We lived about 50 miles south and west of Mt St Helens when I was a toddler. Apparently I've been up there, according to my mother, prior to us moving to Canada late in 1971, but I have zero recollection of it. I remember thinking at the time of the eruption, what a choking mess it would have been, to have still been living in the area when it went off. My dad had some fond memories of the area.
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