Closure 'no reason' not to visit Mount St. Helens on 'erupt-iversary'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

45 years ago tomorrow.

[lastlib]

1. 44 years.

1980/5/17.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. May 18, 1980

May 18, 1980, we were both wrong the first time.

[lastlib]

3. Touche.

I recall I had just gotten home from my first year in law school when I heard the news.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I had recently started my long time job when Mount St. Helens erupted.

We were responsible for producing the TV listings for the newspapers and satellite guides and at that time my "beat" was the Pacific Northwest. And I remember getting a message from a PBS station in the vicinity of the eruption saying that they were incapable of sending me a schedule since their offices were buried in volcanic ash.

[Generic Other]

5. I was floating in a placid lake on the Key Peninsula

Never heard or felt a thing!