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    Today in History---1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption

    I was only seven years old, but I remember it being a huge news event. Reading up on the eruption, it's amazing that much earth can be blown into the sky and that much of a mountain can fall away. To see the before and after pics is amazing.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_e...unt_St._Helens
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    Curt, if you've never been up there and seen it, it's pretty impressive. We went when I was a kid. I'm sure it looks much different no that it did then.

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      #3
      The scale of it is hard to imagine. Old growth forests and everything else flattened for several hundred square miles. There have been several documentaries about how the land has come back. It’s a reminder that Mother Nature is not worried about time. Gonna take 500 hundred years to be back like it was? OK.

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        Originally posted by Pullersboy View Post
        Curt, if you've never been up there and seen it, it's pretty impressive. We went when I was a kid. I'm sure it looks much different no that it did then.
        More than impressed me---that section of the mountain blown away, all the trees for miles laid on the ground "facing" away from the mountain, rivers clogged with volcanic ash---

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          I went there in 2001 and it still looked like a waste land.

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            #6
            Big trees turned into toothpicks. Pretty impressive.

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              Originally posted by curtintex View Post
              I was only seven years old, but I remember it being a huge news event. Reading up on the eruption, it's amazing that much earth can be blown into the sky and that much of a mountain can fall away. To see the before and after pics is amazing.


              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_e...unt_St._Helens

              I watched it blow from the back sliding glass door in Troutdale where I was born. It was very eery to me when we would visit the area.
              Last edited by Kodiakk; 05-18-2018, 07:13 PM.

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                #8
                Thanks @curtintex ! I just read that whole Wiki page and a couple others. That stuff fascinates me!

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                  #9
                  I was stationed at Ft Sill. We were fishing on the cowlitz river when she blew. Loaded the boat and headed back to post. Went on alert and were sent back down to the mountain to provide security. Good times.

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                    #10
                    I was there in 1986. You still couldn't get very close to the mountain. Other than the trees blown over the thing that got me was a steel bridge that was twisted like a pretzel

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                      #11
                      I watched this video years ago. Pretty amazing what Mother Nature can accomplish.

                      [ame="http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-H_HZVY1tT4"]Mt. St. Helens Eruption May 18, 1980 720p HD - YouTube[/ame]

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                        #12
                        I remember flying over Mt St Helens on my way to Alaska in the mid 90's. It was unbelievable how much of that mountain was just gone.

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                          I was 10

                          I remember there was some old coot that refused to evacuate
                          They never found him

                          Lots of devastation

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                            #14
                            I was born there, and still living there when it happened. Went back again in 89, and it was still something to see

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                              Originally posted by BTLowry View Post
                              I was 10

                              I remember there was some old coot that refused to evacuate
                              They never found him

                              Lots of devastation
                              His name was Harry R Truman and he was an ol coot from all I've heard. I had family that lived in Longview Wa at that time, they didn't know him but were friends with many who did, one of them was a longtime timber foreman in that area. My cousins and my brother and I got a local tour of the site in 1984 with that timber foreman in a 4wd suburban. Pretty sure he drove us places we weren't suppose to be, was an amazing experience for 4 teenage boys and truly mind boggling to see the devastation.

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