Evidence of Devastation 40+ Years After Mt St Helens Eruption

[@PinInTheAtlas]

We didn't want this episode to end. Great job from start to finish, would love a follow up to more of the sites around there!

[@DecayWithUs]

Yeah.. we had a lot of stops that trip, we wish we had gotten to see more. There's alway next time! Thanks for the complement, we're definitely gonna do more videos this style in the future!

[@mrmike1884]

@@DecayWithUs I have studied ST Helen’s for many years. Read all kinds of books and have seen almost every video and movie. The one thing I have not done is actually go there. I hope to in the next year or two.

[@MaxProductionsTV]

I lived just 18 miles from St Helens on May 18th 1980, a day I will never forget. Thanks for a trip down memory lane, your videos are awesome!

[@DecayWithUs]

Thanks Max! I was about four months from being born, can't remember too much about it myself 😆

[@cinnamongirl68]

I lived in Spokane when it erupted. I was 11. We were just outside running feral as all gen x kids did. The sky went from sunny and beautiful to solid black in minutes. We were out playing in it like it was snow.

[@DecayWithUs]

That sounds scary! We hope to never experience it... I'm just a few years younger, can't remember because I was a few months from being born 😆 Thanks for sharing that story, must have been a crazy experience!

[@TheOnlyOneStanding8079]

I'm 54 yrs old and I remember when Mt. St. Helens blew up. I was in junior high school at the time. I don't know why this volcano fascinated me but I wanted to visit Mt. St. Helens after it blew up..Hello from San Francisco California 😎✌🌉🌉🌉🌈

[@DecayWithUs]

Hopefully you can go vist! We'd love to do the hike to the top of the crater, just need to get in shape first 🤣

[@Daniel-79]

I was just a few months old when it erupted. My dad told me he was mowing the lawn the morning when it erupted. He said the sky was perfectly blue and out of the west/southwest sky approached a cloud that was almost black and made the day as black as night night. It rained down about an inch of fine ash. At the time, people did not know if it was toxic (it wasn’t). For years after, on the side of roads and undisturbed areas you could see remnants of the ash that rained down that day. Edit: we lived in the Spokane Valley area.

[@cinnamongirl68]

@@Daniel-79 Hi neighbor! Your dad described it well. I hope he got that lawn mowed. All I remember about the toxic part was we were playing it and then got yelled at to get out of it. People used hoses to wash it away. Then we were back outside.

[@PinetopJackson2]

Your narration skills are on point in this video, Tim! That intro, those drone shots...wonderful video you've put together!

[@DecayWithUs]

Really appreciate the compliment! I'm getting better every time. My early raw audio needed a lot more splicing, it more closely resembled a long "blooper reel" 🤣. Hopefully I'll find the time to sit down and watch some tutorials on how to do voice-overs and get even better

[@DecayWithUs]

If you ever find the time to go to the Mt St Helens area, those locations are amazing to see, plus there's even more we really want to see. Like the buried trucks, a truck with a tree through it and I haven't been to the "Ape Caves" yet... (Leah has). It's just gorgeous up there in general

[@danjf1]

Thanks for posting! Hope people will always keep the tragedy of Mt. Saint Helens in the forefront as a warning of what can happen. Because you never know when any volcano car roar to life again. RIP folks of the 1980 eruption disaster

[@DecayWithUs]

Absolutely. Just have to hope the geologists in charge can warn us in time... I look over a Rainer all the time and admire its beauty, but see its potential

[@donnieanderson2009]

I have friends that knew Harry and spent many summers on spirit lake. He sad Harry was a nice guy but very stubborn and stuck in his own ways! Thanks for sharing

[@deannpoland4163]

I really enjoyed the nostalgic appreciation you captured 💜

[@DecayWithUs]

Thank you!

[@CharlieB.-]

I never knew the real destruction that Mt St Helens created. I'm far more informed thanks to your indepth video. Thank you for taking time to show the world .

[@DecayWithUs]

Thank you! We hope to get back down there at some point when we have more time to dedicate to it. We didn't get to see all the remaining vehicles and evidence of destruction. Plus there's a lot more info we can add. Thank again for the positive comment!

[@raybaker8726]

I remember well the eruption on May 18. I lived in Yakima at the time. I remember the emergency radio broadcast. I remember being told fill bathtub with water. The morning of May 18 I remember going to Church. Pastor asked my mom, Why are you here go home. Once we got home you could see the cloud of ash coming. It was somthing Ill never forget.

[@Mikefestiva]

Thanks for posting! I never saw this video from You guys when it was first posted? This just popped up in my feed. I definitely look forward to getting back there again this summer.

[@DecayWithUs]

Nice! It seems to be making its rounds again 🤷‍♂️ We will probably go this route with videos in the future when we get back into it. Just need to make sure our facts are straight haha 😄

[@DecayWithUs]

ALSO, I want to get into good enough shape to do the crater hike. It doesn't seem bad as far as miles, however it's several thousand feet in altitude gain!

[@GLING17]

One of the things that really got to me back then about this horrible tragedy and loss of life was all of Harry Truman's cats that perished just because he refused to leave after he was warned. Poor things and what an awful way to go. Rest in peace all those who were killed.

[@jamesmurray8558]

It has been 43 years since the eruption.I was stationed at the Cle Elm ranger station when call came over the radio.Heard the young man call and die.I will never forget it.

[@willoughby1888]

Time marches on, why can't sad memories too? I suppose they're not supposed to, huh? I have so many "I'll never forget"s that it's been pathetic. Wouldn't ever want to dismiss them, any, they've earned their share of sorrow. So sad when the young have to die though. The least that the living can do is remember them whenever possible, like you had. I was camping atop one of the Three Sisters in Oregon the morning Mt. St. Helen erupted and the deep, loud groan I heard sounded like the whole earth was moaning because it was dying, a thing I'LL never forget. Maine says "Hello".

[@rsnell22]

It is sad that so much of this recreational area remains locked down. I just don't think that was the intent when the new road was built. Facilities are closed or in obvious disrepair. Promises of public access to the Toutle River were not honored by the timber companies, the State, or the federal agencies.

[@MaxProductionsTV]

My little League coach was one of the 57 who lost their lives that day, RIP Keith Starks.

[@DecayWithUs]

Wow... that's terrible 😕

[@gwengwen4535]

Wow!! That’s wild. RIP Coach Starks🙏🏻

[@SA1NT53]

There’s an old native legend of St Helens. Two warriors of the same tribe both wanted the heart of a squaw. They continuously fought with each other and even burned their families and lodges. The God of the lands became furious with their destruction and turned one warrior into Mt Hood to the south, another into Mt Rainier to the North, and in between them was the most beautiful of them all, Mt St Helens, the squaw herself.

[@DecayWithUs]

Cute story

[@teddygram4744]

Awesome video!

[@DecayWithUs]

Thank you!

[@fandoria09]

To think I'd just had my 9th birthday just 4 months before Helen erupted (January 6, 1980). I was living in a village (Glenford, Ohio) when we began following the news about her that March clear up to her explosion on May 18, 1980. She hit her 42nd anniversary just this past May 18, 2022. I'm now 51.

[@lucmarchand617]

They said vancouver inland vibrate.weyerhauser in princeton bc said was huge job clean and replant tree .thank you video.calgary alberta

[@markgish6002]

Those trees shattered part way up were all hit by boulders the size of a human head at 300 miles per hour. You need to hike to Mt Margert it is across the lake about 8 miles round trip. you will have a better perspective of the blast zone.

[@tedarias9040]

Was living in Albuquerque at the time of the event, and my 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass had a layer of Volcanic ash on it, they said to wash it off with water not a dry rag, I suppose the volcanic ash was like sandpaper!!

[@silvereagle2061]

I'd always hoped they'd find any signs of Harry's lodge like this A-frame. RIP Harry Truman, and David Johnston.

[@DecayWithUs]

As far as I know if there is anything left, it's 200' below the lake

[@jmill3147]

Any idea where Trumans lodge sat on that lake? I've never been able to figure it out. Was he on the side closest to the slide?

[@DecayWithUs]

I don't know the exact spot, but there are old pictures at his resort that you can see St. Helens in the background for perspective

[@oACE20o]

I barely remember the eruption in 1980 i was only 3. I do remember the other small eruption in 1983. First time i ever seen ash fall out never will forget.

[@prissypants2336]

Where exactly is the spot where his resort was?

[@DecayWithUs]

We have no idea, but it would be completely unrecognizable as the whole lake was filled with a mud flow and is now 200' higher that it was previous to the eruption, crazy stuff!

[@willoughby1888]

He's a fossil now. Part of some seam somewhere, it would seem. He'd be as hard to find later on, as time marched on, as the Titanic was... maybe. And you want a known "spot"? Maybe a ground-penetrating orbital satellite device could help pinpoint his resting spot, or rather spots. A mountain falling on top of you and flowing by just might pulverize a soft person, and he was aged human meat after all, it wasn't like he was Atlas or Rip Haywire.

[@patlatorres7000]

About 200 feet below the south east corner of the new lake, buried in mud.

[@TheRealBatCave]

R there homes still at spirit lake or where they all completely destroyed?

[@DecayWithUs]

@TheRealBatCave No, there are no homes left. There are still trees from the blast in the lake. It's pretty neat to see.

[@TheRealBatCave]

@DecayWithUs interesting

[@clouseaux]

Helens yes!

[@DecayWithUs]

As long as the weather is good, otherwise it's "hail no"

[@susanmiller4159]

Nice job on the video! Found you through a recommended short of you falling through a floor. Every urbexer’s fear. Stay safe.

[@DecayWithUs]

Lol, thanks! I'm really hoping that never happens again 😁

[@jenniferpesquera648]

I was born in 1990 when it blew up in may 18,1980. All i remember mount st helen killed 57 people and some many were burn and some with broken bones.😮😮😮😮😮😢😢😢

[@gwengwen4535]

I heard a story once about some soldiers from the National Guard, who were allegedly aware of a containment and relocation task, of some giant, hairy creatures that became displaced after the eruption… I think it was the Washington guard too. Fun stuff🤓😅

[@DecayWithUs]

🤣

[@35t10b]

Do you think the national guard could keep that secret?

[@LucySims1968]

Incredible, I was eleven when she erupted and can remember following it on the news here in England. Even now I tell someone if they are angry they are like St Helens in May 18th 1980, they dont have a clue. This natural diasater fascinates me, its planet earth burping. She doesnt care about us insects on the surface, she cares about herself. The question is, where is the next volcanic burp coming from...........Yellowstone? Etna? Something underwater? I love this planets' nature...Thank you for a wonderful video xxx

[@DecayWithUs]

Maybe Rainier??? 😶😐😶

[@charlesmccullough7892]

I was an 8 year old kid living in the Midwest, far from any volcano. Nevertheless, I remember seeing strange looking sunsets days thereafter.

[@DecayWithUs]

That's eerie! It's crazy how much something like that can affect the planet. Even crazier than this is the fact that that was a tiny eruption compared to others in history!

[@nemesisut8793]

I was just there yesterday

[@DecayWithUs]

Nice!

[@nemesisut8793]

Where did you find the mangled car?

[@DecayWithUs]

It's on the northeast side on NF99 before Spirt lake

[@turtlegrams6582]

next time someone tells you that the earth is billions of years old, tell them to go to Mt St Helens and see how fast the earths crush can change, especially if the deeps split gushed water, surrounded by erupting volcanoes on every side, earth crust convalescing and water pouring out of the sky

[@DecayWithUs]

The earth is 4.543 billion years old. Not only does the evidence suggest that, it also proves it.

[@turtlegrams6582]

@@DecayWithUs , how

[@DecayWithUs]

All of the information is out there. If you objectively seek it, you will come to the same conclusion

[@turtlegrams6582]

@@DecayWithUs , explain to me; sea shell fossil's on top of the Himalayans , a 1930's hat turning to stone in a cave, a sparkplug incasted in stone, , a chalk layer across earths crust, coal half wood and half coal, seashells layered with coal layers, dinosaur footprints next and walk over human foot print fossils, whale bones in middle of mexico, why there isn't any fossils below crastation layer nor links to the hundreds of big bang/evolution theories , continue ever changing theories at every new proof found that makes 1800's freemason darwin'ism & the jesuits priest that took over the theory once darwin died nonsense, why fossils show devolution not evolution, evidence of a massive flood arcoss all landmasses , why fossils with fish eating other fish stopped instantly before being able to down it, , a leaf fossiled in over 40 layers of strada, trees fossilized in stream flows ; Mt St Helens, Canary Island, Iceland, Hawaii prove earths crust can be catastrophically changed in an instant,day,days,week, weeks,month,months,year years, Not billions years . Haven't you ever questioned these things or did the evolution big bang theory books hid these facts

[@trentonfoul3714]

Not realizingnthe fact a mans body is under that

[@lonnieosbourne818]

music NOT needed....

[@DecayWithUs]

comments NOT necessarily...

[@willoughby1888]

You also could take it as a compliment... "Music was NOT even needed, because the video part itself was that good!!" Anyways, I didn't notice anything that annoyed, I'm sure I would have recalled it. THANK you for making and sharing this video.@@DecayWithUs

[@DecayWithUs]

We appreciate that! People will find ANYTHING to complain about, we don't usually take it personally 😄

[@johncavell5154]

I don't understand it 40 years since Helens erupted and still the lake hasn't been cleared of dead trees

[@DecayWithUs]

It is interesting why they never cleared the lake. It probably wasn't worth the trouble to harvest them. It would be cool to know they will still be floating there 100 years from now. Hopefully the never get removed

[@ChadElk88]

That house looks way older than something built in 1980 - way dated. Looks 1940's. I hope they got a sick insurance payout.