35 years later, residents remember Mount St. Helens eruption [May 18, 1980]

WHIO-TV, KIRO-TV ^ | 5/18/15

[SoFloFreeper]

Thirty-five years have passed since Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington, killing 57 people and raining ash throughout the state.

Lisa Rainey shared a photo of jarred ash with Seattle's KIRO-TV, writing: "Ashes and a newspaper from Mount St. Helen's blast from 1980 ... my grandma and grandpa scooped up ashes in their yard from the blast.”

When the photo was shared on Facebook, many viewers began to share their memories of that day – May 18, 1980.

[Vendome]

I lived in Santa Cruz, CA at the time and we got dusted from that thing.

You’d go to San Jose, CA and everything was dusted.

Nasty

[Vendome]

LOL

Wrong thread?

[A CA Guy]

For sure, I think Hillary’s server did it.

[SpinnerWebb]

I have some taken from my Grandparent’s car windshield in Amarillo, TX. We got a layer in the Texas Panhandle similar to a heavy dust storm.-

[JimSEA]

Then, eleven years later, Mount Pinatubo exploded putting even more ash in the atmosphere from an even larger explosion. Like Mount St. Helens, it was in a populated region. The two eruptions along with recent articles on Yellowstone brought volcano hazards to the front of our minds.

[soycd]

>God can move the mountains at His will.

Doing it without killing 57 innocent people would be more impressive.

[Usagi_yo]

Pretty sobering when you consider that Mt. St. Helens threw out more carban green house gasses in 1 day than all of mankind up until that point in time.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Spirit Lake filled with alternating layers of ash and trees. The trees have compacted and formed the basis for coal. Give it another hundred years and it will be coal.

[Darksheare]

Vancouver, this is it.

[Organic Panic]

A puny volcano is no match for the destructive power of SUVs.

I thought how cool it would be to be around St. Helens when I was a kid. That lasted up until 2012 when I WAS in the path of a volcano in Bariloche Argentina. Mt. Puyehue blew in Chile and the ash cloud blew right over the town. It was not a fun event. After the initial 15 minutes of thinking, “how cool” the novelty wore off once the ash started falling.

[Gaffer]

I’ve seen pictures of rebounding flora and fauna right on or near the slopes. You certainly can’t say the entire proximity is lost for generations, can you?

[Old Sarge]

I remember the reporter’s exasperation at the indignity of having to report that, too. {don’t fear, they’ve since dispensed with guilty scruples like that}

No kidding...

[dainbramaged]

I was living in a waterfront shack on Commencement Bay in Tacoma when it blew. We had been dusted with ash a few times before the main eruption but the winds that day carried most of it to the East. We could see the plume clearly.

[Red Badger]

I was working for Tektronix at the time.........in Atlanta.............

[rockrr]

We’re about 100 miles away as the crow flies. I remember driving to a local promontory where we could watch the ash cloud as it rose and blossomed. The ash was headed away from our town so we knew that we weren’t in immediate danger but all the worry-warts on the radio were talking Armageddon.

Then we turned on the boob-toob and got the reports from Eastern Washington where they were in the path of the ash-cloud and it got dark in the middle of the day. My wife bought into a bunch of the “end of the world” jabber and was frantic for several days.

[Red Badger]

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

[RayChuang88]

In fact, Mt. Pinatubo’s eruption did cause 2-3 winters of way above normal rains in California because it shifted the winter jet stream pattern southward.

[ClearCase_guy]

Ash alert!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

[Gator113]

I remember dust on our cars and house. We lived on the coast in Washington state, about 262.3 miles from the event.

Yellowstone should be quite spectacular.