Word on the Street - May 20, 2010

Where were you when Mount St. Helens blew its top?

Mark Truitt, Washtucna Ranger Station

“I was in Port Townsend, actually, working at Fort Warden State Park.”

Did you get much ash up there?

“We didn’t get any ash. We did get like three – shock waves, sonic booms, I don’t know what you’d call them. But it felt like somebody throwing a ball against the wall of our house.”

Del Coi, Colfax

“I was working at Snyders on the dayshift. All of a sudden everything got dark and I thought I was back on the graveyard shift.”

Gary Behymer, Colfax

“I was down on Poverty Flat… There was a vacant lot next doo...