Mt. Saint Helens erupted May 18, 1980, spewing ash and reducing the elevation of the mountain by about 400 meters, leaving a crater 635 meters deep. Ash spread across 11 states.
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A memory of the Mount St. Helens eruption 44 years later
Guillermo V. Castaneda of Granger sent this poem to the Columbia Basin Herald in commemoration of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, which took place 34 years ago Saturday. At the time of the eruption, Castaneda was the director of the Migrant Health Clinic in Wenatchee and was in the process of setting up a community medical and dental clinic for migrants in Moses Lake, he wrote.