Mount St. Helens Live Broadcast on morning of eruption - 05-18-1980 | KATU In The Archives
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- Live coverage of the eruption of Mount St. Helens from approximately 11:35am to 11:52am on May 18, 1980, three hours after the eruption.
Anchors: Robin Anderson and Richard Ross
Reporter: David Jackson
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This is the epitome of why TH-cam is the greatest website on the planet. Growing up in the 80s, where would you find this stuff? You couldnt. I love archival news stuff.
Amazing video. Thank you for uploading.
Exactly. All the stuff I was probably too young to fully take in or wasn’t born for I can now view
If you would tell a 15 yr old me this would eventually happen I wouldn’t have believed you
Well, plenty of reasons why youtube is the worst website on the planet as well... but yes, it has certainly made historical videos as these much more accessible.
ITS NICE THAT TH-cam IS A LIAR JUST LIKE YOU.
Right?
"Back in the day" you saw something once, and often that was the last of it.
I remember watching the news about it before it finally blew, never knew how many years before that since the last one, all I know now is I was only 16 year old stoner freaking out on it 😂😂😂
I saw Mount Saint Helens erupt from Portland. It was cloudy that Sunday morning and you couldn’t see the mountain so I went to a viewpoint that I knew I could see the mountain over in Northeast Portland and I was amazed when through the clouds I could see these odd cauliflower shapes moving upward and then I knew that I was seeing the eruption. Around noon the clouds lifted and it became sunny and clear in Portland and I remember looking almost straight up from A vantage point in the center of Portland, close to 40 miles away and seeing the ash cloud up in the stratosphere seemingly right above me. You can’t describe how huge this event was unless you were there and it almost never reads properly on film or video.
That evening ash was landing on Riverside CA just before sunset. The next morning, I saw ash on our roof shingles as if it was morning frost.
I had a teacher in third grade back in the early 2000s. I remember her saying she lived in Portland back then, Mrs Eovaldi was her name. She brought in some jars of ash that she collected. It's one of the few things that I can recall in her class besides 9/11
Can't imagine what you all witnessed
The way the news was once reported... straightforward, based on facts and no particular spin on the topic.
By nice looking people that can read and speak well. It makes me sad how far society has degraded.
Weird now, ain't it?
I was 3 years old when Dad gathered us all into the pickup truck and drove us to East Olympia to watch the Volcano erupt from the back field of Ruddle Road General store. My Uncle Dennis lived in Castle Rock and took us up the old washed out road to the mountain that summer, we collected coffee cans of ash and took pictures of the devastation etc. This was the event of my childhood!
Regarding the live feed, it's amazing how much faster analog signals are. There's no audio lag at all.
Good point I wonder why they don’t do that for news now. It’s so much better.
Telecom satellites are in high orbits. Takes some time for the signal to go back and forth.
@@undertow2142 It just takes longer to process digital signals. Even bluetooth to your car has a significant delay.
Audio lag is due entirely to satellite links.
RIP
To the 57 people and thousands of animals who were killed in the eruption of Mount St. Helens
Not many people think about the animals, thank you for mentioning them
@@RT-qd8yl and the trees
And bigfoots
@@jase4270 I don’t believe in that nonsense.
RIP Harry....he didn't leave Spirit Lake..😮😮😮
I climbed to the summit of the old ST Helens twice. and skiied from the summit once. We had Harry Truman pull us up to the Longview hut a ways above the parking lot behind his sno-cat. H was every bit the character as portrayed. Ever time the sno cat started to bog down he shouted LET GO in a series of 4 letter words.
That lady knew Harry Truman was dead. She was trying to be optimistic, but you could see the sadness hit her when she mentioned him.
@ 2:19 great lightning bolt perfectly down the left side of the cloud. Wow it was huge!
Yes it was 😮
I was five or six when this happened. Even though I lived in Arizona at the time, the coverage of this event then, and for years after, had me believing that volcano eruptions were a far greater existential event, and more common, than they ended up being.
2 Things Here:
1: I was 11 yrs old when this happened. It took about 3-4days (Roughly) for the ash to reach us. Levittown, Pa.
2: @ 7:25 .. My Mom had the EXACT Same Hairstyle. Which is why i NEVER went anywhere with her between the years 1978 thru 1982.
Smart
Lol
Thanks for sharing! Very interesting!
I miss people talking and reporting the news this way :-/
Not news anymore.
I was a junior in high school and live in the Midwest. When my family got home from church, my dad showed us the tv which had special report over the ABC network. We they didn’t have hardly any video to show so we had to wait until the network news that evening to see the after effects of the eruption. Remember, in 1980 there was no CNN, MSNBC OR FOX. Neither was there any internet or social media. What we did see on the evening news stunned us. None of us had ever seen anything like that in our lives.
A couple of days later, our local weatherman said that by the end of the week, the ash would be going over our city andthe sunset was supposed to be a blood red. After dinner, I hopped on my bike(Didn’t have my drivers liscence yet) and rode over to the civic center. Behind it was a nature trail and a hill. I climbed the hill and watched the reddest, weirdest sunset I’d ever seen at that point in your life. I didn’t have a camera so I couldn’t capture it at all but ai was amazed at how a natural event so far away could affect us where I lived
Thanks for posting this.
I really like the design of their studio.
seeing that cloud billowing like that is quite incredible
May 18th, 1980... exactly one year before I was born... and just 38 minutes short of the exact time (I pop out at 7:54 am, eruption happened at 8:32 am), as well.
Mom always said I was "born of a volcano...she said because we lived close enough to experience falling ash from the eruption, by the time the ash had finally settled, it had become part of my biological makeup.
I did have one hell of an explosive temper in my younger days... and I run hot as a MOFO... always have.
Rest in Peace, Momma.
I was in Beaverton Mall in Beaverton Oregon with my dad when it erupted he drove us to the top of Cooper Mountain in Aloha and watched it over what is now known as Forest Heights . It was A month before my 10th birthday.
It's freaky to think about people are fighting for their lives or dead on the other side of the mountain! 😔
I remember that day well. I saw the start of the lateral blast.
Richard Ross. Now that's a blast from the past (pun intended). We saw it blow and it went off all summer long that year.
Yeah, I instantly recognized him too. I lived in Vancouver, one of the blasts blanketed us with ash, I drove through it mixed with light rain, my head out the window since windshield wipers would have ruined my windshield. My brother was camping up there, SW of (this) blast. He said he didn't even know it erupted until he got back to Vancouver.
I remember this event well. We actually had ash here in Oklahoma. The sky was hazy, and if your car was outside it would get an ash film on it. It was very similar to a dust storm, but without the wind.
According to my parents (R.I.P), we had ash in Upstate NY, as well... along with other "rare" weather phenomena, seemingly caused by the eruption.
R.i.p. to all the sasquatches that perished
Classical composer Alan Hovhaness's 50th symphony is called "Mount St Helens"
The lightning is static build up from the ash. The lightning creates negative ions which is natures way of cleaning the air. It neutralizes particles in the air and causes them to fall to the ground.
I was eight years old when this happened and I don’t remember it at all!!!
I just remember seeing on the news.
As wide as you can take it.
This was crazy
8:03 ... what do you mean, "castle rock"? does stephen king know this place exists? i mean, this is nowhere near maine, is it?
This is a town north of Longview, Wash. and west of Mt. St. Helens.
Way back when KATU was agenda and Sinclair free.
I love when the news used to tell you not to worry lol
Wow reporters had a lot more brain cells back then.
"bain cells". A self-fulfilling comment, indeed.
@@badgercdlyons haha. More of an autocorrect issue.
Everyone did.
80's Female Hairstyles... 😂
... perms were MASSIVE back then in all ways 🪮 I came here to see who would comment. Half tint glasses and rock em sock em robots timeframe. Moonboots.
I'm gonna call that "The onion loaf" 🤣
@@TestTubeBabySpy ... Ya, or Muppet Hair
The air quality right now where I am is pretty good??? 🤷♂️ (*NOT FOR LONG!!!
Look at that hair LoL 😅
If you look closely u see faces in the smoke
I can see them too! Thought I was the only one 😅
Me too. Angry gods.
@SodiumFreeVideos that's just pareidolia.
Remember
I'm so confused why the guy at 11:03 is using a green screen. 🤷♀
What are you talking about?
When are they NOT using a green screen 😅
It's pretty obvious. Green screens are used to make compisite images.
What movie is this from?
No movie, actual event in 1980
Though there was a movie made about it. @@Eric_Stoneheart420
“Eric’s Mom After Taco Bell”
Saint Elmo’s Fire
They were asking about lava. Lava would have been preferable. Lava eruptions are far less severe than volcanic ash eruptions.
That sight is ghastly.
How did those tv anchors get that lcd flat screen back then?
projection screen
@@themaxcollective the millennial will ask WHAT'S an 8-track too!! Or an "LP"
That was a 34" rear projection screen
@@yafois988yeah sorry we don't all come from the age of the wax cylinder, gramps
@@philtll😂
dézippage d'informations venant des profondeurs de la terre, lesquelles vont directement aux nuages (le Cloud), elles y sont triées, filtrées, enregistrées, et ensuite seront dispatchées sur terre sous forme de pluies sur toute la surface! Ces informations seront ensuite récupérées par les organismes vivants qui les adapteront à leurs vibrations et s'en serviront pour le propre monde. Même chose que pour un labourage de terrain en surface, où la charrue retourne la terre, et donc fat passer le dessus, dessous, et le dessous, dessus! La boucle d'information, ou le cycle comme diraient certains! Evidemment ne pas oublier les fréquences dans ce type d'évènements, et tout ce qui se passe dans l'invisible..... Les courants électriques à haute fréquences passent comme une lettre à la poste et à la vitesse de l'éclaire! Donc non visible pour des yeux humains. Il faut donc des machines et des moyens de détections à hautes fréquences pour de nos jours en savoir un peu plus sur ces évènements dit naturels par des scientifiques qui ont du mal à suivre.... Mais en vérité, nous pouvons avoir sous les yeux de la haute technologie, sans rien y comprendre, et y voir que du feu! Nous avons aussi sous les yeux un bol d'alchimie, où des forces intérieurs et extérieurs se rencontrent! Forcément, ça déménage autour.... Le vivant sur terre peut y trouve son compte, mais aussi se faire régler son compte en étant rayé de la surface! Stéph.
How dare the mountain erupt
Ahhh yes. The days when you had to be intelligent to be an anchor or reporter. Nice!
When that zit finally
Interesting that the news anchors were so ignorant that they would call the column of ash and volcanic gas "smoke" and calling the ash on the ground "soot". Of course, lightning in the ash cloud is caused by the static charges on the ash particles. When this happened, I was in South America, in Peru. One of the people I worked with was from Portland and my parents lived east of Salem, Oregon. His parents sent the newspapers to him and that was how we found out about the eruption. It was July when we got those newspapers. I returned to the US in October, 1980 and there were several ash falls at my parents' home after I got there. I think I still have a vial of it somewhere in my apartment, collected off the hood of my pickup truck.
Cut them some slack and don't be insulting (calling them "ignorant"). They're newsreaders, not trained geologists.
I think there was a general ignorance back then as to pyroclastic flows. The only one that had been recorded and generally recognised before St.Helens was the eruption of Mt. Pelee in 1902, and it wasn't until the eruption of Mt. Unzen in 1991 with the incredible and widely distributed footage that it began to slowly become common knowledge. All the same it would have been nice if they've invited a vulcanologist on the show over the phone to ask them their interpretations of what they're seeing. So I don't think they're being especially dense, they just couldn't understand what they were seeing, or the implications.
@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPicturespeople didn’t know what pyroclastic flows were back then? They happen every year. They really aren’t rare. No excuses to not knowing what they are at that point.
Not to mention he told them to use water to clear ash off their cars which would create cement and make it more difficult to get rid of the ash
@@georgehenan853Worse yet, people were not told NOT to use water and a cloth or even a squeegee on the ash sitting on their car windshields.
So many drivers wondered why there windshields had a light fog on it, thought it was still dirty and they couldn’t wipe it clean only to find out later that the ash and cloth combo literally was like using ultra fine grade sandpaper on their windshields.
Heard many complaints that insurance companies refused to cover the self inflicted damage by car owners.
Not all that interesting. Doesn't even show the actual eruption. Good info for locals at the time, but just shows a smoky, post eruption, volcano.
Fake
Stupid
Yes..yes you are😁. I was 24..out there.. Rainier is bigger