40 years later, Mount St. Helens eruption remains an indelible memory
In a landscape that is Mount St. Helens ash but looks like snow, Delbert Driggs (background) and his wife Nadine work on cleanup.
Cheryl Elkins/Courtesy photo
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
Cheryl Elkins/Courtesy photo
What looks like a snowy day in Moses Lake is actually an attempt to clean up ash from the eruption of Mount St. Helens – taken a few days later, with clouds of ash still
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.
The cloud of ash and dust produced by the eruption of Mount St. Helens approaches Moses Lake.
Cheryl Elkins/Courtesy photo
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.
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