*gets rocking chair out*
when mt. st. helen's erupted the BIG one, i was nary a knee high to a grasshopper i was. i lived in Oregon, a goodly distance from said eruption. yet i awoke to see my entire neighbourhood BLANKETED with about an inch or so of ash. 'twas a sight, it was.
and re: the moon. we were planning on seeing it, but were negotiating on buying our first 'home', as it were, in this case, a 600 sq ft apt. hot dang, that makes me feel old.