Ohhh I wish i had seen this yesterday LOL
probably had clear skies - we are socked in with overcast today.

From west of Portland we had a great view of the blow up and got quite a bit of the ash fallout- it made a nasty cement like sludge that would stick to your car after the rains started.

I think for the second big blow we were heading to the coast to camp and the ash was falling like snow.

It's been about 10 years since we went up to the observatory.