I was fishing the N fork Toutle in Kidd Valley 2 weekends before she blew. I still miss that fishing hole. I was living in Kirkland at the time, and the day she blew I was washing the salt off my boat from the previous days fishing trip. I had the stereo on and didn't hear a thing. A neighbor walked over and said that St Helen's blew her top. After I finished cleaning the boat I turned on the tube and watched the video clip of the wall of hot mud and debris going under the I-5 bridge over the Toutle. Not an easy sight to forget.