So Intense: @ForestServiceNW Tweets a Timeline of the St Helens Eruption Commemorating the Eruption’s 38th Anniversary

The St Helens Eruption in Tweets

The NW Branch of the US Forest Service Counts down the May 18th, 1980 Mt St Helens eruption via tweets:

A true hero. Thank you for your service, David:

“I was outside contemplating what to put in the raised planting beds of our newly constructed passive solar house. I heard a sonic boom. We had just received 2 grey kittens from my sister Terry. We decided to name them Smoke and Ash,”

– Craig Corliss – 154 miles from Mount St Helens, in Eugene, OR at the time of the eruption.

The Oregon BLM and others also have tweeted about the eruption:

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