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Mount St. Helens - 30 years later

aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
edited May 2010 in All Encompassing Trip
Wow, I was 7 years old when this happened and I will never forget it. We could see the enormous mushroom cloud in the sky from Tacoma.

Pictures!!

Anyone else here remember when Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18th, 1980?
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  • pickupyourwillpickupyourwill Posts: 3,135
    aNiMaL wrote:
    Wow, I was 7 years old when this happened and I will never forget it. We could see the enormous mushroom cloud in the sky from Tacoma.

    Pictures!!

    Anyone else here remember when Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18th, 1980?

    so when did they predict that it might erupt again?
  • CantKeepMeHereCantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    thanks for sharing that is great site with truly awesome pictures
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  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,160
    pickupyourwill wrote:
    aNiMaL wrote:
    Wow, I was 7 years old when this happened and I will never forget it. We could see the enormous mushroom cloud in the sky from Tacoma.

    Pictures!!

    Anyone else here remember when Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18th, 1980?

    so when did they predict that it might erupt again?
    It did erupt again in 2005. It was a much smaller eruption of course but it did build a lava cone and sent some ash plumes into the air for several years.

    Mt. Rainier is going to be the next "big" one though.
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  • Who PrincessWho Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    aNiMaL wrote:
    Wow, I was 7 years old when this happened and I will never forget it. We could see the enormous mushroom cloud in the sky from Tacoma.

    Pictures!!

    Anyone else here remember when Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18th, 1980?
    Those were some amazing pictures.

    I remember the 1980 eruption very well, although I didn't live anywhere near there. My sister moved to Washington a few years afterward and later bought me a blown glass vase made from Mt. St. Helens ash.
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  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,301
    There is a good report on it in this May's National Geographic.
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    aNiMaL wrote:
    Wow, I was 7 years old when this happened and I will never forget it. We could see the enormous mushroom cloud in the sky from Tacoma.

    Pictures!!

    Anyone else here remember when Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18th, 1980?

    I remember being home from school sick and it being on the news and thinking we were all going to die.

    thanks for the link.
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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    mca47 wrote:
    There is a good report on it in this May's National Geographic.

    it is an awesome read. loved it. everyone should subscribe to natgeo


    I was born May 7th, 1980. I was 11lb 3oz, very big, I got birth fluid in my lungs and had to go in an incubator, I was too big for it and they couldn't close the lid. My arms and legs were sticking out the sides of it. I got to come home from the hospital on May 18, 1980, the day she blew! That's where I was.
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  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Crazy pics. Thanks for sharing.

    I visited Seattle for the first time this winter and it was amazing hearing peoples stories about this. It is still so ingrained into the culture of the region. Amazing.

    This happened a year and a half before I was born.
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  • sk8nshoot1sk8nshoot1 Posts: 722
    This is a link to a cam pointed at Mount St. Helens and a live feed of what it looks like now...

    Right now rain and fogged in, but it cool when it's sunny:

    http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    i think i was in 3rd grade.
    the teacher handed out small vials of ash.
    i clearly remember that i had no idea what was going on.
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  • tinkerbelltinkerbell New Zealand Posts: 2,161
    Incredible pictures. Volcanic eruptions are mother nature in the purest form, a good reason for human beings not to live anywhere near volcanoes!!
    Hang on a minute :shock: I live on an island covered in thermal activity with a huge fault line running through my back yard :o . AHHHHHHHHH she says screaming as she runs to the ocean and tries to swim to Australia......
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  • pickupyourwillpickupyourwill Posts: 3,135
    Jason P wrote:
    It did erupt again in 2005. It was a much smaller eruption of course but it did build a lava cone and sent some ash plumes into the air for several years.

    Mt. Rainier is going to be the next "big" one though.

    oops. yeah, I really don't keep up with the news like I should. good to know. when is Mt. Rainier supposed to do its thang?
  • pickupyourwillpickupyourwill Posts: 3,135
    tinkerbell wrote:
    Incredible pictures. Volcanic eruptions are mother nature in the purest form, a good reason for human beings not to live anywhere near volcanoes!!
    Hang on a minute :shock: I live on an island covered in thermal activity with a huge fault line running through my back yard :o . AHHHHHHHHH she says screaming as she runs to the ocean and tries to swim to Australia......

    yeah, its really tragic when mother nature takes lives that way, but that's why more precautions need to be taken.
    now with the volcano ash around Europe and all the flights being delayed. yeah, it was a pain in the rear for everybody, but if it lets the earth blow off some much needed steam, than we should be grateful, right? I mean if its good for the earth in the end. maybe there was stuff in there that really needed to come out. what did most of the scientists make of it?
  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    Jason P wrote:
    Mt. Rainier is going to be the next "big" one though.
    Man, I hope not in my lifetime. That will be a serious catastrophe!!
  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    mca47 wrote:
    There is a good report on it in this May's National Geographic.
    Is it on the newsstands already? I have to get this.
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