million tons of volcanic ash in the air. that rose in a huge vertical column that went straight up for 15 miles then started drifting. it started spreading around the globe. by lunch time the ash from the volcanic eruption was raining down in significant quantity on the city of spokane which is 250 mile as way from mount st. helen's two weeks that ash cloud had traveled all of the way east across the united states. all of the way across the atlantic ocean, all of the way across asia and had started to come back around the other side of the world. that ash cloud had circled the globe within 15 days and what happened in the air is so massive and so hard to get your head around, the ash and the way it traveled has become sorts of the indelible image of what that eruption was like 35 year as today but for the communities very nearby to mount st. helen's
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