my special memory of the event
Earlier that spring, I had purchased a second hand '74 Chevelle wagon.
I was giving it a wax job about a week after the eruption. I noticed as I wiped the dried wax off of the roof panel, the buffing cloth kept getting clogged up some kind of grayish grit (I hadn't washed the car before I started). It finally dawned on me that it must be fall out from Mt. St. Helens.
This was in western Michigan. We lived ten miles from the lake. My theory is, that as the ash particals floated across the cooler air over Lake Michigan, they dropped from the sky in a higher consentration than other places east of the Mississippi.
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