e-edition e-edition Sun Tribune Subscribe Log in
Monday, April 15, 2024
51.0°F
Moses Lake city crews washed down the streets in an effort to clean up tons of ash – really pulverized rock – resulting from the eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Moses Lake city crews washed down the streets in an effort to clean up tons of ash – really pulverized rock – resulting from the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Cheryl Elkins/Courtesy photo

May 17, 2020

Stories this photo appears in:

40 years later, Mount St. Helens eruption remains an indelible memory
May 17, 2020 10:51 p.m.

40 years later, Mount St. Helens eruption remains an indelible memory

MOSES LAKE — Until the spring of 1980, Mount St. Helens was part of a lesson in geography class, the one when kids had to learn the highest mountains in the Cascades. For most people, unless they lived close to the mountain, that was it.