Footage digitized from the Mount St. Helens Eruption Aftermath Films (FV341:005), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries. Detailed description of this item is as follows:
Car wash cleaning ash off of cars; [0:00:11] man talking about increase in business at the car wash due to ash; people washing car; person scooping up snow covered in ash; tractor scraping slush/ash mixture off of road; workers washing and hosing off street; close-ups of ash mixed with water from hose; person pushing a wheelbarrow filled with ash; cars driving on ashy street; people walking on ash-covered road; close up of ash and water mix on side of street; sheriff patrol driving by; close-up of road being hosed off; children running on ashy road; [0:06:45] receptionist Jane Johnston talking on phone about hoses for clean-up; person shoveling wet ash from road; people hosing ash out of parking lot and street; ash and debris-filled water running into storm drain; person hosing ash in Safeway parking lot; man wearing mask while spraying high pressure hose; tire tracks in wet ash; people using garden hoses on neighborhood streets; people harvesting strawberries in field; car driving on ashy road behind water truck; people shoveling and spraying off neighborhood streets; workers cleaning heavy machinery; "Road Closed" signs; truck spraying water to clean roads; person spraying hose at window while young child watches; people spraying sidewalks in downtown Portland; water truck connected to fire hydrant; man hosing down driveway; cat hiding in bushes; people spraying streets and sidewalks.
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