43 years ago today, Mount St. Helens' violent eruption triggered the largest landslide in recorded history. More on this catastrophic event here: www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/mount-st-helens-volcanic-eruption-may-1980-43rd-anniversary 🌋
I remember that day very well. Myself, my wife, and our 2 children were living in Vancouver, WA at that time. We were driving towards the Orchards area and could clearly see the mountain, which was about 50 miles away. As the mountain started to erupt, everyone in that area pulled over and got out of their cars. We all heard the DEEP rumbling roar coming from the mountain and it was the 1st time in my life I ever felt true awe. The sound was so deep and loud that we could feel it inside our chest. I felt as if I was in the presence of Almighty God doing His work to reshape the Earth, destroying a beautiful area so that a new area would be created. As we watched, a huge cloud of ash rose high into the sky and formed an anvil shape at its top. Lightning flashed around inside the ash cloud with dozens and dozens of flashes. The areas where the lightning flashed were bright red and gold, contrasting with the black boiling ash cloud. I hope never to see something like that again, especially since we now live even closer to Mt. St. Helens. It's been quiet for some time but we've recently had some earthquake activity. It's probably nothing since the quakes are all small and probably due to steam venting. Still, this tribute to that day and those who were lost was well done and appreciated.
@@edb3877 incredibly I've just read a comment from someone who was 75 miles away on a different video about Mt St Helens - almost word for word describing the noise exactly as you have.
@@shawnalexander4928 People thought they knew more than the scientists (sound familiar?). Most thought it wouldn’t erupt, and if it did, it would just be some minor inconvenience. People were infuriated when they had to evacuate their summer homes and there is footage out there of people arguing with road patrol as to why they had to get back to their summer homes. I’ve often wondered if those people looked at that footage afterwards and wonder how they could’ve been so stupid.
Seems like 'yesterday' to me. I was in Spokane for a family reunion. After three days we were able to get enough air filters to head up north to Canada - as I-90 towards Seattle was a mess. I was very glad to see rain in the mountains!
I remember that day. Thankfully, I was many hundreds of miles further down the west coast. For a short period of time, we could smell the ash, but none fell upon our community. For the longest time, sunsets included so many colors of the rainbow. Perhaps five years after the eruption, I visited the base of the volcano on the side opposite the eruption. Mounds of ash, pyroclastic chunks of rock, and felled trees were everywhere. Amazingly, the Earth had begun to rebuild in the form of small plants, trees, and the renewed presence of small animals.
I was 6 years old when this happened. The family was at "Sand Lake" in Oregon, and I was the first one out of the tent, and told my parents "it snowed". Needles to say, our vacation got cut short.
43 years has passed since the eruption.I was stationed at the Cle Elm Ranger Station when the call came in at8:30a.m. Heard the young man called and died. Never forget the darkness of the day.Could not see six feet in front of you car.We did not hear it up close, they did hear it in Sedro Woolley.I will not forget.
The volcano erupted horizontally, not vertically. The explosive force has been estimated to be equivalent to 24 megatons of TNT. My wife and I visited Mt. St. Helens in the fall of 2018. The scope of destruction is still evident decades later. As a young man, I clearly remember the eruption. I lived in Calgary, Alberta and we got a light dusting of ash. In the fall, I travelled by rail from Seattle to San Francisco to get work on a ship. I clearly remember transiting the western slopes of the coastal mountains in Washington state, and the streams and rivers were choked with downed trees and debris. Astonishing.
It erupted vertically, but it needed to make room for the material that was coming up. Therefore the big gap that formed on top and then the powerful explosive eruption that moved away a part of the mountain. Then it could erupt freely vertically high in the air. And as the big eruption cloud collapsed, it was rushing down as a pyroclastic stream, like in Pompeii and other places. Very hot air with volcanic sand (called "ash", but more like glowing hot sand, very fast, that burns everything and covers everything a few miles out).
I live on the columbia river. St helens oregon. I look this up to see what my dad and grandma had to deal with. I have ash in a pill bottle my grandma gave me before ahe passed. And I'm 32
Im a montanan, my dad was about 20 when st helens erupted, and the ash covered the ground in my home town of st. Ignatius, MT, whichbis over 500 miles away. My dad still has a jar of ash soemwhere..
I was a geology student at a university on the east coast so obviously not in the area, but still it was of course of interest to us. A volcano right in the US at the time we happened to be in college studying geology it was almost like pornography for geologists. We had an old teletype machine hooked up to the USGS news feed and because it was an ongoing event we had student volunteers watching the news tickers, but the volcano fooled us all by blowing on a Sunday morning, which was the only time there was no one in the office. Nature's going to do its thing on its own time.
That was really awesome. I was 5 years old, in Moses Lake WA when it blew. I remember being confused because it was snowing and yet warm outside when my mom came to the day care to pick me up. The falling ash was the strangest thing. I remember it being so dark, even though it was supposed to be day time.
I wonder what happened to the lumberman that said he’s not scared that he had a worse chance of a tree falling on him. Was he working the day of the eruption? Hopefully not. Also I always wondered what he was eating.
The mountain had snow and glaciers that melted from eruption. The lava isn't like what you see in Hawaii, but it was there. Different types of volcanoes erupt differently.
I was only 7yrs old when My St Helen blew up. I lived in the city of Yakima WA, Total darkness. My Dad brought us in to the house and turned on the radio..... That was when we felt the rumblings of the volcano then we heard the boom, sounded right outside our house. My Dad was sad because his birthday was May 19th. And his birthday celebration got cancelled. Something I'll never forget.
I remember walking on Malibu beach a few days after Mt. St. Helens eruption, when suddenly ash fell down on us like rain. It was very eerie seeing that despite a sunny sky.
I lived in Portland and I remember all the Ash when I was a kid I’m 58 now but I was in Vancouver at my aunt and uncle‘s house I think and the Ash got everywhere. I mean you couldn’t even walk without it looking like dust everywhere we had to water everything, it was so hard to breathe and you couldn’t see very far either. That’s how much as it put everywhere. It didn’t just go in one state it went through lots of them. It was scary.
People say things like that but we know how perfectly the stars sun moona ND earth are positioned and even the mystery as to how it turns everyday and out bodies listen to the command to breathe when we sleep. God is most certainly. REAL.
😅 How they made us sound like a bunch of hicks is unreal. We follow science in WA state then and just like we did with COVID. It’s why the first hit COVID state lived and how we survived a volcano. We KNEW a volcano was about to explode. We were prepared. Still we lost 57 whom we mourn. Some ignored the warnings. Some were unluckily downstream and didn’t listen.. some just got screwed. It’s a frigging damn volcano I the land of free will! I know where I was the day the mountain blew.
I am from Ellensburg, Wa. I was supposed to be born that day! My dad went outside and collected some of the ash off their car. He told my mom that the sky was falling lol My mom ended up carrying me until June 18th. So she carried me for 10 months instead of 9. Pretty crazy
This was the REAL Dantes peak aka Mt Saint Helens I remember looking at the mountains in my home state of Colorado seeing the ash coming over the tops of the peaks and causing the light to dim of the setting sun.
I’m sorry but the title is so misleading. This is nowhere near the “worst” volcanic eruption of the United States. Mt Mazama, which is crater lake now. And don’t forget Yellowstone.
@@BobetoSlim who said it wasn’t recorded? Are you limiting your accounts to a certain language, or perspective? Have you read any account from the ancient nations of the Americas? The glyphs tell, in clueing the date and time in its perfection, while Europe was still 10 days off. Your going to have to study more. 📚👨🏽🏫🌋
P.S. Accounts of ancient AMERICAN cultures??? Because North America, was referred to as the Americas, back when Yellowstone last erupted??? Try way harder to be less dense...
Muy bueno el vídeo, se aprecia con claridad lo que ocurrió en esta erupción, del volcán santa helena, al taparse la chimenea se produce la protuberancia, este crece demasiado y cuando se rompe por su inmensa presión, es cuando se escapa toda la fuerza acumulada y genera los piroplastos que destruyen gran parte de la ladera, luego se encuentra con el lago y al venir muy caliente y con fuerza, este género la posterior avalancha, que hace su destrucción en su recorrido. La naturaleza sin obstáculos no genera peligro y esta situación es un evento de origen natural. En el mundo han avidido muchas fallas humanas que destruyen muchos pueblos y ciudades, todo por la negligencia y omisión de los gobiernos, como pasó con la gran ciudad de armero Tolima Colombia, el 13 de noviembre de 1985.
If i had a penny for everytime I heard "scientists say" or "scientists believe" I would be unbelievably wealthy. A lot of the time it's an educated guess but you never know.
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43 years ago today, Mount St. Helens' violent eruption triggered the largest landslide in recorded history. More on this catastrophic event here: www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/mount-st-helens-volcanic-eruption-may-1980-43rd-anniversary 🌋
I can think of at least two, who were much larger
I remember that day very well. Myself, my wife, and our 2 children were living in Vancouver, WA at that time. We were driving towards the Orchards area and could clearly see the mountain,
which was about 50 miles away. As the mountain started to erupt, everyone in that area pulled over and got out of their cars. We all heard the DEEP rumbling roar coming from the mountain
and it was the 1st time in my life I ever felt true awe. The sound was so deep and loud that we could feel it inside our chest. I felt as if I was in the presence of Almighty God doing His work
to reshape the Earth, destroying a beautiful area so that a new area would be created. As we watched, a huge cloud of ash rose high into the sky and formed an anvil shape at its top.
Lightning flashed around inside the ash cloud with dozens and dozens of flashes. The areas where the lightning flashed were bright red and gold, contrasting with the black boiling ash
cloud. I hope never to see something like that again, especially since we now live even closer to Mt. St. Helens. It's been quiet for some time but we've recently had some earthquake
activity. It's probably nothing since the quakes are all small and probably due to steam venting. Still, this tribute to that day and those who were lost was well done and appreciated.
Wow! Amazing story!
@@shawnalexander4928 Thanks, Shawn. That was, indeed, a day of days.
I bet the shock wave was immense, I would've been truly scared!!
@@edb3877 incredibly I've just read a comment from someone who was 75 miles away on a different video about Mt St Helens - almost word for word describing the noise exactly as you have.
@@DdotRay86 It was definitely an unforgettable day. A memory like that remains vividly in mind for a very long time.
This was a beautiful tribute.
Those of us west coasters who were alive at the time will never forget.
3:47: Start of the eruption
RIP
To the 57 people and thousands of animals who were killed in the eruption of Mount St. Helens
also the millions of insects
@@filthforce Insects are animals.
@@filthforce Insects are animals.
@@filthforce also the trillions of bacteria (maybe more idk lol)
RIP David Johnston and Harry Truman.
I just watched a documentary where Truman refused to leave! I can't imagine what he was thinking.
@@shawnalexander4928 People thought they knew more than the scientists (sound familiar?). Most thought it wouldn’t erupt, and if it did, it would just be some minor inconvenience. People were infuriated when they had to evacuate their summer homes and there is footage out there of people arguing with road patrol as to why they had to get back to their summer homes. I’ve often wondered if those people looked at that footage afterwards and wonder how they could’ve been so stupid.
Happens all the time. The most primative always think this way look at Florida
@xray5043 Yeah, because people are so intelligent in blue states with well-thought out policies. 🤡 👈😂
@@shawnalexander4928 Regardless of what you may think of him, he was a fool that threw his life away....there is no honor in that.
Seems like 'yesterday' to me. I was in Spokane for a family reunion. After three days we were able to get enough air filters to head up north to Canada - as I-90 towards Seattle was a mess. I was very glad to see rain in the mountains!
I remember that day. Thankfully, I was many hundreds of miles further down the west coast. For a short period of time, we could smell the ash, but none fell upon our community. For the longest time, sunsets included so many colors of the rainbow. Perhaps five years after the eruption, I visited the base of the volcano on the side opposite the eruption. Mounds of ash, pyroclastic chunks of rock, and felled trees were everywhere. Amazingly, the Earth had begun to rebuild in the form of small plants, trees, and the renewed presence of small animals.
I was 6 years old when this happened. The family was at "Sand Lake" in Oregon, and I was the first one out of the tent, and told my parents "it snowed". Needles to say, our vacation
got cut short.
43 years has passed since the eruption.I was stationed at the Cle Elm Ranger Station when the call came in at8:30a.m. Heard the young man called and died. Never forget the darkness of the day.Could not see six feet in front of you car.We did not hear it up close, they did hear it in Sedro Woolley.I will not forget.
Why couldn't you see? :O
I heard the explosion in Pasco Wash. The ground shook and the darkest day I've ever experienced in my life.
Very cool vintage newscasts.
I really feel like the story of this eruption and all those involved would make an amazing film. Its a story I cant get enough of.
They made a movie and a few documentaries
The volcano erupted horizontally, not vertically. The explosive force has been estimated to be equivalent to 24 megatons of TNT. My wife and I visited Mt. St. Helens in the fall of 2018. The scope of destruction is still evident decades later.
As a young man, I clearly remember the eruption. I lived in Calgary, Alberta and we got a light dusting of ash. In the fall, I travelled by rail from Seattle to San Francisco to get work on a ship. I clearly remember transiting the western slopes of the coastal mountains in Washington state, and the streams and rivers were choked with downed trees and debris. Astonishing.
It erupted vertically also.
It erupted vertically, but it needed to make room for the material that was coming up. Therefore the big gap that formed on top and then the powerful explosive eruption that moved away a part of the mountain. Then it could erupt freely vertically high in the air.
And as the big eruption cloud collapsed, it was rushing down as a pyroclastic stream, like in Pompeii and other places. Very hot air with volcanic sand (called "ash", but more like glowing hot sand, very fast, that burns everything and covers everything a few miles out).
I lived in Spokane when the mountain blew. So dam much ash. It turned daylight into night as it fell. However, that year was my best garden ever.
I live on the columbia river. St helens oregon. I look this up to see what my dad and grandma had to deal with. I have ash in a pill bottle my grandma gave me before ahe passed. And I'm 32
RIP David Johnston. He helped save lies and paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Was in Salem Oregon at the time of the eruption. The sky full of gray heavy ash. Stayed inside for several days (snuck outside, not very long).
Imagine not leaving the area when its giving you all the time to move away
I was graduating high school when this was going on.
Im a montanan, my dad was about 20 when st helens erupted, and the ash covered the ground in my home town of st. Ignatius, MT, whichbis over 500 miles away. My dad still has a jar of ash soemwhere..
I was a geology student at a university on the east coast so obviously not in the area, but still it was of course of interest to us. A volcano right in the US at the time we happened to be in college studying geology it was almost like pornography for geologists. We had an old teletype machine hooked up to the USGS news feed and because it was an ongoing event we had student volunteers watching the news tickers, but the volcano fooled us all by blowing on a Sunday morning, which was the only time there was no one in the office. Nature's going to do its thing on its own time.
That was an excellent watch.
Dude eating the pickle is a total goof
@nolongeractive5952 no it was a pickle
That was really awesome. I was 5 years old, in Moses Lake WA when it blew. I remember being confused because it was snowing and yet warm outside when my mom came to the day care to pick me up. The falling ash was the strangest thing. I remember it being so dark, even though it was supposed to be day time.
Every May 18, we ask "where were you when the mountain blew?" It's a day (and summer) that will be remembered.
The guy eatin a pickle cracks me up every time 😂
It would be interesting to interview him now, if he's still alive.
I scrolled til I found this comment. I KNEW it wasn’t just me 😂 anyone check on him
I wonder what happened to the lumberman that said he’s not scared that he had a worse chance of a tree falling on him. Was he working the day of the eruption? Hopefully not.
Also I always wondered what he was eating.
I think it was a pickle
looked like a donut to me and i didnt hear a crunch@@rachell4492
I hope he survived. He surely was wrong about his prediction.
Thank you, this explains a lot. I'd like to know where all that water came from that knocked out the bridges. Also, there wasn't any lava ?
The mountain had snow and glaciers that melted from eruption.
The lava isn't like what you see in Hawaii, but it was there.
Different types of volcanoes erupt differently.
@@MacPNW Ah, yes.
I was only 7yrs old when My St Helen blew up. I lived in the city of Yakima WA, Total darkness. My Dad brought us in to the house and turned on the radio..... That was when we felt the rumblings of the volcano then we heard the boom, sounded right outside our house. My Dad was sad because his birthday was May 19th. And his birthday celebration got cancelled. Something I'll never forget.
I wonder if scientists know exactly where Harry Truman’s house once stood. It would be interesting to see how it looks now
It is buried under mud and Spirit Lake. The landslide changed the shape of the lake. Where his lodge once stood is now part of the lake.
I was living in Olympia walking to work about 15minutes before it blew.The sky was an apricot color and it blew as I entered the store. 7:08 ❤
I was born that 28 march day!
To see this never forget! ❤
I’m sorry for people who lost their lives 😢
David Johnston knew. R.I.P.
Is it passable to make cement out of volcano ash or some sort of material.?
I remember walking on Malibu beach a few days after Mt. St. Helens eruption, when suddenly ash fell down on us like rain. It was very eerie seeing that despite a sunny sky.
Now imagine Mount Rainier erupting
I sure hope it doesn't as it would probably get me in Puyallup, WA!
@@karenharris722 Depend on how hard it want to erupt, if it a small eruption you can probably run, if it anything like 80 Saint Helen, your a goner
@@stevenplayzzz172 Yeah, I wouldn't want to be in the way of either one actually! Being the 'recipient' of the ash in Spokane was enough for me!
I remember when i was very young the sky in Alabama was dark blue that summer
Love the information!
I live in Michigan, it wasn't a very sunny summer from what i remember when my. St. Helens erupted, ash floating across the country.
Anyone else here after reading about 400 earthquakes being detected under St Helen's in the last 3 months?
I didn't hear if any lava actually came up. It was mainly gas and ash. Those mudslides were catastrophic!
Friendly reminder that this event was immortalized by Disney in Fantasia 2000 by Stravinsky's _Firebird._
I lived in Portland and I remember all the Ash when I was a kid I’m 58 now but I was in Vancouver at my aunt and uncle‘s house I think and the Ash got everywhere. I mean you couldn’t even walk without it looking like dust everywhere we had to water everything, it was so hard to breathe and you couldn’t see very far either. That’s how much as it put everywhere. It didn’t just go in one state it went through lots of them. It was scary.
Lmao more danger of a tree than a mountain exploding😂 yeah well you didn’t respawn after it finally exploded soooo
Look like he was doing some damage on what looked like a big ol pickle he was uh smackin on.
@@nolongeractive5952 It was a Sunday morning so a lot less people at work in the area than there otherwise would have been.
“Worst”? Largest recorded, but “worst” is a mis-attribution of a geological occurrence. But Fox…
worst in US history.... I dont like fox but hey, at least read the title..
@@stfjinkiojdyes. They clearly stipulated "US history"
3:07 can you see the face in the fumarole?
Like how all those people thought "It couldn't happen to them...Nothing to worry about" before the eruption.
Never underestimate the power of Yahweh
😅😅😅 no gods involved. Purely plate tectonics
People say things like that but we know how perfectly the stars sun moona ND earth are positioned and even the mystery as to how it turns everyday and out bodies listen to the command to breathe when we sleep. God is most certainly. REAL.
@@alexiarodriguez5974everything you just listed has a scientific basis for why and how it happens. But go ahead and, stay ignorant or whatever.
@@alexiarodriguez5974 you're putting your ignorance on display Alexia 🤡
😅 How they made us sound like a bunch of hicks is unreal. We follow science in WA state then and just like we did with COVID. It’s why the first hit COVID state lived and how we survived a volcano. We KNEW a volcano was about to explode. We were prepared. Still we lost 57 whom we mourn. Some ignored the warnings. Some were unluckily downstream and didn’t listen.. some just got screwed. It’s a frigging damn volcano I the land of free will! I know where I was the day the mountain blew.
I was only 8 and I remember this well.
I am from Ellensburg, Wa. I was supposed to be born that day! My dad went outside and collected some of the ash off their car. He told my mom that the sky was falling lol My mom ended up carrying me until June 18th. So she carried me for 10 months instead of 9. Pretty crazy
3:19 If this dufuss were still alive, he'd definitely be a FOX "news" viewer.
Excelent quality. Thank you.
I was living in Gautier , MS. At this time . 17 y.o.
If you are ever in the area visit the observatory it's well worth your time!
This is going to happen in Mexico in any day now
Nam myoho rengekyo 🙏 pray 🌍 peace
Wow! I was 7 years old living in Atlanta, Georgia. I wonder why they didn't make Truman evaluate!
3:08 Martin Short used to be a newscaster?
I hiked up it, and around. Amazing place.
There was no lava flow with St Helen's eruption.
I left Pasco Washington on May 21st 1980 never to return again.. today is Jan 21st 2024.😢
Why didn't you go back?
I love the map graphics!
Classical composer Alan Hovhaness's 50th symphony is called "Mount St Helens"
This was the REAL Dantes peak aka Mt Saint Helens I remember looking at the mountains in my home state of Colorado seeing the ash coming over the tops of the peaks and causing the light to dim of the setting sun.
I was probably 6 months old when this happened
I’m sorry but the title is so misleading. This is nowhere near the “worst” volcanic eruption of the United States. Mt Mazama, which is crater lake now. And don’t forget Yellowstone.
Not misleading at all, its the worst in "recorded" US history. Those others havent erupted in thousands of years.
@@BobetoSlim who said it wasn’t recorded? Are you limiting your accounts to a certain language, or perspective? Have you read any account from the ancient nations of the Americas?
The glyphs tell, in clueing the date and time in its perfection, while Europe was still 10 days off.
Your going to have to study more. 📚👨🏽🏫🌋
Name a worse volcanic eruption, in the UNITED STATES, since 1776...
The title is just fine, your reading comprehension, is not...
P.S. Accounts of ancient AMERICAN cultures???
Because North America, was referred to as the Americas, back when Yellowstone last erupted???
Try way harder to be less dense...
@@codymoe4986 no it was hue hue Tlapalan
Shes continued to have small eruptions periodically and still is.
Imagine the whole world covered with ash from that eruption!😮
I was 8 years old.. I have no memory of this 😑
It's happening again. I heard it was smoking today.
44 yrs ago today !
That is the power of steam
RIP DJ, the other 56 and to the animals.
3:32 God says you sure about that? How much you are you willing to bet.
If Nature should decide, she’s done with mankind, she can do it in an instant.
A great climb.
We found bits of ash in our swimming pool in Central Florida.
Wow!
where is randy marsh?!?!?!?!?!
Muy bueno el vídeo, se aprecia con claridad lo que ocurrió en esta erupción, del volcán santa helena, al taparse la chimenea se produce la protuberancia, este crece demasiado y cuando se rompe por su inmensa presión, es cuando se escapa toda la fuerza acumulada y genera los piroplastos que destruyen gran parte de la ladera, luego se encuentra con el lago y al venir muy caliente y con fuerza, este género la posterior avalancha, que hace su destrucción en su recorrido.
La naturaleza sin obstáculos no genera peligro y esta situación es un evento de origen natural.
En el mundo han avidido muchas fallas humanas que destruyen muchos pueblos y ciudades, todo por la negligencia y omisión de los gobiernos, como pasó con la gran ciudad de armero Tolima Colombia, el 13 de noviembre de 1985.
Forces of Nature
R.I.P
Barry Manliow's twin - 3:09
Click bait. It was not the worst volcanic eruption in US history.
Recorded history, yes
The worst ever recorded on video, film or photographs. In today's world if there isn't a picture or video of it, it never happened.
Name a worse eruption, in the history of the 250 year old nation, we call the United States...
Keep eating your pickles.....
Good is not sleeping!
It’s funny watching this and hearing them say how this and that have happened…. BOOM
ufo 4:26
Too old😮 of news what is going on this morning with Mt…….
Mother Nature don't play games…. Ignorance played a big part in 50+ people dying… RIP to those who died
If i had a penny for everytime I heard "scientists say" or "scientists believe" I would be unbelievably wealthy. A lot of the time it's an educated guess but you never know.
I remember
Did the pickle eater die?
Seems like a lot of deaths could have been avoided
The earth farted.
GET READY GRACE COME UPON MANDKIND REPENT IN JESUS CHRIST NAME AMEN REPENT ❤
What’s sad is the population of Sasquatches that died in this eruption.
Dude.......grow up
And we concerned about Global warming 😕
Apocalipsis
🇺🇸🌋🤫iGOT DA POWER 🙏
I sent thousands of scientific messages to the whole world telling them to stop the melting of ice caps of polars and Himalayas to reduce tsunami, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, & ,& ,&...
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