Mount St. Helens' eruption: the deadliest and most destructive volcanic event in the history of the U.S.

I visited there recently. Nature is slowly reclaiming it, but it still looks looks scarred by the eruption.

I was lying in bed in Edmonds, Wa when this happened and it sounded like somebody bounced a tennis ball off my window. Turns out it was a volcano 😆

For which it received the ash hole of the year award.

This is AI pieced together from stills called the Gary Rosenquist sequence after the guy who shot the stills. It’s best to reveal this kind of info.

W7WFP is Gerry Martin, who describes what’s happening and coming down on him. His final transcript is here.

I was working in weather for a TV station in the midwest at the time. We followed the ash plume on satellite as it spread east across the country.

That was huge indeed.

I saw that from my bedroom window in Portland, Oregon when I was a kid and thought “holy crap!” Over the next few days I had to scoop a whole lotta ash out of my roof gutters.

I watched this mountain blow when I was a child on 5/18/1980. It was incredible to watch. My father was a tree cutter at the time and was hired by the US Forest Service to clean out trees after the eruption. My dad was close friends with Harry Truman, who died from this eruption.

How in the world did they film this?