Magma has flowed to Mt. St. Helen's surface

[Lissa]

That was surreal, hearing the blast from more than 200 miles away and then finding out what it was.

And I do remember year after year getting pummeled by the Pioneers in football--except for one year (would have been 1991?) we got a victory in Omak as I recall.  The fans (including me) rushed the field, it was a good time.

I would've been amazed to find anyone hanging around here who even HEARD of Okanogan let alone lived just a few miles away.
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I was in my Junior year at the University of Arizona when that would have happen (the 1991 game). It's amazing how that whole area has changed since I left there in '89 to pursue a degree. When I left, Omak was around 4000 people and now it is somewhere on the order to 10000. It was also humorous for a long time thinking back that a county of 50000 people had a total of 3 stop lights... :P

Do you remember any of the forest fires in that area in the mid 80s? I remember the one vividly that was above Okanogan and across the valley burning in the vicinity of Omak Lake. That was the year everyone was wondering if Okanogan would be burned to the ground, but the fires never got that close to town.

And as they say, it's a small world... :lol: