Mount St Helens, 1980 eruption

[bob10]

Time goes by so quick..... Bob




Mount St. Helens' Destructive Beauty, 34 Years Later - NBC News

[crash]

I remeber when that occured, I was living in Canada at the time and remember it being very "cloudy" for a few weeks afterwards.
We had a friend that was a potter and he some how managed to get ahold of some ash from that eruption and used it in some of his pottery glazes.

[ramblingboy42]

amazing photos...

we quickly forget things like this...

I was recently in Christchurch NZ, and they still have a long way to go rebuilding....some homes are still police taped and haven't been touched yet.

[S3ute]

I visited a salmon hatchery near Mount St Helens about 6 months before it erupted; and also drove past it again on the interstate from Portland to Seattle about a week before the bang. It was well and truly smoking at the time and there were quite a few people stopped along the road taking photos.

Incidentally, the salmon hatchery was the biggest in the world and I understand that it was totally devastated by the fall out.

The last time I saw Mount St Helens was after taking off from Portland for Vancouver one morning in 1997 and the shattered peak was just sticking above the clouds in splendid isolation.

Raw forces of nature.

Cheers

[Tote]

As a consequence of the explosion there was a large amount of Oregon timber that was harvested dead and exported to Australia that had structural issues some years later

Regards,
Tote

[460cixy]

As a consequence of the explosion there was a large amount of Oregon timber that was harvested dead and exported to Australia that had structural issues some years later

Regards,
Tote

Yeah it's junk

[Gumnut]

I went driving around there in about 84. The devastation was stunning, and the size of the stuff that went flying a long way through the air was unbelievable.

It was totally awe inspiring, in a sort of a ghoulish way. A fair few people were lost in little places with quaint names like Little Tootle.

Gumnut