It’s 1:43 a.m. here but I can still say “today” because I perpetually operate on West Coast time.
Twenty-nine years ago today, and nine days after my parents married, Mount Saint Helens decided to throw a party for them. Unfortunately the party was a bit much and it took out a bunch of homes and people before God told the mountain to stop.
I found this on YouTube, so I don’t really need to talk about it anymore. Just watch the full 47 minutes of this National Geographic special called Seconds From Disaster and relive the full horror of a party for my parents gone horribly wrong.
Oh, and check out this photo…it helped The Daily News in Longview win a Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting. It was a pretty big deal for such a small paper to win that thing in ’81. Even cooler, I went to the same high school as the guy who shot it (Roger Werth, Rainier High School).
