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 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.
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
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!
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.
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
Thanks for sharing! Very interesting!
@ 2:19 great lightning bolt perfectly down the left side of the cloud. Wow it was huge!
Yes it was 😮
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.
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.
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.
It's freaky to think about people are fighting for their lives or dead on the other side of the mountain! 😔
I was eight years old when this happened and I don’t remember it at all!!!
I just remember seeing on the news.
I miss people talking and reporting the news this way :-/
This was crazy
Way back when KATU was agenda and Sinclair free.
That sight is ghastly.
As wide as you can take it.
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”
How dare the mountain erupt
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😂
Look at that hair LoL 😅
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 😅
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.
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.
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
When that zit finally
Fake
Stupid
Yes..yes you are😁. I was 24..out there.. Rainier is bigger