Relive the survival story of a KOMO photographer during the Mount St. Helens eruption

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May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted. A chunk of our world was uncorked and blown off the face of the earth in a billowing, colossal blast of inconceivable destruction.
The world wasn't ending, but for a time it felt that way.
KOMO News photographer, Dave Crockett, woke up at 3 a.m. on the day of the eruption, afraid he was going to miss out on the story of a lifetime. Something told him he needed to drive to the mountain.
"I guess you'd call it a hunch. I just had a feeling something's gonna happen," he said.
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@sarameitner6770 7 месяцев назад

I heard the mountain explode that weekend - and I was at the house of a work colleague in South Seattle that morning. My daughter and her father were watching it erupt from a viewpoint south of the mountain. I watched David's interview on TV as I waited to hear where my daughter was. It took hours for me to find out she was okay. I had to work further - then on that Monday it was announced on the radio that the Tuttle River Bridge across I-5 might go out - so they were going to shut down the freeway. I hopped in my car (in the center of Seattle) and raced down I-5. I was literally the LAST car crossing. Behind me were some semis (we were going in caravans, with semi-trucks in from and in back with cars in the middle - so as to keep the tempo at a crawl. They shut the freeway down right after the last truck crossed over. I was stranded in Vancouver, WA for a good long period of time. My car, the engine of which my dad had just helped me rebuild, needed a new air filter and more work, due to the ash. I finally made it back to Seattle and my work at a local university there. Showing how small the world is - my best friend began working at KOMO. Some months later - she and David were married.

@coreym162 2 месяца назад

Wow! Sounds like a hell of an adventure. Glad everyone you know made it out okay.

@just_kos99 7 месяцев назад

I remember watching this! I was 18 years old at the time and in college.

@janetceniza8091 7 месяцев назад

My mother called me from Arlington asking if I heard the Mt. go off ? Nope, slept through it. There was some one else there and she heard his last words on a CB radio, the Mt. is exploding.

@MyChannel-ct6gr Месяц назад

I love KOMO 4. I believe that Eric Johnson is the last of the old KOMO guard and I will miss him when he retires. He embodies that old spirit of Seattle which for me is something that has long since passed: the little engine that could and the red headed step child of lower 48.

@brianbrwa 7 месяцев назад

In my class at TCC, we got to visit Johnston observatory. I remember being told that Rainier would likely blow from the ears instead of the forehead (euphemistically speaking)

@alexaavery2454 7 месяцев назад

I remember that day. I was in High School at the time.

@toddgrogg8005 Месяц назад

Wasn't that day may 18th a Sunday??. _so you was in school on Sunday??.

@ragnapodewski4694 2 месяца назад

It has been an unique lateral blast. But the Katmai eruption of 1912 was the only ignimbritic eruption in recorded history. Only in Alaska it could be without catastrophic loss of lives.