RAW VIDEO: MOUNT ST. HELENS MARCH 28TH, 1980. 51 DAYS BEFORE THE ERUPTION

[@kenweis7913]

Anything that visually swells up a mountain side is a sign of immense force

[@SJR_Media_Group]

Before eruption the timber was some of the best in the world. After erupting, certain areas were open to salvage what was left. Hard to remember what it looked like before. I climbed it in 1971. From the top it was green and beautiful as far as the eye could see.

[@luv2luv720]

Humanity is devastating to this earth!

[@BushyHairedStranger]

It’s still beautiful up there, the eruption event was AWESOME! Its just a different way of seeing things…. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[@jamesmurray8558]

I was there at the eruption May 18, 1980. I was at the Cle Elm Ranger Station when the call over the radio telling us to clear the park. I will never forget how dark it got.

[@kevintennant7701]

Life lesson; there is a stark difference between living with caution and hiding in fear. These guys choose living and I would agree. I guess 40 years later, well, you know how it is.

[@Zodi77]

6:38 - That man is Ralph Killian. His son John and daughter-in-law Christy were killed in the eruption. Search for the documentary "Mount St. Helens: Why They Died - 1982". Ralph and his wife are interviewed in it. I posted the link in a previous comment but it didn't post.

[@kevintennant7701]

Yup, I watched the documentary. I though his comments were understandable as a grieving parent, but not fair where blame was assigned. NO ONE can predict precisely where or when or how large a blast will be from a volcano. I feel like history is repeating itself. You have your Covid alarmists and you have your skeptics. Same with the situation 40 years ago, you have the alarmists and your skeptics. But in the end, you have to weigh safety, risk and economics into the equation. Shutting down the logging would have devistated the economy. I think they made the right decision 40 years ago. For those that were in fear, they stayed home without pay, their choice. Seems choices don't exist 40 years later.

[@bobedwards7455]

Yeah, he's a real genius...Mr. Fingerpointer

[@curtyeomans8446]

@@kevintennant7701 I think I read somewhere that plans to significantly expand the red zone were sent to the governor on the Friday before the eruption but it was left on her desk to be dealt with the next week. Obviously the eruption on Sunday made the plans sitting on her desk irrelevant, but if she had signed off on them on Friday, you could argue that some of the people who died would not have died because they would have been forced to be farther out but even then the blast probably still would have gone farther out than an expanded red zone. What gets me is how they could see a bulge was forming on the SIDE of the mountain and not figure “Well, just in case this means a lateral blast, we outta extend the red zone out pretty far to the north just in case.” Still, they should be glad it happened as early in the day as it did because they were gonna let property owners into the red zone for a few hours later in the day to check on their properties

[@rsnell22]

At the time I worked with Ralph's brother in Longview. As far as I know, Ralph searched the rest of his years.

[@henrivanbemmel]

​@@kevintennant7701It's different. Loggers afraid of the volcano can stay home as you say, but you have no right to spread a lethal disease to others no more so than shooting them. We are all part of something bigger, a town, state, province or country. While we are more free than most, our responsible actions should be governed by the greater good to our community not just our own usually selfish interests.

[@LB-oz9hv]

The D-8 Cat and that steel yarding tower on the setting were destroyed by the eruption are their remains are still there to this day.

[@jjMcCartan9686]

All the dumptrucks & scrapers are there too on down the valley.

[@MrLuckytrucker21]

@@jjMcCartan9686 is there any video or pictures of them!

[@CollegeBudgetPrepper]

Is the dozer and yarder @4:46 the destroyed ones you can see on google images now?

[@charlesmullins3238]

Boy that very well could be the ones on Daniel boones logging vids..

[@59plexi]

look, no computers on the desks....ole schoo....!!!!!!

[@BushyHairedStranger]

There were at least three Tree Planting Crews on Saint Helens that Sunday morning at 8am. Webfoot was there as was a Forest Service Crew. I have pics they took running for their lives to the Crummy(their Crew rigs)

[@vinniezcenzo]

Thankfully the eruption happened on a Sunday, otherwise many of these loggers would have been killed.

[@IamME-h5w]

I've never been in the logging industry, so excuse my lack of knowledge here.... BUT! In the beginning they're removing the logs from the truck (using that _REALLY_ cool fork lift). Now... I *DO KNOW* the mill is at the bottom of the hill, near the city, so I don't understand the reason they're being unloaded in the mountains. _A staging/sorting area maybe?_

[@N8-T]

They ran a lot of off highway trucks on their own private land and private roads. So for sorting and reloading on highway trucks

[@DavidHuber63]

What a brave man to clear a mountain and brave the elements

[@raulitoalvarez]

Awesome ⛰🌲 video 👍🏽✌🏽

[@jermed2001]

They were SO LUCKY that they were not there during the volcano since it was a Sunday or else they would have perished like 57 people did that on fateful day. #blessed

[@robertjackson9720]

17 Weyerhaeuser weekend employees did perish in the blast. It would have been a lot more if it had happened on a weekday

[@robertplant9694]

Seems like they thought it wasn’t a big deal

[@matts2581]

Remember this was barely a couple of weeks into things. Things were still... ...formulating.

[@axelsonmoore5387]

Man in the yellow truck is my grandfather! He still tells us to this day that they didn’t think anything was going to happen!

[@benjaminbritt7862]

what do you think made them dismiss the advice of scientists

[@rebeccabarone9053]

@@axelsonmoore5387 Would your grandfather be willing to be interviewed? I'm writing a book about Mt. St. Helens, and I'd love to talk with him!

[@Flirri]

@@benjaminbritt7862 Who knows what they were told at their job so their bosses could keep making money.

[@normanott644]

Cut trees at the 3000 rd on sprit lakes hiway in 72

[@PauII2001]

God bless you!

[@moona7744]

There's the pickle guy again.

[@Skier10]

He’s relly enjoying that pickle ain’t he

[@Trad-Am]

The good old days, when we still had a decent logging industry, and forest management. But I guess the tree huggers prefer catastrophic fire seasons! All that bug kill just adds more fuel every year, and could be used, although the Citiots seem to like choking on smoke, and complaining about it every summer, instead! I've lived here my entire 47 years, and worked on more that a few wildfires, but unfortunately there's allot less common sense, than there is university indoctrinated people anymore.

[@warrax111]

you have to be very disapointed what you see... reading you comment. I am dissapointed too, from younger brainwashed generation and I'm much younger. Good old '80s, we could not know, what will come here. The good times were too short.

[@coreym162]

@@warrax111 The 80's got good when they kicked out Carter. Never seen someone talk so much out of their ass and he didn't even try to hide his insensitivity. Same with the governor.

[@henrivanbemmel]

Yes, let's just close all the universities stop learning and just listen to you. Do you honestly think that professors have not considered all you suggest? How much irreversible damage did your clearcutting do to the environment? Really ... people who farm or work in cities buy your products and are part of your country too.

[@Trad-Am]

@@henrivanbemmel 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@k.pacificnw02134]

Clouds and overcast: The bane of everything in the PNW. : )

[@HubertofLiege]

Haha nobody wants to talk to the press

[@MrLuckytrucker21]

They may have been told by bosses, to not say too much!

[@RogerWKnight]

Nothing to be scared of! They were logging old growth trees. The land has to be stable to have old growth trees. Where the land isn't stable there ain't no old growth trees!

[@winaimuangkat665]

Mt st helen last eruption in 1857

[@TheBandit7613]

Weyerhaeuser. Cutting old growth forests since 1900. We eat spotted owls and donuts for lunch, yum.

[@RogerWKnight]

Need a lot of protein and calories to wrestle old growth logs!

[@steveadams7870]

Spotted owl is tasty.

[@TGP109]

The Spotted Owl was being killed by a larger Owl in the same area, not by loggers. Didn't matter to the environazi's though, they put 60K people out of work.