35 Years Ago Today
 

Do you remember?

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If you live in Washington State I'd bet you do.

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I thought he was talking about the Gwangju Uprising.

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I was 3 and in Ohio, so no, I do not remember.

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My mother was born when this happened. I used to live in Washington, which is probably the only reason I know.

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This picture is a few years old now. It's a pretty spectacular place to visit.

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An Earth Shattering Kaboom!

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OK, you just made my wife and I feel old. Oh, wait ...

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Shrek was released?

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I feel young only when I dont look in the mirror.

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This is what I remember 30 years ago:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Un...rnado_outbreak

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It's hard to imagine 1 cubic MILE of Mt. ST. Helens suddenly destroyed.

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Oink, Oink

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Boom. Done.

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I still have the National Geo Issue that covered the aftermath in pics.
Here are some...http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ment-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/19...s/findley-text

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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.

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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.