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44 years ago today Mt St Helens erupted
Posted on 5/18/24 at 5:58 pm
Posted on 5/18/24 at 5:58 pm
The eruption resulted in the loss of 57 lives and caused widespread destruction. Hundreds of homes were demolished, along with 57 bridges and around 200 miles of roads and highways. Moreover, tens of thousands of acres of forest land were levelled by the eruption's force.
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This post was edited on 5/18/24 at 6:00 pm
Posted on 5/18/24 at 6:01 pm to stout
I was awed by it, and have been fascinated with geology ever since.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 6:04 pm to stout
Mount St Helens erupting and your driving a Pinto. I don't like his chances.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 6:11 pm to stout
I remember Walmart sold little glass viles with ash in it from st Helen
Posted on 5/18/24 at 6:12 pm to stout
The dirtbike attached to the car like that makes me realize how materialistic we've become. A baw would need a $70,000 truck to take his dirtbike somewhere now.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 6:13 pm to stout
Posted on 5/18/24 at 6:18 pm to LSUGrrrl
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I watched it live on a tv similar to this in my room.
I thought you were my age. I was 6 months old
Posted on 5/18/24 at 6:22 pm to stout
And it was 50 years ago just last month that the greatest fake volcanic eruption ever happened.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 6:24 pm to stout
Man that would be terrifying to be that close to a pyroclastic eruption like that.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 6:28 pm to deltaland
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Man that would be terrifying to be that close to a pyroclastic eruption like that.
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David Johnston, a scientist studying Mount St. Helens when it erupted in 1980, was killed in the blast. His body was never recovered.
They never found David Johnston, the young scientist who put himself in harm’s way on the morning of May 18, 1980 when Mount St. Helens erupted.
Specializing in volcanoes, Johnston had taken a shift to keep an eye on the bulging north side of Mount St. Helens over that weekend. He was working out of a camper, armed with a radio, binoculars and instruments.
What nobody knew was just when the mountain would erupt and how much warning anybody would get.
“David said, ‘We’re essentially next to a keg of dynamite,’” said Jeff Renner, then-KING 5 science reporter. Renner was also living on and off on the mountain covering months of buildup.
He often interviewed Johnston on St. Helens and had known Johnston since they first met on Mount Baker during unrest there two years earlier. But St. Helens was far more serious.
“He says the fuse is lit, but we don’t know how long the fuse is,” Renner said.
Johnston grew up in Illinois, which is not known for spectacular scenery much less geological unrest. He spent time studying volcanoes in Alaska before coming to the University of Washington, where he was a graduate student of now Professor Emeritus Steve Malone, who was also deeply involved in monitoring earthquakes at St. Helens in 1980.
“We didn’t know ultimately what would happen. We knew it was a very hazardous place,” said Malone.
He remembered flying over Johnston’s camping trailer in a helicopter days before the eruption. Malone was installing seismic stations to keep taps on the constant rumbling of tens of thousands of small earthquakes as magma moved deep under St. Helens.
“I was installing two stations on May 16 – one on Elk Rock to the west and another site near Timberline. And flying in the helicopter across there I could look over and see the camper that was up on Coldwater Ridge,” said Malone. “I was too far away to recognize who was there, but I could see someone; it probably was him.”
Two days later, Mount St. Helens erupted in a massive explosion. Malone said he thought of Johnston that morning.
“Very early on when I heard how big it was, that was one of my first thoughts not knowing,” Malone said. “And then probably late in the morning when word was coming in that the devastation area was huge, and it started to sink in.”
“David Johnston was literally blasted off the mountain ridge he was on, and his body was never found,” said Renner.
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This post was edited on 5/18/24 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 5/18/24 at 6:39 pm to stout
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“David Johnston was literally blasted off the mountain ridge he was on, and his body was never found,” said Renner.
There was no body to find
Posted on 5/18/24 at 6:59 pm to stout
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David Johnston was literally blasted off the mountain ridge he was on, and his body was never found,” sa
A wave of super heated gases, ash, rock tend to make short work of a human body
Posted on 5/18/24 at 7:03 pm to LegendInMyMind
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And it was 50 years ago just last month that the greatest fake volcanic eruption ever happened.
Porky Bickar.
There's several stories about his legendary pranks. One of that old breed. He was quite a lumberjack too.
Mt Edgecumbe has recently had some magma activity, moving up.
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This post was edited on 5/18/24 at 7:10 pm
Posted on 5/18/24 at 7:07 pm to RogerTheShrubber
That movie w/Art Carney seems like it was on all the time on HBO circa the early 1980s .
Posted on 5/18/24 at 7:07 pm to stout
Watched it after Buckskin Bill on the news (when it was 'news'), before i rode my bike to school. I was 11 and remember it like it was yesterday.
Buckskin Bill
WAFB in Baton Rouge
Buckskin Bill
WAFB in Baton Rouge
Posted on 5/18/24 at 7:08 pm to deltaland
was watching a special on prime today - I have always been fascinated with mt saint Helens
Posted on 5/18/24 at 7:14 pm to stout
I remember it well…. Mother Nature at her best.
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