<p>Local planes were grounded--as was pretty much everything else--due to the ash after Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980.</p>
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May 16, 2010 9 p.m.
Ash Sunday
30 years later, area residents recall eruption
Ready or not, it came on May 18, 1980.