The Fimmvoruhald volcano erupting at Iceland's
Eyjafjallajökull glacier, earlier this week. (Don't ask me to
pronounce either name - when I listen to Eyjafjallajökull
being pronounced via Slate or Wikipedia, it sounds very
little like what it looks like).
I was living in Seattle in 1980 when Mount St. Helens blew
(see the website for the Mount St. Helens National Volcano
Monument for more information).
The winds never blew the ash cloud into Seattle, but
Portland was hit several times by the ash when the wind
blew in the right direction. It was still very dramatic - you
could see the huge column of ash for a long time from
Seattle. I never did visit the volcano, but one of the tourist
souvenirs one could buy soon afterwards were little glass
vials of volcano ash. I bought one but have no idea what
happened to it.
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