OT Happy Mt. Saint Helens Day!

[SlyPokerDog]

did you do High Rocks?

Yes.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

I was in first grade attending Chief Joseph and living off of Portland Blvd (now Rosa Parks Way) and Gay St. My dad worked as a house painter at the time so we had a bunch of those painters' masks people were wearing already. My brother and a couple of our friends got on our bikes and started riding towards the mountain. We didn't get very far before we turned back.

 

[santeesioux]

That was like 9 years before I was even born.

 

[Chris Craig]

I was -4 years old

 

[H.C.]

Man all of you are old af.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Yes.

Me, too.... but never jumped off the bridge.

 

[tykendo]

Richard Ross. Grew up watching him for channel 2. Ash raining down on Vancouver from the eruption caused me to have an asthma attack, and I missed my finals which cost me a couple of better grades in classes. They would not let me make them up. Hardcore BS back then.

 

[Orion Bailey]

136th just south of stark. Saved a few vials of ash that built up againt the curb.

 

[borim69]

I was 17 years old and late for work I was at a friends house the night before and his car broke down. I had to hitchhike from Vancouver to Woodland when it blew. By the time I got a ride my hair was like concrete from all the ash mixed with the rain. When I got to work (dishwasher at a restaurant) the place was closed and the 2 people that were there were sitting around the bar having drinks by candlelight because the power was off. I was an hour late but they told me to go home but I could have a beer if I wanted.

 

[jlprk]

Fuck this. I have written my Mt. St. Helens story before and don't want to type it again. You all remember it, so just recount it in your heads.

 

[Lanny]

Richard Ross. Grew up watching him for channel 2. Ash raining down on Vancouver from the eruption caused me to have an asthma attack, and I missed my finals which cost me a couple of better grades in classes. They would not let me make them up. Hardcore BS back then.

I watched Ross have a breakdown on a live broadcast. Never forget it.

 

[trailblazer18]

Yes.

I did high rocks as well! Woah, that's a flashback. I lived in Gladstone for middle school, then moved to Iowa.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I did high rocks as well! Woah, that's a flashback. I lived in Gladstone for middle school, then moved to Iowa.

Kraxberger!

 

[trailblazer18]

Kraxberger!

Yessir! You too?

 

[trailblazer18]

I wasn't born until 1982 so I missed the event. I remember my dad telling me watched from the top of the house. I remember he had a small bottle of ash as well.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Yessir! You too?

Yes, 7th & 8th grade.

 

[riverman]

I was on the road with a band gigging in Lake Tahoe when it happened. Think I was 26 years old then

 

[trailblazer18]

Yes, 7th & 8th grade.

Nice. I went to Astor for part of elementary school then we moved to Gladstone for 6th and 7th grade and went to Kraxberger.

 

[jlprk]

I did high rocks as well! Woah, that's a flashback. I lived in Gladstone for middle school, then moved to Iowa.

Johnston! Fort Dodge!

 

[trailblazer18]

Johnston! Fort Dodge!

I lived 45min drive North of Fort Dodge in West Bend - home of the Grotto!

 

[Mediocre Man]

Watched it from my front yard

 

[Lanny]

I was on the road with a band gigging in Lake Tahoe when it happened. Think I was 26 years old then

OMG, you're an old fart. Of course, that would be old fart compared to most of these youngsters. But to me, you're a young punk kid.