Footage of the 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption

Note to self: Never buy property anywhere near a volcano

My grandma, (We live in WA) when she heard the boom of the eruption, said, as a joke, "Mount Saint Helens probably finally blew up." And it had.

A guy gave his life to get sequential photos as the mountain side collapsed. His camera was dug out of the ash along with his body and they are sensational photos that, pieced together, give an incredible view of the mountain side sliding away. And you Smithsonian, didn't use them. Well done.

200 miles away from our home in Seattle, classmates and I on a field trip were trapped for three days in a small town gymnasium. The National Guard rescued us, but not before a local woman walked through the ash storm to bring us food. We called her Volcano Mary, RIP

My dad was the Sgt. In charge with the Washington State Patrol and personally closed the park on May 17. He spoke to 39 of the 57 people who lost their lives, trying to get them away from the volcano but they were outside of the mandatory evacuation zone. My Dad's Lt. told him to have breakfast with the family and then report for duty. We had waffles and a huge breakfast because we hadn't eaten or spent much time with him due to the volcanic activity. If he had gone into work at his normal time he would have been on the volcano when it erupted. My Dad is and forever will be, my hero.

The kid in the back of the class with the modded vape

My late wife was growing up in 1980 in Montana and she told me a lot about MSH and the eruption. As she put it, "it was dark for days" as a result of the ash floating in the air. I personally had heard about the eruption down here in Florida, and before she died, she told me to watch all the videos about MSH here in her memory. I'm happy I did. Thank you, Sarah. I love you always.

Title: Footage of famous Mt. St. Helens Eruption Video: three and a half minutes of computer models and ten seconds of cropped video footage

My mom was born in Washington in the 70s. She said that she remembers her dad having to shovel ash off of the roof all day to stop their house from collapsing

Scientists: it will likely erupt in a vertical eruption Mt. St. Helens: you fools, you fell for one of the classic blunders

Over 40 years after the event and much of the devastation area still has no trees growing.

seven year old me: Mom, look there's a white broccoli in the sky

For how deadly and large the eruption actually is, 57 deaths isn’t bad. Edit: I’m not saying 57 deaths isn’t bad but it could’ve been much more.

Damn mother nature, you scary.

I live in a prairie Canadian city 2900 miles away from the blast. I was absolutely amazed as a kid when ash from Mt. St. Hellen’s landed on my street at night. I asked my dad if it was snowing and he told me it was from the valcano that we were watching on the news.

“Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!” RIP David Johnston

(Yellowstone) Hold my beer

How can nature be so fearsome and majestically beautiful at the same time?

nobody: 2020: "Wanna see me do it again?"

I was three years old when this happened. One of my early childhood memories. We lived near Portland, Oregon at the time and I remember sitting in my families back yard, watching the eruption column going into the sky, and casually eating cereal. I think it was golden grahams. 😊