Cheryl Elkins/Courtesy photo
What looks like a snowy yard is actually ash, as much as four inches, which fell in Moses Lake after the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
May 17, 2020
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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.