RAW Video: Mount St. Helens eruption on May 18, 1980
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2020
- Video from the KREM archives shows the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980. Fifty-seven people lost their lives. For days, people in the Northwest were stuck trying to figure out what to do in a situation they’ve never experienced before.
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I got to watch Mount Saint Helens blow up from my parent's back porch. To this day, I can still walk down into the field where my parents live and look right smack down inside the crater and even see the new lava dome growing up behind the old. St Helens was quite something. Something I will never forget...
What? Is the field floating
What was it like? The explosion?
Yes, I remember watching from the back porch the entire north face go and the vertical and horizontal pyroclastic clouds the landslide the blast generated. It took about 15 minutes of travel time before the clouds reached my parent's house. After the clouds got over my mom and dad's house, the clouds started dropping hot ash, mud, rocks and pumice all around. The pyroclastic flow blocked out the sun and it created its own weather. Lightning bolts and whirlwinds. My parents had just planted poplar trees and the force of the blast nearly toppled them over. It was like getting blasted with a wall of heat and a lot of wind. There was lots of thunder and plenty more violent lightning that accompanied it! It kept erupting for about 9 hours straight after it started. My grandma lived next door, and I remember going across the field about halfway through the eruption in almost hip deep ash that was really warm, and by the time I got to Grandma's house I had a horrible nosebleed because of the dryness and sulfur. I had a dust mask on, of course. It was like doomsday! I will never forget. When it had just started to really erupt, my dad called his sisters in a different state and said, "If you never hear from us or mom again, we died. Mount St Helens just blew up and it's bad. Real bad!" Then he called his buddy and invited them over to watch the mountain blow! LOL! The offer was declined! It wasn't long after that that all lines went down.
@@skittles5347 thank you for the story!! Very awesome!
Man, it must have been crazy just to see and entire side of the mountain collapse in a few seconds and then just seeing and giant explosion, you must have been either frozen in fear or frozen in awe.
At 0:47, there are almost NO places to see that. I caught this on a weather channel show about this many years ago but never caught it again. Thanks for posting that!
Yellowstone disliked this video.
HAHAHA😂😂🤣😭
Yellowstone's overdue for a "hold my beer" moment
I remember when this happened. I was in the 4th grade. I was in Tulsa Oklahoma and we got dusted with volcanic ash.
No way! In Oklahoma? Wow. Tells us how high in the atmosphere the ash was thrown.
@@2degucitas yeah, I remember it was on the windshields of all the cars
Goddamn that’s nuts!
I was 10 and lived in Coeur d' Alene Id and it got dark in the middle of the day..
@@macmike5384 you didn't get any ash? That's strange.... coure d' alene is a lot closer as well. I distinctly remember the dust of the ash. The news even did a story about it. It must have got caught up in the upper atmosphere and the jet stream carried it... that's really bizarre that you didn't get any ash from the eruption....
My ass after a spicy curry puts that to shame
I was alive when hellens erupted it’s sad how Beautiful the mountain was😔
My parents were alive aswell Still sucks that it doesnt look like a regular mountain for the next few hundred thousand to a few million years 😔
@@Farcry5AttackersGamesLegacy It's actually way cooler looking now
@@chaz693 spent days camping near there. It is perfect weather in the summer and snow to keep perishables cold.... So don't waste money buying ice
@@chaz693ITS NOT COOL 57 PEOPLE DIED
@kalin4452 it's still cool looking though.
RIP
To the 57 people and thousands of animals who were killed in the eruption of Mount St. Helens
Anyone know the source of the footage in 0:47?? I never knew it was filmed from that angle.
IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE NEVER FILMED!!! THIS IS BIG IF ITS REAL
The part that was never filmed was the landslide. That part of the video was made from still photos.
A man in Silver Lake WA took video of the eruption that morning, but the footage they are using is sped up. It didn't flow that fast in the original video.
Any one know where this footage is from?
0:48
Why does every video of the explosion look like it was taken in the 1930s
Because big natural disaster doesnt want us seeing the ufos
This is satire
It was 1980. Don't forget how far we've come technologically in the last 40 years.
RTX Off nah the closest ones were black and white that ain’t the 80s lol
@@jonathanfreeman7883 this was in the 1900 like he said and Color cameras weren’t that common
@@Jta776 no it wasn't lol. Color cams were created in 1959, and didn't become widespread until 1968. This is 1980 and the reason it's not in color is because the ash and smoke.
The video clip @ 0:48 is new to me. Through a ton of searching I cannot find photos or videos of this angle. Is that actually St. Helens? I've legitimately never seen that angle of the eruption. There's only one series of photos and then the live video shot while the cloud kept erupting out of the blown out mountain. I'm questioning if that's a video of St. Helens or a different mountain. As I have never heard of this footage.
We got sent home from KB Woodward Elementary in Surrey BC when this happened .The sky had gone black.
This incredible
Stuff you should know brought me here.
Wow.... doing a lot of internet research right now. That video shows the same cloud that came out of St. Helens in all of the photos of the initial cloud. OH MY GOD! There is an actual video of the moment Mt St. Helens erupted! Wow. Why have I never seen or heard of this before? It's not Googleable.. This is crazy!!!
I seen lightning during the eruption
negative charge and positive charge and blar blar blar = lightning
That’s common with eruptions
It's normal during the eruption dumb azz
HAHAHA!!😂😂😂😂😂
I SAW lightning during the eruption
Was that sound effects or was that the sound it made
I'm pretty sure that's added. There was actually a "quiet zone" around the mountain. Some people saw the eruption but heard nothing
Where charges ever filed against the mountain?
To think their were people chilling right directly above the creator to. If I’m correct, there was a pool or hot spring or some source of water right at the tip of the volcano that people would swim in and relax in etc. I can imagine the fear in people knowing they won’t make it alive
That section of the volcano was closed off before the eruption.
The geologists convinced the federal government to restrict the area. That move saved thousands of lives.
Sound?!
I was born at the same time as mt st Helens erupted
High Overlord Snarffie Beagle probably just a coincidence 🤷♀️
Protect her at all cost.
Wow. You're so interesting.
weird flex, but ok.
I love mt st Helens
The biggest land slide on record i do believe
Biggest landslide above water, yes. We know of bigger landslides underwater. For example, the landslide on the Grand Banks that caused the Tsunami of 1929 is estimated to have involved 48 cubic miles (200 cubic kilometres) of displaced sediment, and actually led to the discovery of turbidity currents due to its sheer scale: the currents it generated were able to snap twelve transoceanic telegraph cables.
I'm pretty sure that was lava flowing at about 1:24
It's actually lahar.
A landslide of mud, water, and debris.
If it was lava it would've looked a little more orange and black thats a lahar
@@leoorduna2199 yeah it is they said the ice on the mountain melted and created all that
No it’s the melted ice, now water ofc, that collected mud, ash, and debris. Known as lahar
mt adams is just standing there watching like nothing hqppened
Just found out it erupted on my sisters birth date
Is there one fucking video of this that isn't slowed down?
clickbait it took a lot of work to not show you the beginning what are you hiding
Natraul causes: *There could be peace*
Yellowstone: no
Natraul causes: I will put you over the entire 1980s news and then?
Yellowstone: *my purpose has increased to exploding mountain*
I don’t get it 😐
@@Wow-rn2re I don’t either 😐
Jason, you literally sound more autistic than myself, and I actually am autistic in real life.
I take it English not your first language
The man taking videos was lucky since he was in a plane
Crawling the Ape Caves - Lava Tubes at Mount St Helens | Marcus Ward's Visions ua-cam.com/video/QxSFimvi5UI/v-deo.html
Or REALLY hot mud
I’m still mad no one has good footage of this. Not a single fuckibg news team or Film studio decided “gee maybe we should setup a camera, so that when It goes off like they predict it will in a few days. I have good fucking footage to sell”
There were two sites with dedicated cameramen stationed near the volcano ..Coldwater one and two. Both were consumed by the blast and aren't here to see you whine about it.
@@zootednative shame you weren’t with them.
Now you all so called scienctist go dig up the rock layers of that one eruption that played layers upon layers of stone and tell us how many billion years old are those stones are? 1st layer should be older than then the other etc. I read that some rock from st helan eruption were tested billions of years old. What a joke
What are you...implying?
@@joewaugh2464 carbon dating is faulty
@@joewaugh2464 that the earth is only 6,000 years old LMAO
The rocks don't ever get younger lmao.
@@CousinBowling its not about the rocks getting older, its about the carbon and mineral deposits being in different stages of their chemical makeup that determines how old they are. If a plant or animal dies and gets buried by rock, after a few millenia the carbon IN those rocks will show chemical signs of their age
Where’s the lava?
Covered up by the smoke. It’s there but the mountain’s top exploded and debris was launched into the air and into lahars. It’s like when you are cooking. You don’t see the flame from the top, you see the rock that gets blown outwards.
Aadi Pattanaik how do you know that?
Storm Williams I learned about it in 9th grade science
Aadi Pattanaik I have a microbiology/biochem degree and work in a medical lab. If you believe everything they taught you in high school you’re foolish.
Aadi Pattanaik my profile is a pic of E.coli that I grew. I love science, but I don’t believe everything bc someone says science “said” it.
It was faked! I was there, and it was like some Hollywood produ--)@@)?85&8(&;
NO CARRIER
Is this a shitty joke