Looking back at the Mount St. Helens eruption

[@elwood3642]

I was 10 years old in Spokane, Washington when it happened. I still have a container of ash from my front yard from when it happened. A day I will never forget.

[@BB-uu9oo]

I'm about as far from Washington as possible being in the South,but I randomly have a glass of the ashes from mt st Helens. One of my family members had brought it home. Pretty cool tho. I'd love to climb Mt st Helens or some of the glaciated mountains of the Pacific northwest. Howeve, I'm in no shape for it at the time being

[@michawnme]

@@BB-uu9oo Same. I grew up in the South (Louisiana). But, family members of mine in Spokane sent me a baggie in a shoebox filled with the ash. It's cool to have that piece of history.

[@michelelaraia7358]

Same,from Southern Italy.

[@JohnnyjohnJ]

it's going to erupt again.

[@michelelaraia7358]

@@JohnnyjohnJ Right now?Even Etna and Stromboli.

[@Micksowagger]

2:26 "what do they expect us to survive on?" Lady, what do you expect when you live near an active volcano. That's like living in Antartica and complaining that its cold.

[@OrangeTabbyCat]

Well, she sounds like she is under shock.

[@APFSDS-DU]

Well she brings up a good point, why are they still there? There was no evac order at that point.

[@brians132]

@@APFSDS-DU Because the useless governor hadn't bothered to sign the recommendation the geologists made for an enlarged exclusion zone. The dozy bint decided she'd rather go to a rhodendron festival 🙄

[@jasoncyr5139]

Play stupid games win stupid prizes lol

[@TeamRocket98]

@@jasoncyr5139 Four decades later Americans still want to win those prizes.

[@ptaylor4923]

40 years... Seems like yesterday. man, I'm getting old.

[@mwhitelaw8569]

Yeah man Kinda sucks I was on it at 10 years old It erupted the next spring Still have pictures of the view east

[@achilleroux8276]

lol

[@piccleface2223]

Lol... ...IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO

[@ptaylor4923]

@@piccleface2223 I know. I was 28.

[@piccleface2223]

@@ptaylor4923 IT WASNT YESTERDAY THO

[@thegreatcatsby409]

Today's my birthday and I remember this well. I was 14 at the time, living in Spokane. Day looked like night with all the soot in the air, and when it settled there was 8 inches of build up. Schools and businesses were closed for weeks. Scary times. All I can say is respect Mother Nature.

[@cathleenmarie4338]

I was 11 and I grew up in the Chicago area. We saw the ash within days of the eruption. So close and yet so far...very scary times! Oh and happy birthday! I just had one last month. 🥳

[@thegreatcatsby409]

@@cathleenmarie4338 Thank you Cathleen! I actually live in Chicago now 🤣 What a coincidence

[@brendaleake]

happy birthday! I was living in IL about 100 miles from Chicago and a couple months later, my dad's friend who had been visiting in that area had brought me back a small jar of volcanic ash. I don't know whatever became of it! about 20 yrs ago I worked with a woman who lived there at the time and she said she and her husband heard something that sounded like a "thud" and he asked her if something fell as they had a huge bookcase. but nothing had fallen off the bookcase and they learned later what that loud noise was.

[@cathleenmarie4338]

The Great Catsby That is crazy! Do you live in Chicago proper or a suburb? I’m in a suburb of Houston right now...humid as can be; I’m still not used to it!

[@thegreatcatsby409]

@@brendaleake That's very interesting. My mother still has a quart jar full of ash we collected from our yard. Thanks for sharing your memories of the event. It's nice to hear other people's perspectives.

[@fracturedfauve]

I remember it well. It’s something I will never forget.

[@depaola63]

Fauve it was my 17th birthday 🌈

[@BigRed2]

Nicky Depaola I lived a half mile from it and almost died, all my horses died and my wife too , ill never forget the smell and amount of ash

[@depaola63]

Big Red so sorry 🌈 Blessings to you 🙏

[@dt7491]

God is amazin!

[@1Deejay7]

@@BigRed2 I'm sorry for you're loss. I Hope you've reached peace with that horrific eruption

[@paulcanaday-elliott9834]

I was 12 when it erupted. I lived in Albuquerque so I watched it all unfold on television. Anyone else remember the ads on TV for jars of Mt. St. Helens ash? Act now and own a piece of history!

[@nebtheweb8885]

I was living in Burque too when she let loose. I was 28 at the time. There was ash on my truck from the eruption. It was very very abrasive.

[@pmccachren]

I was attending the College of Santa Fe (I'm from there) and I also remember seeing ash on my car.

[@ItsPTson]

2:22 Half a mountain literally blew up and this lady is crying about the situation being blown out of proportion. Some people man....

[@1trucxhondamov589]

Sort of reminds me of the Coronavirus pandemic

[@terryr7622]

1bikeman OnDaMoV was about to write the same thing

[@tudorjason]

It seemed like that interview occurred during the closures leading up to the eruption.

[@jakealter5504]

There are people who have the same opinion on future eruptions from Vesuvius. Many people who live near the volcano think that Vesuvius won’t hurt them while Vesuvius’s history clearly shows that is not the case

[@Seebu]

It's quite clear that the interview took place before the catastrophic eruption.

[@wysoft]

I was born in 83 and spent a lot of my childhood at my grandma's farm house in the Palouse outside of Spokane. Anywhere around her house you could dig into the soil and find the layer of ash. A lot of ash deposits were still on the surface and sides of the highway and local roads even in the late 80s/early 90s. The local town cafe still had pictures on the wall of ash feet deep in town, being plowed by local folks with pickup trucks and makeshift plows.

[@BabyPurpleBug]

I was 7 and lived in Colorado at the time and I remember when this happened. I remember ash and dust covering cars parked outside and my swingset in the backyard.

[@brendaleake]

a woman I worked with back in the 90's said she was living in MT at the time and came out of the school she was teaching at and there was this light dust over all the cars in the parking lot and had no idea why. I grew up in IL and was in high school. my dad's friend had visited the area not long after and brought me back a jar of the ash and I have no clue whatever happened to it!

[@crippledbeast_U-toob]

I was 7 when it happened, I'm in Georgia and remember the feeling of amazement and fear when it happened.

[@toussaintchivars9005]

I remember very well, RIP Mr. David Johnston (USGS) & thank you for your service. Thanks also to Mr. Harry Glicken (died 1991 Unzen Japan) for your work with Mr. Johnston. Together you saved thousands of lives. Finally, RIP Mr. Gerry Martin, a amateur radio operator who witnessed & reported the blast overwhelming of David Johnston's post, and then reported his own final moments. There were people then who ridiculed these men who died, people who live today because of their sacrifices. No mo talk!

[@erinsinclair-pequeen2052]

My dad was logging up there then, but on May 18 my Aunt got married in Spokane so he was gone for the weekend, my mom was pregnant with me at the time.

[@tripi7906]

Wow! I’m glad you made it out okay

[@knucklehoagies]

2:24 people like this still exist today. Same psycho Karen different circumstance lol.

[@MiniChickpea]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@ansemcruz1360]

@@Siravoeatz he does have a point.

[@MalissiaCreates]

Actually she’s not wrong, she should’ve been evacuated and she said “if it was that dangerous, why were they still there?” I wouldn’t point fingers, her name might be on the list of the dead.

[@fkr9032]

@Rage Theatre2020 wut?

[@kimmyymmik]

She’s right tho

[@richardmourdock2719]

As a geologist I was fascinated and oddly one of my favorite memories of this event was on "CBS Sunday Morning" in March when Charles Kuralt, as only he could say it, started the broadcast with something like, "For the first time in two hundred years there is an active volcano within the mainland of the United States." Then video show the smallest whiff of steam coming from the summit. It was certainly no precursor for what was to come eight weeks or so later. Wish the 2020 producers would have had Jane Pauley start off with that clip.

[@Mochi-qz3jt]

My dad was actually just born when it erupted and his mom (my grandmother) was named Helen

[@grouchomarcus]

I was five at the time. We spent the sunny Sunday morning at the Colville Indian Reservation salmon feed where I sat next to my great grandmother. After we dropped her off, there were nothing but clouds. We spent sometime in the backyard then my parents told us to come inside. The next morning the entire neighborhood was covered in ash. No one could drive or walk outside without a mask. We were about 300 miles northeast of the blast. I'll never forget that day

[@russellkempe3231]

I remember being at Mt Rainer when St. Helens went off. It really just looked like another rain front was coming in from the South, NPS closed the park so I drove back to Seattle. When I got home I went to Safeway and all of the shelves were barren. It was worse than Covid-19. Horrifying to see no meat, bread, dairy, can goods all gone. Seattle freaked-out, but Spokane took the brunt of it with 20" of ash and no sun for a couple of days.

[@loganmccombs942]

Just think what Yellowstone and Long Valley could do to the country Mount St Helen and Mount Rainer would be tiddlers compared to those monsters

[@woodencoasterfan]

Logan McCombs just one of the super volcanoes going off would drastically affect North America for years to come.

[@ldog_snf1354]

I was born 29 years after the eruption 7 days before the 29 anniversary

[@jlex1049]

YOU MEAN THERE WAS SOMETHING WORSE THAN A STUPID OVERGLORIFIED FLU GOING AROUND? POPPYCOCK MY GOOD MAN! THE CORONAVIRUS IS THE WORSE THING KNOWN TO MAN! (dripping sarcasm)

[@doridore1234]

@@ldog_snf1354 ok??

[@depaola63]

My 17th birthday 🎂 I’m 57 today 💖

[@angelaayala1176]

Happy birthday🎉🎉

[@Iamtheoverlander]

My birthday a well, 46 😇

[@prince_yt3406]

Ancient

[@depaola63]

@@prince_yt3406 ...if you’re lucky maybe you too will someday be “ ancient “ 😳

[@fairytells8503]

Happy late birthday

[@jamesschneider4437]

And now USGS is watching Rainier like a hawk, because there are more lives expected to be lost from Rainier than was lost from St Helens. I can remember my aunt and uncle telling me they were able to see the eruption from their place, here it is little over 40 years later and the mountain looks like she's repairing herself faster than volcanologists expected, then again the area that was the blast zone is also repairing itself faster than they expected. What helped was that a lot of plant life was in hibernation mode, so it survived what normally would of killed it. Wildlife has been slowly returning for years, last time I was there it was reported that more deer was spotted, and that bears were also returning as well. A cool feature of the area is also Ape Caves, if you travel along ot far enough you get close to the magma chamber of St Helens, the hike to get to it is well worth it. I'm surprised they did not mention Harry Truman in this video, but many now don't remember him as anything more than a crazy old man, when in reality he was simply saying that since his wife was buried there, he wouldn't leave her, he couldn't leave behind his work. He would of been perhaps the second death that day, if I'm recalling correctly Spirit Lake and where his lodge was weren't too far from the ridge where Johnston had set up his camp to watch the volcano. Both of their spirits are probably to this day wandering around the area, in awe of the power held in from that once beautiful coned shaped mountain.

[@islandbee]

I was turning 5 and was up in Bellingham which about 300 miles away from Mt St Helens. It could be heard all the way from there. It even greyed out the skies. What I can remember is it sounding like the old TVs with the white noise. You could hardly hear anything else around you as it drowned any sound near you. I was playing outside and was wondering what in the world is going on?

[@Denaligirljodie]

I was 7 1/2 and lived in salem. I remember this well. Pretty life changing.

[@ebybeehoney]

People still don't believe that they are truly at risk... Until it's too late.

[@jteague238]

We are at risk every day. 35,000 deaths a year due to car accidents. You could step out your door with your covid mask on and get hit by a bus, or slip and fall in the shower and on and on. We can't just say "it's not safe so we can't do it" or we would never do anything. We have to approach it as "I'm going to do this now how do I make it as safe as reasonably possible."

[@spacequeenruby]

Yep, truly sad that people don't listen.

[@EJS611]

@@jteague238 Car accidents and slipping in the shower is NOTHING compared to a global pandemic that has clearly spun wildly out of control. Speaking for my country (United States), we did not take the risk seriously and failed to be diligent and proactive when the time was right to be diligent and proactive. And now we're suffering the consequences. The point you should take from Kate's comment is to take risks seriously and prepare sufficiently when you have the window of opportunity. Never assume it wont happen to you.

[@jaredwhitaker3175]

"I think it's all just ridiculous."

[@jteague238]

@@EJS611 I guess I'm going to disagree with you there. 90,000 deaths in the US according to Johns Hopkins University. A significant number of those being cases with pre-existing conditions where COVID was listed as the cause of death even though they had cancer or diabetes etc. In 2014 for example 136,000 people died due to accidents of one kind or another. Between 24,000 and 62,000 Flu deaths this season alone according to the CDC. While we need to be vigilant and take care we do not need to panic.

[@feeberizer]

I lived in the Kent valley and worked a few miles away at Boeing's Kent Space Center at the time. I had a clear view of the mountain in both locations, so I watched the 1st eruption with my neighbors and the 2nd eruption in August with my coworkers. Knowing some of my coworkers had climbed the mountain a year earlier made watching the eruptions even more bizarre....

[@sadiefogel9308]

"I think the whole thing is just ridiculous" 2:20

[@SheltonWalden]

I remember the news reports - I was days away from graduating from HS - RIP to the souls who were lost.

[@nicolewang830]

Same for my mom!

[@katherinepoindexter4380]

I was 11 when she popped her top. I remember all the news footage from the moment she started to awaken until she popped her top..it was the most intriguing thing I have ever witnessed. It was and still is unusual for an 11 yr old to be glued every night to the nightly news but i was.

[@jaymanz9779]

You're not alone, I was 11 also and I was totally glued to the TV news as well! It was exciting and fascinating for my little mind at the time.

[@katherinepoindexter4380]

@@jaymanz9779 I know. we were so young we didn't know there was a whole world full of stuff some good some bad

[@debkelly3698]

I was 9 at the time. Another girl glued to the TV who couldn't get enough of the news about it! Definitely seared in my memory. I even remember my nephew's birthday as "two days before Mt St Helens".

[@katherinepoindexter4380]

@@debkelly3698 glad you joined the club of juveniles glued to the news..

[@Contessa6363]

I remember well too it was the week I graduated from HS. All news coverage was about the eruption. Unforgettable

[@j.hawkins7282]

..glad it was a Sunday..many workers in those woods. We were lucky

[@joemessman1]

I was 32 years old and lived across the Columbia River in Gresham Oregon. I had gone to the Fred Meyer store that morning and on the way back, I think about 8:45 AM, I saw this huge plume of smoke and ashes shooting straight up in the sky. I, of course, new what happened, as it was featured on the news for months leading up to this event. No one person predicted it was going to be that big and destructive.

[@thetrickyitch7179]

Interesting to stop the video at :20 then again at 4:30 - You can see how the mountain changed.

[@werbenjagerman907]

That's actually the south side of the mountain after the 1980 eruption. You can tell because of how flat and large the top is. 0:56 gives a better view of the mountain before the blast.

[@margo3367]

The artwork of the sun at the end is beautiful.

[@kandi5091]

I was only 5 years old when this happened and I can still remember it like it was yesterday. Ash coming down like snow and the smell was horrible. We ended up collecting a couple of Mason jars full of the ash. What a memory

[@peck404]

I remember this Crystal clearly because that's when people still hung their clothes outside to dry and we have Ash in Illinois from this.

[@laurenhutton596]

I CANNOT BELIEVE that it has been FORTY YEARS since the Mt. St. Helens eruption!! I remember it like it was YESTERDAY!!!

[@SouthernGentleman]

Wow. Breathtaking

[@davidbridges1954]

I was 3 years old, and living near Tacoma, when It blew up.

[@omachuca]

I’ve been there since and it’s one of my favorite sites. Very quiet and peaceful.

[@connief936]

Remember that time well. Have a daughter who will turn 40 next year!

[@DowntownCanon]

You felt the earth move for sure.

[@marcogomez8754]

Glad y’all are ok

[@danielcomes1101]

Copy

[@restinpeacekobe2411]

Humans: we are the cause of the most CO2 emissions. Earth: Hold my beer.....

[@toddsubjent7142]

I can't believe 40 years have passed since that 17th May 1980. I was an exchange DIS undergraduate student studying/living then with Danish family in Copenhagen. Back then we only had limited immediate info from AP wire and calls back home. Seems so primitive now. My Missouri family filled me via telephone (not cell either then!) as other classmates from Calf & Washington states got more details, all incredible. I remember watching the Danish TV news on it as well, all incrediable force of mother nature demanding our respect, even now!

[@MandoMike]

I was 11 years old in Salem, Oregon and was playing in my backyard when we seen the plume of ash in the sky. Let my parents know what I saw and we watched the news all day long that day, then we got the light layer of ash on our cars, house everywhere. I remember it like yesterday.

[@jenniferboisvert7552]

Beautiful job. Symbolism: A+

[@shawncirignano4876]

I was in Pasco Washington a 145 due East of Mount Saint Helens when it blew, and I remember what I was doing. It is etched in my mind.

[@hannahrobbins1017]

I was just over 2 months old when the eruption occurred, but grew up hearing my mother talk about finding a dusting of volcanic ash on her roses all the way down in Newport Oregon.

[@el7jake]

I was a student at WSU at that time. I was asleep, woke up in the afteroon to darkness outside. I heard excited voices out in the hall and went out to investigate. When they told me it was ash from Mount St. Helens, I said, "Are you crazy? That's more than 300 miles away!" Obviously, my major was NOT volcanology! Because we were near the end of the semester, WSU students were given the option of accepting the grades they currently had and skipping finals or hanging in there and finishing the semester. I hung in. For years I kept a little plastic tube of volcanic ash, which eventually disappeared after several moves

[@bigjimfanning]

I lived in Longview/Kelso when the mountain erupted. We could see the eruptions from our back yard. Grew up going to the museum they built and Spirit Lake.

[@MikeBarbre]

Growing up in Ephrata in central Washington, we lied directly in the path of the ash cloud that would eventually, two weeks later, encircle the entire earth. Central Washington got DUMPED ON. It was scary for a 5 year-old, and it was scary for my parents, too. Nobody knew the effects the ash would have on our cars, homes, our lives, especially when you lived out in the country like we did. I just remember walking into church that morning to a bright, sunny Sunday morning, and then walking out of the church a couple hours later to an ominous wall of a cloud bearing down on us from the west.

[@tamarahollenbeck2988]

I was camping with a group of friends, up on the south side of My Hood. This was before cell phones, so When we woke up the that morning and saw the plume cloud, we thought a bomb had been drop on Portland! Well there might have been some drinking going on...ha. Still, it was Unbelievable! We were assured this could never happen.

[@karenengelhardt1610]

Whoever said that to you was an idiot The geologists clearly knew that it was going to happen and warned people When you choose to listen to the uneducated, you pay for it

[@kiwiabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw]

2:21 🙄

[@natashacolcombe2679]

It was my 1st birthday. I'd never heard of it it until yesterday. Watched a documentary on it last night.

[@malarucoon]

43 years later and that land still has very heavy scars from that one eruption that have not been grown or covered over in the time since.

[@mainstreetsaint36]

I was 4 years old when this happened. I don't remember anything of this. I was living in NYC so it didn't really effect my family. Thankfully.

[@AC-qi9wo]

I was 10 when Mt Saint Helens, blew we were in Tacoma, visiting my great aunt.

[@kobyschechter8163]

I saw Mount St. Helens up close for the first time in Oregon from a highway. It’s easily identifiable because it has no top. The landslide that triggered the eruption tore off 1,300 feet off the summit.

[@jamesmurray8558]

May 18,1980,dawned as the beautiful day I had ever.That day we were getting the ranger station clean up. I wàs stationed at the Cle Elum Ranger District. At 8:30 a.m. the call out.Mt.St.Helens has erupted, All park and forest ranger evacuate the park. We rush in the direction of the event.What I saw is still with my to this day. Death never looked so beautiful! We were hit by flow.I always thank God for looking out for my.

[@loganmccombs942]

Dude that's awesome! I'd love to get a pic of that giant volcano

[@tman5926]

0:45 not as disappointed as I am with the Mic guy holding the mic in the shot!

[@familynash3579]

My husband and I got engaged that day - so I always remember when it happened.

[@CinemaDemocratica]

I haven't had TV for quite some time, so the jaw-drop factor on this for me is that Jane Pauley is the host of CBS Sunday Morning. I was born in 1970 and spent my formative childhood watching her co-host the Today Show with Tom Brokaw. Now, I don't remember Pauley being *old* then, per se, but I also don't remember her being a kid fresh into the business. In 1975 I'd have put her at ... oh, about 35. Which would make her EIGHTY YEARS OLD. Which she clearly cannot be, but still.

[@jojopuppyfish]

2:33 "I think the whole thing is ridiculous" Legend has it she said the same thing about Microsoft a few years later.

[@devonboulden2496]

Wow, the good ol' days. Be nice to go back in time where it was safe. Sit at some nice coffee shop and watch it go up. Now, I'm stuck at home.

[@missladwig5361]

Me- scared of volcanoes Also me- I'll watch a st. Helens video

[@RDEnduro]

Well done, what an amazing event, I always get the feels when I see how chill that young Geologist looked it's good to remember.

[@MD-wk3gj]

I want to hear an interview with the woman who was whining about the government setting up roadblocks because they were trying to protect citizens. My gut tells me she’s wearing a red MAGA hat.

[@robpaul2004]

Does Joe Biden know what day it is?

[@BLAISEDAHL96]

Rob Paul probably not, he’s too busy running for senate

[@unclemayhem6696]

@Blaise Dahl You mean, he’s too busy running for the bathroom.

[@cii1072]

What hat are you wearing?

[@dodgerrichie7274]

Make it about the human element. I am with you. Make it about politics and I am out.

[@IntriguedLioness]

Currently in Washington state I'm intrigued when I hear stories of what it was like on that day. But seeing the lady angry over roadblocks reminds me of the marauding hordes here that are now angry because they can't go to the casinos or get a haircut. I'm not joking. They're not angry that the essentials are closed and they seem to forget of the hundreds of thousands of lives lost on the planet and how this virus will resurface again and again and come back next winter in force if we do not adhere to the policies mandated. The "Give me liberty or give me death" "maga" types are all over the peninsula unfortunately.

[@ian_b]

It's a narrow, selfish definition of liberty. I count myself a libertarian, but that means being capable of self-government, not just doing whatever you want and hating the State. Most of these people only care about liberty when it's in their favour. A sensible libertarian would make the choice for themself to not endanger others by spreading a virus (for instance).

[@valerieannrumpf4151]

Unfortunately you can't fix stupid.

[@Tee94376]

Valerieann Rumpf Unfortunately we’re gonna have to deal with this virus. This virus is here to stay it’s going nowhere. We don’t know when a vaccine is coming.

[@jakealter5504]

Becky Eckert likely within the next year or two

[@ptaylor4923]

Not remotely the same

[@porschetigersince2006]

What I’m learning from history is if you hear a woman say “I don’t see why everyone is so worried” You should immediately be very worried and hastily exit to at least triple the minimum safe distance.

[@HinataElyonToph]

There was one lady I heard on a clip that was like “we pay taxes and we’d like to use our property! I’m not afraid!” Oh you will be when it blows honey

[@darktoadone5068]

I was in 10th grade when it happened and remember it well.

[@adamdorgant9454]

Hard to believe it’s been 40 Years!!!

[@ThePSmoke]

I can't believe I just turned 40. But I was born on the day Mt. Saint Helen's first woke up, in nearby Vancouver Washington. So yes, this did happen four decades ago.

[@donnymarrion3576]

We just did Loowit Loop and it definitely was beautiful and same time scary.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

And a Yellowstone major eruption would make the 1980 Mt St.Hellens eruption look like a Boyscout campfire.

[@ptaylor4923]

If that caldera ever blows life in multiple States will be over & this entire continent will change. Cripes.

[@lukeberrie3942]

I remember it well. It was a fine swell day.

[@lexyswope]

We had vacation scheduled that day. We had to go through SEATAC to get to Portland. When we flew over the area, they had to turn off the air intake. There was ash in the air all week in Portland. Some gave us a film canister with ash it from a siding of the Burlinton Northern railroad. A few months ago I gave the ash to my son to use in his tag class to teach about volcanoes. He was 9 mos old when the mountain blew.

[@ColtraneTaylor]

Instagram Woman: Whee ... an exploding volcano hee hee hee lol

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

While St. Helens was a bad eruption, image if Yellowstone erupted, that super volcano would explode 6,000 times more ash than Helens dud. The point is nature is scary, we better treat Mother Nature with respect lol

[@brennan5815]

Whenever I hear Mount St. Helens, I think of the Bill Wurtz song

[@papagilliam441]

Love me some Jane Pauly !

[@gabxp3095]

Pyroclast is the real killer that comes from volcanos

[@stanamilanovich3956]

I remember my grandmother rushing us inside, thinking that there was a storm brewing, and the ash falling for days.

[@ptaylor4923]

Smart woman. The microscopic particles wind up in the lungs, combine with the moisture and act like cement.

[@queenclaudiaii2938]

"When Mount St. Helens erupted, it was a disaster." ~ St. Claudia (🇺🇲🇺🇸)

[@TheScreamingWombat]

Kinda feels like today’s situation with covid. The people don’t see their own repercussions so they don’t believe there is any danger before it’s too late.

[@jakealter5504]

That is unless they had already lived through a similar experience

[@ptaylor4923]

No ..

[@douglascanoose5281]

My father in law and I drove to within five miles south of the mountain and watched. It sounded like the mouth of a blast furnace.

[@S_H_I_L_0_H]

"I just think this whole thing is ridiculous" as a volcano just launched half a mountain at them like wtf

[@raymondramos7445]

I REMEMBER I WAS 10YRS OLD AND I STARTED CRYING BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT THE WHOLE USA WAS GOING TO BE WIPE OUT .

[@skittlecar1]

2:48 and she would go on to own Sabre Printers.

[@nonlovelyuser]

Well I heard this in boss baby ( don’t judge me ) and in one of the episodes Tim’s grandmother said mount st Helen is about to blow.

[@gutenman7112]

Why no one mention how heroic the geologist really are ? I mean they risk their lives monitoring a pontential disaster everyday just to inform us the updates of the condition . And they did this nearby on that dangerous area .

[@melplays2038]

My Social Studies teacher wanted us to watch this, and it's really interesting! :)

[@ahakso]

The vast majority of the forests that were destroyed were flattened by the hurricane-force winds referenced later in the video, not the landslide.

[@werbenjagerman907]

That really puts into perspective just how powerful this eruption was.

[@insanitea3271]

41 years ago we lost more than 57+ lives.. may they rest in peace

[@windinhishair3512]

I'm 47, I barely remember it. We lived in south dakota but its all everyone was talking about, my little sister was born June 11th.

[@mwhitelaw8569]

Got a facefull of it where we lived Collapsed the carport Killed three horses two dogs and ten chickens. One helluva month Still remember seeing the pulse go by that morning. Thankfully I had my mouth open Mostly cause I had no idea what I was looking at

[@Roll587]

Poor David Johnson!

[@jaymanz9779]

"Johnston"

[@jojopuppyfish]

BTW the book mentioned in this video is great. I read it a few years ago.

[@lisabutterworth9473]

Nice piece on St. Helens. I remember it well that morning. I was a Junior in HS in Pullman, Wa. Just curious, love the artwork at the end. Looks to be a topographical vector type art of St. Helens possibly? Wonder where one could get a copy or the name of the artwork.

[@TheSaladBoy]

I learned that if there is a volcano about to erupt you go as far away as you can not just ten miles or outside the danger zone.

[@devinmichaelroberts9954]

and this is nothing.. baby eruption compared to what will happen when Rainier goes. The loss of life will be at least a million.

[@werbenjagerman907]

I wouldn't be so sure about that, the loss of life would most definitely be bigger due to lahars from Rainier's heavy snowpack but the eruption probably will be no where near as explosive as St. Helens' 1980 blast. Helens has produced much more explosive eruptions than Rainier for some 10,000 years now.

[@Dr.VonBraun]

2:35. Some people still don't get it, do they? #ItsAhoax #TheGubernmentIsOutToGetMe. smh.

[@peterprice6898]

I wasn’t even born yet when the Mount St. Helens erupted it’s happened 12 years before I was born in the early 90s If I was around at that time then I would be a lot older my age now.

[@jakealter5504]

Same here (I was born in late 1990). An even larger eruption occurred not long after my birth, that being the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo

[@peterprice6898]

Well I was born a year after that eruption happened in the Philippines which happened in June 1991 but I was born in June 1992 which is one year later.

[@joeespo177]

I was on an airplane with my new wife going on our honeymoon and we were able to see the plume out the right side of the plane. Unfortunately, the volcano was a precursor for other things erupting and collapsing.

[@ln14517]

If people want to live near a volcano let them it's not our place to force them out.

[@dwjoseph59]

Yep, look at the city of naples in italy with it's millions of residents. They have mount vesuvius on 1 side & the rest of the city is built inside a supervolcano named campiflegrei caldera on the other side. We have 3 supervolcanoes here in america: long valley caldera in california, valles caldera in new mexico & of course, the big one known as the yellowstone caldera in wyoming, montana & idaho. But thankfully, we have a bigger overall land mass here in america than in italy. So no one for the most part lives within the supervolcanoes we have here in america & i believe it's against the law to try to build cities within them as well. Thank god for that.

[@dwjoseph59]

@@lacroix9407 most definitely