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Old 05-18-2020, 05:11 PM
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Default 40th Anniversary of Mount St. Helens....

blowing it's top is today. I watched it happen on TV, and even seeing the photos again I still can't believe how extensive the damage was.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...id=hplocalnews

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Old 05-18-2020, 05:24 PM
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I was in college when it happened, and it was THE topic in my geology class. Seems like it was 10 years ago, not 40!

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Old 05-18-2020, 07:50 PM
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I worked at National Geographic and that day we had a writer and photographer working on a story there, the writer decided to visit friends nearby that day, lucky for him, but unfortunately the photographer never made it out. Another photographer died on the mountain that day too and managed to protect his film. It was found later and printed in the National Geographic Magazine.

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Back in May 1999 I was visiting friends in Portland OR. That gave me reason to meet with Peter Klabo (Ventures Unlimited) at the same time. Peter invited me to join him to drive up the Washington River to a town called Dulles if I remember correctly.

We drove past the Mt St. Helens site and I was gobsmacked at the destruction and that was 19 years past the event.

We never have those sorts of events in Australia (no volcanoes at all) and even an earthquake is a real rarity so just seeing the power of that explosion has never left my mind. Amazing.

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WoW! hard to believe it was that long ago.

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Old 05-18-2020, 10:06 PM
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I have a Ross Mt St Helen's mountain bike. Bike is all original right down to the tires.

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Back in May 1999 I was visiting friends in Portland OR. That gave me reason to meet with Peter Klabo (Ventures Unlimited) at the same time. Peter invited me to join him to drive up the Washington River to a town called Dulles if I remember correctly.

We drove past the Mt St. Helens site and I was gobsmacked at the destruction and that was 19 years past the event.

We never have those sorts of events in Australia (no volcanoes at all) and even an earthquake is a real rarity so just seeing the power of that explosion has never left my mind. Amazing.
Columbia River and The Dalles.

We used to camp at Spirit Lake every year. In 79 I met Harry Truman, he gave me some worms to use as bait. Still didn't catch anything. Had my first 10 spd and we rode up to the snow line, then coasted all the way down to the boat launch on the lake.

We were planning to camp there again in 1980 after school got out for summer. The mountain blew the day before my 10th birthday.

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I just crawled back into bed after delivering the Seattle Times and heard what sounded like a weird sonic boom. My father hammered on the ceiling "whatever it is you are playing turn it off now!".

we were 117 miles away as the crow flies.

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I was 11 and thought some neighbors were blasting stumps? Rode to the store a few hours later and could see the ash plume, it was a crazy sight. I lived a couple hundred miles north in Stanwood, WA.

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RIP and prayers for the lives lost. Wow didnt think about it for so long forgot.

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Guess it would be appropriate to post this photo again
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Amazing stories of those that survived and those that didn't.

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Here is a before and after picture of Mt St Helens and a link to a story. It is a long read but well worth it for those interested. Like I said before I was just a kid when it happened. Read this today and had forgot about the old man of the mountain Harry R Truman. I can't blame the guy for staying. He and the mountain were one.

https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific...unt-st-helens/
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I was a senior in High School in Spokane, Wa, about 275 miles to the east/northeast. My girlfriend and I didn't hear what had happened until this ominous black cloud started coming our way. Then day became night as the ash came down. Will never forget it. I remember freaking out about getting ash in the engine of my 67 Firebird. It was like driving in flour. We didn't have to go outside for PE for the rest of the school year!

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It was one of the biggest disasters in US history. When I watched that day I was gob smacked seeing the destruction it caused. I hope it never happens again anywhere here in the USA.

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Here is another interesting link i followed off the story link that DragStar posted.
40 different accounts from 40 people.
Some are real interesting and/or fascinating
https://pauldorpat.com/archivepage/m...h-anniversary/

Its amazing to me how those around / within 50 mile radius of the mountain , heard no booms or big sounds like those who were further away.
Never heard about that phenomenon before.
Wild Stuff and glad they covered that element.

I was in 10th Grade and remember it being top of the news.
Incredible it wasn't even much much worse than it was.

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I have a Ross Mt St Helen's mountain bike. Bike is all original right down to the tires.
Got any pictures of that bike ?
is it Ash Grey ?

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Had a friend that had a camera setup and caught the 1st just as it blew and the 2nd picture was on a fly over a few days later and shows what happened to the forest.
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Earlier that spring, I had purchased a second hand '74 Chevelle wagon.
I was giving it a wax job about a week after the eruption. I noticed as I wiped the dried wax off of the roof panel, the buffing cloth kept getting clogged up some kind of grayish grit (I hadn't washed the car before I started). It finally dawned on me that it must be fall out from Mt. St. Helens.
This was in western Michigan. We lived ten miles from the lake. My theory is, that as the ash particals floated across the cooler air over Lake Michigan, they dropped from the sky in a higher consentration than other places east of the Mississippi.

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