Mount St. Helens Disintegrates in Enormous Landslide

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  • @Markus_Andrew
    @Markus_Andrew 3 роки тому +19639

    For those who may not be aware, the video of the mountainside sliding at 1:17 is partially animated - sort of. The photographer at 0:55 (Keith Ronnholm) took a series of still photos, each several seconds apart, and years later a graphics crew used CG software to "fill in the frames" between Ronnholm's photos to stitch together this smooth timelapse. It's a remarkable job which gives a real-time impression of the devastating scale of the eruption.

    • @kashutosh9132
      @kashutosh9132 3 роки тому +1316

      Thnks for explaining
      Bcuz the video was looking CGI so I thought this video must be a prank

    • @cisium1184
      @cisium1184 3 роки тому +295

      Yeah, it looked doctored.

    • @statik47
      @statik47 3 роки тому +611

      To my knowledge there is no actual video footage of the eruption ever recorded. I lived in the vicinity of where this happened. I was 4 years old at the time. I remember being scared out of my mind to the point that I couldn't even sleep some nights. I remember one time my mom came into my room to check on me and I could hear her whisper to my dad I think he's finally asleep. To which I replied I'm still awake! Another time I remember finally falling asleep when it started to get light outside. When the eruption did occur I remember it snowing volcanic ash everywhere as if it were a heavy snow storm. I remember cars getting stranded everywhere because back then most cars used carburetors which were getting clogged with ash.

    • @Markus_Andrew
      @Markus_Andrew 3 роки тому +172

      @@statik47 Thanks for sharing that story, that must have been frightening for a little kid at the time. I live in Australia. There are no active volcanoes here at all and apart from the very, very occasional earth tremor, this country is almost completely seismically inactive. I can't imagine what it must have been like to experience such an event, especially at such a young age!

    • @stevesmith2171
      @stevesmith2171 3 роки тому +41

      I was wondering why I had only seen stills of that. Thanks for the info.

  • @cyrushyram5673
    @cyrushyram5673 5 років тому +4723

    I watched it all from my parents back field. I was five years old and it's still by far the most memorable and incredible experience I've had with the power of nature.

    • @cltracy2921
      @cltracy2921 5 років тому +128

      Where did you live back then? We could see the cloud from my front yard, a few miles west of Chehalis. I was 6 years old at the time.

    • @johnshafer7214
      @johnshafer7214 5 років тому +79

      @@cltracy2921 I have friends from Chehalis, Washington. I live in Wisconsin and was three years old at the time but remember the event.

    • @robertmoir-vj1kq
      @robertmoir-vj1kq 4 роки тому +4

      Cyrus Hyrum if I had seen the eruption myself I would have thought I was just seeing things I saw Mt.Saint Helen s in full for the last time in February 1980 on a visit to The Pacific Northwest

    • @robertmoir-vj1kq
      @robertmoir-vj1kq 4 роки тому +1

      @@cltracy2921 if I had seen the eruption myself I would have thought I was just seeing things in February 1980 on a visit to The Pacific Northwest I saw Mt. Saint Helen s in full for the last time

    • @darcybrummett7004
      @darcybrummett7004 4 роки тому +10

      Cyrus Hyram I’m going to age myself but I was 13 when this happened.

  • @raylast3873
    @raylast3873 3 роки тому +14313

    „It seemed like a perfectly safe place.“
    Morgan Freeman narrating: But it wasn‘t safe.

    • @UserName-dt3kc
      @UserName-dt3kc 3 роки тому +151

      I can hear him saying it

    • @derp8575
      @derp8575 3 роки тому +12

      lol!

    • @clarencebayer79
      @clarencebayer79 3 роки тому +23

      More like Ron Howard with the Arrested Development narration.

    • @Jimmyupadhyay
      @Jimmyupadhyay 3 роки тому +26

      I literally heard him say that in my head when i was reading your comment.

    • @raylast3873
      @raylast3873 3 роки тому +15

      @@Jimmyupadhyay that‘s because he was actually saying it the whole time. Morgan Freeman narrates every epically dangerous event.

  • @InternetGravedigger
    @InternetGravedigger 2 роки тому +3455

    The photo at 0:27 was of David A. Johnston, a vulcanologist who was only 10 miles away when the eruption happened 13 hours after this photo. He was the first to report the eruption, before it killed him.
    There was also a photographer named Robert Landsberg who was also a few miles away when it happened. He realized he was already dead, it just hadn't reached him yet, so he rewound the pictures he'd taken of the eruption, put the camera back in it's case and into his backpack, then lay on top of his pack to protect the film as much as possible. This allowed his pictures to actually be developed and provide documentation of the actual eruption to geologists.

    • @HelterCas
      @HelterCas 2 роки тому +572

      Damn... he really made the best of it huh

    • @septarria
      @septarria 2 роки тому +612

      That's... kind of heroic

    • @cyrax94
      @cyrax94 2 роки тому +336

      R.I.P. to those poor brave souls.
      I know it happened years before I was born, but it still sucks to hear about people passing like that.

    • @luciaqiao
      @luciaqiao 2 роки тому +131

      So heroic for both of them. Thank you for sharing this information.

    • @nozyspy4967
      @nozyspy4967 2 роки тому +26

      Where can one find those photos?

  • @chrisharmon1985
    @chrisharmon1985 3 роки тому +20780

    Mount St. Helen: " I'm just gonna stretch out. Had a long day."

    • @cirious1703
      @cirious1703 3 роки тому +350

      It's been a long eon

    • @AllenHanPR
      @AllenHanPR 3 роки тому +177

      More like it's been a long millenium.

    • @JantomPlayzGamez
      @JantomPlayzGamez 3 роки тому +286

      *shits vigorously*

    • @jacob1931
      @jacob1931 3 роки тому +53

      @@JantomPlayzGamez 😂 why?

    • @poodle5421
      @poodle5421 3 роки тому +68

      @@JantomPlayzGamez ahh shucks, my ass fell ofg

  • @covertguy1575
    @covertguy1575 3 роки тому +11472

    My grandparents lived in Battleground, just south of Mt. St. Helens. We were up actually looking at it when she unloaded. My grandfather’s exact words not five minutes before she blew was, “I wonder if she blows today..?” I was 12 years old. It’s still one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.

    • @comicguy4624
      @comicguy4624 3 роки тому +647

      What. The. Your Grandfather is a demi-god holy shit.. maybe an Earth Bender

    • @EfecanYSL
      @EfecanYSL 3 роки тому +95

      @@comicguy4624 you mean grandfather.

    • @comicguy4624
      @comicguy4624 3 роки тому +90

      @@EfecanYSL oops yea autocorrect, ty

    • @duncanschwebel7264
      @duncanschwebel7264 3 роки тому +59

      Yooooo, I live in Battleground

    • @bluesap7318
      @bluesap7318 3 роки тому +22

      I remember learning about it on the internet at around 2012-2013

  • @overratedwood
    @overratedwood 3 роки тому +2331

    0:52 I actually sometimes still think that 1980s is around 20 years ago. When in reality its around 40 years from now...

  • @catthatlooksatyoufunny7377
    @catthatlooksatyoufunny7377 2 роки тому +645

    Wow, I've never seen something like this before, i didn't even knew it was possible, part of the mountain just slides off it's both horrifying and amazing to see

    • @talkadelics
      @talkadelics 2 роки тому +7

      Right lol f mountains lol

    • @oogabooga6183
      @oogabooga6183 2 роки тому +2

      @@talkadelics 😂😂😂

    • @hobomike6935
      @hobomike6935 2 роки тому +16

      1:20 “woah… well, it’s not THAT bad. I’m sure the locals survived.
      1:42 *oh.*

    • @raisin4406
      @raisin4406 2 роки тому +5

      “And you will see the mountains and think them solid, but they shall pass away as the passing away of the clouds. The Work of Allah, Who perfected all things, verily! He is Well-Acquainted with what you do”
      [an-Naml 27:88].
      Allah can blast and scatter the largest and biggest of mountains if He wills, which is what will happen on the Day of Judgement. So return to your Lord and repent before there comes a day where the eyes will stare in horror.

    • @migsyp4292
      @migsyp4292 2 роки тому

      You're mum's a mountain!
      DOOOO
      SUMMIN!

  • @TheLiamster
    @TheLiamster 3 роки тому +7448

    “Mount St Helens is about to blow up and it’s gonna be fine, swell day.”

    • @Cowmilker98
      @Cowmilker98 3 роки тому +216

      Took longer than expected to find a Bill comment

    • @theomcintosh
      @theomcintosh 3 роки тому +147

      I'M RIDING A PONY!!🦄🌞

    • @fernando47180
      @fernando47180 3 роки тому +146

      INTO THE SUNSET 🌅

    • @objectivelytheworst1221
      @objectivelytheworst1221 3 роки тому +84

      Wonder if that gift shop is still there...

    • @EPIXISCOOL
      @EPIXISCOOL 3 роки тому +105

      “Everything’s GREEN and GOLD” 🟢 🔔

  • @devonalford3401
    @devonalford3401 3 роки тому +9947

    1:08
    him: “one of the largest landslides in recorded history”
    me: “bruh that’s only a few pebbl- oh shit...”

    • @Ahonya666
      @Ahonya666 3 роки тому +585

      Yes...oh shit...It was like a half mountain 😱 That would be so scary to film

    • @tzeege
      @tzeege 3 роки тому +204

      *1:14

    • @SH3ZR3X
      @SH3ZR3X 3 роки тому +21

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @marcelinodarren10
      @marcelinodarren10 3 роки тому +378

      Bruh not gonna lie it looked like a poor animation for a second as it stretch

    • @sslingo
      @sslingo 3 роки тому +164

      @DontFuckWithUnicorns so you're stupid?

  • @JustDaZack
    @JustDaZack 3 роки тому +5300

    "If you can't go to the mountain, the mountain must come to you."

    • @TVAProject
      @TVAProject 3 роки тому +21

      Lmao this comment is under rated

    • @Bitterbal05
      @Bitterbal05 3 роки тому +54

      In mother Russia you dont go to mountain, mountain goes to you

    • @tommyperez6824
      @tommyperez6824 3 роки тому +7

      Lol have you gotten the ad for the drink

    • @retardman5193
      @retardman5193 3 роки тому +16

      In Australia, you don't go to the mountains. The mountains stay there.

    • @snek3675
      @snek3675 3 роки тому +5

      Putin was probably in the area

  • @rat7099
    @rat7099 2 роки тому +244

    Man, imagine if something like that was captured with modern microphones and cameras, it would be more terrifying than it already is, but if you were actually there it would be insane to look at.

    • @patrickdoyle9369
      @patrickdoyle9369 Рік тому +1

      It would be the last thing you ever looked at.. Yeah man it looks like the mountains gonna blow, the mountain you say ? Yeah the volcano man its gonna blow real soon.. I think i'll go up there for a look.. LOL. What a complete and utter moron.

    • @tonyrowland9216
      @tonyrowland9216 6 місяців тому +3

      this is made from a group of photos from about 17 miles away.

  • @jackgraham3393
    @jackgraham3393 3 роки тому +1696

    Live in the Yakima valley. I was planting corn that day, it never was able to come up thru all the ash. Disked the field to mix in the ash and replanted. The ash was so rich, had a bumper crop. A lot of machinery was ruined because the ash was so fine and sharp.
    The next winter made several trip up there to snowmobile. You were on six feet or more of snow, all above the blown down timber. Made a number of trips before it all regrew up. One trip we made it quite a way up the mountain itself.
    Like many others won’t forget that day.

    • @raosthegray7090
      @raosthegray7090 3 роки тому +73

      I’m so glad people are sharing their stories about it in this comment section, I’ve been very interested in them

    • @zacharyrollick6169
      @zacharyrollick6169 3 роки тому +12

      Thanks, very cool.

    • @1zz64
      @1zz64 3 роки тому +8

      Hey I live there too

    • @rezz578
      @rezz578 3 роки тому +21

      Anybody else read this like poetry?

    • @yankees29
      @yankees29 3 роки тому +11

      That volcanic ash enriches soil big time. Thanks for the cool story. That’s incredible.

  • @ANKITYADAV-nv9wv
    @ANKITYADAV-nv9wv 5 років тому +16233

    Everybody gangsta until the mountain starts walking away

    • @BlueSky......
      @BlueSky...... 5 років тому +54

      everybody gangsta until i show up

    • @litrally6973
      @litrally6973 5 років тому +164

      isaac douget you’re not really intimidating

    • @BlueSky......
      @BlueSky...... 5 років тому +23

      @@litrally6973 probably millions of people are on the same level...of intelligence

    • @BlueSky......
      @BlueSky...... 5 років тому +9

      @Mood - reading youtube comments intimidates me sometimes, but do they make 20 videos taunting the internet?

    • @tornadochaser7226
      @tornadochaser7226 4 роки тому +13

      *sliding away

  • @atable2505
    @atable2505 3 роки тому +5263

    Friendly reminder that everyone was warned to stay away for weeks and some people just brushed it off

    • @sammencia7945
      @sammencia7945 3 роки тому +509

      56 people simply vanished. Bodies never found.

    • @mpcrauzer
      @mpcrauzer 3 роки тому +281

      I remember have watching about when you feel something is wrong and need to get out of the area, and in that episode, a father and his son was camping in the area of the Mont, the kid feel something bad because he was Very close to nature, so they Go home and the mont explode moment after they get the roda for their home

    • @sammencia7945
      @sammencia7945 3 роки тому +337

      Actually the Red Zone had few deaths. Truman, some geologists.
      This was _much_ worse than expected, lateral blast not taken into account.
      Many died who were 20 MILES away - thought to be 100% safe.
      Scymanky for one. His 3 coworkers died.

    • @ramona7877
      @ramona7877 3 роки тому +93

      No one seemed to take it seriously, I lived in St Helens Oregon at the time

    • @TheSignatureK
      @TheSignatureK 3 роки тому +368

      Sounds like typical United States citizens to me. Especially like those that had block parties during the pandemic last year.

  • @BrianJWood-dl3dv
    @BrianJWood-dl3dv 2 роки тому +59

    I was in Victoria B.C when this happened. We are 200 miles away. I was in my bedroom and there was a huge rumble. The whole house seemed to have been hit by a truck
    or something. I got out out of my bedroom and my sister had also left her bedroom. She looked really scared. I thought it might have been a nuclear bomb.
    I wont forget that day.

    • @duderama6750
      @duderama6750 2 роки тому +3

      It was a bomb.

    • @suewalksthebluffs
      @suewalksthebluffs 7 місяців тому +3

      I was in bed in Victoria too. The booms scared me and I thought could it be a bomb, or maybe just naval exercises across the harbour, but there had never been any before, and so early on a Sunday morning? that didn’t make sense… then the curtains really billowed inward, twice, on a windless day with the window partially open. Very spooky.
      Then next day cleaning all the volcanic dust off my car. I try not to think about what Yellowstone will be like “😢”

  • @HackedUpForBarbeque
    @HackedUpForBarbeque 3 роки тому +2144

    Just so people know: This is a series of images that's had the gaps filled in with cgi. That's why it looks a little janky

    • @PresidentialWinner
      @PresidentialWinner 3 роки тому +10

      Are you sure about that? Give me evidence.

    • @HackedUpForBarbeque
      @HackedUpForBarbeque 3 роки тому +291

      @@PresidentialWinner There is a video on this channel titled "photographing a catastrophic explosion at mt st helens"

    • @PresidentialWinner
      @PresidentialWinner 3 роки тому +12

      @@HackedUpForBarbeque OK.

    • @fatherofdragons4880
      @fatherofdragons4880 3 роки тому +207

      @@HackedUpForBarbeque an eloquent answer on a UA-cam comment? Now I've seen it all lol!

    • @AV1ch
      @AV1ch 3 роки тому +52

      @@PresidentialWinner Obvious evidence of CGI: small particles in the last shot that go straight up.

  • @TheFreshTrumpet
    @TheFreshTrumpet 3 роки тому +3514

    Yo my jaw just dropped, half the damn mountain slid?? How is this only ONE of the biggest landslides in history i’m sprinting to google rn lol

    • @bigguy7353
      @bigguy7353 3 роки тому +127

      It was the eruption in 1980. Why the idiot who posted this called it a landslide is a mystery.

    • @OwMeEd
      @OwMeEd 3 роки тому +663

      @@bigguy7353 Well... because it was a landslide caused by an eruption. Most tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes, but the tsunami is still a tsunami.
      Edit: Correction; the order of events at St Helens seems to have been: Earthquake -> Landslide -> Eruption, meaning it was a landslide before it was an eruption!

    • @ET-Gamer
      @ET-Gamer 3 роки тому +89

      Look up Doggerland, it use to be a land connecting England to main land Europe but was flooded by a massive underwater landslide on the coast of Norway.

    • @foxthefox1594
      @foxthefox1594 3 роки тому +14

      They two halves got a divorce

    • @Kamal_AL-Hinai
      @Kamal_AL-Hinai 3 роки тому +16

      In recorded history*

  • @AethernaLuxen
    @AethernaLuxen 4 роки тому +3059

    That's just the dragon moving his bed sheets, don't bother him

    • @meepbeep2464
      @meepbeep2464 4 роки тому +28

      Of course we won't

    • @leocastanon6194
      @leocastanon6194 3 роки тому +15

      Will you go to Heaven when you die? Here’s a quick test: Have you ever lied, stolen, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” If you have done these things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart, and the Bible warns that one day God will punish you in a terrible place called Hell. But God is not willing that any should perish. Sinners broke God’s Law and Jesus paid their fine. This means that God can legally dismiss their case: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Then Jesus rose from the dead, defeating death. Today, repent [turn away from your sins and don’t practice them] trust Jesus, and God will give you eternal life as a free gift. Then read the Bible daily and obey it. God will never fail you.

    • @leocastanon6194
      @leocastanon6194 3 роки тому +4

      @@meepbeep2464 Will you go to Heaven when you die? Here’s a quick test: Have you ever lied, stolen, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” If you have done these things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart, and the Bible warns that one day God will punish you in a terrible place called Hell. But God is not willing that any should perish. Sinners broke God’s Law and Jesus paid their fine. This means that God can legally dismiss their case: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Then Jesus rose from the dead, defeating death. Today, repent [turn away from your sins and don’t practice them] trust Jesus, and God will give you eternal life as a free gift. Then read the Bible daily and obey it. God will never fail you.

    • @AethernaLuxen
      @AethernaLuxen 3 роки тому +54

      @@leocastanon6194
      the only god im willing to worship is 4 cheese mega whopper

    • @dispencermain2735
      @dispencermain2735 3 роки тому +33

      @@leocastanon6194 ok but what does that have to do with the landslide or a dragon moving his bedsheets?

  • @jackdoe552
    @jackdoe552 2 роки тому +177

    My father, being a true dad, took me camping at the base of Mt. St. Helens about a month before it blew. He was not particularly worried. 🤣 I was quite young, but distinctly remember seeing a large herd of elk in the forest.

    • @Bprovo
      @Bprovo 2 роки тому +8

      Survivor's bias.

    • @jenniferraymond9766
      @jenniferraymond9766 2 роки тому

      Your dad was an idiot

    • @RaffieFaffie
      @RaffieFaffie Рік тому +2

      @@Bprovo No because he wasn't there during the danger to survive it

    • @AhJodie
      @AhJodie 4 місяці тому

      @jackdoe552 It has been 2 years since you wrote your comment.... I loved it! I am 70 years old and was thinking about some of the things I have done with my son, as far as adventures.... so your comment was heartwarming!

  • @josie4065
    @josie4065 3 роки тому +5317

    The sheer amount of energy it took to move one side of a mountain is mind boggling.

    • @Ascertivon
      @Ascertivon 3 роки тому +85

      My initial thought was about the motion of the earth around it! I wonder if it caused an earthquake or a significant amount of wind.

    • @mamacat63
      @mamacat63 3 роки тому +194

      @@Ascertivon oh, it definitely caused an earthquake

    • @juliusnepos6013
      @juliusnepos6013 3 роки тому +2

      @@mamacat63 it was

    • @typ044
      @typ044 3 роки тому +4

      @n/a No.

    • @victorpradha9946
      @victorpradha9946 3 роки тому +75

      For nature...this is all effortless. There is no exertion involved in the happening of such phenomena. Gravity constantly drives one continental shelf against another. The result in powerful earthquakes that tumble dwellings and structures that took hundreds if not thousands of hours to construct in a matter of seconds.

  • @flashy5150
    @flashy5150 3 роки тому +1342

    I remember being in school and watching it erupt with my class when I was 9 years old. 1980 was a big year for crazy and bad things to happen - Mt. St Helens eruption, John Lennon getting shot, Terry Fox running the Marathon of Hope and dying before he completed it, I got to shake his hand.

    • @JayTheTruth
      @JayTheTruth 3 роки тому +62

      I’m young so I never heard about terry fox dying. It’s pretty ironic tho that somebody died before finishing “the marathon of hope”😅

    • @mademsoisellerhapsody
      @mademsoisellerhapsody 3 роки тому +9

      It happened on a Sunday

    • @AngryBudgiez
      @AngryBudgiez 3 роки тому +2

      happy 50th

    • @syts
      @syts 3 роки тому +109

      @@JayTheTruth It wasn't like he dropped dead during a one day marathon - he was running across Canada to raise money for cancer research since he lost his leg to it. He made it like 4,000 miles, but his cancer relapsed and appeared in his lungs forcing him to stop. He died months later.

    • @JayTheTruth
      @JayTheTruth 3 роки тому +57

      @@syts oh okay slightly less ironic now. That’s sad

  • @AlexorPwnsAll
    @AlexorPwnsAll 3 роки тому +2998

    “Keeping an eye on an ominous growing bulge.”
    That’s called cancer man, gotta get that checked

  • @pux0rb
    @pux0rb 2 роки тому +107

    The amount of force it must have taken to move several million tons of rock so effortlessly is astounding.

    • @atomicskull6405
      @atomicskull6405 2 роки тому +10

      it's more like trillions of tons

    • @danielrodriguez5165
      @danielrodriguez5165 Рік тому +1

      Dont think thats how it works. Sometimes all it takes is a butterfly

    • @Arcessitor
      @Arcessitor Рік тому +2

      @@danielrodriguez5165That platitude doesn't really work since there's no such thing as a butterfly actually creating a hurricane.

    • @iamhawkeye3162
      @iamhawkeye3162 7 місяців тому +1

      I heard that it was equivalent to like 3 Hiroshima bombs

    • @StormDragon771
      @StormDragon771 7 місяців тому +1

      It's one of those events that put human size and scope into perspective

  • @trry2543
    @trry2543 3 роки тому +3448

    Parents: You’d have better luck moving a mountain
    Mountain:👁👄👁

    • @theunderdog9353
      @theunderdog9353 3 роки тому +113

      Mountain: Anyway, I started slidin'

    • @lewis17297
      @lewis17297 3 роки тому +11

      Thank you for this comment, I have laughed to death

    • @netecrivernetecassassins2945
      @netecrivernetecassassins2945 3 роки тому +8

      This inspired me to become mountin 🤓

    • @theunderdog9353
      @theunderdog9353 3 роки тому +11

      @Chris Whitty Braindead response

    • @hh582
      @hh582 3 роки тому +1

      Except the kid didn’t move the mountain the mountain moved itself...

  • @kermitefrog64
    @kermitefrog64 4 роки тому +928

    I lived in Sunnyside Washington when Mt. St. Helens made an ash of herself. That was the end of the school year and we were getting ready for graduation. When the ash cloud passed over the Yakima Valley the sun hit the ash cloud at just the right angle and it looked like a rolling river of blood.

    • @shillian4770
      @shillian4770 4 роки тому +44

      That’s fucking crazy

    • @barsnacker
      @barsnacker 4 роки тому +16

      I had a similar experience thier was a wildfire miles from where I live and the smoke traveled down the mountain pass toward our town and the sky and color outside was bloodred the town had a movie filter on it, an apocalypse, or hellfire and brimstone

    • @ryanchan2358
      @ryanchan2358 4 роки тому +3

      Was the ash red? If it was grey, it might have been pulverized lava.

    • @GinoNL
      @GinoNL 4 роки тому +2

      @LaughToMouth maybe it’s because English isn’t my native language, but what does it mean? I get the literal part, but not the other one.

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM 4 роки тому +10

      @@GinoNL , he made a pun by changing one word of a common idiom from ass to ash. (Ass being an impolite animal and ash being the volcano's so obviously he was implying the volcano was being impolite).
      www.google.com/search?q=idiom+make+an+ass+of+yourself

  • @megamonkeyblaster3627
    @megamonkeyblaster3627 3 роки тому +700

    I watched this happen from around sixty miles as the crow flies, south west. May 18th, 1980. A day and event I'll never forget.

    • @jacksonfredericks7597
      @jacksonfredericks7597 3 роки тому +59

      I know this true cuz bro said as the crow flies he a mountaineer for sure

    • @dhuckins79
      @dhuckins79 3 роки тому +24

      My grandparents told me that they got ashes on their car even though at the time they lived in Oregon.

    • @feraxks
      @feraxks 3 роки тому +15

      I remember it as well. We were just over 80 miles SSW. Didn't hear it, but could see the ash plume going up.

    • @ais5094
      @ais5094 3 роки тому +8

      @@dhuckins79 dog that shit could end north California

    • @chantalfinn6173
      @chantalfinn6173 3 роки тому +10

      @@dhuckins79 I remember ash on my parents car in Canada

  • @alexcosta3219
    @alexcosta3219 2 роки тому +120

    Who's got this recommended after 11 years

  •  5 років тому +552

    I shook my head and said " Am I really seeing this?", then a 10 foot boulder hit me in the face.

    • @elenthora442
      @elenthora442 5 років тому +22

      That really did happen to a man who was about 10 miles away, his wife died of asphyxiation

    • @folkwhore8322
      @folkwhore8322 4 роки тому +3

      I got to that part when I read your comment

    • @Darkasknightfall
      @Darkasknightfall 4 роки тому +6

      Guy: “I shook my head and said Am I really seeing this?”
      Mount St. Helens: “ok hold on I’ll show you again.”

    • @SOCCER_360
      @SOCCER_360 4 роки тому +1

      500th like

    • @125steini
      @125steini 4 роки тому +1

      news.artnet.com/art-world/pompeii-man-crushed-stone-1295183
      You mean like that? ;)

  • @raysings2861
    @raysings2861 4 роки тому +3655

    Bill Nye: "It is known fact that it takes millions and billions of years for these kinds of geological changes to occur."
    Mount St. Helens: "Hold my beer!"

    • @kimmyymmik
      @kimmyymmik 4 роки тому +205

      Also bill nye... not a real scientist 😭🤣🤣

    • @kimmyymmik
      @kimmyymmik 4 роки тому +108

      Joshua Thompson huh that meme is dead and is irrelevant you dumb fuck 😂😂

    • @noahzeitlin6850
      @noahzeitlin6850 4 роки тому +21

      Kim En it is very much not dead, and in many places is still going strong

    • @barsnacker
      @barsnacker 4 роки тому +2

      Caldera*

    • @justinmplayz8809
      @justinmplayz8809 4 роки тому +81

      @Joshua Thompson I put the milk in before the bowl

  • @wendy833
    @wendy833 3 роки тому +720

    I'm in Washington state and remember sunbathing when it got cloudy. All this stuff started falling on me so I went inside. My parents were out of town towards Chewelah and weren't allowed to come home. My grandfather came and got me and explained what had happened. It was a weird thing to experience. Ash was all over everything for years.

    • @whiteyfisk9769
      @whiteyfisk9769 3 роки тому +4

      Black Lives Matter

    • @danznh
      @danznh 3 роки тому +74

      @@whiteyfisk9769 no

    • @gayled3059
      @gayled3059 3 роки тому +50

      @@whiteyfisk9769 What's that got to do with this??

    • @timthompson8297
      @timthompson8297 3 роки тому +19

      I used to,see ash on the side for the road in eastern Washington on my camping trips for years

    • @wendy833
      @wendy833 3 роки тому +13

      @@timthompson8297 for sure!! I remember seeing it too.

  • @nemospence2724
    @nemospence2724 Рік тому +5

    I've been fascinated by the eruption of Mount Saint Helens and the stories that surround it. From the Philippines

  • @Reader999
    @Reader999 6 років тому +3087

    Mount St. Helens: "I don't feel so good..."

    • @VenomShadows305
      @VenomShadows305 6 років тому +9

      JusticeForce End oғ тнe World this is what I came for.

    • @MagicalGirlRose319
      @MagicalGirlRose319 6 років тому +5

      TOO QUIZNACKING SOON!

    • @aureliaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
      @aureliaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 6 років тому +3

      Mount St. Helens 2 mins later : "no dun do it, i am a virgin"

    • @kingjohn1717
      @kingjohn1717 6 років тому +3

      End oғ тнe JusticeForce bahahaha #TeamThanos for the win.

    • @vickiemillikan8563
      @vickiemillikan8563 6 років тому +1

      End oғ тнe JusticeForce St Helens mom is like, "Oh your fine honey!". 5 seconds later . . .

  • @katiemorrison888
    @katiemorrison888 8 років тому +2320

    It's a wee bit more than just a land slide

    • @jakealter5504
      @jakealter5504 7 років тому +61

      Katie Morrison more like it’s a gigantic landslide that triggered an eruption

    • @FirstLast-ny6tg
      @FirstLast-ny6tg 7 років тому +120

      "The public was shocked by the extent of the eruption, which had lowered the elevation of the summit by 1,313 feet (400 m), destroyed 230 square miles (596 km2) of woodland, and spread ash into other states and Canada. The lateral blast that killed Johnston started at 220 miles per hour (354 km/h) and accelerated to 670 miles per hour (1,078 km/h)."
      According to USGS Scientists, the top of the volcano basically became plugged and the pressure started to bulge out of the side. I think an earthquake triggered the event by loosening the ground and the pressure did the rest and ended up laterally erupting out the side of the volcano rather than straight up.
      Imagine how much land it would take to destroy 230 SQUARE Miles. Now imagine it is moving towards you at 670 miles per hour. That's hard to put in perspective. The cruising speed of a 747 is 570 mph.
      I agree. Just a land slide. LOL

    • @tylerslagel5485
      @tylerslagel5485 6 років тому +64

      It's a *MOUNTAIN SLIDE!!!!!*

    • @christystewart4567
      @christystewart4567 6 років тому +23

      First Last the pictures after of the mowed down trees and debris and just nothing left in some parts were unbelievable. The destruction was enormous.

    • @BlackRose85789
      @BlackRose85789 6 років тому +18

      Can you just imagine what it was like, being on the side of the mountain and that was your way to die. That was be fucking terrifying. O_O

  • @donaldbadowski290
    @donaldbadowski290 4 роки тому +271

    I remember the days leading up to and then after the eruption, the network news teams were getting interviews with scientists, park rangers, campers and a few residents. Two I remember.
    1. A man who'd been camping by the mountain was buried under several feet of ash and mud when his car, traveling at 90 mph was overtaken by the mud. They know he was doing 90 because he was passed by a guy doing 110, who just made it out.
    2. A guy in his 70s was interviewed about his refusal to leave. "I was born here, raised here, spent my whole life here. I ain't leaving." They found him weeks later. A rescue dog, a German Shepard, smelled him under 5 feet of mud. The rangers kept digging and digging and not finding anything. "Are you sure boy? You smell something?" And the dog kept giving all the signs. Finally they found him. The dog said "Told ya!"

    • @ohmanyourecool1
      @ohmanyourecool1 4 роки тому +53

      @Kasen Barrolaza
      Yeah dogs can talk ok. Got that?

    • @scotthersey4380
      @scotthersey4380 3 роки тому +25

      The old fellow's name was--no lie--Harry Truman! Additional fun fact: HE, not the U.S. president, was the namesake of the sheriff in Twin Peaks.

    • @imthedarknight-8755
      @imthedarknight-8755 3 роки тому +40

      Avoiding a volcanic landslide in a high speed car escape is the coolest story you could tell

    • @donaldbadowski290
      @donaldbadowski290 3 роки тому +2

      @@imthedarknight-8755 , and the funny thing, it's true.

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 3 роки тому +1

      @Kasen Barrolaza Yes, but he said it in German.

  • @Meh-2U
    @Meh-2U 2 роки тому +7

    25+ second ad for a video less than 2 minutes long. Makes perfect sense. Why would anyone want a reprieve.

    • @okaygecko
      @okaygecko 5 місяців тому +3

      2024 two unskippable ads for a 50 second video😅

  • @jackstarnes8714
    @jackstarnes8714 3 роки тому +904

    The mountain really said
    “Aah- ah- ahchew *dies* “

    • @thomasswaney5721
      @thomasswaney5721 3 роки тому +26

      *ACHEW*
      *HEAD EXPLODES*

    • @fletzyproductions1190
      @fletzyproductions1190 3 роки тому

      Ok

    • @milanvo3721
      @milanvo3721 3 роки тому +3

      😐

    • @kieraareik.266
      @kieraareik.266 3 роки тому

      @@milanvo3721 😁

    • @Praise___YaH
      @Praise___YaH 3 роки тому +1

      HERE is Our TRUE Savior
      YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
      From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
      "Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
      Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
      Yad - "Behold The Hand"
      He - "Behold the Breath"
      Vav - "Behold The NAIL"

  • @loknathsharma5596
    @loknathsharma5596 3 роки тому +2115

    UA-cam after 10 years: Maybe the people have forgotten the legendary sliding mountain......

  • @angelsaxon6499
    @angelsaxon6499 3 роки тому +1560

    Both my parents watched this unfold and remember it distinctly. Mum was in school and my dad, bein the mad lad he kinda is, watched relatively closely, but not close enough to be in danger. Absolutely unbelievable, and even after the collapse the mountain is still a sight to see today. Summitting it back in 2013 is a fond memory of mine :3

    • @OdysseyABMS
      @OdysseyABMS 3 роки тому +65

      i cringed reading this and proceeded to regurgitate my breakfast after seeing that pfp

    • @MisterJohnDoe
      @MisterJohnDoe 3 роки тому +17

      Interesting icon you have there.

    • @gerarddip
      @gerarddip 3 роки тому +13

      BASED PFP

    • @angelsaxon6499
      @angelsaxon6499 2 роки тому +3

      @Burr Anderson whoa. Not sure if I've seen that, but I will note it for now 👀

    • @Niever
      @Niever 2 роки тому +4

      So he was like twenty miles from it? That's safe bit still could be danger. Anyone believing this guy needs to look at how far all the debris, ash and smoke travelled and how fast.

  • @Ksweetpea
    @Ksweetpea Рік тому +4

    If you've never been to see the mountain, and have an opportunity to, go see it. The viewpoint just below the visitor center is a great place to really take in the scale of the mountain. It doesn't look nearly as large as it is especially from the south. Staring down the barrel of the gun, so to speak, it can truly be appreciated

    • @loopthetube
      @loopthetube Рік тому +4

      I finally went after 40 years. The visitors center we went to was Johnston Ridge. It is the ridge David Johnsron was sitting on.

  • @Redeemedon090910
    @Redeemedon090910 5 років тому +182

    I lived near there when I was a child remember my mom wrapping a scarf around my face from all the ash in the air as we were evacuating every time I smell sulfur it triggers a memory of that day.

    • @johnwright8703
      @johnwright8703 4 роки тому +25

      Jeremy, I lived in Glanoma when it blew, you were close too if you remember the sulfur smell. Did you get the mud too? Thanks for sharing. I lived just 4 miles north of the blown down trees. The ground was shaking, thunder and lighting from these big bellowing dark clouds of ash. It rained down 4 inches of hot stinky smelling mud, then we had a foot of ash on top of that. It knocked out our power and we could not see the flower box out the window. 3 1/2 hours later we could see the cows still out in the pasture. Amazing they survived. If it would have blown the next day, Monday, I would be dead. It took over 4 months to get to the logging equipment where we were working.

    • @GinoNL
      @GinoNL 4 роки тому +9

      @@johnwright8703 that’s crazy. Thanks for sharing yourself.

  • @mitesh2422
    @mitesh2422 3 роки тому +498

    Mountain : The camera was on me.
    "So I had to do something"

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 3 роки тому +714

    Mount St. Helens is feeling crazy and adventurous, that's the reason that it's so special

  • @Rick_King
    @Rick_King 3 місяці тому +1

    I remember this event well. My car, in Southern California, was covered with ash from the volcano.
    But I wish you folks would include closed captioning in your videos, for us old folks!

  • @Jasonwolf1495
    @Jasonwolf1495 3 роки тому +715

    It's at this point that you realize that mountain and the pile of sand you made at the beach are scarily similar, just on different scales. To the forces of a massive earthquake and eruption its just a bunch of little grains of rock.

    • @ancientfractal2526
      @ancientfractal2526 3 роки тому +23

      As Above, So Below

    • @sebastianalvarez6006
      @sebastianalvarez6006 3 роки тому +7

      Mother natural dont give a shit
      Its all the same

    • @zzodysseuszz
      @zzodysseuszz 3 роки тому

      @@ancientfractal2526 that saying doesn’t apply

    • @ancientfractal2526
      @ancientfractal2526 3 роки тому +6

      @@zzodysseuszz depends on which version you are perceiving. I use it in reference to the fact that the same processes take place at all scales in the universe, from the microscopic to the macrocosmic. In that context it very much applies to this comment.

    • @zzodysseuszz
      @zzodysseuszz 3 роки тому

      @@ancientfractal2526 no it doesn’t. Stop using mental gymnastics to justify nonsense

  • @Ben-bg2lp
    @Ben-bg2lp 3 роки тому +732

    Thanks to UA-cam, this delaying interrupting the main content is going away. This is why Daily dose of internet is so popular.

    • @progenitor_amborella
      @progenitor_amborella 3 роки тому +19

      There’s still a pretty popular thing on here called hitting the 8 minute mark.

    • @Ben-bg2lp
      @Ben-bg2lp 3 роки тому +61

      @@XZ-III 13 million subscribers would disagree

    • @hadeskiller1
      @hadeskiller1 3 роки тому +47

      Maybe 13 million people just enjoy bad content

    • @Ben-bg2lp
      @Ben-bg2lp 3 роки тому +61

      @@hadeskiller1 Or, and hear me out, it's just you who don't like it.

    • @MonoXZY
      @MonoXZY 3 роки тому +23

      How is it bad content it’s literally the coolest video all wrapped in one.

  • @xaiano794
    @xaiano794 8 років тому +444

    You know what I find weird? the sound effects - If you've ever seen these things for real, you'll know that it's the silence that's chilling, that it's so big that the sound hasn't even reached you yet.

    • @bandolierboy1908
      @bandolierboy1908 7 років тому +32

      the speed of sound isn't as fast as light, soundwaves take more time to travel

    • @tasteewheat393
      @tasteewheat393 6 років тому +3

      Xaiano true af

    • @michaellejeune7715
      @michaellejeune7715 6 років тому +76

      Isaac White That was the point.

    • @jordi5371
      @jordi5371 6 років тому +9

      People was there reported the silence they experienced at the very moment of the explotion

    • @aiiiia9971
      @aiiiia9971 6 років тому +2

      Ok that's scary af...

  • @landonspain193
    @landonspain193 2 роки тому +8

    My Nana, who lives in Southwest Virginia, says she remembers a very light dusting of ash on her car after the eruption. It's scary how much volcanic material is blasted into the atmosphere when one of these dormant giants explodes with rage.

    • @mcloathin9684
      @mcloathin9684 2 роки тому

      Now imagine a gigaton nuke

    • @Rebecca-1111
      @Rebecca-1111 11 місяців тому

      Even had dust in Michigan.

    • @CortexNewsService
      @CortexNewsService 7 місяців тому

      And what's really scary is, as eruptions go, this was midsized. Not that huge, relatively speaking

  • @Liam-zf6jc
    @Liam-zf6jc 3 роки тому +173

    Never seen a mountain melt before. I don’t know what I’m gonna do with this knowledge now

  • @cascadia8012
    @cascadia8012 3 роки тому +49

    Having lived in Washington my entire life... I actually guess I didn't realize people in other parts of the world aren't aware of the insane volcano mountain that literally blew its top. It's a beautiful snowy mount right now, I can't imagine not seeing it every day.

  • @sharonmccann2902
    @sharonmccann2902 3 роки тому +339

    I remember it well. I lived in Southern California at the time and we had ash falling and blowing. Live footage was on the news. A few years later I went to the site and the devastation was horrible. Whole hillside of timber were flattened as if they were matchsticks. Amazing...

    • @TheKennethECarper
      @TheKennethECarper 3 роки тому +18

      I remember it as well. I lived in Portland, OR and I remember going outside with my parents. There was a thick layer of ash in our front yard and on top of our car. It was so deep that I thought it had snowed. I was only five years old and remember trying to make a snowball out of the ash and my mother forcing me to throw it down. I wish I had saved some of it. I had a ball of volcanic ash in my hand, a literal piece of geological history, and I threw it away.

    • @shayaankhan2578
      @shayaankhan2578 3 роки тому +3

      Was it a landslide or landslide due to volcano?

    • @DerpASherpa117
      @DerpASherpa117 3 роки тому +17

      @@shayaankhan2578 the magma chamber couldn't properly vent excess gas and molten rock, so the northern side of the mountain literally bulged out as this gas built up more and more from the magma moving underneath. Finally, it collapsed under its own weight after a small earthquake, which then led to the lateral blast that sterilized the countryside for miles.

    • @darrenheadrick3669
      @darrenheadrick3669 3 роки тому +8

      @ Sharon McCann
      I was 14 years old, living Detroit when this happened. The blast was so powerful from Mt. St. Helens that Detroit got some of the ash from the eruption.

    • @Magnum_Wolf
      @Magnum_Wolf 3 роки тому +1

      I wasn't born yet (1989) when this happened, but I wish I couldn't seen it. I live in Southern Colorado and people said that it just got a little hazy over here.

  • @jacknewman9256
    @jacknewman9256 2 роки тому +3

    I was on a school bus with classmates on a field trip. Ash started falling, the day turned pitch black and we were stranded for 3 days. No chaperones, just a busload of kids and the band director. I'm thankful for the Red Cross to this day.

  • @IvanLDiaz
    @IvanLDiaz 5 років тому +2645

    Nobody:
    Mt. Helen: aight imma head out

    • @ATalkingBadger
      @ATalkingBadger 5 років тому +46

      Stop with that stupid "Nobody:" comment, you unoriginal moron.

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 5 років тому +47

      @@ATalkingBadger Shut the fuck up, you uptight dipshit.

    • @somehaloguy9372
      @somehaloguy9372 5 років тому +46

      Nobody:
      ATalkingBadger: *people who use this meme are morons and idiots because meme usage totally shows people's IQ levels and I'm not just some triggered douche*

    • @danielfitri97
      @danielfitri97 5 років тому +4

      @@somehaloguy9372 nice, hahaha

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 5 років тому +4

      @@somehaloguy9372 Exactly.

  • @peachikiru
    @peachikiru 4 роки тому +55

    when the mountain face started to slide i was like "ok surely theyre exaggerating, it cant be that big of a landslide" and then half the mountain fell

  • @bartholomewoballs3351
    @bartholomewoballs3351 4 роки тому +118

    Mount St Helens said: “My main goal is to blow up and then act like I don’t know nobodaeee”

  • @ruby71406
    @ruby71406 2 роки тому +7

    i see st. helens every day from my neighborhood, and i've visited it quite a few times on field trips and stuff. it's insane how beautiful it is despite the devastation it faced. it's so green and lush in the spring, and the ape caves are so strange and fascinating. i wanna go camp up there someday.

  • @siriuslykookie4835
    @siriuslykookie4835 5 років тому +228

    Mount St. Helens is ‘bout to blow up and it’s gonna be a fine swell day

    • @fishiefish6179
      @fishiefish6179 4 роки тому +22

      Everything’s gonna fall down to the ground and turn gray

    • @sci_pain3409
      @sci_pain3409 4 роки тому +14

      i was looking for this comment

    • @colinmoreillon5970
      @colinmoreillon5970 4 роки тому +12

      @@fishiefish6179 all of my friends family and animals probably going to run away

    • @seantheshimp5296
      @seantheshimp5296 4 роки тому +13

      but me, im feeling curious so i think i just might stay

    • @cyrilabapo2257
      @cyrilabapo2257 3 роки тому +7

      @@seantheshimp5296 the Dow Jones just fell down to zero and it's gonna be a *fine swell day*

  • @thesleepycookie1381
    @thesleepycookie1381 3 роки тому +95

    No matter how inspirational it is, I will never look at the saying "make the mountains move" the same way again 💀

    • @KENSHIROez3260
      @KENSHIROez3260 3 роки тому +7

      Must be strangely disturbing to say it

    • @T3RRORGL1TCH
      @T3RRORGL1TCH 3 роки тому +2

      Here before the seventyth like

    • @thesleepycookie1381
      @thesleepycookie1381 3 роки тому +1

      @@T3RRORGL1TCH Haha that's a new one. I didn't even know I got like, past 3 likes 😅

    • @T3RRORGL1TCH
      @T3RRORGL1TCH 3 роки тому +2

      @@thesleepycookie1381 yeah, UA-cam is Messy I noticed

  • @nekroneko
    @nekroneko 3 роки тому +52

    when you finally let off that belt buckle after being out for a big meal and you're back home.

  • @torikenyon
    @torikenyon Рік тому +4

    “Mount St. Helens is about to disintegrate in an enormous landslide, and it’s gonna be a fine swell day” -Bill Wurtz

  • @andrewward8867
    @andrewward8867 3 роки тому +67

    Man its easy to see why early civilization clung to mystical beliefs of gods and spirits, cause this shit is mind blowing.

    • @MrRyan-wu4jx
      @MrRyan-wu4jx 3 роки тому +2

      Too many still do. And they’ve never even seen a volcano.

    • @rokulus7910
      @rokulus7910 3 роки тому

      @@MrRyan-wu4jx Yeah I was just going to say, billions of people still believe in mystical gods and spirits.

    • @tommydawson7147
      @tommydawson7147 3 роки тому

      I Garantee you theres a Power beyond this. I use imagination to manifest All the time and Happens, even the crazy stuff.

  • @dopplesoddner2899
    @dopplesoddner2899 3 роки тому +20

    Respect to the guys who worked for many days without sleep to capture this 2 mins of incredible footage.

  • @Jvha761
    @Jvha761 3 роки тому +176

    Just imagine the immense power behind all that. It's amazing and scary at the same time

    • @frankyymilkyy9001
      @frankyymilkyy9001 2 роки тому +3

      I also can imagine I have $1000000000000

    • @commoq3764
      @commoq3764 2 роки тому +1

      @@frankyymilkyy9001 ?

    • @EkardRimidalv
      @EkardRimidalv 2 роки тому +1

      @@frankyymilkyy9001 I wish I did too, I have too much rn

    • @hobomike6935
      @hobomike6935 2 роки тому +1

      @@frankyymilkyy9001 facts right here

    • @Cris-bj7ee
      @Cris-bj7ee 2 роки тому +1

      @@EkardRimidalv Nobody understands the pain of being a multitrillionaire.

  • @les4767
    @les4767 2 роки тому +2

    I wasn't old enough to be someone who could say, "I remember where I was when Kennedy was shot." However, I was old enough to remember where I was and what I was doing when Mt. St. Helens erupted. I was in Woodinville, Washington, north of the mountain about 130 miles away. I was visiting my cousins and we were in the den watching tv when there was a light tremor and the news flash came on showing the eruption. We sat shocked by the awesome display of natural power and chaos that came on the screen. Luckily, we missed the worst of the ash cloud due to wind patterns, but we did get a light dusting over the course of the week. Mt. St. Helens was the main topic of interest for the rest of the year and then some. A year later, I visited Castlerock, Washington just 20 miles from the mountain for a festival the town held for surviving the event. It was quite sobering.

    • @banjohappy
      @banjohappy Рік тому

      I remember where I was when Kennedy was shot. I was in 7th grade gym class and Mr. Charcola came in and said "The president has been shot. School is being dismissed. Go to your lockers. Get your belongings. The buses are waiting outside to take you home." Nobody said he had died. A girl on the bus was crying, saying he was dead and we all ridiculed her. "They didn't say he was dead, just that he'd been shot." But she was right and we were wrong.

  • @barrioscorona215
    @barrioscorona215 3 роки тому +332

    That's just TOPH doing her thing. 🤜🪨

    • @cameronlikesbugs
      @cameronlikesbugs 3 роки тому +13

      i am the greatest earth bender in the world

    • @MANNYMODS
      @MANNYMODS 3 роки тому +4

      Lol

    • @Blagno4
      @Blagno4 3 роки тому +1

      Is your mom shaking the streets

    • @okramoffacebook1381
      @okramoffacebook1381 3 роки тому +3

      This is Toph gering her thing done

    • @erick-gmz
      @erick-gmz 3 роки тому +2

      I was just about to comment Kyoshi lmao

  • @TheOtherGuys2
    @TheOtherGuys2 10 років тому +651

    Why can't any video or documentary just show the whole thing?? It's always "Here, this is the actual thing you're here to see. But instead, let's look at a guy talking." Maybe there isn't more, but I don't know, because every documentary cuts away as if no viewer actually wants to see the thing they're watching. Same deal with any historical footage. Hindenburg, WWII, Nuclear bomb tests... Is there some long standing US law that says it's illegal for a historical film clip to be played in full for public viewing?

    • @Redghost1172
      @Redghost1172 10 років тому +44

      I agree with you cause we want to see what the eruption looks like not just some guy

    • @TheOtherGuys2
      @TheOtherGuys2 10 років тому +80

      One of the worst examples was a video I saw of 'Most powerful tornado on record' or something. And the two minute video literally contained about 15 seconds of a tornado starting to form, and the rest was two guys watching the video on a screen we can't see. It'd be like sitting down in a theater to watch an audience watch a movie.

    • @angela-sanders
      @angela-sanders 9 років тому +6

      TheOtherGuys2
      I've only seen it work for Mystery Science Theater :)
      cdn.indiewire.com/dims4/INDIEWIRE/c17f6c9/2147483647/thumbnail/680x478/quality/75/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fd1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net%2F9b%2Ff353a0c07411e19f68123138165f92%2Ffile%2Fmst3k-06272012.jpg

    • @littledreamersinc
      @littledreamersinc 9 років тому +5

      I completely agree. I've been searching for the same thing.

    • @signorelli21
      @signorelli21 9 років тому +21

      exactly what I was thinking, this is the 3rd or 4th video I've watched on mt st helens and its all the same crap about the lead up to the eruption and whatnot, like I already know WTF happened I just want to watch the actual eruption.

  • @james5637
    @james5637 3 роки тому +37

    1:15 is the section you're looking for, and no they don't let you see the whole clip 🤷🏼‍♂️

    • @danevertt3210
      @danevertt3210 3 роки тому +17

      I grew up, seeing this in textbooks. I’m pretty sure it’s not actually a real video but a quick burst of photos. I’m pretty sure they spliced the photos together and did some great editing to create the video clip

    • @jesse406
      @jesse406 3 роки тому +2

      @@danevertt3210 that’s what a video is

    • @danevertt3210
      @danevertt3210 3 роки тому +13

      @@jesse406 you aren’t understanding, good job simpleton

    • @MrFolky77
      @MrFolky77 3 роки тому

      @@danevertt3210 😅😅😅

    • @roseandstem8054
      @roseandstem8054 3 роки тому +2

      There's an entire clip of it exploding? I've only ever seen what we saw here.

  • @ElSantoLuchador
    @ElSantoLuchador Рік тому +1

    I was 11 or 12 and mowing the lawn in Eastern Washington when it went off. The sky got gray and ash came down eventually covering the lawn with about an inch of ash. Some places in E Wa (Ritzville, for example) had ash on the ground for several years. It was hysterical to me that people were actually selling it.

  • @hairydogstail
    @hairydogstail 3 роки тому +69

    We got ash all the way in Montana. The clouds looked so weird and ash fell everywhere. It was like living through fall out after WW3 occurred. The next day everything was grey like watching life in black and white..

    • @stephenjokela
      @stephenjokela 3 роки тому +5

      We had ash fall all the way in New Brunswick, Canada. 3500 miles away. Crazy.

    • @Internet_Canuck
      @Internet_Canuck 2 роки тому +1

      My Grandpa woke up one day in Alberta Canada to find ash covering his Car which he had to scrape off before heading off to Work for the day.

    • @hairydogstail
      @hairydogstail 2 роки тому +1

      @Phuckofftopuss Yup, I still have my bottles of ash LOL. On our logging jobs we had ash fly out of trees for many years after the eruption...

  • @tony3313
    @tony3313 3 роки тому +20

    I went mountain biking there several years ago and to see the wide swath of destruction miles wide was eerie. Definitely a vibe there to this day.

  • @ivysaursen
    @ivysaursen 3 роки тому +77

    so my question is: why did this show up on everyone’s recommended ten years later?

  • @canamrider07
    @canamrider07 2 роки тому +1

    I played college football and our school played WSU in Pullman in September of 1980. The field under the turf was really hard. I was told the ash reigned down on the field, they tried to hose it off and it basically turned to concrete.

  • @vadenk4433
    @vadenk4433 3 роки тому +56

    I just saw some ash from St Helens in the last month. There’s still drifts of it out towards Electric city. I remember seeing it every once in awhile growing up cause it blew just 2 years before I was born. I’ve also seen it when tearing up carpet in old houses. The ash is so fine it sifts down through the carpet to the floors

    • @firstnamelastname2552
      @firstnamelastname2552 2 роки тому

      @robert jackson tell
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    • @Boobo_000
      @Boobo_000 2 роки тому +5

      ???

  • @beeler123
    @beeler123 3 роки тому +132

    That doesn’t even look real...it’s like a sand castle falling apart but on a massive scale

    • @p1o_nutella650
      @p1o_nutella650 3 роки тому +30

      @Krust Brate stop being dumb plz

    • @NPJGlobal
      @NPJGlobal 3 роки тому +24

      @@p1o_nutella650 other people have said the animation was cgi. I mean it doesn't look like 1980s footage

    • @Rendell001
      @Rendell001 3 роки тому +38

      I remember seeing the individual photos of the landslide / eruption and i think they have stitched them together and colorised them with CG. That said, it still looks absolutely terrifying...

    • @iwanttocomplain
      @iwanttocomplain 3 роки тому +1

      Thing is. Why so much ash? I mean, scientifically.

    • @Rendell001
      @Rendell001 3 роки тому +1

      @@iwanttocomplain I’d think that at least half of it is soil and rock from the landslide, blown into the air by the force of the explosion.

  • @ForageGardener
    @ForageGardener 3 роки тому +20

    I have looked across the river at this mountain every clear day for my entire life. Its incredible how massive a mountain can be. Its like 80 miles away as the bird flies, but looks like its in your livingroom.

    • @adamofblastworks1517
      @adamofblastworks1517 3 роки тому +1

      As the bird flies? What does that phrase mean? I've never heard it before.

    • @BonaparteBardithion
      @BonaparteBardithion 3 роки тому +4

      @@adamofblastworks1517
      "As the bird/crow flies" means that it's 80 miles in a straight line through the air, as opposed to 80 miles on foot (or vehicle) going around or over obstacles.

    • @ForageGardener
      @ForageGardener 3 роки тому +2

      @@adamofblastworks1517as said below :)
      Bird flies in a straight line and arrives quicker, this mountain is a lot further by road :)

    • @adamofblastworks1517
      @adamofblastworks1517 3 роки тому +1

      Thanks guys. I would have just assumed you meant 80 miles away in a straight line anyway in this case.

  • @bluebaby4120
    @bluebaby4120 2 роки тому +1

    My dad's cousin lives right behind Mount St. Helen, it erupted on his 5th birthday and he was able to watch it from his back porch- it was pretty cool to see when we visited

  • @thebosstre
    @thebosstre 3 роки тому +49

    Can you imagine what it must have been like to watch that happen live?

    • @davidchalmers2504
      @davidchalmers2504 3 роки тому +7

      I would be like "CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP OH JEZZ IT'S COMING AT ME!"

    • @andrewlabat9963
      @andrewlabat9963 3 роки тому

      @@davidchalmers2504 Yep.. All good till you realize it's NOT.. LOL..

    • @davidchalmers2504
      @davidchalmers2504 3 роки тому

      @@andrewlabat9963 What do you mean?

    • @davidchalmers2504
      @davidchalmers2504 3 роки тому +3

      @KIRBY That footage was taken from about 10 miles away. The pyroclastic flows extended up to 13 miles away. The man who shot this (Keith Ronholm) took other photos of the wall of ash barreling toward him. He barely got out of there alive.

    • @andrewlabat9963
      @andrewlabat9963 3 роки тому +1

      @@davidchalmers2504 What do I mean. Ever watched the documentary on Mount St. Helens? Several thought they were good, until they realized they were not. The level of power released was way more than many thought.

  • @giles852002
    @giles852002 5 років тому +17

    No one expected it to erupt sideways & it caught so many people off guard.

  • @Gazelle74hh2e
    @Gazelle74hh2e 3 роки тому +179

    “I spose that's nature, ya can’t fight nature”
    -Neil Sutherland

    • @flamingwheel9926
      @flamingwheel9926 3 роки тому +6

      Well, if nature truly is unstoppable, then why doesn't it fight me?

    • @livinglogically8180
      @livinglogically8180 3 роки тому +5

      @@flamingwheel9926 cause you are a virgin

    • @ok0_0
      @ok0_0 3 роки тому +2

      @@livinglogically8180 he's saving himself for when he fucks mother nature

    • @Neogenesisdiablo
      @Neogenesisdiablo 3 роки тому

      @@ok0_0 don't talk about my wife like that

    • @ok0_0
      @ok0_0 3 роки тому

      @@Neogenesisdiablo just passing on the message

  • @claraalebrook3857
    @claraalebrook3857 2 роки тому +8

    I remember the ash hitting our little town when I was 5. I woke up to an earthquake, (I didn't know what that was at the time) I got scared at first but it stopped so I wasn't scared anymore. But later it snowed, but it wasn't snow, (it was ash) and it was an Erie warmth outside. My dad kept saying to my mom to keep me indoors till it passed. I was very curious, dad took me out for a short time (a minute or two) to see it. He went to a car with a plastic pill bottle and kept it. (Unfortunately I don't have it today) where was I ? The ash made its way up into Canada, close to the border.

    • @JesseTheProfit
      @JesseTheProfit 2 роки тому +1

      sure would be something if you kept that pill bottle

    • @claraalebrook3857
      @claraalebrook3857 2 роки тому +1

      @@JesseTheProfit agreed. After my dad died, a lot of junk he kept was thrown out. And that pill bottle unfortunately was one of the things thrown out.

  • @donwinslow522
    @donwinslow522 4 роки тому +14

    I remember this day well. It was two days before my tenth birthday. I was with my dad and siblings on the freeway, on the way to downtown Seattle. Traffic came to a dead-stop. Many people got out of their cars to take pictures of the eruption. I couldn't believe how massive the mushroom cloud was.

  • @bread7865
    @bread7865 3 роки тому +63

    "Don't say it."
    "Why not?"
    "Just don't. Plea-"
    "MOUNT ST. HELENS IS ABOUT TO BLOW UP AND IT'S GONNA BE A FINE SWELL DAY"

    • @mistermoee
      @mistermoee 3 роки тому +1

      but its gonna fall down to the ground and turn grey

    • @invisible9445
      @invisible9445 3 роки тому +6

      I live near mount saint helens :]

    • @mamacat63
      @mamacat63 3 роки тому +2

      @@invisible9445 I still have a jar of the ash from that day.

  • @jessehutchings
    @jessehutchings 3 роки тому +30

    The biggest natural disaster to hit Washington before I was born. The footage is incredible, but we could probably never imagine how shocking it looked to see it first hand with full depth perception of our own eyes

    • @mrloop1530
      @mrloop1530 Рік тому +1

      You being born was a bigger natural disaster?

  • @thunderblossom8114
    @thunderblossom8114 2 роки тому +5

    I’ve been out there. It was cool actually getting to go to the Observatory. It varies literally day to day if you can go or not because you’re sooo close to it. I think still like roughly nine miles away though

  • @GoldNargacuga
    @GoldNargacuga 5 років тому +354

    Mount Saint Helens: "aight time to streeeeeeeeeeeeeetch"

    • @Solid_Snake99
      @Solid_Snake99 4 роки тому

      You fvcking dumbass have some respect people died

    • @oracle7858
      @oracle7858 4 роки тому +2

      Solid_Snake chill everyone jokes on the internet it’s not like being in person

    • @manifestationsofasort
      @manifestationsofasort 4 роки тому +2

      @Solid_Snake bro you make Minecraft videos stfu

    • @EnderSpy358
      @EnderSpy358 4 роки тому +1

      @@Solid_Snake99 you shouldn't be on the Internet if you can't take jokes, this comment wasn't even remotely offensive

    • @Solid_Snake99
      @Solid_Snake99 4 роки тому

      @@EnderSpy358 STFU i'll fvck you up

  • @AllenHanPR
    @AllenHanPR 3 роки тому +168

    Imagine being the only two people to witness this live, it would be like you're the main characters in an end of world movie.

    • @gengis737
      @gengis737 3 роки тому +6

      Well those days we are all actors in a pandemic movie

    • @Baconatorz
      @Baconatorz 3 роки тому +13

      The guy that they only had photos of didnt make it.

    • @unamusedcaveman9235
      @unamusedcaveman9235 3 роки тому +4

      @@gengis737 Nah, nobody cares about the fake china virus

    • @booty_hunter4207
      @booty_hunter4207 3 роки тому +33

      @@unamusedcaveman9235 caveman moment

    • @gengis737
      @gengis737 3 роки тому +4

      @@unamusedcaveman9235 You did not believe in Mount St Helens explosion, until it happened.

  • @tickmothy
    @tickmothy 8 років тому +1231

    volcanoes, mother natures acne.

    • @someshkadam2441
      @someshkadam2441 7 років тому +20

      robert deldge
      Or Cyst*

    • @hugq14
      @hugq14 7 років тому +31

      robert deldge OMFG!!! You are a genius!!!! You solved the mystery of the Volcano!

    • @lynnkayee1015
      @lynnkayee1015 7 років тому +23

      Mother Natures menstrual cycle

    • @ohiostate9704
      @ohiostate9704 6 років тому +6

      Volcanoes: God lighting a match.

    • @shack8110
      @shack8110 6 років тому

      red-hot MAG-ma

  • @victordelima766
    @victordelima766 2 роки тому +2

    If this were me my glasses would have chosen this moment to place themselves in an obscure corner of my jacket as I fumble around in my myopic frenzy.

  • @ramona7877
    @ramona7877 3 роки тому +24

    I was twenty and lived just outside of St Helens Oregon during that time. Hardly anyone around us seemed to take it seriously, as if all the scientists were completely wrong.
    I stood in a field and watched when it erupted, the atom bomb shaped cloud and loud earth shaking rumble.
    We were fortunate and only had a couple inches of ash both times.

    • @thethirdman225
      @thethirdman225 2 роки тому +4

      That’s the price of ignoring science.

    • @duderama6750
      @duderama6750 2 роки тому +2

      Atom bomb. Not wrong at all.

  • @willcook1612
    @willcook1612 3 роки тому +5

    my favorite thing about videos like this is you’re viewing it to see what it says it is a video of. and then the camera goes to a person who saw it and gives you their thoughts and feelings on it.

  • @OutyMan
    @OutyMan 3 роки тому +25

    This is a really smooth, enhanced and slightly augmented morph animation of the eruption. No video footage of these moments exists--Only a series of photographs. A quick technical note in the presentation explaining this would have been appropriate and educational.

  • @kdpjsp
    @kdpjsp 2 роки тому +1

    On that Sunday morning .... May 18, 1980.......I was standing on a ridge top overlooking Auburn Washington.......looking to the south and watching Mt. St. Helen spew earth and ash thousands of feet into the atmosphere. It's a sight I'll never forget.

    • @duderama6750
      @duderama6750 2 роки тому

      I was at the Overlook. 8:32 DST.

  • @CCPwillfall01
    @CCPwillfall01 5 років тому +81

    My dad got to see this with his own eyes when he was training in the army.

    • @comet1227
      @comet1227 4 роки тому +5

      Did he try it with someone else's first?

    • @GinoNL
      @GinoNL 4 роки тому

      @@comet1227 try what?

    • @comet1227
      @comet1227 4 роки тому +8

      @@GinoNL too see

    • @comet1227
      @comet1227 4 роки тому +2

      @matthew scoles thank god someone got my humor 😏

    • @abhisheklama1393
      @abhisheklama1393 4 роки тому

      My dad saw it through the eyes that he'd stolen from his brother. That gave him Eternal Mangeykou so he saw it in ultra HD.

  • @robertlee8400
    @robertlee8400 3 роки тому +42

    The ash from this reach my home town of Cincinnati , Ohio I remember going outside & seeing a faint grey dust sitting on cars , you could see it real well on black or dark colored cars . I was 7 when this happened . My uncle went out & collected the volcanic dust off of the cars & put it in a glass bottle because it was a historical event of the time & he still has the volcano dust labeled in that glass bottle from what happened . You can clearly see that the volcanic dust is like no other dust , it’s just a weird grey color . It’s a neat thing to pass on to future generations .

    • @OhPhuckYou
      @OhPhuckYou 3 роки тому

      I have a jar with the ash too. Not sure how my grandma got it as we live in Kansas, but she used to travel a lot. I suppose she was near the eruption and decided to take some ash home.

  • @ThvictormanixhT
    @ThvictormanixhT 3 роки тому +7

    I live in Tenerife where we have the highest mountain in all of Spain, El teide. It's 3,718 mtrs high and for us is like a sacred place. However, millions of years ago, there was an even higher volcano, that stood at about 5,000 to 7,000 mtrs and it collapsed in a landslide creating a huge plain in the northern part of the island which you can clearly see in satellite images. This footage makes me wonder how such a landslide would've looked and the real destructive power of nature.

  • @tufab3494
    @tufab3494 2 роки тому +1

    Thank God somebody filmed this.

  • @Pompomeranian7
    @Pompomeranian7 3 роки тому +31

    I've never been to Mt. St. Helens but the stories I've read about it remind me of a place I have visited called Turtle Mountain. It's not a volcano but in 1903 half the mountain collapsed and crushed the town of frank and all of its residents with the exception of a few very lucky individuals. Was mind boggling seeing the literal miles of boulder debris and knowing a whole town turned mass grave was burried somewhere under my feet.

    • @duderama6750
      @duderama6750 2 роки тому +4

      Been there. Spooky.

    • @Msfracture
      @Msfracture Рік тому +2

      I felt that same way the first time I was there at 10yrs old..

  • @macharper8214
    @macharper8214 8 років тому +920

    They finally start to show the mountain collapsing in this clip, and then what did they do? They cut to a guy in the middle of it describing that the mountain collapsed. Who is the idiot fool that put that edit there? What a joke.

    • @boggy7665
      @boggy7665 8 років тому +60

      +Sal Lullo It's been a while, and I could be wrong. I think the only record was a series of 35-mm camera frames taken with an auto-wind SLR. This may be digitally enhanced from that; this may be all there is. (edit) Yes, my recollection is correct: watch?v=IhU6jml6NY4

    • @bornvillain6819
      @bornvillain6819 7 років тому +75

      TheDrunkPencil
      It's time lapse.

    • @danm2084
      @danm2084 7 років тому +92

      Because it wasn't actually caught on film. Do some research you fucking simpleton. Jesus Christ. Willfully ignorant, and insulting people because of your own ignorance. What a dummy.

    • @JohnSmith-gq9gn
      @JohnSmith-gq9gn 6 років тому +10

      Dan M....seems to me that you are willfully ignorant and insulting people. Does that make you feel better? Being a dick to people.

    • @4406bbldb
      @4406bbldb 6 років тому +2

      Did chuck noris punch a rock?

  • @stash.
    @stash. 9 років тому +165

    Why did this video cut out when you finally seen the volcano erupt!!!

    • @eliroberson
      @eliroberson 8 років тому +1

      +Looncan I think it's because the guy that was filming knew he wouldn't make it so he rewound the footage and put in in the case and in his backpack to protect it for the future. But i could be wrong

    • @louisleahy3524
      @louisleahy3524 8 років тому +36

      +Looncan Because this isn't an actual video. No video of the initial eruption exists. The person who caught this on camera took a series of 20-something photographs back to back and scientists put them together and made a computerized video of what it would pretty much look like. That is why the explosions at the very end look weirdly morphed and computerized. The only videos that exist are those from after the eruption when news crews and USGS surveyors were videotaping.

    • @jorgeportillo483
      @jorgeportillo483 8 років тому

      +Louie Washam this actually happened because Im Learnig this in schoo

    • @MobileTaz
      @MobileTaz 8 років тому

      +Eli Roberson Yeah. You're wrong. Jeezus where do you morons come up with this crap?

    • @ChrisM-tn3hx
      @ChrisM-tn3hx 8 років тому +5

      +Looncan This video is NOT the eruption. It's just the landslide that took place immediately before the eruption. A 5.1 quake caused the already weakened and bulging north face to landslide. Once that massive weight was gone, there was no longer enough pressure to hold the magma within the volcano.
      The actual eruption was very explosive and happened several seconds after the landslide you see here, expelling magma and rock at nearly 400 miles per hour. It blew ash and smoke 80,000 feet (15 miles) into the atmosphere, and the explosion completely obliterated everything within 8 miles, and caused massive devastation beyond that in some directions up to 20 miles. Trees were strewn about like toothpicks as far as the eye could see.
      Most people only think about the initial blast, but pyroclastic flows continued for nearly 2 weeks, and there were further minor eruptions until July 22nd, 2 months after the initial blast.
      EDIT - You might find it interesting to know, that at the time I was living in New Brunswick, Canada, which is 3500 miles, or 5600 kilometres away. Even at that distance, we were getting ash from the volcano for quite some time. You could see a film of it on your windshield every day.

  • @EchosTackyTiki
    @EchosTackyTiki 2 роки тому +3

    That mountain just decided to stretch it's legs out. The sheer weight of the entire northern side of a mountain makes me think that that shouldn't be possible. Baffling.