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rgbecker

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7. Drove accross the country in Sept. of 1980.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Mon May 18, 2020, 08:47 AM

May 2020

We started seeing white ash on everything...looked like snow...even as far east as Idaho. Couldn't figure out what is was at first, the eruption was out of the news by September. The ash got thicker and thicker, 2 inches and drifts here and there. Filled a film container with it as a souvenir. It's somewhere around here, with all the other stuff.

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