It interrupting church, the dark cloud, the falling ash, the drive home and my brother scraping the windshield with a church program (they said not to use the windshield wipers), the stranded families staying at our house (my dad was still listed as the bishop in the phone book), and the piles of ash.

My dad was in an airplane that had just taken off so the pilot thought it would be a good idea to fly into the eruption and my dad reports seeing a lot of lighting until the pilot flew out of it