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Mt. St. Helens - May 18, 1980
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May 18, 2019 09:45:33   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
It's hard to believe it was almost forty years ago that Mt. St. Helens erupted. That area has made quite a comeback since then.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mt+st+helens+today&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS716US717&oq=mt+st+helens+today&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4615j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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May 18, 2019 10:46:19   #
autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut
 
jerryc41 wrote:
It's hard to believe it was almost forty years ago that Mt. St. Helens erupted. That area has made quite a comeback since then.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mt+st+helens+today&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS716US717&oq=mt+st+helens+today&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4615j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


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

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May 18, 2019 13:10:01   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
Another date that shows me just how much closer to death I am!!!

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May 18, 2019 19:06:23   #
lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
 
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!

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May 18, 2019 21:59:44   #
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.

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May 19, 2019 06:19:58   #
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.

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May 19, 2019 07:59:47   #
RSPB Loc: New York
 
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

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May 19, 2019 09:09:59   #
Goober Loc: Southeastern PA
 
I just watched the entire video...very interesting. Thanks for posting Jerry.

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May 19, 2019 14:01:11   #
bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada
 
jerryc41 wrote:
It's hard to believe it was almost forty years ago that Mt. St. Helens erupted. That area has made quite a comeback since then.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mt+st+helens+today&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS716US717&oq=mt+st+helens+today&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4615j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

The eruption massively changed the profile of the Mt. St. Helens (1st image).

And a picture I took in May 2007...

bwa


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May 19, 2019 14:02:40   #
larduggan Loc: Burlington, VT
 
Very nice work!

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May 19, 2019 14:08:52   #
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.

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May 19, 2019 14:28:06   #
chapjohn Loc: Tigard, Oregon
 
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.

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May 19, 2019 14:33:42   #
Spectre Loc: Bothell, Washington
 
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.


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May 19, 2019 15:41:02   #
TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA
 
I was in the process of relocating from San Jose CA to the middle of the country. It was my daughter's 10th birthday. My Angry Mountain post, https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-509564-1.html is from May of 2014.

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May 19, 2019 16:12:27   #
philmurfin Loc: Bakewell, Derbyshire UK
 
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/72157631361019800


They are great shots showing some incredible damage. It's strange, I don't remember anything about it?
Thanks
Phil

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