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Reflections: Mount St. Helens Eruption
Dramatic and traumatic events often shape the way that people remember their community's past. Two crises in the last twenty years brought Moses Lake residents together.
Ash clouds from Mount St. Helens
eruption, May 1980.
Photo courtesy of Nadine Driggs.
The eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, dropped several inches of ash over Moses Lake, paralyzing the town for days.
Rick Byam pauses during the ash cleanup
in May, 1980.
Photo courtesy of Robert Walker