I absolutely love how the guy on the scene was like "for what they are worth.... I have no first hand knowledge/haven't seen it myself" you will never hear this from news media today
An absolutely remarkable video. These type of videos are the reason that UA-cam is so great. Historic newscasts are important to archive, and I hope videos like this are on here forever. I want to thank the uploader, as well as all of you who were near that day, and shared your stories. They are so cool to read.
@@tenbroeck1958 Impossible to blame a fissure from the earth's magma layer under the surface on climate change. That has nothing to do with the depletion or the air we breathe or increased ultraviolet radiation.
I was 8. My parents and I were driving North on I5 in Portland. We came around the Terwilliger Curves and saw it. Beautiful morning, blue skies, and a gigantic mushroom cloud. We pulled over. Everyone did. I remember asking my dad why there was no sound. It got bigger and bigger and at first people were panicking because no one knew where the ash was going. Then it became obvious that it was going North. Then we just prayed. I will never forget that mushroom cloud in that sky.
@@parnellibones3780 apparently since it blew out north, the sound went over 200 miles to the north, people in seattle heard it like my mom who was in north seattle actually. Seems like people south of the mountain got really lucky, blast went north....ash went straight east. Portland was closer then anyone yet got very little damage
@@parnellibones3780 crazy how sound and direction and wind all play a factor......imagine if the the eruption came out the south face and wind was going south hahaha Vancouver and portland would of been a legit disaster.
Mid April 1980; I crossed the "red zone" just out of Cougar, south of the volcano. Taking logging roads I found my way to a mountain top that provided a great view. I could see St Helens from near it's base to the false summit. I spent 5-6 hours here and saw a number of small eruptions that absolutely thrilled me. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I wasn't going to miss it.
"You know what would happen if mount St. Helens... Had a major eruption... And you were standing anywhere near it? You'd melt. You'd liquify. In the blink of an eye, 1600 fahrenheit. That fast. No hair, no eyes, no flesh. You're a puddle. Now let's say you're standing five or six miles away from it. You think you're gonna be any safer there? You'll be just as dead. Only it will be slower... First the sky will go black... You'll start to gag, choke... Because there's so much boiling ash in the air it burns out your lungs. Don't worry about the logging. There won't be any. Trees will be flattened for miles, laid out like toothpicks. Fried in the heat. The fish at Spirit Lake will be boiled alive in the water their swimming in. You'll never see them again in your lifetime. You won't wanna even look at this land. It will be worse than the surface of the moon." - Attributed to David Johnston "St. Helens" (1981)
One word for BOYD LEVITT; Awesome; Great Tone & Tenor w / his delivery & detail of this monumental event; really good reporter; I enjoy re-watching him seamlessly outline the story
Went hiking along the toutle river in 2019. still trees on the ground from the eruption. My aunt lives in Yakima. My dad took me up to the roof of the house to watch from Tacoma. I was 8.
Lived in the suburbs of Portland when this happened. I vividly remember ash falling in my yard like a snowfall. The mountain lushness has grown back magnificently.
@@stevegallant3395 not according to USGS. That third eruption may have been in July, instead of June, but I remember we were doing a household move during the ashfall. No ash came South on May 18th and very little, if any, on the 25th. We were on Lopez Island, getting ready to come home to Beaverton when the 25th eruption began. What should have been a 4-hour trip ended up taking over 14.
@@104thDIVTimberwolf I don't recall the dates after 40+ years, but I can assert that east Multnomah county saw no ash until much after May 18. Major activity on the mountain was a normal, accepted occurrence by then. I remember being annoyed when asked by my grandma to collect some of the ash that finally fell in our neighborhood (a few blocks west of Reynolds HS). The ash was a nuisance especially since I had to sweep the cars. That jar of ash is one of my prize souvenirs these days.
I was 7 at the time, and remember this event at the time being reported on TV news in the UK. It was world wide News. I made a point of visiting St Helens on a Road Trip holiday, but it was so foggy we couldn't see the mountain from the Spirit Lake vista.. bummer. Also noteworthy how much more professional local TV news broadcasting was back then, with much less fancy equipment too.
I watched it from Texas and I don't even remember watching TV back then much less caring zero about national news. I've been there also now. Actually had one of my kids move to the area.
Wow, this brings back memories. My husband and I had been assigned to an Army post in Germany, and had just settled into our home there when Mt. St. Helens erupted. We had to be content with some scant reports from local German newscasts, and what information we could get via phone calls back home. It wasn't until we eventually moved back stateside that got the full story--this is neat, as it pulls together much of the contemporary reporting.
That's not true. "The Black Stallion" was released in October, 1979. This disaster occurred in May, 1980 so you must be thinking of a different movie. Even back then, movies didn't stay in theatres for 7 months.
@@stevegallant3395 I wasn’t alive at the time but I’m pretty sure it took the ash longer than a couple minutes to start falling in more populated areas lol. Probably several hours.
FEBRUARY 1980 WAS THE LAST TIME I SAW MT. SAINT HELEN S IN ITS FULL SHAPE ON A VISIT TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST THE NAME ROBIN CHAPMAN DOES RING A BELL I HAVE N T VISITED THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST SINCE OCTOBER 1995 WHAT AN EXUBERANT TRIP THAT WAS
All the way from Texas and just a few years out of high school I knew to pay attention to a once in a lifetime occurrence. Just recently got to go see it from Johnston Ridge.
I loved the 60s and 70s RoninRin I m glad you liked the 80s I do remember hearing about this eruption and a dew ERROR and a few pre eruptions March 1980 maybe April too Harry Truman and not the president who refused to leave the area and that guy named David who was camping around there and he perished with the eruption
I was 12, out fishing on the coast with my nephew. Thought it was thunder. A fish began acting weird on the other side of the pond, leaping in circles over and over. My nephew and I ran over, he cast right where the fish was jumping, and snagged it! My mom came screaming into the parking lot, yelling for us to get in the car, the mountain blew! They were going to send traffic through our way.
I am in Virginia and I remember those ashy days in May 1980. The interesting part of this is that they have no idea that the entire north face of the mountain just slid away. He's talking like it all came out of the top like science fair volcano.
My daughter was born on the anniversary of mt st Helens eruption the best day of my life thank you for sharing this video love from a fellow Washingtonian
Poor iggorant colonials us… refusing to reprogram every aspect our our life to match Europe. HOWEVER… OUR mechanics have 2( count ‘em TWO) sets of tools to accommodate everybody.
@appaloosa42 you mean the rest of the world, not just Europe. As Americans we have no humility. We are stubborn and refuse to change, no matter the cost.
Wow what is missing from their news desk... No computer they had to use notes on paper. 38 years ago and they didn't even use computer when they was on the air. . Computer is basically something new. Jim Little and Ralph wrange is still on Portland news.
Seen the staff on what used to be the flagship station before the company was acquired by bigger companies, KING 5, today they got computers, tablets, and smartphones cluttering the desk.
We were celebrating my wife's birthday at Anderson Point in Kitsap. We partied down on the 18th and woke up to to see the eruption. Thanks planet Earth. What a view.
The first steam eruption that started this whole sequence of events was 40 years ago this past Friday. The "big one" was 6 days after my 14th birthday.
I know the 40 year Mark of Mt. Saint Helen s is coming up on May 18th of this year 2020 I do remember the occurrence well I remember hearing about it 40 years ago today on February 9th 1980 I saw Mt. Saint Helen s whole for the last time I was on a short vacation to the Pacific Northwest
It's sad that 57 people died that day. One in full respect as to why he did. I'd have done the same. He & his wife built that place together & made it successful for 50 years. Ash reached Seattle and Tacoma as well.
Great reporting so refreshing about how we lost sight of facts and information. Nowadays opinions of the reporters looking for feelings too often displace simple fact reporting with short sentences. No feelings then.
@@Andre-jp4yt That's an odd question to ask someone who was a literal toddler at the time, but I'll give it my best shot. Your smartest bet is probably to flee, so emergency money, a vehicle with a full tank of gas, and a well stocked bug-out bag would be the way to go. Pompeii and Herculaneum are good examples of worst case scenarios. Presuming what you actually meant is surviving the conditions that most of Washington State (, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and whoever else was downwind) went through... • You'll probably want to make sure your residence is capable of withstanding holding up multiple feet of ash (which weighs a lot), and to shore up structures with timber where needed. • You'll want at least one shovel to clear ash. Probably more because if one shovel breaks and you don't have a back-up, you're S. O. L. • There's no guarantee that you'll be able to get to a store, or that the store will be open. You'll want at least a month's worth of food. Specifically the kind of food that has a long shelf life. • Actually, that applies to all sorts of consumables. Toilet paper, replacement bulbs, pain killer, batteries, bandages, duct tape... • You aren't guaranteed utilities, either. If your residence has a fireplace, make sure you have firewood. If you don't have a fireplace, then you can make a space heater using terracotta pots, bolts, nuts, and a large enough pan (Instructions can be Googled). Wood and terracotta pots can also be used to make a water filter. • Get a hand cranked emergency lamp/flashlight. Preferably one that has a radio and a place to plug in your phone. • You'll want clothing that can stand up to abuse, like the kind made for gardening or for manual labor. You won't want to try digging out of ash in your Sunday best. Also, eye protection to help prevent getting ash in your eyes. • Seriously think about getting a whistle and mirror. If you need help and someone is nearby, a whistle will help them find you. A mirror would alert a passing airplane (pilots report any flashing light they spot in case some stranded person is trying to signal them). • Make sure you have entertainment that is not dependent on electricity. Books. Cards. Paper and pencil. Etc.
I watched the Mountain explode that day. My best friends cousins and aunts and uncles were evacuated to my friends home because of the disaster. A day I will not forget. Luckily we were all safe. We were about 25 miles from the mountain.
The morning of 18 May 1980, my wife and I were riding a Honda CB 750 F Super Sport motorcycle down the Mount Tabor Park roadway on the north side of the park. My wife tapped me on my left arm as a signal to stop. I stopped, and she yelled, "look at the strange cloud formation above Mount Saint Helens!" I lit a Salem cigarette and watched the movement. Of course I discovered the formation was not moving one way or the other horizontally. I explained to her, the so called cloud formation was actually a plume because it was rising vertically!" "Mount Saint Helen's was erupting. It was quite a show. And since the initial blast was on the north side away from us, we didn't here anything. And of course, we had no camera. You know that plume deposited a considerable amount of ash in the upper atmosphere. It circled the earth twice. It was something I'll probably never see again. I was a Radio Cab night driver back in those days. When I met Robin Chapman, I told her "you look better without makeup!" 🌎
39:00 - what they're taking about is an acoustic shadow. It's a phenomenon that was discovered during the Civil War. People further away from a battle could hear it clearly whereas a person closer to the battle couldn't hear anything. That's why Portland didn't hear it but Eugene and people in Canada did.
It’s amazing to think that most of what genealogists and meteorologists now know about how volcanoes affect weather wasnt learned until after Mt St Helen’s’ eruption. They now know ash doesn’t determine how much a volcano blast will lower temperatures. It’s actually one of the gases(maybe sulfur dioxide?)
This video showed up just now in first slot for suggested videos. Very random all things considered. April 18, 2024 today, and this was posted 9 years ago and filmed earlier than that. Gives me an ominous feeling.
We grew up in Ellensburg, and when the mountain blew, my dad took up kids underground and we stayed there for nearly four years. He thought it was a nuclear war. We eventually came out of course and….wow. There’s still a whole bunch of culture and stuff I don’t get because I was away.
I love the full kind of longish haircuts the boys are wearing. Takes me right back to my youth. The 70s and early 80s were my favorite era in America, specifically, the Pacific coast.
You sure can see the difference in the media presentation, pre-internet - everyone seems calmer and is not know-it-all, dramatic or pumping up the volume. Geologist David Johnstone (around 51:44) was lost and never found. He was about 6 miles NW at the time of the eruption. See the recent doc on attempts to find artifacts near the site
I was 17 when it happened. I lived in northern Utah and worked at a service station on the gas pumps. We go very little in the way of ash, but we had a flood of people from Idaho stopping at the station because their cars were running poorly. We found their air filter housings just full of ash. I suspect many of those people ended up with ruined engines if they sucked some of that ash into their engines.
1:15 Boyd Levett with a classic "comb over" hairstyle almost rivaling Gene Keade's of Purdue basketball coaching fame, wow! Forget that erupting volcano in the background! Combover King!!
@JJMHigner: Before the eruption they were blackened? If not was thinking they could had largest logging event in history maybe, allow companies all over US to log it out, not have to pay anything for it. Would gave local small towns a lot business.
@@letsgobrandon7297 alot of them did. But weyeheauser salvaged a lot of them also. ... my personal opinion, the should have brought woodchippers out there for the unsalvageable trees and mixed the chips up with the ash .. compost or break it up faster probably.
I saw Harry Truman just the other day having dinner in a diner with Elvis Presley! They were both very old men at this point, but I could tell who they really were! So evidently Truman evacuated before the eruption.
From what I've learned about volcanos this is what I know: Don't assume absolute certainty. If someone says the safe zone is 20 miles from the the red zone, maybe give it another 10. We're all learning. Don't assume humans are gonna be 100% right in regards to weather.
In all the Volcano Shows and Documentaries Ive seen with Mt. St.Helens, I think that this is the 1st time Ive seen it When it was just a relatively small Vent on rhe Top, Pre•Detonation🌋💥
Shows you can’t control the earth , its a living , breathing entity!! Its all so shows ya can’t control the climate either !! This volcano spews more crap i the air then millions of cars !
OMG! Did what Harry was trying to say mean that because, there was no one there for days that there'd be no food if nothing happened once everyone came back? That was the middle of nowhere too so, he'd have been right if it didn't erupt. No one but, him was there since April 30 when the evacuation order of Spirit Lake was declared. This duration also explains why everyone was ready to get their belongings. This man was no stranger to hunkering down and storing food for the winter. He was thinking about that. The more I hear what he says the more annoyed I get at the state and the media making a mockery out of him to project their dysfunctional old men onto. Then, it continues to this day which is more annoying.
Iam glad they are talking about this.I was there! It was no joke.I was station at the Cle Elm Ranger Station. The call came in at 8:30 a.m. We were told to clear the park.We clear the park as we were training for it. I have never seen it get so dark like that you could not see six feet in front of you.The ash mix with logs to form a concert so hard you had to blast it.I get the chills thinking about it.Thank God for Jesus.
It's weird comparing news like this that I barely remember to news from a decade ago when I stopped watching it. From the bits and pieces I see nowadays, I was right to quit watching it.
I don't blame the question. This might be the first time josh has seen anything of it. Harry Was a character all his own and he at his old age decided his own fate.
I’m Tom Morris , camera person in the credits ! It took a long time to top the excitement of that story !
Love these prehistoric TV news segments.
What are you, 10 years old?
Until 2001?
I can't imagine what that must have been like
@@fredharvey2720 he'll no I am in my late 50s actually
I absolutely love how the guy on the scene was like "for what they are worth.... I have no first hand knowledge/haven't seen it myself" you will never hear this from news media today
An absolutely remarkable video. These type of videos are the reason that UA-cam is so great. Historic newscasts are important to archive, and I hope videos like this are on here forever.
I want to thank the uploader, as well as all of you who were near that day, and shared your stories. They are so cool to read.
Wow, great to see not only the reporting "as it happened" BUT also- knowledgeable questions and answers from not only the presenters and experts!
I lived in Amboy and just turned 16 the week before. Was outside splitting wood when she went. Something you never forget
What was your experience?
*_'Ello...??_*
Would love for you to elaborate on that !!!
Lived through all of this as a 12 year old. Our family was evacuated, school got cancelled for the year. It was all exciting for us kids back then.
Calm, normal, informational, rational news broadcasting
Was thinking the exact same thing.
how does one prepare for the similar eruption, besides stocking up on water and masks. Thanks.
Very calm -- and very well written
No blaming of "man-made" climate causes or anything!
@@tenbroeck1958 Impossible to blame a fissure from the earth's magma layer under the surface on climate change. That has nothing to do with the depletion or the air we breathe or increased ultraviolet radiation.
I was 8. My parents and I were driving North on I5 in Portland. We came around the Terwilliger Curves and saw it. Beautiful morning, blue skies, and a gigantic mushroom cloud. We pulled over. Everyone did. I remember asking my dad why there was no sound. It got bigger and bigger and at first people were panicking because no one knew where the ash was going. Then it became obvious that it was going North. Then we just prayed. I will never forget that mushroom cloud in that sky.
Id pay thousands to see that just once
I always wondered if it could be heard.
@@parnellibones3780 apparently since it blew out north, the sound went over 200 miles to the north, people in seattle heard it like my mom who was in north seattle actually. Seems like people south of the mountain got really lucky, blast went north....ash went straight east. Portland was closer then anyone yet got very little damage
@@parnellibones3780 crazy how sound and direction and wind all play a factor......imagine if the the eruption came out the south face and wind was going south hahaha Vancouver and portland would of been a legit disaster.
how does one prepare for the similar eruption, besides stocking up on water and masks. Thanks.
Mid April 1980; I crossed the "red zone" just out of Cougar, south of the volcano. Taking logging roads I found my way to a mountain top that provided a great view. I could see St Helens from near it's base to the false summit. I spent 5-6 hours here and saw a number of small eruptions that absolutely thrilled me. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I wasn't going to miss it.
Stunning to see the clip of David Johnston, they didn't even know he had perished when this was aired.
I think they were pretty sure.
David A Johnston 1949 -1980
Vancouver Vancouver This Is It
May 18 1980 8:32 AM
Mitchell John Leslie David Johnston r.i.p 1949-1980
And Harry Truman
"You know what would happen
if mount St. Helens...
Had a major eruption...
And you were standing anywhere near it?
You'd melt.
You'd liquify.
In the blink of an eye, 1600 fahrenheit.
That fast.
No hair, no eyes, no flesh.
You're a puddle.
Now let's say you're standing
five or six miles away from it.
You think you're gonna be any safer there?
You'll be just as dead.
Only it will be slower...
First the sky will go black...
You'll start to gag, choke...
Because there's so much boiling ash
in the air it burns out your lungs.
Don't worry about the logging.
There won't be any.
Trees will be flattened for miles, laid out like toothpicks.
Fried in the heat.
The fish at Spirit Lake will be boiled
alive in the water their swimming in.
You'll never see them
again in your lifetime.
You won't wanna even look at this land.
It will be worse than the
surface of the moon."
- Attributed to David Johnston "St. Helens" (1981)
@@sce2aux464 Graphic. wow.
I wonder if he was talking about the volcano or his life? RIP DJ
This is the best coverage I’ve seen. Today’s news can learn a few things.
One word for BOYD LEVITT; Awesome; Great Tone & Tenor w / his delivery & detail of this monumental event; really good reporter; I enjoy re-watching him seamlessly outline the story
Went hiking along the toutle river in 2019. still trees on the ground from the eruption. My aunt lives in Yakima. My dad took me up to the roof of the house to watch from Tacoma. I was 8.
5:22 wow. no delay on that old analog equipment. these days i swear reporters just blocks from the station end up with several second delays.
Heh wow you're right
Yup
31:48 is another good example of that very-low delay.
in my country there is a silence of 15 seconds for them to start talking
It’s done now to cut anything that they hadn’t expected in the broadcast crowd control
Revisiting this in 2022, absolutely amazing natural event. The before and after shots are humbling for sure.
Praise God we didn't loose more people.
Lived in the suburbs of Portland when this happened. I vividly remember ash falling in my yard like a snowfall. The mountain lushness has grown back magnificently.
That eruption was June 25th, the third big eruption (the second one was May 25th). We didn't get any ash before that one.
@@104thDIVTimberwolf your dates are wrong
@@stevegallant3395 not according to USGS. That third eruption may have been in July, instead of June, but I remember we were doing a household move during the ashfall. No ash came South on May 18th and very little, if any, on the 25th. We were on Lopez Island, getting ready to come home to Beaverton when the 25th eruption began. What should have been a 4-hour trip ended up taking over 14.
@@104thDIVTimberwolf I don't recall the dates after 40+ years, but I can assert that east Multnomah county saw no ash until much after May 18. Major activity on the mountain was a normal, accepted occurrence by then. I remember being annoyed when asked by my grandma to collect some of the ash that finally fell in our neighborhood (a few blocks west of Reynolds HS). The ash was a nuisance especially since I had to sweep the cars. That jar of ash is one of my prize souvenirs these days.
RIP
To the 57 people and thousands of animals who were killed in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
I was 7 at the time, and remember this event at the time being reported on TV news in the UK. It was world wide News. I made a point of visiting St Helens on a Road Trip holiday, but it was so foggy we couldn't see the mountain from the Spirit Lake vista.. bummer. Also noteworthy how much more professional local TV news broadcasting was back then, with much less fancy equipment too.
I watched it from Texas and I don't even remember watching TV back then much less caring zero about national news. I've been there also now. Actually had one of my kids move to the area.
Wow, this brings back memories. My husband and I had been assigned to an Army post in Germany, and had just settled into our home there when Mt. St. Helens erupted. We had to be content with some scant reports from local German newscasts, and what information we could get via phone calls back home. It wasn't until we eventually moved back stateside that got the full story--this is neat, as it pulls together much of the contemporary reporting.
I remember coming out of the movie theater after watching "The Black Stallion" and it looked like there was snow everywhere but it was ash.
That's not true. "The Black Stallion" was released in October, 1979. This disaster occurred in May, 1980 so you must be thinking of a different movie. Even back then, movies didn't stay in theatres for 7 months.
You went to see a movie at 6:30 in the morning?
@@stevegallant3395 I wasn’t alive at the time but I’m pretty sure it took the ash longer than a couple minutes to start falling in more populated areas lol. Probably several hours.
how does one prepare for the similar eruption, besides stocking up on water and masks. Thanks.
My mom was 4 months pregnant with me back then... Also, miss those real news coverage. Thanks a lot for uploading this!
The sheer honesty and sincerity of the media back in 1980 is sorely missed. I would give anything for a news channel that reported like this now.
Amen.
FEBRUARY 1980 WAS THE LAST TIME I SAW MT. SAINT HELEN S IN ITS FULL SHAPE ON A VISIT TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST THE NAME ROBIN CHAPMAN DOES RING A BELL I HAVE N T VISITED THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST SINCE OCTOBER 1995 WHAT AN EXUBERANT TRIP THAT WAS
All the way from Texas and just a few years out of high school I knew to pay attention to a once in a lifetime occurrence. Just recently got to go see it from Johnston Ridge.
That was one epic comb over!! God I loved the 80s!
I loved the 60s and 70s RoninRin I m glad you liked the 80s I do remember hearing about this eruption and a dew ERROR and a few pre eruptions March 1980 maybe April too Harry Truman and not the president who refused to leave the area and that guy named David who was camping around there and he perished with the eruption
I finally found someone that said something a/b that 'comb over'....I can't stop laughing at that dude...too funny...he looks ridiculous ~
@@buddydog1956 I was looking, too!
I was 12, out fishing on the coast with my nephew. Thought it was thunder. A fish began acting weird on the other side of the pond, leaping in circles over and over. My nephew and I ran over, he cast right where the fish was jumping, and snagged it! My mom came screaming into the parking lot, yelling for us to get in the car, the mountain blew! They were going to send traffic through our way.
From a time when news wasn’t dumbed down.
Or dictated by higher-ups
💯💥🔥
I am in Virginia and I remember those ashy days in May 1980. The interesting part of this is that they have no idea that the entire north face of the mountain just slid away. He's talking like it all came out of the top like science fair volcano.
My daughter was born on the anniversary of mt st Helens eruption the best day of my life thank you for sharing this video love from a fellow Washingtonian
I couldn't not to notice - the interviewed scientists were all using proper metric system back then.
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Poor iggorant colonials us… refusing to reprogram every aspect our our life to match Europe. HOWEVER…
OUR mechanics have 2( count ‘em TWO) sets of tools to accommodate everybody.
@appaloosa42 you mean the rest of the world, not just Europe. As Americans we have no humility. We are stubborn and refuse to change, no matter the cost.
Loving your combover, Boyd. Nothing like the early 80s.
Remember when the media reported the NEWS!?
When he's describing the volcano, it sounds like he's describing that combover.
Excellent coverage of the event. Today's coverage would be dumbed down significantly.
how does one prepare for the similar eruption, besides stocking up on water and masks. Thanks.
Wow what is missing from their news desk... No computer they had to use notes on paper. 38 years ago and they didn't even use computer when they was on the air. . Computer is basically something new.
Jim Little and Ralph wrange is still on Portland news.
Seen the staff on what used to be the flagship station before the company was acquired by bigger companies, KING 5, today they got computers, tablets, and smartphones cluttering the desk.
Wow. I haven't thought about being a kid in a long time. I'm 51 now.
We were celebrating my wife's birthday at Anderson Point in Kitsap. We partied down on the 18th and woke up to to see the eruption. Thanks planet Earth. What a view.
This is amazing, no hand waving propaganda techniques like modern news broadcasts. Just reporting what he sees with no spin.
The first steam eruption that started this whole sequence of events was 40 years ago this past Friday. The "big one" was 6 days after my 14th birthday.
And here I am, living in Battle Ground with a full view of the mountain 44 years later.
Definitely 80’s lol, interesting to look at after all these years, thanks
Nicely done 😊real reporting
I know the 40 year Mark of Mt. Saint Helen s is coming up on May 18th of this year 2020 I do remember the occurrence well I remember hearing about it 40 years ago today on February 9th 1980 I saw Mt. Saint Helen s whole for the last time I was on a short vacation to the Pacific Northwest
Mount Sant Helens has taught us that big volcanoes go boom
5/18/80 a year before my mom was born i will never forget
Thats funny my Mom had her 38th Birthday that day! I had 9 days to go to my 9th....🥳
@@arnoroorda3201 Happy Birthday to all. 🎂
I bet seeing that up close in person was a tragic site to see
Boyd Levet has a kick ass combover
😂
Boyd Levet has cool hair.
Ultimate comb-over!!
It's sad that 57 people died that day. One in full respect as to why he did. I'd have done the same. He & his wife built that place together & made it successful for 50 years. Ash reached Seattle and Tacoma as well.
Great reporting so refreshing about how we lost sight of facts and information. Nowadays opinions of the reporters looking for feelings too often displace simple fact reporting with short sentences. No feelings then.
💯💥🔥👍
I hadn't yet hit my third birthday when this happened. I didn't learn about this until eight years after the fact.
how does one prepare for the similar eruption, besides stocking up on water and masks. Thanks.
@@Andre-jp4yt That's an odd question to ask someone who was a literal toddler at the time, but I'll give it my best shot.
Your smartest bet is probably to flee, so emergency money, a vehicle with a full tank of gas, and a well stocked bug-out bag would be the way to go. Pompeii and Herculaneum are good examples of worst case scenarios.
Presuming what you actually meant is surviving the conditions that most of Washington State (, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and whoever else was downwind) went through...
• You'll probably want to make sure your residence is capable of withstanding holding up multiple feet of ash (which weighs a lot), and to shore up structures with timber where needed.
• You'll want at least one shovel to clear ash. Probably more because if one shovel breaks and you don't have a back-up, you're S. O. L.
• There's no guarantee that you'll be able to get to a store, or that the store will be open. You'll want at least a month's worth of food. Specifically the kind of food that has a long shelf life.
• Actually, that applies to all sorts of consumables. Toilet paper, replacement bulbs, pain killer, batteries, bandages, duct tape...
• You aren't guaranteed utilities, either. If your residence has a fireplace, make sure you have firewood. If you don't have a fireplace, then you can make a space heater using terracotta pots, bolts, nuts, and a large enough pan (Instructions can be Googled). Wood and terracotta pots can also be used to make a water filter.
• Get a hand cranked emergency lamp/flashlight. Preferably one that has a radio and a place to plug in your phone.
• You'll want clothing that can stand up to abuse, like the kind made for gardening or for manual labor. You won't want to try digging out of ash in your Sunday best. Also, eye protection to help prevent getting ash in your eyes.
• Seriously think about getting a whistle and mirror. If you need help and someone is nearby, a whistle will help them find you. A mirror would alert a passing airplane (pilots report any flashing light they spot in case some stranded person is trying to signal them).
• Make sure you have entertainment that is not dependent on electricity. Books. Cards. Paper and pencil. Etc.
I watched the Mountain explode that day. My best friends cousins and aunts and uncles were evacuated to my friends home because of the disaster. A day I will not forget. Luckily we were all safe. We were about 25 miles from the mountain.
The morning of 18 May 1980, my wife and I were riding a Honda CB 750 F Super Sport motorcycle down the Mount Tabor Park roadway on the north side of the park. My wife tapped me on my left arm as a signal to stop. I stopped, and she yelled, "look at the strange cloud formation above Mount Saint Helens!" I lit a Salem cigarette and watched the movement. Of course I discovered the formation was not moving one way or the other horizontally. I explained to her, the so called cloud formation was actually a plume because it was rising vertically!" "Mount Saint Helen's was erupting. It was quite a show. And since the initial blast was on the north side away from us, we didn't here anything. And of course, we had no camera. You know that plume deposited a considerable amount of ash in the upper atmosphere. It circled the earth twice. It was something I'll probably never see again. I was a Radio Cab night driver back in those days. When I met Robin Chapman, I told her "you look better without makeup!" 🌎
invaluable documento historico,thx 4 share
39:00 - what they're taking about is an acoustic shadow. It's a phenomenon that was discovered during the Civil War. People further away from a battle could hear it clearly whereas a person closer to the battle couldn't hear anything. That's why Portland didn't hear it but Eugene and people in Canada did.
It’s amazing to think that most of what genealogists and meteorologists now know about how volcanoes affect weather wasnt learned until after Mt St Helen’s’ eruption. They now know ash doesn’t determine how much a volcano blast will lower temperatures. It’s actually one of the gases(maybe sulfur dioxide?)
This video showed up just now in first slot for suggested videos. Very random all things considered. April 18, 2024 today, and this was posted 9 years ago and filmed earlier than that. Gives me an ominous feeling.
We grew up in Ellensburg, and when the mountain blew, my dad took up kids underground and we stayed there for nearly four years. He thought it was a nuclear war. We eventually came out of course and….wow. There’s still a whole bunch of culture and stuff I don’t get because I was away.
No way - there would have been missing people reports
@@friendsandindustry I don’t know the details
What?? Did your dad not have a TV?? You've only told a tiny fraction of the story!!
@@scotabot7826 we couldn’t get reception. It was underground.
Deoglemnaco7025,
Are you serious or just joking about spending 4 years in a nuclear fallout shelter?
I was 9 at the time. I remember being scared. I was in the northeast. Volcanoes scare me and fascinated at the same time.
I love the full kind of longish haircuts the boys are wearing. Takes me right back to my youth. The 70s and early 80s were my favorite era in America, specifically, the Pacific coast.
Just think all these reporters are the age of grandparents nowadays.
I was 12 years old living in Hazel Dell in Vancouver Washington, I remember lots of ash , couldn’t go outside , couldn’t go to school .
You sure can see the difference in the media presentation, pre-internet - everyone seems calmer and is not know-it-all, dramatic or pumping up the volume. Geologist David Johnstone (around 51:44) was lost and never found. He was about 6 miles NW at the time of the eruption. See the recent doc on attempts to find artifacts near the site
Boyd Levet has a combover that resembles the volcano after eruption
😂😂
i feel sorry for all the victims and the dead during this eruption but i cant get enough of learning about volcanoes particularlly mt st helens
I was 17 when it happened. I lived in northern Utah and worked at a service station on the gas pumps. We go very little in the way of ash, but we had a flood of people from Idaho stopping at the station because their cars were running poorly. We found their air filter housings just full of ash. I suspect many of those people ended up with ruined engines if they sucked some of that ash into their engines.
1:15 Boyd Levett with a classic "comb over" hairstyle almost rivaling Gene Keade's of Purdue basketball coaching fame, wow! Forget that erupting volcano in the background! Combover King!!
Wait, is that Robin Chapman who later worked for WESH in Orlando??
I was 2 yrs old living in Massachusetts when it happened
They should of had the largest logging event in history before it erupted, all those tree’s went to waste when they could been used.
Not likely. They did not bother. The trees are either so blackened or otherwise compromised And they were too inaccessible overall For the expense.
@JJMHigner: Before the eruption they were blackened? If not was thinking they could had largest logging event in history maybe, allow companies all over US to log it out, not have to pay anything for it. Would gave local small towns a lot business.
They did recover ALOT of it.
@sherimatukonis6016: Thought I read something that 98% of the tree’s went to waste.
@@letsgobrandon7297 alot of them did. But weyeheauser salvaged a lot of them also. ... my personal opinion, the should have brought woodchippers out there for the unsalvageable trees and mixed the chips up with the ash .. compost or break it up faster probably.
I saw Harry Truman just the other day having dinner in a diner with Elvis Presley! They were both very old men at this point, but I could tell who they really were! So evidently Truman evacuated before the eruption.
Just passed the 35th year mark.
may ,18, 2020 the big 40.
42 years now
Harry Truman had two kegs of whiskey with which he planned to hole up in a mine shaft and wait out
The mountains upset stomach. Ha Ha
LOL. R.IP. HARRY
Idk why, but the name Boyd fits this reporter perfectly.
That looked like Truman’s lodge going down the river , part of it floating
From what I've learned about volcanos this is what I know: Don't assume absolute certainty.
If someone says the safe zone is 20 miles from the the red zone, maybe give it another 10. We're all learning. Don't assume humans are gonna be 100% right in regards to weather.
In all the Volcano Shows and Documentaries Ive seen with Mt. St.Helens, I think that this is the 1st time Ive seen it When it was just a relatively small Vent on rhe Top,
Pre•Detonation🌋💥
wow thats some comb over.
Shows you can’t control the earth , its a living , breathing entity!! Its all so shows ya can’t control the climate either !! This volcano spews more crap i the air then millions of cars !
Only for a brief time. Millions of cars are operating every day.
I will always remember this moment I was eating a hotdog with mustard and ketchup . I still eat hotdogs to this day
OMG! Did what Harry was trying to say mean that because, there was no one there for days that there'd be no food if nothing happened once everyone came back? That was the middle of nowhere too so, he'd have been right if it didn't erupt. No one but, him was there since April 30 when the evacuation order of Spirit Lake was declared. This duration also explains why everyone was ready to get their belongings. This man was no stranger to hunkering down and storing food for the winter. He was thinking about that. The more I hear what he says the more annoyed I get at the state and the media making a mockery out of him to project their dysfunctional old men onto. Then, it continues to this day which is more annoying.
the blast knocked Boyd's hairline back 2 inches
Iam glad they are talking about this.I was there! It was no joke.I was station at the Cle Elm Ranger Station. The call came in at 8:30 a.m. We were told to clear the park.We clear the park as we were training for it. I have never seen it get so dark like that you could not see six feet in front of you.The ash mix with logs to form a concert so hard you had to blast it.I get the chills thinking about it.Thank God for Jesus.
My mom told me people were bottling up jars of Ashes and selling it as far as Arizona
I have a little bottle of ash somewhere, but it's not for sale.
1:20 clucking bell! I can’t tell which is more fierce. The eruption in the background or that blokes comb over. I don’t know which one to look at!
When was Phil Collins a reporter?
For newscast-Reagan got rid of the “Fairness Doctrine”.
David Johnson died there that day.
Johnston
Boyd's comb over is righteous 🤘
"I have goosebumps people!"
check out that dudes 'comb over' ~ lol!!!
Maybe the best comb over next to Bill Murray's in kingpin
That was cruel putting his hair style next to the eruption
Mount Saint Helen's. But where did she go and what were they mounting?
It's weird comparing news like this that I barely remember to news from a decade ago when I stopped watching it. From the bits and pieces I see nowadays, I was right to quit watching it.
Comb over distracts from the volcano
So what happened to Mr Truman?
You're kidding, right?
EgoBusta
He died because of the mountains blast. I saw videos he didn't want to leave his home
Never found. Highly likely buried.
I don't blame the question. This might be the first time josh has seen anything of it. Harry Was a character all his own and he at his old age decided his own fate.
I was 8 years old
Boyd Levet. Best hair on television !!!!!!
You haven't seen anything yet 🙏🏼