Mt. St. Helens - May 18, 1980
Jerry, 2 years after the eruption I visited the area as close as you were allowed to be and I shot (with film) a bunch of shots, 28 of which I have in a folder here on flickr...take a peek if you are interested. The damage around 18 miles away was incredible! Here's the link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/20127329@N06/albums/72157631361019800
Another date that shows me just how much closer to death I am!!!
My one regret:
My Dad, who at the age of 70 had never been on an airplane, wanted to get us a flight from Ohio to go see that volcano erupting. My reply was that people were trying get away from that eruption. Now I wish I had said, OK!
n3eg
Loc: West coast USA
I'll be up there next month with the Tour De Blast bike ride. I'll be doing the radio communications, not the ride. Of course I'll have a camera with me.
VTMatwood
Loc: Displaced Vermonta in Central New Hampsha
I photographed Mount St Helens close to 20 years ago now (if I recall it was a week or so prior to reopening the plains below the mountain for tourism). It was an amazing sight. I cannot imagine what it was like immediately in the aftermath.
My mom and I were there the summer of 1980 while visiting my brother who lives on the Long Beach peninsula in Washington. The devastation was mind boggling. The number of downed trees and the depth of the ash were astounding - hard to believe anything could come back from that. I still have my jar full of lava pebbles that I found washed up on the beach on the peninsula
I just watched the entire video...very interesting. Thanks for posting Jerry.
bwana
Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada
The eruption massively changed the profile of the Mt. St. Helens (1st image).
And a picture I took in May 2007...
bwa
Rick-ws
Loc: Seattle or North Idaho
I was in Moscow Idaho that morning ~300 Air miles away. Radio informed us of the eruption. By 9am we could see the ash cloud on its way. We left for Wallace ID at 10 am. By 12:30 and 15 miles from Wallace the ash reached us and was falling. Silence for the next two days ,until it rained.
I still see ash near Moses Lake on my cross state travels. I am amazed how things recovered around St Helens, it is a beautiful place to visit and a reminder of how tiny we are in the universe.
It was the end of my sophomore HS year and I was getting ready for church when Mt St Helens blew its top. We are south of it and did not get any ash from that eruption but in later eruptions we got ash. I have toured the place several times since then.
Most shots are looking into the mountain. Here’s a shot I got from a commercial flight. It shows the destruction of the blast zone with Mt. Rainier in the background.
autofocus wrote:
Jerry, 2 years after the eruption I visited the area as close as you were allowed to be and I shot (with film) a bunch of shots, 28 of which I have in a folder here on flickr...take a peek if you are interested. The damage around 18 miles away was incredible! Here's the link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/20127329@N06/albums/72157631361019800They are great shots showing some incredible damage. It's strange, I don't remember anything about it?
Thanks
Phil
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