Blew its top

Anonymous-0 · May 18, 2015

Do yo all remember where you were at and what you wuz doing 35 years ago today?
I guess some of youins remember what happened that made national news.

Richard G. · May 18, 2015

Mt. St. Helens. Do you remember the name of the old man who refused to leave his cabin and was killed?
Richard in NW SC

Goose · May 18, 2015

There was also a government scientist at a station on Mt. St. Helens. He yelled, "Vancouver, this is it!" on his radio and was never seen or heard from again.

Busflyer · May 18, 2015

Harry Truman

Richard G. · May 18, 2015

Yep.
Richard

Donald Lehman · May 18, 2015

What I remember most is all the greenie-weenies spoutin' off about how it was gonna be a hunnert years or more before the area recovered and how the wildlife might never recover, and then the American Hunter Mag posting pics 7 years later and the side of the mountain is covered with lush green growth and deer, bear, elk and small game in abundance taking advantage of the new growth forest. (snicker) (chuckle)

Anonymous-0 · May 18, 2015

Harry Randall Truman
Google is my friend when I have a senior moment quite often these dazs.

LeonardWD45 · May 18, 2015

Was spending the night with a friend and the earthquake woke me up. Headed home and watched the ash cloud advance across the state and inundate the farm. My farm is about 300 miles north east of the mountain. Still have a bunch of the ash that fell on the farm kept in jars.

Leonard

dhermesc · May 18, 2015

Are those the same doomsday sayers that claim the earth is warming and all the ice is going to melt drowning all the low lying land? Meanwhile they have to move their weather station in Anartica because the build up of ice makes it impossible to reach Mawson Station.

A mysterious warming of the climate is slowly manifesting itself in the Arctic, engendering a "serious international problem," - New York Times - May 30, 1947

Greenland's polar climate has moderated so consistently that communities of hunters have evolved into fishing villages. Sea mammals, vanishing from the west coast, have been replaced by codfish and other fish species in the area's southern waters. - New York Times August 29, 1954

After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of specialists from several continents seems to have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: it is getting colder. - New York Times - January 30, 1961

Like an outrigger canoe riding before a huge comber, the earth with its inhabitants is caught on the downslope of an immense climatic wave that is plunging us toward another Ice Age. - Los Angeles Times December 23, 1962

JustIn Case · May 18, 2015

I was graduating from high school in Nebraska when Mt. Saint Helens popped.

mjsnodgrass · May 18, 2015

i live about 30 miles from the mountain. i had a beautiful view of the mountain from my front porch until the neighbors trees got too tall. the night before it blew, the animals woke me up. for a second i thought i was in a school playground with a bunch of small children at recess. didn't have any farm animals, so it must of been the wildlife. strangest noise you'll ever hear. i was camping on my property, and had washed my dishes in my small creek. the pots and pans had been left on the bank to dry. in the morning they were gone. the creek had rose 3 feet. the only thing i can figure, is tbefore the mountain blew, there must have been a lot of pressure underground before the top blew off. have flown over the mountain a few times. it still amazes me.

Dopp Creek · May 18, 2015

I live 60 miles SW of the mountain and the ash made a matted mess of the hayfields. It was a wet summer anyway and the hay was laying down. We had to sharpen sickles in the haybine every day because they wore so bad. When combining wheat later in the summer there was a small gray cloud in front of the feeder throat from the ash that had lodged in the heads of wheat. I don't think we got more than a quarter inch of ash here but my HS buddies made good money cleaning gutters weighed down with ash and rain.
Have taken several trips up to St Helens since then and have been stunned by the recovery. It was and still is a beautiful area.

big fred · May 18, 2015

It was Sunday. I slept in. Woke up and bicycled to work because I needed to use the computer for a class I was taking at work. Everyone at the plant was talking about it, but I hadn't heard the news, so I hadn't heard about it. I was in Auburn, WA about 60 mi north of St Helens. Several coworkers were in eastern WA and ruined their cars getting home. They had to go up thru Canada to get back.

Mongo6318 · May 18, 2015

i was born 18 minutes before the initial rumblings started in March. i would have been 2 months old when she finally went.

Chuck (CA) · May 18, 2015

Living in Spokane. That afternoon, the ash came over and blackened out the sky. I mean really dark, because there was no stars or moon light. We didn't know if things would ever be normal again. The next day, I was out vacuuming the driveway collecting the ash. Still got some somewhere.

rrlund · May 18, 2015

Geez,has it been that long? Which one blew in 92 and gave us a year without a summer?
I do remember,I guess when St Helens went up and it took about three days for the ash cloud to move over.

Cowmechanic · May 18, 2015

Sure do...just finished the morning milking.Stepped outside the milk parlor and noticed what looked like a storm going on right over the top of the mountain.Didn't realize it had just erupted until I heard it on the news.Our farm was located about sixty miles south of St.Helens.The main blast blew away from us.Some folks not so lucky.After the main eruption there was a series of smaller eruptions throughout the summer.We had a spectacular view of these events from the backyard of our house.The wind carried some of the ash our way.Had to wear a dust mask while baling hay as it would kick up the ash on the ground.

Paul

Brown Swiss · May 18, 2015

Well I was still a twinkle in my pa's eyes and a few twitches in his britches!

Nebraska Cowman · May 18, 2015

has it been that long? I remember ash fallout on my vehicles @ North Platte Nebraska.

Dell (WA) · May 18, 2015

Harvey........I wuz readin' the Sunday comics on my porch over lookin' McNeil prison island on Puget Sound. Cupple daze later, flue over it in my Boeing Flight Test airplane. Took a while before we could land at Mose Lake over by Spokane. Jet airplane engines don't like breathin' dust. (frown) When my mother-in-law from Stockton Calif, came to visit, she was sweepin' up ashes up off'n the porch deck. Good friend was cummin' up I-5 and got stopped just below the Toutle River for 8-hrs. Toutle River drained Mt St Helens into the Cowlitz river and then into the Columbia river to the sea at Longview. Said fish were jumpin' outta the HOT WATER of the river. Fresh cooked Salmon, ennyone? .......Dell

Chuck (CA) · May 18, 2015

Don't know about the salmon on the Columbia, but there's some mighty fine walleye there.

Donald Lehman · May 18, 2015

Yup, I expect the same ones!

keh · May 18, 2015

Visited Mt St. Helens a few years after the event. People could drive close to the summit and look over into the mouth of the volcano. A little steam rising.

The most interesting thing I saw was a recently cut road bank down the mountain. You could see an inch or two of fresh white volcanic ash deposited by the recent eruption. Under the ash layer was a thick layer of black dirt several inches thick. Then there was a thick layer of white ash, then another layer of black dirt 2-3 feet thick. Then there was a later of ash several inches thick. Things had been active there in the past.

KEH

sms · May 18, 2015

I remember shortly after the eruption I was in the company of a young lady and we were looking at the orange moon caused by the ash. I don't know how long it took to get to NY.

Phil9N3667 · May 18, 2015

I remember seeing a magazine article about it and a car was doing about 100 MPH (supposedly) to pass another car to get away from the ash coming down. The 100MPH car survived, the other one was over taken by the ash. At Norfolk (VA) Int. Airport years ago, there was a Stihl chainsaw in a showcase that had been dug out of the mud at a logging camp on the mountain and it started up and ran after being cleaned up!!

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