The Aftermath Of The Worlds Deadliest Volcanic Eruptions | Code Red | Wonder 

For the first time in 20 years, Sweet Home High School, in Oregon, had a marching band. Yay! With that marching band came parades and competitions. On May 18th, 1980, early, in the morning, the Sweet Home High School marching band was heading to Victoria, BC, for a Queen's Birthday celebration. The route we took was Interstate 5, from Oregon, Washington and to the BC ferry. Along the way that morning, something happened....... As we were heading north on I-5, on our school buses, we felt an earthquake start! The drivers pulled the buses over, to wait out the earthquake. Then, we heard what sounded like an atomic bomb going off! Like, WTF!! We all looked to the east, and all we saw was the huge plume of smoke, rising into the air. We couldn't see the actual mountain, because of terrain and trees between us and it. We had NO clue what had just happened, and this was in the time before cell phones, so yeah, we were a bit freaked out. The drivers got on CB radios and eventually we found out the volcano erupted. I'm still not sure how the decision to keep going was made, but that is what we did. We continued north to BC, played the celebration, and proceeded to head back to Sweet Home, OR. Or....we tried. We only got as far as central Washington. The bridges over I-5 had been washed away, and we were effectively trapped on the north side of them. What we SAW was surreal. The areas we'd just traveled thru a couple of days before were unrecognizable. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, was covered in a thick layer of ash. The whole world, had gone grey. In some places, the ash was a few feet deep, and snow plows had come thru to clear the roads, creating mountains of ash along the roadside. It stank! Horribly! And it was everywhere, on everything, IN everything.... there was no getting away from it. They had to put us up in hotels in Centralia for 3 days, before we could finally get a route back into Oregon. Along the way, the landscape was from another planet. NOTHING was as it had been on our way North. Now, it was all covered in soft mounds of grey. The trees, plants, hills, roads, all of it... grey and lifeless. It was incomprehensible to us, the change. It wasn't until we were getting into Vancouver, WA that things started to be normal again. About 4 or 5 years later, a miraculous thing started to happen. The vegetation started to grow back! From a dead lifeless landscape, all of a sudden, things wanted to GROW! And grow NOW! Plant life started to come back, and it came back with a vengeance! What was dead and grey exploded into green, every shade of green you can imagine, and some new shades, too! It was crazy how fast, and lush everything grew. That area is still amazing to drive thru, as the ash was such incredible fertilizer, it supercharged the growth of everything wherever it fell. From death..... LIFE! Crazy!

If the Lahar doesn't get you, the Pyroclastic Flow will. However if you live on the Big Island of Hawai'i, Kilauea will send Lava your way, sooner or later. The longest major eruption occurred from January 1983 through September 2018.

I went a little bit down in the crater of Mount Hekla in Iceland once..it was really hot down there, all the rocks were hot..a few years later there was a big eruption there. Close call there, haha..missed it with just a few years!😊(In the 2010-event, I had to sleep on the floor in the basement on Suvarnabhumi Airport outside of Bangkok for three or four days:)

Mr. Narrator. You got that wrong. Hawaii's lava is much LESS viscous than the Ring of Fire lava. If it was MORE viscous, then the Hawaiian volcanoes would be lofty stratovolcanoes with MUCH more explosive eruptions.

It's been a while since I watched your videos. RU-vid notifications help alot😂😂.

I live in Ecuador w 21 of the Worlds largest active volcanoes ..They look awesome but can be deadly

very rarely do I catch docus right when they're posted

Thank you for all your updates. Not much information is on TV, so your information on what is going on with the world is so important. ❤❤❤❤

Volcanoes have so many ways to kill you; toxic gas, pyroclastic flows, lahar, fine ash dust that are microscopic samurai swords, and ofcourse lava

21.18 tell me thats not a gargoyle or even the devil in that lava fire. Its freaky, pause for yourself. My heart skipped a beat.

you didn't mention the eruptions of Krakatoa on 1883 and Tambora on 1815 which they caused temperature falling around the planet and other catastrophies.

Pinatubo (famous and heavily documented VEI-6): barely mentioned. Tambora (Year Without A Summer, most recent VEI-7 eruption, cause of one of the worst famines in recorded history): unmentioned. Lake Toba (arguably the most explosive eruption to ever occur, uncontested largest VEI-8 in the past 20 million years, buried everything from Sumatra to Pakistan in ash): unmentioned. Additionally, St. Helens was mentioned but the famous photo sequence of the lateral blast was unused. 4/10 video, informative but underwhelming. Good luck with the fundraiser.

I got trapped in South Carolina trying to get to Germany for almost 3 weeks B4 I could finally fly due to the iceland Eruption...

Nice to know that if an asteroid won’t extinct life on Earth a volcano will

i believe this is so old its older then my great grandfather they keep moving the date up to get more views to make you think this is new video

When considering places to go on holiday, a volcano wouldn't make the list. The tragedy at White Island, as well as Ontake in this video, explain why.

Volcano 🌋 looks scary..

It's truly unfortunate that these horrifying natural disasters are happening more frequently, affecting more and more countries. The victims are numerous, and the lives of millions are changed in an instant. People are helpless and vulnerable when faced with such terrifying natural forces

I need to visit an active volcano before my time is up

hah, this is blocked in australia so dystopian

I love the power of volcanos

Maybe dont build a city next or near an active volcano...

....the earth does whatever it wants any time anywhere, whether we live or die is quiet natural

Those Volcanoes that you can see just Rapidly Spitting Hot ash & Rock out of the top of the pipe Are Freakishly Intimidating

How can you not include Mount Pelee in 1902

Every minute? 😮

Thank goodness that a few people spent all their money on electric vehicles to counter ALL the volcanic carbon emissions 😂

You will never expect a volcano eruption rest and peace ❤

I remember mount st helen blew up may 18, 1980 ad killing 57 people who live or near the volcano. They should have leaving the are.

Why people go there anyway ,i don't understand ,whats nice to see there

Co2 jest dobre z wulkanu.? Źle z komina??

Moral of the story don’t climb volcanoes.

Deadliest Volcanic Eruptions was in iceland killed 100 million+

Mother Nature has seem to have had Enough of our greed.. Pray for Her Forgiveness When She Comes Our-Your Way.. AND She Will.. Not IN Our Time...HERS..

The narrator sounds like trump 😂

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If the ash doesn't put you off, the switch from dubbing to being babbled at in a dozen crude languages did. This is awful.

I have often heard preachers say that in the last days hell will enlarge itself. Isaiah chapture 5.

Documentaries must cause producers to seek out the highest level scientists and professors that have bad and/or stained teeth. I would donate a toothbrush and toothpaste for those over educated intellectuals.

Ukraine never gave a sh!t about USA

I don't mind if the Volcano 🌋 comes to destroy.