My family lived on top of a hill in the foothills of the Coast Range, west
of Carlton then, so we had a pretty good view from our front deck. On a
clear day, we could see all the Cascade peaks from the Three Sisters to the
south, to Mt. Rainier in the North. Not quite the front row seat you must
have had, but very memerable none the less. I was only seven I think, so I
don't remember the day real well. However, I do recall seeing the big
mushroom cloud of ash. Also, going to town either that day or the day after,
and seeing almost everyone wearing those white dust masks. Somewhere, I
still have a jar of the ash that we saved when we had to sweep it off the
roof of our house in the days that followed.
Isn't it interesting, how the wildlife always seems to know when a natural
disaster is about to happen. I often wish I could be that in tune with
nature!
Darin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Martinez" <pdmphoto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 8:46 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: FS: Zuiko 35-80/2.8
>
> I was a youngster myself living in Portland, OR. I got up at 4 AM that
> beautiful sunny morning with my father to go fishing on Sauvie's Island,
> about 30 miles away as the crow flies from the mountain. I saw it all
> including the lightning and even felt the earthquake. From our vantage
> point
> on the South side it didn't look all that bad. We though it had just blown
> off a bunch of ash, like it had done before, covering Portland if the wind
> was blowing from the north. This day everything happened on the north side
> of the mountain and the wind was blowing from the south to north.
>
> We always say the fish new the mountain was going to go off. That was a
> hot
> salmon spot we had back in the day, but we didn't get a single bite or see
> any fish rolling or jumping all morning.
>
> Paul
>
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