/Darkness+from+ash-4.jpg.html
> 
> The cleanup took weeks.  The first day no one quite knew what to do.  Was 
> it safe to be outside?  The news media did not have too much information.  
> Some of the photo kind of remind me of what we are going through now with 
> this virus thing.  Masks were in order and our little town quickly ran 
> out.  My parents in Seattle sent us some that we got as soon as mail 
> started  up again.  Our first order of business was to dig out snow 
> shovels and wheel barrows and shovel the ash off the lawns, drives and 
> sidewalks.  The on the next day we discovered we needed to do the roofs, 
> too, so had to repeat the lawns etc.  It was like snow that did not go 
> away.  We were beat by about day 6.  Not sure how many roofs I did for 
> folks that could not manage it. Then the National Guard came and we were 
> glad to see them.
> 
> Enjoy the photos.  I have many more but don't want to bore you too much. 
> Comments welcome.
> 
> Aram
> 
> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
> 
> ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself 
> would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson 
> 
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