I was almost two years old when St. Helens blew. I grew up in SE WA, and vaguely remember my dad holding me at the end of the driveway and I could see the plume of black smoke headed our way. I don’t remember much after that, but I’m told there was about three inches of ash on the ground for a couple of weeks.
I grew up watching the WHL (including the Portland Winterhawks). The Americans were my team (Olaf Kolzig, Stu Barnes) but I adopted the Silvertips when I moved to Pugetopolis (Carter Hart, Radko Gudas, Ryan Murray, etc.)
Recently picked my Kraken season tix seats (half season shared amongst a few friends, that is).
Sports are given too much clout in this country, don’t get me wrong, but hockey is the most under-appreciated major team sport, IMO.
