* Ronnholm, Rosenquist, and their photographs survived because the landscape deflected the volcanic blast around 1 mile short of their location. * Tim Petersen was trapped in a pick-up truck, crushed to just 20 inches. He was badly injured, but conscious. It took more than six hours for firefighters to tunnel through the wreckage to Tim's truck. He is still overwhelmed by their bravery. Firefighters risked their own lives to get Tim out and when he recovered, he joined the Oakland Fire Department, working with the same firefighters who rescued him.
Or the stupidity of humans who as usual failed to build some sort of community storm shelter in a place that is nicknamed "tornado alley". Common sense people!!! But as I've heard common sense isn't really all that common...
Wow. I remember the San Francisco earthquake -- we felt it in Nevada while we were having dinner, and our ceiling lights swung. When we turned on the TV to see where the earthquake was, we saw San Fran in ruins. Not a lot of clear memories from when I was a kid, but I remember that
As George Carlin said "the earth will shake us off like a bad case of fleas" sad but true. There are places on the planet we are not meant to be but have to go anyway.
@Madda Lena I liked George too had to add this for a comedian George Carlin was honest and he turned his honesty into a funny but it was still honesty that's why I loved about George the most
I remember having my dad hold me up to the window to see a classic tornado snaking across the horizon while my mom was screaming at him to get me away from the window. He laughed at the time. Soon we couldn't see anything and he was running upstairs to get my baby sister from her crib. I ran after him in time to see him turning away from the crib with my sister just before a huge log came through the wall and crib side like a spear! I remember thinking it was just like a GIANT, newly sharpened pencil, poking through a piece of paper. That's how easily it shot through the wall and crib! (P.S. We were all ok and our house remained standing.) Definitely had an Angel looking out for us that day!
If you mean the student, then yeah he survived. Some geographical feature deflected the blast about a mile from where he was so he only got caught in the cloud.
my boyfriend was in s.f. that day. his ship cv-62 uss independence had just come from vancouver,canada . he was u.s. navy seals.boy was i worried about him that day. later in dec 89 i went to see him in s.d.our amtrak train was to go thru s.f. normally.but due the damage we went thru oakland instead
Why the cliffhangers? I remember watching the news about it on the TV and I remember watching the new crater. The old guy who refused to leave his home.
The earthquake that set off Mt. St. Helens was not a terrible one. It actually was about 5, no worse than any of the others that had been occurring. It just happened to be the one too many.
I expected an in depth, scientific analysis of each disaster from the Smithsonian Institute but instead I got a youtube poop video -_- seriously it's like 12 year old just mashed some videos together for a school project. I have a sneaking suspicion this channel isn't run by someone directly affiliated with the Smithsonian Institute 🤔
The residents on the area near Mount Saint Helens demanded to be allowed back onto their property in the days before the May 18th, 1980 eruption. Tragic.
@ 17:04 that's the first Chad I looked at and thought "wow, he seems like a dude" but then I saw the handlebar mustache...made me second guess that, but ended up deciding I liked him lol
NOT KNOWING ALL THE SURVIVORS SUCKS, read all before me and only learned the student survived the volcano, and the firefighter was rescued what about the rest eh? Any one?
See, this is what happens when there's an earthquake in a location that is densely populated. Let me guess, no one or atleast most who moved to the earthquake location didn't know this was going to happen. If people were made aware of the dangers and didn't move to that location less would have died.
Are you talking about the San Francisco video, because I’m 100% positive that anybody who lives in San Francisco is well aware of living near a massive fault.
Mt. St. Helens has a large glacier growing and winding down mountain..... Tree huggers tell me I’m wrong. You can’t. Climate is constantly changing fools.
It's definitely Biblical! “Is Saturday the seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten Commandments? I answer yes. Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the seventh day -Saturday - for Sunday, the first day? Sunday is the first day of the week. Did Christ change the day? I answer no! “Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons” James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore (1877-1921), in a signed letter. 2 Timothy 3:1 1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
