This footage made me want to be a geologist at age four. Now at 28, I have a geology degree and have never looked back. Dave Crockett, AMAZING footage!
At age four, I just wanted to know simple mathematics. By my 'calculations', you're age 4 times 10 these days, and I'm thinking your geology degree has brought you far in life. Maine says to say "Hello". I was living in Eugene but visiting one of the 3 sisters camping with 2 friends when MT. St. Helen erupted. The groan it put out will never be forgotten either. It sounded like the whole earth was dying. We were in the process of cooking breakfast when the mountain blew. I'd forgotten all about it being eminent. The sudden, loud rumbling sounded like a huge accidental gas explosion had taken out the town of Eugene far off and below us. Then, I recalled the latest news reports regarding the mountain. We were going to go camping there at first, not thinking a thing about any danger, as did many at the time, but we all had to get back to our jobs on Monday morning, so we camped at that closer spot to save from driving so far. Well, I've rambled on so long that Maine just said to say 'hello' for it again, and that it's missed you! That was just me trying to Bee Fun Knee, "on purpose, even"! Live well by laughing often. Add love much, and life's a sweet cool breeze no matter what. Contentment... a treasure to find and keep secure. I'd rather be that than be like a Mount Saint Helen and explode at every thing they throw at us. I had to finally wake up and do the simple 'math' to find that out though. It's easy to want to go with the flow, or be a part of something instead of nothing. Thoughts are valuable and they have weight. I'm keeping mine, they can't just have them, or be gifted them through their distractions. Forgive me for writing a whole book. I never could just tweet and run, I'd starve doing that.
I found this video today after listening to My Favorite Murder podcast, Karen told Dave’s story. I was 8 years old when the eruption happened and I remember hearing about it, I also remember watching a movie about it, but I never heard his whole factual story. My husband has a vial of ash from this eruption that his grandmother collected shortly after the eruption. She got multiple vials labeled them and had them the rest of her life, after she passed away my husband got one of the vials. I suppose it’ll get passed on to our kids.
Me too!! I wasn't sure if i wanted to see the footage, but as soon as Karen started talking about the selfie he took, I had to have a look. What an amazing story !
Incredible story! I visited Mt. St. Helen’s in 2019. The area around it is stunning. Walking among felled trees and other debris among the new life springing up is pretty surreal. I hope to go back someday, the weather was less than ideal but it was still an incredible experience. I was 7 years old when it erupted and still remember the footage on the news. I anyone gets the chance to visit, do it! You won’t regret it.
I remember seeing this footage not long after the eruption and being just so amazed and delighted that the guy lived. It's great to see it again, what an amazing story.
Dave Crockett. He simply walked out of Mordor. And films it too! He then gets reprimanded for losing his TV station's car. I think his boss needed some damn perspective here.
I used to have an old CD about logging in Oregon, and it was said that one of the loggers said, Mt. St. Helen holds the record for the most timber fallen, in the shortest amount of time, in the biggest clear cut ever. Thank you for posting and sharing.
I've looked everywhere for this footage. I remember seeing it on shows about Mt St Helens when I was a kid, almost certainly on KOMO, which we received in BC. Thank you so much for filling in the back story for me--I was starting to think I had imagined seeing this! LOL
Yep - he is definitely a LEGEND around here! :) Must’ve been a weird and terrifying feeling to leave the car behind, not knowing what the hell was going to happen!
I remember it too. Somehow the press got ahold of it and it wound up on the national news. How he got out o there alive is a whole other story. I was up there a year later to survey the damage and take photos for the park service. I was amazed to see saplings of various sizes coming up thru all that destruction. Thousands of em. The now nitrogen rich soil that covered the forest was the best possible fertilizer .
The euphoria must’ve been insane! I still remember seeing this story on KOMO (which is local for me even today)...and it was terrifying to see; so glad he survived!
tedGEGI He was not the past president. But he refused to leave. He and his 16 cats all died. His body was never found. ua-cam.com/video/sm-EvazNCjU/v-deo.html
I'm so glad he made it! I was in Spokane that day, and the ash didn't get there until about 1 p.m. It made my chest hurt to breathe the stuff. I'll sure never forget it! I still have my mayonnaise jar full of the ash and a photo that was taken at Fairchild AFB. We were there for an airshow which got cancelled.
As a teenager I was lucky enough to get to row across Spirit Lake in a canoe with that old crazy dude and the rest of us teenagers going to clean up the Boy and Girl Scout Camps on the other side of the lake. I will never forget that time in my life..Im 58 now.
When I first saw this footage, I was in 8th grade in Grand Prairie, TX, and recall saying that I would never have been so brave nor as strong. Since then, I've seen an F-4, two F-5's, and survived a car crash that by all rights should have killed me. Those moments of survival and strength are in all of us, I have realized. lol I'm sorry; I thought I would share that. Peace to all.
@@redefinedliving5974 Its an habit of mine to put lol in some of my comment for no reason when i'm not sure of it Like "Should i post this? i don't know" and then my immediate reaction for some reason is to type the word lol I have other reason but thats the main one
+Damian Faltermeier I have been to Mt. St. Helens many times. You can even go see Dave Crockett's ruined car, among other things. There were many people with cameras and film cameras back then and Dave was one of the few who made it out when St. Helens blew. If you do get a chance to go see Mt. St. Helens there are many visitor centers along the way and pack a pair of binoculars, there's a residential elk herd in the park.
Damian, this really did happen. I remember seeing it on the news at the time. Back in 1980, you couldn't fake something like this. The technology to do something of that magnitude just wasn't there.
I remember this as an amazing, defining video from my childhood - so happy to find it again - thanks for posting PortlandDriver! A fantastic story from the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens!!
I was 6 years old then, i remember someone sending me mt st Helens ash in a little bottle, like a souvenir shop type, i actually kept it for years then wanted to feel it, so i opened it up and played with the ash, and it was like find grey sand particles ground to dust, but heavy enough to settle if you tossed it in the air. The power of the eruption then in my mind couldn't conceive yet, but it helped to bend it into thinking the impossible.
Thanks for posting this! It's so hard to find. I have the same memory as you - watching a longer cut in elementary school - wish I could find the entire video.
Oddyellano Apparently they think teens and young people being vain is a new thing, and that they weren't "back in the day", forgetting about Polaroids, and other cameras. LOL Only difference was you usually had to take the film in to be developed before you could SEE your selfie. :)
How absolutely horrific! You can almost feel as if you were there with him during the moment that footage was taken. I just went to St. Helens again after the 2nd time (older now) and it is absolutely amazing that he got the way he did. That mountain is insanely big and the valley around you enormous. Never felt so small in my life till I went back & saw the aftermath of building size trees twisted, blasted, & destroyed beyond recognition.
Now consider that Mt. St. Helens was a relatively small eruption (though its effects were magnified by it being a lateral blast as opposed to a vertical one). Meanwhile Mt. Tambora in Indonesia erupted hard enough in 1815 that the resulting ash clouds blotted out the sun and basically cancelled summer 1816 in North America and Europe. Also, the mountain was reduced in size from about 14,000 feet to 9000 feet. Imagine Mt. Rainier losing about a quarter of its height in one huge blast.
I currently live about 20 miles from the mountain, and I lived about 12 miles further from her when she went off that day in 1980. It was the most incredible thing I've ever been through and definitely won't ever forget it! The panic, but yet in awe. The darkness, the air, the smell... People have asked me, "Aren't you worried living that close to it?!" Nope. I've seen what she can do, and I respect the power, but I'm not scared of it at all. I think she's beautiful.
St Helens eruption SELFIE thumbs up...however, my heart goes out to the many people and animals who did NOT make it out of this natural event alive...The video of this eruption is a way for future generations to be able to experience this eruption while being safe...And realize the danger of being even a few miles away....
living in Washington and being born fourteen years after this happened is very surreal. Seeing this footage takes you there and it would've been a cool thing to experience, but you know your heart would've been pounding watching it all go down. It's something people don't usually experience in their lifetimes.
It is May 18.2010. I feel like watching this video is like a Deja Vu. I lived at the base of the mountain not as close as Dave Crockett was but about 20-25 air miles..I can remember it getting dark with freaky lightning.I can remember when the mountain blew and the earth beneath me moving while in the garden. As we watched the mountain the national guard came up telling us to evacuate bridges were wiped out and pyroclastic mud flows were pouring into the Toutle River. We survived Mt. St.Helens
Thanks for the reminder! (At that time, my wife and I were living in British Columbia- just north of the American border. My cousin from the U.K. had called me, to say that she and her new husband, were on honeymoon in SoCal- and they were coming to visit before flying back to the UK. It took 4-5 days longer than they had planned- to arrive. (The Highway Patrol had shut the highway down, and were ordering everyone on it to take shelter until further notice. My cousin and her hubby spent the next 2-3 days- holed up at a motel with a lot of other people. When the all clear sounded, their rental car was covered in ash! (I would not want to be anywhere near Yellowstone- when that one lets go!)
I was living in Kelso when the eruption happened. I can remember when his video first aired on the news. All this seems like yesterday to me and it was quite an event for a 6 year old to experience. I visit the mountain every 10 years on the anniversary because it's still very sad for me. We lost people we love that day, however it's really nice to see it coming back more and more each time I visit.
I remember seeing this on ABC Nightline back when it happened. I had forgotten the reporters name was David Crockett. The same as one of my childhood heroes from the Walt Disney show.
You are correct, and I actually made a typo, I meant 480i which was used in NTSC television format, it means it has the vertical resolution of 480 visible lines, "i" stands for interlaced video. It has 60 Hz. PAL video format is 576i @50Hz. Analogue televison has vertical lines as opposed to digital video has pixels but these two can be considered comparable, I believe, and with right techniques virtually all information can be transferred in A/D transformation.
My gawd, I distinctly remember watching Crockett's report on KOMO TV news the day of the eruption, and for the week following and feeling so afraid. I had a black & white TV so no color didn't matter. We lived north of the volcano, on Ft Lewis, thinking the boom and the shaking was artillery fire practice. No ash hit us.
To answer macktheknife's question which many others are also asking watch the CBS news video in the column on the right. It's 5:37 long. Instead of blowing it's top it blew out it's side.
I haven't seen this video in over 30 years. I was only 9 and half years old in MN when the raw footage of this guy came out. It's still as creepy now as it was then. I remember the "hell on earth" comment and then about him showing his grand kids. 30 years later, I hope he does indeed have grand kids and they've gotten to see him. There must be much more that wasn't aired. Awesome story of cheating death.
how you did that I will never know... I flew over Mt St Helens and loved it and the size of the landslide was massive compaired to the Elk down below us
My father was living in Washington when the mountain blew, super crazy to hear about it and then see this footage, crazy that such a catastrophic event happened just 44 years ago in the state where I live my normal life now. Amazing footage though. Super scary definitely, but I would be so proud of myself if I managed to capture footage as historically valuable as this, let alone as impressive as it is to shoot in the first place given you're walking through hell on earth.
My friend's uncle was an intern with a meteorologist and geologist camping in an rv when they heard the eruption and they thought people who were shouting were shout for their kids to come to breakfast until they saw the north side collapse.
@drftgy67 and Phase171 I concur!!! I've been looking for this video online ever since I saw it originally on an episode of Storm Stories on The Weather Channel!!!
But the 480 resolution back then referred to different measurements. Not to mention, much of this was on video tape, if not actual film, which doesn't translate well to digital. The measurements for a digital TV and an analog CRT I believe are different.
I have the 10 year special that aired most of this. It's a great story. Mine was a little less dramatic! I was still a kid, but I remember us having to evacuate our home in Toutle.
I remember St Helens and even a cloud of dust made its way to Houston where I live.They gave repeated warnings and I will never understand why parents place their children in harms way.
dave crockett is a actual live witness to a historical tragic event that occurred in the early 1980s!!! Id bet that he told his grandkids stories of his lucky chance at survival :)
My gawd, I remember watching this on KOMO TV news the day of the eruption and being so afraid. I had a black & white TV so no color didn't matter. We lived north of the volcano, on Ft Lewis, thinking the boom and the shaking was artillery fire practice.
This footage made me want to be a geologist at age four. Now at 28, I have a geology degree and have never looked back. Dave Crockett, AMAZING footage!
At age four, I just wanted to know simple mathematics. By my 'calculations', you're age 4 times 10 these days, and I'm thinking your geology degree has brought you far in life. Maine says to say "Hello". I was living in Eugene but visiting one of the 3 sisters camping with 2 friends when MT. St. Helen erupted. The groan it put out will never be forgotten either. It sounded like the whole earth was dying. We were in the process of cooking breakfast when the mountain blew. I'd forgotten all about it being eminent. The sudden, loud rumbling sounded like a huge accidental gas explosion had taken out the town of Eugene far off and below us. Then, I recalled the latest news reports regarding the mountain. We were going to go camping there at first, not thinking a thing about any danger, as did many at the time, but we all had to get back to our jobs on Monday morning, so we camped at that closer spot to save from driving so far. Well, I've rambled on so long that Maine just said to say 'hello' for it again, and that it's missed you! That was just me trying to Bee Fun Knee, "on purpose, even"! Live well by laughing often. Add love much, and life's a sweet cool breeze no matter what. Contentment... a treasure to find and keep secure. I'd rather be that than be like a Mount Saint Helen and explode at every thing they throw at us. I had to finally wake up and do the simple 'math' to find that out though. It's easy to want to go with the flow, or be a part of something instead of nothing. Thoughts are valuable and they have weight. I'm keeping mine, they can't just have them, or be gifted them through their distractions. Forgive me for writing a whole book. I never could just tweet and run, I'd starve doing that.
So cool.
Geology rocks!
I hope you have discovered the many wonderful things that being a geologist can do
k
I love the part where he snaps out of his negativity and says "I can't think like this. I am gonna tell my grandchildren about this."
He may have grandchildren now.
my favorite part
“I got the wrong attitude here, this is something to tell my grandchildren about” don’t quote something if you can’t quote it correctly
I found this video today after listening to My Favorite Murder podcast, Karen told Dave’s story. I was 8 years old when the eruption happened and I remember hearing about it, I also remember watching a movie about it, but I never heard his whole factual story. My husband has a vial of ash from this eruption that his grandmother collected shortly after the eruption. She got multiple vials labeled them and had them the rest of her life, after she passed away my husband got one of the vials. I suppose it’ll get passed on to our kids.
Me too!! I wasn't sure if i wanted to see the footage, but as soon as Karen started talking about the selfie he took, I had to have a look. What an amazing story !
Me too! SSDGM!
Me too !
Me threee!!! MFM🫶🏼🫶🏼
Same! Karen & Geoegia are my soul sisters! #ssdgm
I love how he flipped his attitude around. That really inspired me to start doing the same when I face something difficult
Incredible story! I visited Mt. St. Helen’s in 2019. The area around it is stunning. Walking among felled trees and other debris among the new life springing up is pretty surreal. I hope to go back someday, the weather was less than ideal but it was still an incredible experience. I was 7 years old when it erupted and still remember the footage on the news.
I anyone gets the chance to visit, do it! You won’t regret it.
I remember seeing this footage not long after the eruption and being just so amazed and delighted that the guy lived. It's great to see it again, what an amazing story.
Dave Crockett. He simply walked out of Mordor. And films it too!
He then gets reprimanded for losing his TV station's car. I think his boss needed some damn perspective here.
That's incredible! The car is now a part of a museum. He shouldn't have been reprimanded for losing the car!
That’s what insurance is for.
The car helped document one hell of a story.
@@paultruesdale7680, no doubt. And his boss was an absolute imbecile.
One does not simply walk out of Mordor!
I used to have an old CD about logging in Oregon, and it was said that one of the loggers said, Mt. St. Helen holds the record for the most timber fallen, in the shortest amount of time, in the biggest clear cut ever. Thank you for posting and sharing.
I've looked everywhere for this footage. I remember seeing it on shows about Mt St Helens when I was a kid, almost certainly on KOMO, which we received in BC. Thank you so much for filling in the back story for me--I was starting to think I had imagined seeing this! LOL
This video has the FULL footage from Crockett
ua-cam.com/video/qICV1TnlVqg/v-deo.html
@@cyberhype5495 Great find! I've searched for this on and off over the years but could never find it.
@@leejames6800 Yes and only 800 views... a hidden gem
@@cyberhype5495 110,000 views now, I got here from there.
The cool thing is that his Mercury Monarch seen in this footage is still intact and on display.
Daveyyyy......Daveeyyy Crockett, king of the wild frontier
Lol, just noticed that! HAHAHAHAHA
grant ross Right? I was like “you couldn’t have a more perfect name for the footage he shot”.
Yep - he is definitely a LEGEND around here! :)
Must’ve been a weird and terrifying feeling to leave the car behind, not knowing what the hell was going to happen!
I remember seeing this video shortly after the blast. Incredible and unforgettable.
I recently saw this in a class of mine. Really intense !
I remember it too. Somehow the press got ahold of it and it wound up on the
national news. How he got out o there
alive is a whole other story. I was up
there a year later to survey the damage and take photos for the park service. I was amazed to see saplings of various sizes coming up thru all that destruction. Thousands of em. The now nitrogen rich soil that covered the forest was the best possible fertilizer .
I can totally relate to him laughing and screaming after he realized he survived the eruption.
The euphoria must’ve been insane! I still remember seeing this story on KOMO (which is local for me even today)...and it was terrifying to see; so glad he survived!
For sure
They had some famous people there at the time of the explosion: Dave Crockett and Harry Truman.
tedGEGI
He was not the past president. But he refused to leave. He and his 16 cats all died. His body was never found.
ua-cam.com/video/sm-EvazNCjU/v-deo.html
@@HyperInflation2020 I. P. Freely
My God it looks like hell on earth
hell is earth
I'm so glad he made it! I was in Spokane that day, and the ash didn't get there until about 1 p.m. It made my chest hurt to breathe the stuff. I'll sure never forget it! I still have my mayonnaise jar full of the ash and a photo that was taken at Fairchild AFB. We were there for an airshow which got cancelled.
It is an absolute miracle that Dave survived. As he himself said, "Hell on Earth".
What a fabulous story! Thanks for posting!
love this! i feel for those who didn't make it and for the families who lost loved ones but it is so nice to hear these stories of those who made it.
Now this is the appropriate time to take a selfie!! Not right after you ordered lunch at IHOP
As a teenager I was lucky enough to get to row across Spirit Lake in a canoe with that old crazy dude and the rest of us teenagers going to clean up the Boy and Girl Scout Camps on the other side of the lake. I will never forget that time in my life..Im 58 now.
When I first saw this footage, I was in 8th grade in Grand Prairie, TX, and recall saying that I would never have been so brave nor as strong. Since then, I've seen an F-4, two F-5's, and survived a car crash that by all rights should have killed me. Those moments of survival and strength are in all of us, I have realized. lol I'm sorry; I thought I would share that. Peace to all.
Heyyyy
He lives! I had a couple of those! Don't forget to have fun man, next one could be tomorrow
@@JK360noscope
He could be dead lol
His first and last upload was 6 year ago
@@Rodeo_Rodeo how can you lol with that statement.
@@redefinedliving5974
Its an habit of mine to put lol in some of my comment for no reason when i'm not sure of it
Like "Should i post this? i don't know" and then my immediate reaction for some reason is to type the word lol
I have other reason but thats the main one
WHOA! VOLCANIC ERUPTION! But, first....
Let me take a selfie.
lol
+Damian Faltermeier It's not fake this actually happen stupid do your research
+Damian Faltermeier I have been to Mt. St. Helens many times. You can even go see Dave Crockett's ruined car, among other things. There were many people with cameras and film cameras back then and Dave was one of the few who made it out when St. Helens blew. If you do get a chance to go see Mt. St. Helens there are many visitor centers along the way and pack a pair of binoculars, there's a residential elk herd in the park.
Damian, this really did happen. I remember seeing it on the news at the time. Back in 1980, you couldn't fake something like this. The technology to do something of that magnitude just wasn't there.
wakaka2waka lmao if u dont know what that means just ask me
so Dave Crocket took a Selfie in 1980. i like how he changed is outlook and his situation changed. from Darkness to Light.
Went up St Helens six years after the eruption. Small plants were budding, entire forests lay as bare logs as far as you could see.
I remember this guy when it happened. Thanks for posting, brought back memories.
I remember this as an amazing, defining video from my childhood - so happy to find it again - thanks for posting PortlandDriver! A fantastic story from the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens!!
Best selfie of 1980...
I remember this. To this day, I can't believe he didn't asphyxiate from all the ash in the air.
I know. I remember it too - it just etched itself into my consciousness forever.
8 people are pretty weird for disliking this amazing video.
This is pree good quality in the 80's .. I see other videos on UA-cam 10x worse
I was 6 years old then, i remember someone sending me mt st Helens ash in a little bottle, like a souvenir shop type, i actually kept it for years then wanted to feel it, so i opened it up and played with the ash, and it was like find grey sand particles ground to dust, but heavy enough to settle if you tossed it in the air. The power of the eruption then in my mind couldn't conceive yet, but it helped to bend it into thinking the impossible.
Thanks for posting this! It's so hard to find. I have the same memory as you - watching a longer cut in elementary school - wish I could find the entire video.
Anyone else here from Dear Hank and John? Because I immediately paused it and found this video. The darkness is encroaching....
Emily Caballero I did the exact same thing!
(: DFTBA
Emily Caballero DFTBA!
yup
Emily Caballero dear John and hank
They showed this footage in that HBO movie with Art Carney and it's still haunting!!
most awesome selfie ever! Great story.
And so many people think selfies are a new thing of today made possible by only smart phones! Ha!
Oddyellano
Apparently they think teens and young people being vain is a new thing, and that they weren't "back in the day", forgetting about Polaroids, and other cameras. LOL Only difference was you usually had to take the film in to be developed before you could SEE your selfie. :)
Oddyellano Yep, Buzz Aldrin took one while floating in space back in '69!
How absolutely horrific! You can almost feel as if you were there with him during the moment that footage was taken. I just went to St. Helens again after the 2nd time (older now) and it is absolutely amazing that he got the way he did. That mountain is insanely big and the valley around you enormous. Never felt so small in my life till I went back & saw the aftermath of building size trees twisted, blasted, & destroyed beyond recognition.
Now consider that Mt. St. Helens was a relatively small eruption (though its effects were magnified by it being a lateral blast as opposed to a vertical one). Meanwhile Mt. Tambora in Indonesia erupted hard enough in 1815 that the resulting ash clouds blotted out the sun and basically cancelled summer 1816 in North America and Europe. Also, the mountain was reduced in size from about 14,000 feet to 9000 feet. Imagine Mt. Rainier losing about a quarter of its height in one huge blast.
Dave is a tough son of a bitch
Thank you for posting this!!!
I currently live about 20 miles from the mountain, and I lived about 12 miles further from her when she went off that day in 1980. It was the most incredible thing I've ever been through and definitely won't ever forget it! The panic, but yet in awe. The darkness, the air, the smell...
People have asked me, "Aren't you worried living that close to it?!"
Nope. I've seen what she can do, and I respect the power, but I'm not scared of it at all. I think she's beautiful.
St Helens eruption SELFIE thumbs up...however, my heart goes out to the many people and animals who did NOT make it out of this natural event alive...The video of this eruption is a way for future generations to be able to experience this eruption while being safe...And realize the danger of being even a few miles away....
+Katie K. mt hood probably next rip
I remember seeing this on The Tonight Show,Carson invited the guy on to talk and show the footage,I think that was the first time I saw it in fact.
It's totally amazing that 2 famous figures in history, Davy Crockett and Harry S. Truman, were both lucky enough to witness this cataclysmic event.
ummmm...never mind.
Yeah, but Harry Truman didn't live to tell about it!!
The first time I saw this a week after the explosion on KOMO, it was the most moving thing I'd ever seen on TV.
3:57 Selfie from 1980
+SoCalFreelance A selfie before it had a name!!!! :o
living in Washington and being born fourteen years after this happened is very surreal. Seeing this footage takes you there and it would've been a cool thing to experience, but you know your heart would've been pounding watching it all go down. It's something people don't usually experience in their lifetimes.
I'm thankful to God that he made it out! :) Very glad.
I remember this recording when it was first released. I was living in olympia when it happened.
Thats big balls to survive this. Thank you for the footage!
It is May 18.2010. I feel like watching this video is like a Deja Vu. I lived at the base of the mountain not as close as Dave Crockett was but about 20-25 air miles..I can remember it getting dark with freaky lightning.I can remember when the mountain blew and the earth beneath me moving while in the garden. As we watched the mountain the national guard came up telling us to evacuate bridges were wiped out and pyroclastic mud flows were pouring into the Toutle River. We survived Mt. St.Helens
🙏🏼
so the real name for a selfie,is taking a crockett
how the hell he made it outta there alive is a miracle if there ever was one
Thanks for the reminder! (At that time, my wife and I were living in British Columbia- just north of the American border. My cousin from the U.K. had called me, to say that she and her new husband, were on honeymoon in SoCal- and they were coming to visit before flying back to the UK.
It took 4-5 days longer than they had planned- to arrive. (The Highway Patrol had shut the highway down, and were ordering everyone on it to take shelter until further notice. My cousin and her hubby spent the next 2-3 days- holed up at a motel with a lot of other people.
When the all clear sounded, their rental car was covered in ash! (I would not want to be anywhere near Yellowstone- when that one lets go!)
His change of attitude saved his life
Very quick and smart thinking to put the direction he was heading on his bonnet.
I was living in Kelso when the eruption happened. I can remember when his video first aired on the news. All this seems like yesterday to me and it was quite an event for a 6 year old to experience. I visit the mountain every 10 years on the anniversary because it's still very sad for me. We lost people we love that day, however it's really nice to see it coming back more and more each time I visit.
I did not loose. I'm sorry for your suffering. I recall this very well. I go visit often as I'm able
Thanks for sharing this. Great to see.
I attually did a project very recently about mt St. Helens now we’re writing 4 chapters in school about it!
Nice upload! I too remember seeing this footage as a kid. Funny coincidence:I went up there today and saw a Komo truck drive through Cougar.
He’s such a typical camera guy love it
I remember seeing this on ABC Nightline back when it happened. I had forgotten the reporters name was David Crockett. The same as one of my childhood heroes from the Walt Disney show.
You are correct, and I actually made a typo, I meant 480i which was used in NTSC television format, it means it has the vertical resolution of 480 visible lines, "i" stands for interlaced video. It has 60 Hz. PAL video format is 576i @50Hz. Analogue televison has vertical lines as opposed to digital video has pixels but these two can be considered comparable, I believe, and with right techniques virtually all information can be transferred in A/D transformation.
They featured this on That's Incredible back in the day. Quite an event.
My gawd, I distinctly remember watching Crockett's report on KOMO TV news the day of the eruption, and for the week following and feeling so afraid. I had a black & white TV so no color didn't matter. We lived north of the volcano, on Ft Lewis, thinking the boom and the shaking was artillery fire practice. No ash hit us.
I remember seeing this when I was 6 years old. Wow!!
To answer macktheknife's question which many others are also asking watch the CBS news video in the column on the right. It's 5:37 long. Instead of blowing it's top it blew out it's side.
I haven't seen this video in over 30 years. I was only 9 and half years old in MN when the raw footage of this guy came out. It's still as creepy now as it was then. I remember the "hell on earth" comment and then about him showing his grand kids. 30 years later, I hope he does indeed have grand kids and they've gotten to see him. There must be much more that wasn't aired. Awesome story of cheating death.
Cheers to my fellow gen Xer…
He utters, “DEAR GOD” , to which i say, may GOD richly bless you sir.
how you did that I will never know... I flew over Mt St Helens and loved it and the size of the landslide was massive compaired to the Elk down below us
Show! Registro histórico! FANTÁSTICO!
Amazing footage. One of the ones I have seen.
I remember seeing this on the TV show 'That's Incredible!' not long after the eruption.
My father was living in Washington when the mountain blew, super crazy to hear about it and then see this footage, crazy that such a catastrophic event happened just 44 years ago in the state where I live my normal life now. Amazing footage though. Super scary definitely, but I would be so proud of myself if I managed to capture footage as historically valuable as this, let alone as impressive as it is to shoot in the first place given you're walking through hell on earth.
Dave Crockett: first selfie. But anyway I would have thought myself dead too.
+Zebra That word has made me realise that 'The Age Of Idiocy' has well and truly arrived.
Darn straight you have a story to tell your grandchildren!!!:)
My friend's uncle was an intern with a meteorologist and geologist camping in an rv when they heard the eruption and they thought people who were shouting were shout for their kids to come to breakfast until they saw the north side collapse.
03:18 ~ I was finding it difficult to breathe too. Felt like I was suffocating. Scary, scary shit man. Im glad he made it out safely.
Dave Crockett's car is at the Cowlitz County Historical Museum at Kelso, WA.
@drftgy67 and Phase171
I concur!!! I've been looking for this video online ever since I saw it originally on an episode of Storm Stories on The Weather Channel!!!
Televisions and tv signals had 480p resolution even then.
It could be that 240p was default still in 2009 on youtube? not sure.
His footage is incredible, from inside a volcanic eruption as it happened.
I can always remember the date since it occurred on my fathers 70th birthday.
I remember the date because a mountain exploded.
But the 480 resolution back then referred to different measurements. Not to mention, much of this was on video tape, if not actual film, which doesn't translate well to digital. The measurements for a digital TV and an analog CRT I believe are different.
He created the selfie haha
People were taking pics of themselves LONG before that, just so you know. LOL
2:05 and his subsequent narration is probably what inspired The Blair Witch Project.
this has to be the most awesome selfie ever :D
My man made the mistake of opening the Tottenham Hotspur trophy cabinet
Freaking Amazing best foortage ever of this eruption.
He survived the Alamo too. What a guy!
Beautiful turn at the end....great attitude, we should all have it!
I have the 10 year special that aired most of this. It's a great story. Mine was a little less dramatic! I was still a kid, but I remember us having to evacuate our home in Toutle.
#DavidCrockett This is an amazing video!
@ 4:00 I just realized who famous South Park Geologist Randy Marsh is based upon...
In the MORNING!!!! What an amazing experience! To die and come back is the greatest gift.
I remember St Helens and even a cloud of dust made its way to Houston where I live.They gave repeated warnings and I will never understand why parents place their children in harms way.
dayum that shit blew out the side of the mountain area RIP That man definitely had a Dante's Peak moment.
he survived, Robert Landsburg wasn't so lucky.
dave crockett is a actual live witness to a historical tragic event that occurred in the early 1980s!!! Id bet that he told his grandkids stories of his lucky chance at survival :)
Ha…there are quite a few of us who were around way back in the 80s! Haha….
Davy Crockett has really weathered the years OK....
My gawd, I remember watching this on KOMO TV news the day of the eruption and being so afraid. I had a black & white TV so no color didn't matter. We lived north of the volcano, on Ft Lewis, thinking the boom and the shaking was artillery fire practice.
Oh my, wow
It's hard to believe it's been 38 years since Mount Saint Helens erupted.
Dave survives a volcano and invents the selfie on the same day. Legend.