Top and center: Reader Andrew Jones shot these, and says, "The first is about 10 minutes after the ash event. The second is a few minutes after that, when plenty of drivers had stopped to watch the spectacle. The photos were taken by my cousin John Gram from his Portland driveway."
Bottom: a snapshot from Boing Boing reader Brian.
See also this sequence of pictures of Mt. St. Helen's eruption taken on a hilltop in Portland, Oregon by Jenn Mac Donald: Link to flickr gallery.
Previously: Mount St. Helens burps big cloud of steam, ash. See also the USGS Mount St. Helens Information Statement, and this live volcanocam.
