I has just turned 8 when this happened and lived about 30 miles south of Portland (maybe 200 south of St Helens) and as a kid this seemed like the most awesome thing ever. Now I watch this stuff and think of what a drag it must have been for my parents, and how different a story like this would be to me as an adult. Certainly a once in a lifetime event!
Well it was modern times while you were living in them. In 40 years people are going to look back at 2020 and say how primitive we were that a virus took us all by surprise and destroyed so many lives.
@@michael85225 Well since they are gonna see this (assuming YT or this video doesn't get deleted) "HELLO FUTURE PEOPLE! ME OOGA BOOGA PEOPLE WITH GUY TOP OF ME"
Visited the Area one year after Eruption and it was the first week when visitors were allowed back into the area. Trees were laying down in rows everywhere and saw Burnt out car on roadside. It was incredible to see the devastation.
I went to the hill top to the east (road in from the east) in 1984. Staggering valley of snapped trees all pointed the same way leading to a huge moonscape.
im dan rather and I was like wow that was something! with that look on my face.you should check it out where I was in a hurricane years later tied to a tree so I wouldn't blow away
As a kid going on family vacation down the Pacific Coast to Disneyland. Remember my Dad stopping by the side of the road so I could scoop up some of the ash into a little bottle. Looked like grey baby powder.
Wow to think i witness this piece of history from Portland, Oregon almost 39 years ago. We was close enough to get cover with ash all over. Even being out of the damage area we was effected by the ash, it was hard to breath, the ash got in my sister eyes and cut her eyeball cause it was sharp as glass. It was amazing time to live thur.
I live in the Philadelphia area in a boarding school cut off from tv or newspaper. About a week after eruption, I heard there would be ash from that eruption coming to our area. I was thinking yea right. This is a joke. Sure enough a light snowfall in May came. I mean we're talking flurries, but still, thousands of miles away? Months later the Phillies won the World Series. Didn't hear about that until after I was released.
There had recently been a major race riot in Miami at that time due to an incident where a cop had pulled over and harassed a Black driver for his license on questionable pretenses, something that caused many of the residents there to snap and attack said officer then and there as well as damage several other businesses in the area, due to such harassment being a continual recurring problem between the cops and minority communities there over offenses great and small, real and imagined. Essentially, it was an early warning sign for what was to come for both the Rodney King fiasco in 1992 and the BLM protests/unrest of recent years, though most of White America dismissed it as a horrible-yet-isolated one-off event by angry idiots at the time.
Will Poundstone Many of us who lived through this had no grey hair. I was south of the mountain in Portland. I was 22 years old, it was something else to live though. And no grey hair unlike today.
Dan said "....weather makes it problematical...." Is problematical a word? "Problematic and problematical are different forms of the same word. Both mean (1) posing a problem, (2) open to debate, and (3) unsettled. Though they’re both listed in most dictionaries, problematic is more common in 21st-century edited writing" OK Dan, you're off the hook. But, next...the president declared Washington "a major disaster area." Never heard of that. Can a disaster be major? It's a DISASTER!
I has just turned 8 when this happened and lived about 30 miles south of Portland (maybe 200 south of St Helens) and as a kid this seemed like the most awesome thing ever. Now I watch this stuff and think of what a drag it must have been for my parents, and how different a story like this would be to me as an adult. Certainly a once in a lifetime event!
At the time I had just turned 17 & thought I was living in modern times. But looking at these news reports the times look so primitive.
Nobody was fat and we all had cool cars.
lol very true ya boomer
Well it was modern times while you were living in them. In 40 years people are going to look back at 2020 and say how primitive we were that a virus took us all by surprise and destroyed so many lives.
@@michael85225
Well since they are gonna see this (assuming YT or this video doesn't get deleted)
"HELLO FUTURE PEOPLE! ME OOGA BOOGA PEOPLE WITH GUY TOP OF ME"
I was 5 and I remember watching this eruption on TV and being mesmerized
Visited the Area one year after Eruption and it was the first week when visitors were allowed back into the area. Trees were laying down in rows everywhere and saw Burnt out car on roadside. It was incredible to see the devastation.
I went to the hill top to the east (road in from the east) in 1984. Staggering valley of snapped trees all pointed the same way leading to a huge moonscape.
@ 1:37- Even Dan Rather is blown away by the pictures! LOL
The look on Mr. Rather's face at 1:37!
im dan rather and I was like wow that was something! with that look on my face.you should check it out where I was in a hurricane years later tied to a tree so I wouldn't blow away
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It was that same "Now there's something you don't see every day" expression people had on 9/11.
As a kid going on family vacation down the Pacific Coast to Disneyland. Remember my Dad stopping by the side of the road so I could scoop up some of the ash into a little bottle.
Looked like grey baby powder.
+Brian P
Yeah that is true cat with the Ronald McDonald hair.
RIP everyone
And Ian Curtis
Wow to think i witness this piece of history from Portland, Oregon almost 39 years ago. We was close enough to get cover with ash all over. Even being out of the damage area we was effected by the ash, it was hard to breath, the ash got in my sister eyes and cut her eyeball cause it was sharp as glass. It was amazing time to live thur.
I live in the Philadelphia area in a boarding school cut off from tv or newspaper. About a week after eruption, I heard there would be ash from that eruption coming to our area. I was thinking yea right. This is a joke. Sure enough a light snowfall in May came. I mean we're talking flurries, but still, thousands of miles away? Months later the Phillies won the World Series. Didn't hear about that until after I was released.
CBS is a groovy station,baby mt st Helen's what bummer man
1:30 does anyone else see the image of a person winking and smirking in the lower right portion of the cloud?
I remember all of this and I was 5 years old when it happened
Wow, can I have your autograph?
me too! born in 1975 but I remember it. and it sparked off an interest in Volcanoes since.
kandi wicks me too i was 5
kandi wicks I was 6
The look on his face after looking at the pictures
wait. did dan say something about carter visiting tampa because of a race explosion? what?
There had recently been a major race riot in Miami at that time due to an incident where a cop had pulled over and harassed a Black driver for his license on questionable pretenses, something that caused many of the residents there to snap and attack said officer then and there as well as damage several other businesses in the area, due to such harassment being a continual recurring problem between the cops and minority communities there over offenses great and small, real and imagined. Essentially, it was an early warning sign for what was to come for both the Rodney King fiasco in 1992 and the BLM protests/unrest of recent years, though most of White America dismissed it as a horrible-yet-isolated one-off event by angry idiots at the time.
Oh god....when he was young and not made fun of......wow
Summitting 5.18.18 got our climbing permits
0:11 OMG Dan Rather has no grey hair
Will Poundstone
Many of us who lived through this had no grey hair. I was south of the mountain in Portland. I was 22 years old, it was something else to live though. And no grey hair unlike today.
Dan said "....weather makes it problematical...." Is problematical a word?
"Problematic and problematical are different forms of the same word. Both mean (1) posing a problem, (2) open to debate, and (3) unsettled. Though they’re both listed in most dictionaries, problematic is more common in 21st-century edited writing" OK Dan, you're off the hook.
But, next...the president declared Washington "a major disaster area." Never heard of that. Can a disaster be major? It's a DISASTER!
back when news was real news
Lol
Rosenquist sure hit pay dirt!
Should one put three periods after a word? "next..."
It's called an ellipsis, indicating a long pause.
Amazing but can't stop laughing at bear meadow!
Like volcanic ash? IT WAS VOLCANIC ASH!!!!
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The truth is visible from this old video...
Today, Al gore would blame it on Global warming!..
Volcanic eruptions have nothing to do with climate so no he would not. But i bet you're retarded enough to think that
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HAHAHAHA Ritzville... "Central Washington town" bahahahaha
Trump would be too busy golfing to pay a visit. Then he would blame Canada and try to make them pay for the damages because it was their volcano!
Rather lying again
Will Poundstone, you ever hear of the aging process?