This Place In Time - The Mount St. Helens Story

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  • This place in time: The Mount St. Helens story
    Recounts through reenactments, personal recollections, and documentary narration, the earth-changing event and aftermath of the May 18, 1980, volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest of southwest Washington. The film represents the work of dozens of both professional and amateur cinematographers and still-photographers. The film leaves the viewer with a positive feeling that the devastated area will someday be beautiful again during the course of the earth-shattering and earth-healing process.
    ARC Identifier 13504 / Local Identifier 95.206 1984
    Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Division of State and Private Forestry. Fire and Aviation Management Staff. (1986)
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  • @comazzi2012
    @comazzi2012 12 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    RIP Dave Johnston: You were an inspiration to geologists all over.

    • @janaburritt6939
      @janaburritt6939 ปีที่แล้ว

      He earned the right to say I told you so. May God bless his soul

    • @bradr2142
      @bradr2142 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was like a real USGS guy. Him and Harry. Gone to heaven together.

    • @moisesgonzalez1285
      @moisesgonzalez1285 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He was truly a courageous man, when the mountain erupted he knew he would not make it, he did it for science and I admire him for that. But it was like out of a movie "Vancouver Vancouver this is it!"

  • @reenasa
    @reenasa 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My granfather Larry Vincent Brooks worked in the observatory in Mt St Helens. He built part of the White Tank mountain park. He is a great man. He is in the hospital now and almost died. I hope all that knew him, remember how great he was...

  • @Sitka_rn
    @Sitka_rn 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was standing by at the Portland Airport with my ambulance to meet a Medevac when this happened across the Columbia River. We had no idea what it was at first.... looked like the biggest forest fire we'd ever seen. The next few weeks I remember the ash cleanup... Sobering reminder of mans' inability to control nature and how a few seconds of eruption changed both the landscape, the soil, the weather and global sunsets

  • @1805movie
    @1805movie 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why couldn't most documentaries be this enchanting?

  • @karenengelhardt1610
    @karenengelhardt1610 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is one of the best films about the mountain. I've seen almost all of them and even though this is older, it's also the closest to the time of the actual event, so you can feel the urgency. And the nonchalance of the guy eating a pickle.

    • @bradr2142
      @bradr2142 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Where's that pickle eating tree dude now. I'd like to he r e from him.

  • @Oberst543
    @Oberst543 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My mom's neighbor passed away when he was logging at Spirit Lake, his name was Thomas G. Gadwa and was from Montesano (where I was raised)

  • @adamdorgant9454
    @adamdorgant9454 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hard to believe it’s been 40 Years today!!!!

  • @klimber10001
    @klimber10001 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's beautiful again with tree flourishing and clean air.. ...... I'll never forget the day it blew... What a memory.

  • @gluebubble
    @gluebubble 14 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Am I the only one who felt sad about that poor old mans cats?

    • @dwizzleusa4202
      @dwizzleusa4202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nah didn't feel that sorry for the cats feel sorry for Truman.. a true man of his morals and values and went like he said if that mountain goes then I go with it.. sucks it ended that way for him after 50+ years plus his wife is buried there so yea I feel sorry for ol Truman the hell with those pussys..

    • @adamdorgant9454
      @adamdorgant9454 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      gluebubble I know Right!!!!

    • @We_Seek_Truth
      @We_Seek_Truth ปีที่แล้ว

      I too, keep thinking about them and how that foolish old man killed them. Everyone had two full months of warning that an eruption was coming. And the experts failed to see the probability of a lateral eruption due to the fast growing bulge on the north side of the mountain.

    • @We_Seek_Truth
      @We_Seek_Truth ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe I'm too hard on Harry. Though he should have, he probably couldn't have rounded up all of his cats. And might not have sny place to take them where he could be sure he would get them all back. But he probably didn't know exactly how many and what their names were. They were probably feral and he probably didn't feed them much or regular. He might've used them to keep mice and rats away

    • @moisesgonzalez1285
      @moisesgonzalez1285 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I watched another video before I saw this one and I was thinking the same thing I was feeling sorry for the cats. From what the experts say death would have been instantaneous so at least they felt no pain. Harry Truman was a character but he was not being selfish in staying close to danger. He said in an interview that was his whole life if he lost Spirit lake then his life would be over. He was 84 he lived a good life.

  • @sliczz297
    @sliczz297 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The 83 year old man took his life for his cabin he lived there for 50 years RIP

  • @danahan01
    @danahan01 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was 16 yrs old and 40 miles west of the mountain when it blew. I watched it all day long from the Cowlitz/Wahkiakum county line. It was truely amazing!!

  • @WheresPoochie
    @WheresPoochie 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You can see the start of the eruption at 11:10
    (for those who are impatient)

  • @systematicthqu
    @systematicthqu 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks, it is nice to have video from that era. My mom's water bag broke when Mt St Helen's exploded and her name is Helen. When I traveled to washington this place was sacred to me, it was a sense of connection.

  • @smbmaniac
    @smbmaniac 13 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    thank you for giving me a boost on my test!

  • @sov19871987
    @sov19871987 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It is beautiful there today. Take vacation and visit this place.

  • @gggreggg
    @gggreggg 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thanks Airboyd for posting this. i went to the mountain a few years after the blast and was utterly awestruck by the scene. i approached the mountain looking at the lee side of the ridges which were still heavily forest covered. and then i went around the bend in the road and was looking directly into the blast zone. i was dumbstruck by the moonscape that suddenly presented itself.

  • @cutiemasana4897
    @cutiemasana4897 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i am doing this for a sciece(or however you spell it) project thanks for putting it up

  • @donnamoore-james7065
    @donnamoore-james7065 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great video; sharing with grandson's 3rd grade class. Thanks for the post.

  • @Zombra715
    @Zombra715 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i born on may 17/81 just a year and one dar after the eruption!! besides! Exelent documental..

  • @legoP62519
    @legoP62519 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this was the best video i could find on youtube

  • @CaityCaitsRocks22
    @CaityCaitsRocks22 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So Upsetting :((( It looked wonderful

  • @MontrealParisNY
    @MontrealParisNY 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think we should have more of it. It's very educational and , can I say this, thrilling.

  • @Fletchersketche
    @Fletchersketche 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for posing this up!!!

    • @adamdorgant9454
      @adamdorgant9454 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fletchersketche You’re right about that!!!

  • @mRr3gmasterz
    @mRr3gmasterz 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing footage of The Mount St. Helens.

  • @WhizMitchell
    @WhizMitchell 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It was almost like Pompeii...I remember this day very well.

  • @TrainGuy33
    @TrainGuy33 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This Is Natures Queen Of All Volcanoes. It Is On My Bucket List To See Her North face. And Plausibly Go Closer To Her But Not To Close....

  • @L33tP1ckL
    @L33tP1ckL 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best twenty-three minutes I have spent (in some time) on TH-cam.

    • @104thDIVTimberwolf
      @104thDIVTimberwolf 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Look up Nick Zentner, if you're interested in geology. If you're not, he'll teach you to be.

  • @vertigoacid
    @vertigoacid 14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for putting up this older video. I haven't seen it anywhere else online, and being able to see the video they show (or at least, used to show) at the interpretive center is really wonderful.

  • @a.j.y.9868
    @a.j.y.9868 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    St. Helens and Unzen, i was amazingly stunned over the explosion

  • @rayvanbulletantmartinez
    @rayvanbulletantmartinez หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks!

  • @Shannon99111
    @Shannon99111 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So deviating I'm learning about this in school.

  • @jkrantz23
    @jkrantz23 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In 2005 my dad and I headed up there, he had been up there a week before with his then girlfriend, It sucks because I took pictures but I still can't find the camera. It was a nice mountain, pardon me, is a nice mountain, as far as mountains go. Back in 1980 when it blew my mom and dad were on the Oregon coast for their one year wedding anniversary, they heard it.

  • @SiouxIander
    @SiouxIander 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This mountain was a beautiful site but i was born in 87 :( it still looks pretty

  • @schieteensklop
    @schieteensklop 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice documentary !

  • @chinchillas2013
    @chinchillas2013 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very magical time for me

  • @abbyerice980
    @abbyerice980 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    May they all Rest In Peace

  • @rachelandjolanda
    @rachelandjolanda 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Woah! The stills at 11:24 are amazing!

  • @latinguy67
    @latinguy67 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dave Johnston seemed to be quite brilliant. So sad that he perished in the eruption. He was also a very good looking guy.

  • @undeadpresident
    @undeadpresident 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    been awhile since I seen an 80's nature film they have a good style to them.

  • @fandoria09
    @fandoria09 ปีที่แล้ว

    To think, I was 9 years old during May 18, 1980. Having turned 9 on January 6, 1980. I can remember waking up to a pink sky and a red sunrise and going to bed to a red sunset. It was like that in the Ohio Valley for many days. I remember my parents having the local news on about Helen from March on. We didn't have family or friends that lived there. Then come 2007 my 2nd husband, our 2 daughters & I moved there to start a new life in Bremerton Washington. We'd hear the locals tell us about how bad it got in Bremerton & Seattle.

  • @hughborg707
    @hughborg707 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was just there at Windy Ridge last weekend. 32 years later there are still many dead trees around but things are growing well. It was a cloudy/foggy day at 4000 feet so I only caught glimpses of the blast zone time to time.
    The dirt overlook that they show in the video is now a paved parking lot with bathrooms and a monument. There is also a man made staircase going up the hill they show people climbing.
    All in all a great visit.

  • @express49
    @express49 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great footage , thanks !!!

  • @Chloede_
    @Chloede_ 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you 4 posting this OMG amazing. one hell of a volcano

  • @CreatingwithWinglessAngel
    @CreatingwithWinglessAngel ปีที่แล้ว

    I was just a child when it blew up. Ash could be seen in the sky as far away as Lincoln NE. I thought it was awfully dark during the day for a few months during summer and it wasn't as warm as it normally would have been.

  • @1BlueStarRising
    @1BlueStarRising 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome Beauty !

    • @adamdorgant9454
      @adamdorgant9454 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      1BlueStarRising You’re right about that!!!

  • @Browndonae80
    @Browndonae80 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    btw i watched this video to help me with my project for science thx

  • @Mr.rukus1
    @Mr.rukus1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Crazy wow there was even ash clouds in NEW YORK

  • @mindajane
    @mindajane 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video! Beautiful place! Would love to see it myself some day! I wasn't even alive when this eruption happened but I love this volcanoe! Something very speical about it!

    • @adamdorgant9454
      @adamdorgant9454 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      mindajane You’re right about that!!!

  • @Crazy_Vulpix
    @Crazy_Vulpix 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    amazing, sad and happy at the same time. very nice video, im doing a project on volcanoes, and this is full of usefull info. thanks for posting

  • @katprouty4548
    @katprouty4548 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This can help me teach my stuffed animals

  • @wsimpfan10
    @wsimpfan10 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    very informative!! This will help alot with my essay

  • @tommy9922
    @tommy9922 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A friend of my mother lost her husband during the eruption. He was camping at an area that was projected to be well outside the danger zone at the time. They never found his body.

  • @ThorwaldH1
    @ThorwaldH1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thnx for uploading helped me alot with a homework ;)

  • @Karam14Karam14
    @Karam14Karam14 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sad but true.

  • @silvereagle2061
    @silvereagle2061 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    RIP David Johnston and Harry Truman.

  • @howareyoujk
    @howareyoujk 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    my mom and dad were like 5 and 6 and they were at school !! My dad said that him and some kids were standing waiting for the bus and thought it was snowing but it was ash and this was in wyoming !!

  • @peterbasnight35
    @peterbasnight35 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this moviiiee is so amazinnggg way to goooo:)

  • @84neilbone
    @84neilbone 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember being stuck for two weeks there it was bad stuff.

  • @1805movie
    @1805movie 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And by enchanting I mean engaging.

  • @duss1968
    @duss1968 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    жизнь прекрасна в любых ее проявлениях и на сколько сильно стремление жить!

  • @raphi26000
    @raphi26000 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that's very good

  • @MrSouthphillyitalian
    @MrSouthphillyitalian 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this volcano was my first school project

  • @andream9381
    @andream9381 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i lived in Washington when mt st Helen"s blow we were on out way out of church when it happened i was only 12 when it happened

  • @robertmoir-vj1kq
    @robertmoir-vj1kq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    a beautiful mountain destroyed by a massive eruption I do remember this it was on a Sunday I had heard that Mt. SAINT HELEN S had erupted no I was not there but in February 1980 on a visit to The Pacific Northwest I saw Mt. Saint Helen s in it s full shape for the last time May 18yh 2020 error May 18th 2020

    • @sliczz297
      @sliczz297 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      robert moir 2020 check

  • @marcominelli2578
    @marcominelli2578 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Spettacolare

  • @DragonFlameZ2012
    @DragonFlameZ2012 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    My dad was 7 years old when this happened and he was at mt. saint helens when this happened and we have some of hte ash from the eruption.

  • @ElizabethGi
    @ElizabethGi 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this was sooo informative. thank you for making this as i have learned about it for my case study for my geography GCSE tomorrow :)

  • @We_Seek_Truth
    @We_Seek_Truth ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 17:16 that "expert" used the term "root-wads" for trees' root systems that have many roots all "wadded" together just below the surface of the ground. I believe the correct term for that is the "taproot".

  • @walls4christ
    @walls4christ 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wow.wow

  • @bradq
    @bradq 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    lucky for us near seattle it blew the other way. we barely got a trace of ash in Renton.

  • @katy.h1921
    @katy.h1921 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh my god

  • @Tonavid
    @Tonavid 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember getting ash down here in Southern California. Thanks for posting this.

  • @maddevond
    @maddevond 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @mikej5337 Yes, in 1981, a quickly produced film called St. Helens was released.

  • @Browndonae80
    @Browndonae80 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this was good but pretty sad because ppl get hurt when it erupts

  • @KatherineBlow
    @KatherineBlow 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    R.I.P chewing deer!!

  • @Skyerzen
    @Skyerzen 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was there not too long ago. You feel like an ant in a footprint. soooooo small...

  • @mikebarriga
    @mikebarriga 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:50 the guy is on tv for probably the first time in his life and he cant wait 1 minute to finish his pickle.

  • @TR71777
    @TR71777 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    hell I was 3 yrs old when mt st helens blew I was living in walla walla at the time playing outside I was born and raised in washington st and some of the ash did make it towards walla walla

  • @SteveCournane
    @SteveCournane 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    nice old video...

  • @tiredofchoice3752
    @tiredofchoice3752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    hello ppl from hethersett

  • @rumikokyodatsu4621
    @rumikokyodatsu4621 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wow

  • @spelqueka
    @spelqueka 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @gluebubble
    No you are not the only one to feel sad about the cats. I cried for days for them back in 1980, I was 18 years old. Then I said to myself that they all went together and are all together again now!

  • @schmoab
    @schmoab 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a good display of how badly people assess the threats to their own safety or environment in the face of scientific evidence.

  • @EchoesDistant
    @EchoesDistant 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Life finds a way...

  • @dr34mf0x
    @dr34mf0x 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    10:21
    RAINBOW!!!
    This is what I notice.

  • @snkinc
    @snkinc 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i wasnt even born yet wen tht happened

  • @danielmadera1144
    @danielmadera1144 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The ash from the eruption actually caused regional cooling

  • @judacia
    @judacia 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    at least there is footage of David Johnston in this documentary.

  • @ChristinaRedd
    @ChristinaRedd 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    5:45 "Well except of course the possibility of the north side of the mountain falling off of it there simply is nothing to be scared of!" *finishes pickle*

  • @Fersomling
    @Fersomling 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I know it and you know it, but a lot of people think otherwise, so play to it.

  • @robbo03
    @robbo03 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I ❤️ geology

  • @SuperFerrarienzo123
    @SuperFerrarienzo123 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And the volcano Ash cloud comes and you take first breath goes into your inside second breaths your insides turn to stone wow your really not scared ....

  • @elpibedelpocho
    @elpibedelpocho 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    uauh.... è imponente

  • @Jonnyhopss
    @Jonnyhopss 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Same here! I had to do a double take.

  • @RodsAndAxes
    @RodsAndAxes 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    You should check out Mt. Baker. There is a ski resort there and it's near Vancouver, Canada, a city of approximately 1 million people. If you think this eruption was bad, wait until that one goes....

  • @josepharmstrong6452
    @josepharmstrong6452 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mr. Truman is under the mountain now.

  • @SeeDubyaa
    @SeeDubyaa 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Subject to your opinion, yes. I am majoring in it, therefore let people make their own interpretation. I find it fascinating considering if it weren't for Geology you wouldn't be breathing, typing on your computer, nor cooking food or living in a house.

  • @metaempiricist
    @metaempiricist 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    "There's no danger of the mountain exploding" says the hick with the twinkie...I'm convinced

  • @kleenmaide
    @kleenmaide 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    haha thanks I'm impatient or keen ;)

  • @snutt3n
    @snutt3n 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    16:56, did i just feel sad for a tree?