35 Years Ago Today

[Bob Steele]

[Travis Hoffman]

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

[Wayne Doenges]

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

[IndySam]

Oink, Oink

[Taylor]

Boom. Done.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

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

[Madison]

Originally Posted by Wayne Doenges

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]

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.