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Ether
18-05-2015, 09:59
Do you remember?
Tim Sharp
18-05-2015, 10:08
If you live in Washington State I'd bet you do.
Taylor
18-05-2015, 13:52
I thought he was talking about the Gwangju Uprising.
Travis Hoffman
18-05-2015, 14:30
Do you remember?



I was 3 and in Ohio, so no, I do not remember.
M1KRONAUT
18-05-2015, 15:00
My mother was born when this happened. I used to live in Washington, which is probably the only reason I know.
Madison
18-05-2015, 15:14
http://i.imgur.com/pLt9bIl.jpg (http://imgur.com/pLt9bIl)

This picture is a few years old now. It's a pretty spectacular place to visit.
Koko Ed
18-05-2015, 16:47
Do you remember?



An Earth Shattering Kaboom!
GaryVoshol
18-05-2015, 17:06
OK, you just made my wife and I feel old. Oh, wait ...
saikiranra
18-05-2015, 22:59
Shrek was released?
waialua359
18-05-2015, 23:04
OK, you just made my wife and I feel old. Oh, wait ...

I feel young only when I dont look in the mirror.
Bob Steele
19-05-2015, 17:03
19017
Travis Hoffman
19-05-2015, 21:49
This is what I remember 30 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt2jS_qjpkk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_United_States%E2%80%93Canada_tornado_outbreak
Wayne Doenges
20-05-2015, 07:03
It's hard to imagine 1 cubic MILE of Mt. ST. Helens suddenly destroyed.
IndySam
20-05-2015, 07:36
Oink, Oink
Taylor
20-05-2015, 07:39
Boom. Done.
Al Skierkiewicz
20-05-2015, 07:51
I still have the National Geo Issue that covered the aftermath in pics.
Here are some...http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/mount-st-helens-30th-anniversary-before-after-science-environment-pictures/

What I remember is that some people survived when they were able to get between ridges as the pyro-clastics passed over head. Those that were directly exposed did not survive. Some were never found, RIP Harry Truman.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/1981/01/mount-st-helens/findley-text
Madison
20-05-2015, 12:51
It's hard to imagine 1 cubic MILE of Mt. ST. Helens suddenly destroyed.

The magnitude of the devastation, even when I visited 32 years later, was pretty staggering.

The picture I posted upthread was taken from 5.5 miles away from the crater. There's almost nothing left on the landscape to help you define scale. It's crazy.
Wayne Doenges
20-05-2015, 13:12
Here's one of my favorite live cameras:
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
You can check out the history of Mt. St. Helens on this site also.

I have two framed eruption photos at home.
The pictures I remember most are the ones from a photographer who was just a coupe of miles away when it exploded. He didn't survive (RIP) but the eruption sequence did.