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What happened on May 18th?
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Site Supporter   Location: Faxon, OK Joined: Sat Mar 19, 2011 Posts: 18063 Real Name: Chuck 
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Right, 35 years ago Mount St. Helen's blew her top killing 57 people.
Also the anniversary for the 1927 mass killing at Bath MI school, but not with our evil guns - a bomb. 45 people killed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster _________________ "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson "Evil often triumphs, but never conquers." Joseph Roux |
| Mon May 18, 2015 10:33 am |
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Site Supporter  Location: Olympia Joined: Wed Feb 6, 2013 Posts: 5365 Real Name: Reid
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I was named after Reid Blackburn, a photographer for National Geographic who was on the mountain when it blew. He was my dad's best friend. RIP Reid, I'm bummed I never got to meet you.
_________________ "If it doesn't work, the proper sequence of tools is duct tape->screwdriver->hammer->shotgun. If none of that fixes it, it wasn't meant to work in the first place." I am free because I say I am. My freedom is not dependent on any government benefit or piece of legislation. My rights are inherent in the fact that I was born a sovereign being. They are non-negotiable. The government can list them and protect them, but my rights are not theirs to give away. Yolo: Because idiots don't know what "carpe diem" means. What, do you think I`m an amateur? You think this is Amateur hour? I`m covered in broken glass and hatred. You think someone would want to anger that with a Vz? - Fjordforder |
| Mon May 18, 2015 1:21 pm |
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Site Moderator / In Memoriam   Location: Ryderwood WA. Joined: Sun May 15, 2011 Posts: 5331
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I lived in Yakima, WA., back then. What a mess it was !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I shoveled off three roofs and moved about 3 tons of ash over the next couple of months. It was heavy like sand. We had about 2 to 3 inches of it on the ground, Made good crops the next year. Yakima city had so much ash clean up off the streets, they used it as fill dirt in some low ground to make a sports field. It had lots of soccer and baseball areas over several acres of ground. My inlaws at the time lived in the mid west, Thy sent us a picture of their names written on the front windshield of their car that sat out side. cootduster _________________ Retired May 30th 2018, after 41years. I'm not old. I'm just no longer young !!! |
| Mon May 18, 2015 1:47 pm |
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Site Supporter Joined: Mon Aug 22, 2011 Posts: 4094
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This
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. _________________ FREE MEN do not need permission I Believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies." William Tyler Page 1917 |
| Mon May 18, 2015 4:54 pm |
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Site Supporter Joined: Mon Aug 22, 2011 Posts: 4094
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And this
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. _________________ FREE MEN do not need permission I Believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies." William Tyler Page 1917 |
| Mon May 18, 2015 5:14 pm |
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Site Supporter Joined: Mon Aug 22, 2011 Posts: 4094
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And this
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. _________________ FREE MEN do not need permission I Believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies." William Tyler Page 1917 |
| Mon May 18, 2015 5:17 pm |
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Site Supporter Joined: Mon Aug 22, 2011 Posts: 4094
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And finally, this
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. _________________ FREE MEN do not need permission I Believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies." William Tyler Page 1917 |
| Mon May 18, 2015 5:19 pm |
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In Memoriam  Location: Snohomish Joined: Wed May 11, 2011 Posts: 1587 Real Name: Dan
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I bought my newest motorcycle on this day 2 years ago
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| Mon May 18, 2015 5:33 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: south 'merca Joined: Wed Jul 25, 2012 Posts: 9738 Real Name: Mike
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So awesome, devastating, and beautiful at the same time. This was before my time.
_________________ "No Quarter, No Mercy" mash_man wrote: #gangbangerlivesmatter |
| Mon May 18, 2015 5:58 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: 40 acres of 2A sanctuary Joined: Sun Apr 7, 2013 Posts: 919
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while i was born 13 years before the eruption, it still happened on my birthday.
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| Mon May 18, 2015 6:14 pm |
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 Location: Olympia, WA Joined: Fri May 1, 2015 Posts: 141
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I guess I was 3 when it happened.. I don't know how I could have memories still of it, it must be from the years following,seeing the trees flattened and hearing stories from my parents.
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| Mon May 18, 2015 6:18 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: Olympia Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2011 Posts: 16026 Real Name: Steve
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I was like five days old
_________________ "I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said." - William Buckley, Jr. "...steam, artillery and revolvers give to civilized man an irresistible power." -Perry Collins |
| Mon May 18, 2015 6:24 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: South Seattle Joined: Thu Sep 22, 2011 Posts: 13515 Real Name: JP
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I was a year old, and to this day my Mom still has a few 35mm film canisters of the ash.
Crazy stuff indeed. _________________ Yes I Do Have A Beautiful Daughter.. I Also Have A Gun, A Shovel, & An Alibi |
| Mon May 18, 2015 6:25 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: Lynwood Joined: Sun Jul 29, 2012 Posts: 3214
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I was 10 and in process of cleaning up after my older sisters party she had. BOOM at first we thought some one was blasting stumps. I went to the front of the house and a big ass cloud was going up. I about shat my self
 this was the time of all the Nuke war TV shows . I ran in and told my dad . He flips on the TV and see's it was a volcano . Jumps in the truck and takes off. I was like WTF . He comes back half HR later with dust masks and extra air filters for the cars_________________ You can run but you will just die tired I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil because I am the baddest MOTHER FUCKER in the valley |
| Mon May 18, 2015 6:32 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: WA/MT Joined: Thu Sep 6, 2012 Posts: 8438
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Crazy day. I was a little too young to remember all the gory details but my dad was working up there for Weyerhaeuser and I remember my mom crying until he called from Morton.
Being up there a bit afterwards riding along in the trucks doing the salvage operations is pretty fresh in my mind, though. _________________ "Well, nobody's perfect." ― Osgood Fielding III WTB factory ammo 250 Savage (250-3000) any 375 H&H any 7x57 (7mm Mauser, 275 Rigby) 175's preferred |
| Mon May 18, 2015 6:48 pm |
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