Mount St. Helens in 1980

Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:05 UTC

⚒️ My hometown newspaper, calling it totally wrong 9 months early. Unsurprising.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

And Sherman Crater has been steaming since 1975 and is doing just fine. Everyone keep cool. It's all okay.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:15 UTC

"lol"

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:08 UTC

Welp. 💀💀💀

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:41 UTC

If you want to give to the now-named David A. Johnston Memorial Fellowship Endowment, you can do so through UW's website. You can select it under the "More Funds" header in the left-hand Featured Funds menu. For the 45th next year, I plan on running a fundraiser where 100% will go to the fund.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:41 UTC

If you want to give to the now-named David A. Johnston Memorial Fellowship Endowment, you can do so through UW's website. You can select it under the "More Funds" header in the left-hand Featured Funds menu. For the 45th next year, I plan on running a fundraiser where 100% will go to the fund.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:37 UTC

"I was always worried about him," said mentor at UW and friend Steve Malone. "He was primarily interested in getting the job done. He was always going for it...He exposed himself (to danger) so often that the statistics were against him. But I had no idea they would catch up so quickly."

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:34 UTC

July 1 🧵 The David Johnston Memorial Fund at UW, established in the name of the late USGS geologist to support graduate students in geology and geophysics, has reached $10K ($38.1K in '24).

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 00:38 UTC

Just a casual trip with USGS' Pete Lipman and Jim Moore into the crater of Mount St. Helens on June 29, 1980. No sweat.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 18:15 UTC

🌋 Weyerhaeuser reports that 650 of 900 workers have been reactivated. 🌋 Boeing moves flight-training operations from Moses Lake to Glasgow, MT, until ash is cleaned up at Grant County Airport. 🌋 Up to 4.5M PNW residents will receive FEMA brochures on living with ashfall.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 18:14 UTC

June 30 | News 🧵 Sen. Warren Magnusson (D-WA) and others nixed Sen. Jesse Helms's (R-NC) attempt to cut $378M from the approved $952.1M disaster relief bill. "We are having enough trouble with Mount St. Helens without the senator from North Carolina adding to it," remarked Magnusson.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 17:21 UTC

June 30 | "The Pacific Northwest is safe, we assure you!" United and Western Airlines are running campaigns to assure travelers around the country that ash and volcanic threats from Mount St. Helens are not as widespread as believed.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 17:22 UTC

Also, as the uploader notes, "Time to Hide" is from Wings' album "Wings at the Speed of Sound." Can't make it up.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 16:10 UTC

Now, if you want to hear a recording of the booms, someone in Newport, OR, happened to be recording a peaceful Sunday morning when the series of muffled booms came through. Skip to 0:00:50 unless you want to hear "Time to Hide" by Wings and ambient sound. Kudos if you're a Wings fan and don't skip.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:51 UTC

"They compare it to guns, to artillery fire, and to sonic booms," says Fairfield. "But then they always add that it wasn't exactly like those things. It was very unique."

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:48 UTC

So, why did people in British Columbia and Oregon hear it but not those near Mount St. Helens? Well, physics. Sound waves from St. Helens reacted to temperature and air motion in the atmosphere and local topography nearby, causing a 60-mile "zone of silence" around the mountain on May 18th.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:47 UTC

June 29 | Who Heard It? 🧵 If you heard the May 18 eruption, OMSI curator Clara Fairfield wants to know. A "sound map" Fairfield is compiling shows that no sound was heard around Mount St. Helens, but people near Puget Sound, the Oregon coastline, and north of Eugene heard something around 8:32 AM.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:21 UTC

One day, you’ll wake up and see this has turned into an outlet for my Wings-era McCartney and Yacht Rock covers. And poof, wullseeyas.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

June 28
Clear conditions allow #Portland ABC affiliate KATU to fly into the steaming crater. The lava dome, now some 220 ft. high and over 600 ft. across, looks like an English muffin.

Here's the national version of the segment from ABC News' World News Saturday.

youtu.be/g2MuZj2Qu4M

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 12:34 UTC

But rest assured, the content will keep coming.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 12:31 UTC

So, some 100 days after the first earthquake, you will continue to see content here into the future. Further eruptions, stories, photos, videos — just maybe a little less, though. Maybe not. We'll see.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 12:30 UTC

It's a good time for a status check. This is the third year I've attempted this, previously on Twitter and IG — first in 2020, then last year. I've got to say I've especially had fun doing it this time. Keep going full steam ahead? Well, maybe. I'm enjoying it but don't want to get burnt out.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 02:45 UTC

Many thanks. Oh yeah, I’ll be winding down soon - post some as it happened updates here and there to keep fresh. 45th’s around the corner. Buckle up.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 02:33 UTC

Just checking in as a fire break on your timeline to say, 100 some days in, I’m glad you’re on the journey with me. Cheers to you, you volcano nerds from all over. Anyways… Taking up more TL space so you can have a breather. Um…that May 18, 1980 eruption was something, huh?

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:19 UTC

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 17:30 UTC

June 27 USFS' Arvid Ellson predicts a slow recovery for the Spirit Lake area, possibly taking centuries due to the lack of organic materials in the ash/blast deposits to support plant growth. "Undoubtedly, in 20 or 30 years, the Spirit Lake area will appear much as it is today," he tells reporters.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 23:45 UTC

June 25 The four Bowers children, all under 20, try to find a new normal since father Wally disappeared May 18. Mother Babe battles cancer in the hospital. Now they're heads of the house. "It's a lot of responsibility," said son Kevin, 18. "I didn't realize how much Dad did until we had to do it."

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 20:29 UTC

June 25 USGS and UW scientists are studying a possible seismic pattern that may help predict future volcanic activity. If valid, says the USGS' Tim Hait, it may give up to a two-hour window of a coming eruption.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 17:42 UTC

Another photo taken by WADOT a bit downstream shows the steaming Toutle River surging under the twin I-5 bridges and the BNSF (then Burlington Northern) railroad bridge on May 19, then flowing into the Cowlitz River.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 17:09 UTC

This photo, taken on May 19, 1980, by the Washington Department of Transportation, shows the steaming Toutle River near the old Hwy 99 "Mickey Mouse" bridge upstream from the twin I-5 spans.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:44 UTC

June 25 A steam plume peppered with ash at one point rises 10,500 ft. above Mount St. Helens. Harmonic tremors rumble under the volcano for the first time since the June 12 eruption. Essex Porter reports for Portland's KATU.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 21:58 UTC

June 24 | Glaciers USGS glaciologist Mindy Brugman estimates that Mount St. Helens lost 70% of its glacial volume due to the May 18, 1980, eruption. Some glaciers, such as Leschi and Loowit, have entirely disappeared.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 21:22 UTC

June 24 | Conner Recovered A search team recovered Ronald E. Conner, 45, of Spanaway, WA, yesterday 12 miles N of Mount St. Helens at a campsite along Ryan Lake. "Apparently when it happened, he was trying to take cover in (an outhouse). It's hard to say," said Lewis County Sheriff Bill Wiester.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

*Gorton.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

Washington AG Slade Gordon and his office interpreted the state law to mean that coroners can only rule on the cause of death, not whether it occurred. The Asst. AG told the Columbian on 6/23, "A death certificate relates to the cause of death when the fact of death is already known."

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 01:04 UTC

(My aunt and late uncle, who'd fly in from New Jersey, attended the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for years — special place in the family heart)

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 00:19 UTC

Volcanic fears continue to impact PNW events. Several East Coast tour companies canceled trips to the annual Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR — 300 mi from St. Helens. "The whole climate has people hysterical about visiting OR, and certainly needlessly," says Shirley Eads, state travel director.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 00:17 UTC

June 23 | News 🧵 🌋Cloudcover prevents any observations of the new dome. "We can't tell how much bigger it is or if it's continuing to grow," says USGS' Tim Hait. 🌋WA AG Gorton rules that county coroners cannot issue presumptive death certificates for those missing or presumed dead from the eruption.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 22:32 UTC

This is the crux of what happened post-1980: a revolution in thought and research about volcanoes. The experience at St. Helens would save countless lives in countries worldwide. Here's a May 2020 NY Times article that details the eruption and how it impacted science (It's gifted, should work).

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 22:22 UTC

If only May 18, 1980, had been the day we made contact using a giant honking synthesizer and Harry Truman, not Richard Dreyfuss, boarded the mothership.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 22:21 UTC

There had been sometimes heated discussions leading up to 1980 about proposed Spirit Lake area plans by the Forest Service. Stan Lee, the owner of the Kid Valley grocery store some 20 miles west, told media before the 1st phreatic eruption in March he thought it was a ploy to stop development.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 20:47 UTC

Where you land is up to you, but in my heart, those in the path of devastation did not deserve to be villainized as they were by people like Gov. Dixy Lee Ray.

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