Not so fun fact about Mount St. Helens. The only reason we have this is because photographer knew he wouldn’t get away in time and protected the camera with his body when he passed away.

the internet is cool because you can just say factually incorrect things

My sister was camping w/her friend’s family when it erupted. We didn’t hear from her for 3 days. I cried bc I thought I lost my sister.😢 When she came home she was covered w/ash from head to toe. My dad put a tarp on the garage floor. This is the ash that was on my sis!

The guy you’re thinking of is Robert Landsburg and it’s a different video. These are actually photographs taken by a guy named Gary Rosenquist who lived. The photos were stitched together to look like a video.

This happened the day after my sister was born. This is what the lake still looks like to this day:

That’s wild

Insane story. I know.

That footage isn't from Robert Landsburg, and what you posted is an AI created video of photos taken by someone else that was in a completely different area. These are Robert's photos-

Was wrapping up a motorcycle ride down the coast and a friend and me went around the barricades and drove up there on Saturday less than 8 hours before the eruption. Woke up to what we thought was the world coming to an end. Dropped to our knees and started praying It is impossible to describe what we experienced

Lived at least 100 miles as the crow flies to the east. Could hear and feel the eruption.

Wrong camera for the story.

That was such a huge event. I got out of the Army and had only been home for a couple weeks when it happened. There was no social media. Just 4 channels on tv, 2 am radio stations and 1 fm station, and a newspaper hitting the porch every morning. It took awhile to get details

My family and i was out at the cemetery prior to memorial day. I had a can of coke in my hand and a small rock hit it. I blamed my sister at first. Then we saw the cloud and headed home to turn on the news. Spokane area.

Completely made up story …. #liar

The days before that Saved so many 🫡

wrong video if im not mistaken. this video is by Gary Rosenquist who filmed this safely with a zoom lense from over 11 miles away. your story is a real story but the video is a different one.

These are actually Gary Rosenquist's photos, and he survived. He was 11 miles away, and the blast got stopped by topography about a mile short of him. The photos you might be thinking of are from either Robert Landsburg or Reid Blackburn, who both perished in the eruption.

This is sad, but the footage is important whose legacy remains

that wasnt the angle. this is a shot from the angle of robert landsburg, the photographer that you speak of

That's Crazy! had to ask Grok: Explain this event, why does the audio sound like he possibly in a helicopter? is it his voice? he audio in the video is a real-time radio transmission from Gerry Martin, a volunteer ham radio operator who was stationed on a ridge about 8 miles north of Mount St. Helens to monitor the volcano. He was describing the eruption as it unfolded, including the massive landslide and blast. Martin was on the ground in his motorhome (an RV), not in a helicopter—the "helicopter" noise you're hearing is likely due to the low-quality, distorted sound of the 1980s radio recording, which often includes static, interference, and background rumbling from the event itself that can mimic whirring or chopping not the voice of photographer Robert Landsburg (or Gary Rosenquist, whose time-lapse photos were used to create the video footage). Landsburg captured still images closer to the blast and died protecting his camera, while Rosenquist survived and took the sequence shown here from farther away. The audio was added separately to the animated photo sequence for dramatic effect in this edited clip. Sadly, Martin was among the 57 people killed when the pyroclastic flow overtook his position shortly after his transmission.

I remember being on the roof of the house and watching the explosion.

We had ash like residue all the way into Ohio when that happened. Crazy

I was about 70 miles South working on fire roads in the National forest in a canyon. Fire tower guy gets on the radio. OMG ! it blew ! We drove out of the canyon. I had no idea what to expect. It was shocking in size power and speed.

Just imagine what would be going through your mind in that moment. Wow.

Though that did happen, this footage is from a different source (further away).

I visited Mt St Helen’s 13 years after this happened. The damage was still as if it had just happened days earlier —minus the dust in the air and blocked roads. It was surreal. It spooked me. I would never go back there.

Landsburg sought shelter in his car once the volcano’s deadly ash clouds reached him. He stuffed film rolls in his backpack, shielding everything with his body. That a single shot found after the mishap.

I was 14 and sitting down with my folks for breakfast when KATU 2 (Portland) interrupted the morning show with the "major eruption" alert.... We lived about 10 air miles SW from the base of the mountain and had not heard a sound yet... I went outside and the entire sky was cut in two from the ash cloud... black to the north, and clear blue to the south... We used to be able to see about 1k of the mountain from our backyard, but it was completely gone, replaced by a boiling cauldron of dark ash... Was a morning to remember... Here is a picture looking up at the sky in our front yard...

While the story is true, these are not the photo's taken by Landsburg. These pictures are taken by Gary Rosenquist. See

I caused this and I did it on purpose and I’m about to do it again.

We were in Portland sometime after the eruption. Walking from a restaurant early evening we were rained on by volcanic ash. Became quite thick. Could scrape ASH off the hood of a car. About 75 mi from the eruption.

You have to be short on brain cells to believe that this was real footage of what happened. There were 11 still frames that someone tried to turn into a video using AI. The story you're talking about was someone ELSE. The people who took the photos that AI turned into video lived

I love about an hour from there. Still have a bottle of ash I collected from my driveway as a kid

Still absolutely amazing to me

Imagine how fucking good that eruption mustve felt for the volcano 🤤🤤

Not sure about that fact, but a cool fact that the debris falling caused the largest land tsunami and moved a lake from one location to a completely different other location.

In March of 1980, a series of explosions began at the volcano. The blasts escalated for nearly two months before a massive eruption happened on May 18, 1980. That event was the first volcanic eruption in the contiguous United States 65 years, and is considered the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history.