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Closure 'no reason' not to visit Mount St. Helens on 'erupt-iversary'
45 years ago tomorrow.
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I recall I had just gotten home from my first year in law school when I heard the news.
We were responsible for producing the TV listings for the newspapers and satellite guides and at that time my "beat" was the Pacific Northwest. And I remember getting a message from a PBS station in the vicinity of the eruption saying that they were incapable of sending me a schedule since their offices were buried in volcanic ash. 
