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35 years later, residents remember Mount St. Helens eruption [May 18, 1980]
WHIO-TV, KIRO-TV ^ | 5/18/15

Posted on 05/19/2015 10:51:00 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.whio.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: ash; disaster; eruption; history; sainthelens; volcano
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I remember when this happened. America was jolted into a reminder that God can move the mountains at His will.

A few months later, America fired Jimmy Carter.

Would that we remember that truth today.

1 posted on 05/19/2015 10:51:00 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

I remember that, too...


2 posted on 05/19/2015 10:52:46 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The photos of it were awe inspiring and showed just how little we are on this planet.


3 posted on 05/19/2015 10:52:56 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: SoFloFreeper
Even on the East Coast, ash was settling on car windshields. Combined with the pollen season, it was salad days for those in the car wash business.

I still remember that guy Harry Truman. What a cantankerous stubborn bastard. And I grew up to be just like him.

4 posted on 05/19/2015 10:55:05 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SoFloFreeper
Because Mount St. Helens spewed a LOT of volcanic ash into the air, the result was a couple of years of way above rainfall in California because the cooler temperatures from the ash in the upper atmosphere changed the winter jet stream patterns.
5 posted on 05/19/2015 10:55:34 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Old Sarge

She also has some hidden health issues.
She is getting old.

IMO she is either going to kill herself running or is just making the moves to justify the tens of millions donated to her foundation.


6 posted on 05/19/2015 10:55:37 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I was living in San Diego at the time, working for a ceramics company - we made molds, glazes, sold kilns, etc.

A number of the guys who created our special glazes jumped in the truck and drove north until they found ash. They created some outstanding ceramic glazes with that ash. Wish I still had a few pieces of that pottery!


7 posted on 05/19/2015 10:56:04 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I was stationed at McChord, and remember having a mini-earthquake in the barracks at the time. Strangely....we all wanted to go drive down and actually see the thing up close and personal.


8 posted on 05/19/2015 10:56:07 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SoFloFreeper

I have a jar full of ash my aunt brought me from the eruption.


9 posted on 05/19/2015 10:56:46 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: A CA Guy

Did you mean to post that on another thread??


10 posted on 05/19/2015 10:57:08 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

A buddy of mine father had a car wash down town LA I worked there we bottled ash from my fire place and made labels and sold them for a while we made bank till the dad said no more Cant believe ts been 35 years ago


11 posted on 05/19/2015 10:57:41 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: headstamp 2

Just think, that eruption was a small one compared to the Yellowstone one.


12 posted on 05/19/2015 10:58:23 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: SamAdams76

Poor Harry Truman’s bones will be found by a geological/palaentological dig sometime in the future... Ashed.


13 posted on 05/19/2015 10:58:42 AM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to targelationt the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: headstamp 2

Remember that old man that would not come off of the mountain, Harry Truman? I thought he was one cool dude back then, still do. Heres to you Harry


14 posted on 05/19/2015 10:59:51 AM PDT by Jolla
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My aunt in Yakima, Washington sent me a vial of the ash, said it was almost three inches deep everywhere around her neighborhood after the eruption.

Pretty awesome event.

15 posted on 05/19/2015 11:00:49 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: Old Sarge

Ouchy ouchy, you are right, I or my computer played tricks on me.
Sorry...


16 posted on 05/19/2015 11:00:51 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I still have a small jar filled with the ash taken from my grandparent’s yard in Ellensburg, which is about 100 miles to the northeast.


17 posted on 05/19/2015 11:01:51 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Old Sarge

I remember it well. That was the volcano Democrats and experts were saying it would take ‘generations’ from which to recover. Vast quantities of money would be needed for government to fix it.

Untold devastation and protracted misery that somehow was implied to be the fault of Freon gas (or whatever other bugaboo product econuts and pandering Democrat politicians were against at the time).

Perhaps someone here could post some pictures of Present Day Mt. St. Helens and surrounding.
I also seem to remember some three or four years hence a news report about how miraculously mother nature was rebounding from that implied manmade catastrophe - 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}


18 posted on 05/19/2015 11:01:54 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Lakeshark

Yeah, I was only 7 at the time but I still remember it well.


19 posted on 05/19/2015 11:02:37 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Sawdring

The Yellowstone one that is to come.


20 posted on 05/19/2015 11:02:43 AM PDT by Gaffer
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