OT Happy Mt. Saint Helens Day!

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  1. Wizard Mentor

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    Puts Rectum, hahaha - hadn't heard that one. Of course, Gladstoners are classic. Fortunately for me, after 4 years I escaped Clackatraz. After 2 years at Cow Valley, I spend a long time at Penis U.
     
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    :biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh:

    I'm like their requested referee. I'm there a lot.
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Thoughts and prayers.
     
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    I lived in Yakima and was 23 years old. It turned dark as night and the ash fell like a heavy snowfall. I remember the roosters crowing like morning and all the birds acting like it was a new day. We got a foot and a half of ash. I made a lot of money shoveling ash that summer.
     
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    I was topless bar hopping. I was at some joint on Barbur Blvd. near the YMCA Metro Fitness Center. Had a great view of the mountain going off. Was that a bad thing?
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    My dad was in an office bldg. near the Lloyd Center. I think it was near the Bonneville Power building. He was on about the sixth floor facing the mountain. He had a perfect view.

    Me? I was in a topless bar. Went outside to see what all the fuss was about.
     
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    My parents weren't even 10 yet.
     
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    I was at home watching ash fall everywhere from our living room window. Was pumped we didn't have to go to church that day. I remember having to were those painters masks for a few weeks whenever we went outside. I filled up a few big coffee cans full of ash.....mom still has it in their garage.
     
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    did you do High Rocks?
     
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    Yes.
     
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    I was in first grade attending Chief Joseph and living off of Portland Blvd (now Rosa Parks Way) and Gay St. My dad worked as a house painter at the time so we had a bunch of those painters' masks people were wearing already. My brother and a couple of our friends got on our bikes and started riding towards the mountain. We didn't get very far before we turned back.
     
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    That was like 9 years before I was even born.
     
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    I was -4 years old
     
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    Man all of you are old af.
     
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    Me, too.... but never jumped off the bridge.
     
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    Richard Ross. Grew up watching him for channel 2. Ash raining down on Vancouver from the eruption caused me to have an asthma attack, and I missed my finals which cost me a couple of better grades in classes. They would not let me make them up. Hardcore BS back then.
     
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    136th just south of stark. Saved a few vials of ash that built up againt the curb.
     
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    I was 17 years old and late for work I was at a friends house the night before and his car broke down. I had to hitchhike from Vancouver to Woodland when it blew. By the time I got a ride my hair was like concrete from all the ash mixed with the rain. When I got to work (dishwasher at a restaurant) the place was closed and the 2 people that were there were sitting around the bar having drinks by candlelight because the power was off. I was an hour late but they told me to go home but I could have a beer if I wanted.
     
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    Fuck this. I have written my Mt. St. Helens story before and don't want to type it again. You all remember it, so just recount it in your heads.
     
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