Done 101 I can imagine the display of power, greater then the atom bomb dropped on Japan, was unimaginable. I was born in 1984. But being a “disaster buff “ has really given me a respect for the power of nature. Imagine this happening in 2020. Sure, people have cameras these days but I think they have less common sense and there would be more casualties. I could just imagine seconds after the volcano erupting, people trying to upload while a pyroclastic cloud is barreling toward them. Back then, people envisioned a Hawaiian like eruption, few could imagine such a explosion and near instant evaporation of the mountain side. So I really do feel sorry for many who were outside the danger zone and got hurt/killed. But in 2020? Yea. They should know better if this happened today! I used to live in Washington State. Heck, found a jar full of ash and still have it a decade later. But glad I live in Texas now. The chaos if one of the volcanos became active would be pure chaos!
Thankyou for this I live in Leeds England but I can still remember the live pictures of the lahars flowing down the mountain like it was yesterday..I hope to visit one day. ❤
I mean...it's probably just news filler for y'all, but I truly thank you, K5, for all of the time you spent on reporting on the 40th anniversary of the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption. You put so much time and effort into it. Even though I don't live in the area nor have I ever visited Mt. St. Helens, I find the subject very intriguing.
It has been 41 years since the blast. I always remember every year, every Sunday. I am a pariah in my family (black),state(Alabama). My brother(Donald) disresped me!I was a young ranger at Cle Elm ranger station.I do not care how anyone cares about what anyone says.I was there!
It is so hard to believe it’s been 40 yrs? I was a flight attendant flying that route and laying over in Portland for 28 hrs. We had flown our trip back to Atlanta and thankfully missed it. Flight were cancelled and even by the time we flew our last flight in, smoke was still coming up of the mountain and at least 4 in. Of ash covered all of Portland. Hard to believe 40 whole hears can do so fast 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲
May the dead RIP. May the survivors find peace. Back then many had no clue what was gonna happen, they could not imagine the raw power, and why old Native tribes were wary of the area. Many times, old lore and superstitions have a grain of truth and wisdom in them. Native tribes did not have the means to record what happened in the past, only the warnings of elders telling the next generation to be wary. I usually don’t have much sympathy for people who refuse to evacuate, but Truman is an exception. His 3rd wife (they truly loved each other) died there. His collection of junk, treasures (a pink Cadillac with gold rimmed wheels and mini bar), a 19th player piano, and 13 cats were there. Not to mention the cabin he built by hand. To evacuate him, would be to kill him slowly. He took his treasures with him, never to be seen again under the new Spirit Lake.....instantly. I like to think his spirit, long with his wife’s spirit, watch over the area. Watching it slowly rebuild and eventually become beautiful again.
I've watched a few past anniversary videos on this eruption. I am most fascinated by the geological, environmental, after effects. It is amazing how nature cleanses, and rebuilds itself. The human stories of survival, gives record of man and natures tenacity. Thanks for the remembrance show, King5.
I know this is 2 years old now but just to add I was 15 and living at home in University Place, just outside of Tacoma when the mountain blew. My parents and I managed to get beyond the barricades when we got off the interstate and took the back roads well north of the blockades to get closer in to the mountain that afternoon after it went off. Came over from having watched the original documentary that was put together in 1980, after the explosion. A month later, my oldest sister and her first husband and new baby daughter (who was born in October 1979) drove home upon graduation from an Episcopal seminary in Wisconsin and came home via I-90 and drove through the ash that still blanketed eastern Washington, arriving back to our house covered in ash.
Mt Saint Helens is the youngest cascade volcano by far, at only 40,000 years old. Compared to the others that average 500,000 years old. And it was 9700ft tall. That's a lot of activity. You can clearly see on Google maps topography layer the rubble from ancient eruptions on even the south side of the volcano. Geologists say it's had eruptions TEN TIMES LARGER than in 1980. This cycle of devistation and rebirth has gone on here and all over the Cascades for over half a million years. But for Mt Saint Helens only a mere 40,000. My money is on more activity.
I was 20 years old and living in Reno Nevada at the time. At the end of may and the beginning of June 1980 the sky was filled with smoke from Mount St. Helens...600 miles away.
I was born in 1984, but I am fascinated by volcanos. I lived in Spokane Washington and many long time residents had stories about what happened that day. My Biology teacher was camping as a teen that day in Spokane and he remembers looking up at the “scary black clouds” rolling in. Then it started to “snow”, when it was 50 degrees. His parents decided it was time to cut that camping trip short... Heck, a nice elderly couple gave me a jar full of ash from that day at their garage sale. Still have it a decade later.
My son was born on May 25, and this was our entertainment while we waited. We were especially concerned about the direction of the ash cloud. But everything turned out okay for us.
I would like to thank every person that has put Helens on report . I was 10 at the time it erupted Great Falls and Montana was shut down due to Ash fallen near 6 to 7 inches deep. We all had to stay in doors for a long time.
I remember watching on TV. I was 16. It still is fascinating. I remember the ash on our cars a couple days after the blast. On coal creek canyon outside of Denver
I was 16 at the time, I watched it unfold on the news as it happened. I Live in west Michigan and I remember a haze that partially blocked the sun that persisted for a week in the days following the explosion.
I remember the eruption back in 1980 I was living in Utah at the time. I was just a kid back then and it was all over the news. When I went to the Orgon Portland area in the early 90s there was still ash from the eruption. People were making glass out of it back then. We bought a glass egg. Don't know where it is now. From the Portland area you can see the four sisters, and Mount St. Helens was one of the four. It was a massive exposition that I do remember. I look at RU-vid videos of this as well from people who do venture there. And they are finding lots of old crazy things up there. Which is good, but it shows time, and how long it really has been.
I was getting the morning paper in Aloha, Oregon, and I was wondering why was it snowing in the middle of May. My Dad said that it wasn't snow, it was Volcanic Ash. Over the next several days, there was so much ash that it was very hard to breathe.
I was in the area in June after the eruption courtesy of a port call in Portland, OR as a crew member of a Navy ship. I remember, even now, all the logs lining the shore along the Columbia River at Longview and the gray landscape from the ash fall. Still haunts me today. An other worldly experience, to be sure.
I was 4 years old when this happened, so I don't remember anything about it really. Only that people around me were still talking about it when I was 10. My mother kept insisting that I knew when it was going to explode the day before. She told her friends that "my daughter said the big mountain was going to blow up" the day before it did. She kept trying to make it some kind of supernatural thing. But honestly, looking back at documentaries like this, the fact that it was going to erupt must have been on the news all over the country at the time. Even though I was 4 years old, I MUST have listened to it. Children see and hear so many things that parents think they just won't notice. "My daughter is 4. She has no clue what's going on." And I'm sure that's true to an extent. But even if the kids don't understand it, they are still listening to it. I hope that parents can sit and talk to their kids in such disasters and their children are full of questions about what they have been hearing. It must have been a frightening, confusing time for the little ones who didn't understand when the news started talking about people who died during the eruption.
I was living in Hillsboro when this happened. My Grandfather took me skating at Oaks Park that Sunday. As we were crossing the bridge we could clearly see the ash column.
I saw your helicopter that morning climbing the mountain that day, set my alarm for the moment of the blast too. Sadly as you can see the weather wasn't great and turned back short of the summit due to weather. I'll look out for you guys this year.
We had just moved to Spokane the year before and were at the annual Fairchild AFB air show out just past Airway Heights. This was the first year that the SR-71 was on static display and it was great to see it and all the other aircraft. By around noon you could see the black clouds building to the west like a huge thunder storm brewing and by 2pm it was in close vicinity. The temperature dropped quickly. We rode our bikes back home as all the aircraft that couldn't be put in hangars were flown out. By 3pm or so it was pitch black and the fallout of ash began to accumulate. The TV stations all had emergency broadcast warnings to stay inside and wait for further info. (This is NOT a test). It took us close to 6 months to clear ash off of the roads and access areas. Once ash gets wet, it dries like cement. A once in a lifetime adventure to tell the kids and grandkids.
We spent a day there in the late 1980's at the park. When you walk through those leveled trees everywhere you realize the power of the blast. Even areas that were shielded from direct affects of the west-faced blast were leveled. Zero chance of survival. It's almost like the blast had weight to it (probably did). Spirit lake had water back in it with LOTS of logs. Still had that moonscape look to the whole area, but there were green trees maybe 3 to 5 feet tall starting the early process to reclaim the destruction. This is a must-visit park if you are in the area.
I was very lucky??to helicopter log the blast for 2yrs we started out in the redzone . The ash & pummy blowing in your face from the rotor wash created by the Sikorsky 64 made you realize that you were not only lucky to be there but also very blessed to get sandblasted by the flyin pummy ash every time you hooked a turn of logs to the Sikorsky 64
I was eagerly awaiting the 40th anniversary celebration. There was absolutely no sign of any preparations right up to the February 2020 shutdown of everything. There was prior knowledge.
I was not 6yrs & 2months old. I have watched all kinds of stuff about mnt. Saint helens, the eruption the mud the ash & everything bout mount saint helens.
For the record, EVERY person who died chose to be there knowing the danger. Except Truman’s 13 cats, who he should have found homes for when he decided to stay.
We were station ed at Ft. Lewis just 4 years before the eruption, so when it erupted we were familiar with acres of the land from My. St. Helens to My. RReigneeL. Lee Dreier.f
I was asleep in bed in Port Angeles Washington and got woken up by 3 Sonic booms. I thought it was Jets from Whidbey naval air station. We did not get Ash in Port Angeles until after it had circled the globe a couple weeks later.
I was 4 years old when this happened, but i remember it vividly. Getting out of pre-school in Spokane and handed a mask to walk home through the ash. Thought it was so cool, jumping around in the ash. I remember my step dad stopping the car to put a mask on a statue of Lincoln in the park. I remember not having school for a week due to all the ash and how everything was covered in inches of ash for weeks. I remember driving up there, when they first re-opened the road and seeing all the burnt vehicles sitting in the same place they were, when the people got trapped inside, pretty morbid.
Sorry to hear that, one day you will get to hear their story though i hope, i cant imagine what the 57 that died seen that day. Esp harry haha must of been a sight when you think about it.
Even living on southern Vancouver Island I knew immediately what happened after what felt and sounded like cannon went off outside my window; thanks to media coverage over preceding weeks. If it happened today today the coverage because of social media would be so more personal and intense
I remember it well ! I was in my late 20s..living on the Texas Gulf coast..Our natural disasters were hurricanes..We had plenty of advanced warning for those catastrophes, however !!
Victor Maxwell There was plenty of warning for the eruption in 1980, as well. More than you have for hurricanes. When, precisely, it would blow was unknown. But the mountain began showing activity months ahead of the eruption.
I was living in Toppenish, WA, on that day. I remember Being woke up when it erupted, it sounded like they Were firing. Off field artillery At the Yakima firing range I got up, looked outside, didn't see anything so I went Back to bed. 3.5 hrs later it Started to get dark and if you were outside in the ash fall, it got real hard to breathe after 5mins.and there was 2.5 mos worth of Warning but it was unknown As to when she would erupt
They always say _"nobody expected what would happen"._ *WELL? I KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN!* Simply because of the bulge that was growing on the north side, and the knowledge of the pressures inside volcano's. I knew it was inevitable. (and I'm sure I wasn't the only one)
10:49 That's one heck of a drug bust. I remember being 7 years old asking my Mom and Dad why was there ash all over the car. We lived 500 kilometres from Mt. St. Helens in Canada.
I really like the way we celebrate mt st helens anniversary 42 of the eruption in the may 18 1980! What is your most memorable experience in you in the mt st helens!!!?
I've seen all the documentaries about the mountain and I cant imagine how it was like back then I wasn't born yet but im sure it was like the end of the world or something
Here in NE Ohio a few days after the eruption, we had small bits of ash floating down from the sky that looked something like snowflakes that showed under a streetlight.
Why, with all the advance warning the mountain gave us, isn't there any video footage of the eruption? News crews were there in force! Observers were everywhere, but they only had cameras taking still photographs. After the mountain began erupting, video cameras rushed to the site, but too late... they missed the initial eruption.
In 1883 on the island of Anak Krakatau the Krakatoa volcano exploded itself apart. 30,000 people perished. The US was very lucky. It could have been much worse.
I love these young reports who weren't even alive when St. Helens erupted. Today they try to sound like reporters using text book words to recall a historical major news event: fateful day; somber anniversary; chills - they sound so inauthentic.... hard to watch them.
My 16th birthday was May 19 and I remember My parents talking about this I lived in fla. what i am trying to figure out is there was so many weeks of activity going on with earth quakes and steam showing and mini bursts as well as the side of the mountain bulging out.... why in the world were there people in that area besides the scientists families camping like the Moores with two young children. Were there public notifications and or warnings?
@@jimmyj100 the fact that millions of people were not allowed up to johnston ridge observatory for the 40th anniversary.......because of the "rona".... alot of people i know who were plannimg on going but of course it was closed....so id say it had alot to do with it. But at least we got some love for st helens online
Sure the ash blew but the Seahawks had Zorn & Largent so I figured things would be okay. Actually I was a college Freshman in fall 1980 at a school on the East Coast, I had a roommate from New York. Ironically I tried to describe to my roommate the scale of the eruption using the World Trade Center for size comparison.
What about if the Yellowstone Caldera, the South Valley Caldera, the Caldera of the Vesuvius region and many other calderas and volcanoes will erupt simultaneously from its slumber! Huh? Just thinking about the possibilities for such a disaster to happen! 😲😲😲😲😲
Straddle vs shield 🛡 volcano 🌋 Very interesting 🤔 Straddle volcanoes 🌋 basically explode 🤯 Shield 🛡 volcanoes 🌋 spew slow leaking lava like in Hawaii ! Ah ha 😯
I work mines leaf rapids,manitoba was big news all newspaper sold out couples days some geologist flew go look at it include pulp mills the pas and said was atomic bomb huge scale.i work later elkford,bc coal mines and said ash drop in town just insane when people talk about.weyerhauser plant in princeton bc said they work flat out in side clean up mess.
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Art Russell: well, I clearly remember my car stopping in the middle of Wyoming in 1999 and my cellphone was of no use…. No cell tower within reach. So much for technology.
I knew the volcano will be blew up on may 18, 1980 and so many were killed and many were injured. I hope they have a service for those who were killed.
Gee, it would be nice if KING 5 would have removed that damned distracting banner from the bottom of the screen that inhibits the full view of the program being presented. I stopped the video and posted this comment 44 seconds in. And now I'll turn it off.
I was graduating from high school san mateo high school in california and we were supposed to which we did go on a tour of europe and are band but we almost didn't get to go because of the ash that was coming down from where mike saint Helen's was.
seriously? 'the mountain blew up'? um, its a VOLCANO. Just like yellowstone..just nowhere near as big. VOLCANO. Mountains cant exhaust magma. smh. wow..did you spend .50 on the soundtrack? this is HORRIBLE. k redo time.
@@marked4death076-- Well, you have to admit, it is rather ridiculous. I mean, they have a countdown clock for crying out loud. And here they are again bringing up poor Harry Truman... it's bad enough that they were the ones who got him killed.
The Bonesaw .. - Nobody got Harry killed. That place was that old mans life for 50 years. He said himself, he was going down with the ship. When you get old, you just might get it.
I learned about the eruption through the Guam Pacific Daily News which arrived the next day in Moen (Wona) Chuuk, where I was serving as a volunteer, living in a neighboring island of Dublon (Tonowas). I was in my mid 30s.
What a crappy piece of property. Worse conditions ever logged in the,ash flyin around from wind created by the. Helicopter blades could not see the root wads off the blowndown trees rolling down at you u won't be able to make loggin funner
