May 18th, 1980 was a Sunday. I remember playing outside before having to be drug to Sunday School when a neighbor kid came over and said, "Our friends from Castle Rock just called and said the mountain blew!"
Tuesday, May 18th, 2021 marks the 41st Anniversary of the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens in Southwest Washington. If you lived anywhere near Yakima on that fateful date, you'll remember the skies went eerily dark in the middle of the day, and tons of volcanic ash covered everything.