Mount St. Helens eruption May 18, 1980

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My parents have a small bag of ashes from the explosion. We loved a short distance away at the time. Cool reminder.
 
I was in middle school, our teacher stopped class and got a TV from the library so we could watch the live news. We also had one of those little packets of ash lol....
 
I remember the news making it sound like all the plants and animals would die. I was about 8 so I didn't really understand it all, but if it meant no more weeding in the garden I was fine with that.
 
Nice article but written in 2020. 42nd anniversary this year.

I was in 5th grade in Hawaii when we saw it on the news. Teacher got out a small B&W TV for us to watch
 
Was out west on business in the mid 1990s and went to see. It still looked like it went off yesterday. There was a little trail off the visitor center through the rocks and some small, sparse plants.

Keep in mind this place looked like a hydrogen bomb went off, even 15 years later.

There were signs everywhere telling people to stay on the path because they wanted the area to recover. Like people walking around this enormous moon scape are going to effect the recovery.


Immediately I got off the path and stomped some pretty yellow flowers just cause i hate stupid signs.
 
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there is a museum in montana that uses this eruption as an example of biblical creation could have occurred, it was interesting
 
My adviser in college was part of the search and rescue with the park service. They went in trying to find the lodge. The avalanche probes they brought were either not long enough, and/or the lodge was vaporized. Iirc the probes were 16ā€™ and never touched anything solid.
 
Visited the site some years later. The destruction area still exists and the volcano is still smoking
 
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