Posted by: chupacabra
Posted by: Stuminator
Forty years ago today Mount Saint Helen's blew up. Maybe some older folks here can recall what they were doing when it happened. I was going outside to see what my Dad was up to in the back yard when I heard a crack of what I thought was thunder. Later we found out what had happened.
I was probably riding around on my BMX with my friends since that is pretty much all I did as a kid, but I don't remember anything happening. No ash made it to my house.
Haha, ditto. West Van BMX mob.
I heard the eruption too, 8 year old self chalked it up to the Coal Harbor 9 o'clock cannon going off at the wrong time.
Speaking of, did you know that that cannon once blew a hole in the floating gas station that used to be out front? Apparently the Texaco was anchored directly in line with the cannon, and In 1964 someone managed to throw a rock right into the barrel from the beach. When it went off that night it blew a hole right through the O of the Texaco sign.
Other cannon facts: In 1969 UBC Engineering students stole the cannon and held it ransom for their annual prank. Another year they painted it red.
Remember when they hung a Volkswagen Beetle from the Lions Gate?