Mount St. Helens 40th Anniversary

I mean...it's probably just news filler for y'all, but I truly thank you, K5, for all of the time you spent on reporting on the 40th anniversary of the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption. You put so much time and effort into it. Even though I don't live in the area nor have I ever visited Mt. St. Helens, I find the subject very intriguing.

It has been 41 years since the blast. I always remember every year, every Sunday. I am a pariah in my family (black),state(Alabama). My brother(Donald) disresped me!I was a young ranger at Cle Elm ranger station.I do not care how anyone cares about what anyone says.I was there!

Thankyou for this I live in Leeds England but I can still remember the live pictures of the lahars flowing down the mountain like it was yesterday..I hope to visit one day. ❤

Watched it happen with my own eyes that morning at age 14 from an ajacent hilltop. Will remember it till i die. It was impressive.

I know this is 2 years old now but just to add I was 15 and living at home in University Place, just outside of Tacoma when the mountain blew. My parents and I managed to get beyond the barricades when we got off the interstate and took the back roads well north of the blockades to get closer in to the mountain that afternoon after it went off. Came over from having watched the original documentary that was put together in 1980, after the explosion. A month later, my oldest sister and her first husband and new baby daughter (who was born in October 1979) drove home upon graduation from an Episcopal seminary in Wisconsin and came home via I-90 and drove through the ash that still blanketed eastern Washington, arriving back to our house covered in ash.

Thank you. This has been fascinating to me since it happened... I want to climb it someday... thank you for sharing

It is so hard to believe it’s been 40 yrs? I was a flight attendant flying that route and laying over in Portland for 28 hrs. We had flown our trip back to Atlanta and thankfully missed it. Flight were cancelled and even by the time we flew our last flight in, smoke was still coming up of the mountain and at least 4 in. Of ash covered all of Portland. Hard to believe 40 whole hears can do so fast 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

I've watched a few past anniversary videos on this eruption. I am most fascinated by the geological, environmental, after effects. It is amazing how nature cleanses, and rebuilds itself. The human stories of survival, gives record of man and natures tenacity. Thanks for the remembrance show, King5.

I was flying with CP Air from Amsterdam to Toronto and we flew right over the top of Mount ST, Helens I still have the picture after what happened, RIP to all that lost there lives

May the dead RIP. May the survivors find peace. Back then many had no clue what was gonna happen, they could not imagine the raw power, and why old Native tribes were wary of the area. Many times, old lore and superstitions have a grain of truth and wisdom in them. Native tribes did not have the means to record what happened in the past, only the warnings of elders telling the next generation to be wary. I usually don’t have much sympathy for people who refuse to evacuate, but Truman is an exception. His 3rd wife (they truly loved each other) died there. His collection of junk, treasures (a pink Cadillac with gold rimmed wheels and mini bar), a 19th player piano, and 13 cats were there. Not to mention the cabin he built by hand. To evacuate him, would be to kill him slowly. He took his treasures with him, never to be seen again under the new Spirit Lake.....instantly. I like to think his spirit, long with his wife’s spirit, watch over the area. Watching it slowly rebuild and eventually become beautiful again.

Mt Saint Helens is the youngest cascade volcano by far, at only 40,000 years old. Compared to the others that average 500,000 years old. And it was 9700ft tall. That's a lot of activity. You can clearly see on Google maps topography layer the rubble from ancient eruptions on even the south side of the volcano. Geologists say it's had eruptions TEN TIMES LARGER than in 1980. This cycle of devistation and rebirth has gone on here and all over the Cascades for over half a million years. But for Mt Saint Helens only a mere 40,000. My money is on more activity.

I remember watching the coverage on tv when it happened from my parents kitchen. I was 7 yrs old. Pretty wild. No volcanoes in Texas.

I lived in Selah during the eruption. My dad knew it was coming for about six months before that day and he made a shelter “The Ark” he called it. When the mountain blew, he quickly gathered my mom, me and my sister and put us all down there. He was a deeply religious man and felt it was his job to repopulate the earth. We lived down there for several years until my dad felt it was safe to come out. By that time it was 1994.

I was in Spokane on Fairchild AFB when the ash reached us. A day I will never forget!

I was 20 years old and living in Reno Nevada at the time. At the end of may and the beginning of June 1980 the sky was filled with smoke from Mount St. Helens...600 miles away.

I was born in 1984, but I am fascinated by volcanos. I lived in Spokane Washington and many long time residents had stories about what happened that day. My Biology teacher was camping as a teen that day in Spokane and he remembers looking up at the “scary black clouds” rolling in. Then it started to “snow”, when it was 50 degrees. His parents decided it was time to cut that camping trip short... Heck, a nice elderly couple gave me a jar full of ash from that day at their garage sale. Still have it a decade later.

I remember watching on TV. I was 16. It still is fascinating. I remember the ash on our cars a couple days after the blast. On coal creek canyon outside of Denver

I was 16 at the time, I watched it unfold on the news as it happened. I Live in west Michigan and I remember a haze that partially blocked the sun that persisted for a week in the days following the explosion.

I would like to thank every person that has put Helens on report . I was 10 at the time it erupted Great Falls and Montana was shut down due to Ash fallen near 6 to 7 inches deep. We all had to stay in doors for a long time.

My son was born on May 25, and this was our entertainment while we waited. We were especially concerned about the direction of the ash cloud. But everything turned out okay for us.