Mount St. Helens in 1980

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Relive the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens/lawilátɬa through videos, photos, and more. #MountStHelens #Volcanoes #Geology #PNW #History #Science 🌋

Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:38 UTC

Imagine if Schucks' employees had to memorize this whole thing to recite to customers when all the person wants is a spark plug for a green '77 Nova.

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[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:33 UTC

The person who wrote the copy for this ad? You guessed it: Frank Stallone.

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[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:20 UTC

The Odyssey by Homer.

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[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

So, where was it in Ridgefield? Clark County locals: Spot the faint parking lot on the NE corner of the Pioneer St. and N 65th Ave intersection off I-5's Exit 14, then compare it with an aerial photo from 1981. "Ah, that's where it was."

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[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

July 5, 1980 The parking lot at the new USFS Mount St. Helens info center in Ridgefield was full all 4th of July weekend. Visitors can watch a tape of the eruption, see a seismograph, and take a photo of the peak. Another center is slated to open north on Hwy. 12, east of I-5.

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[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 02:49 UTC

I’m a sucker for the Seconds Out version with the drum solo with Chester right into Los Endos. Lots of air drumming, lots of air Tony Banks’ing.

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[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 02:45 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:57 UTC

Fight the power.

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[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:50 UTC

Wait, come back. Don't unfollow.

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[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:49 UTC

I don't even care about the two people in the screenshots (I mean, I do, but beside the point); it's just a sea of nonsense. Also, I'm not getting into videos saying the May 18, 1980 eruption proves the events of Genesis occurred. It did, but I'm more into The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Duke.

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[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:43 UTC

Doing my rounds on YouTube to see if there are any good videos out there to share. There are, like, 15 of these published in the last few days. Do you get tired? I get tired.

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[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:07 UTC

USGS: "Earthquake activity at Mount St. Helens was not monitored by seismologists until seismometers were installed near the volcano in 1972. From January 1975 through early 1980, only 44 earthquakes were located within 35km (22 mi) of the volcano."

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[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 20:06 UTC

I answered a good question on Threads about whether there were any signs of St. Helens reawakening before March 1980. Well, not really. A background level of earthquakes was captured throughout the 1970s, but nothing unique from other Cascade peaks.

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[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:11 UTC

July 4, 1979 Loggers in the area have reported seeing steam coming from Mount St. Helens. Is St. Helens alive again? Gifford Pinchot National Forest staff confirmed there was no steam; it was just windblown snow off the peak. There is no sign the volcano, dormant for 122 years, is waking up. Yet.

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[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:03 UTC

(also, goes without saying Hogan is problematic and you know that I know that you know that I know)

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[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:46 UTC

Happy Fourth, friends. 🇺🇸🌋 Like most nameless, faceless storefront historians online, I enjoy pro wrestling. Imagine my surprise when I watched the video for Hulk Hogan's theme song, "Real American," and saw the Hulkster rocking over a certain mountain and lake.

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 00:47 UTC

This was my second favorite store to go to growing up in Longview, second only to the Pet Works. Bob’s had EVERYTHING.

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[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 00:46 UTC

youtu.be/Mb0tMUStkW0?...

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[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 00:43 UTC

Thanks, Bob's.

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[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:50 UTC

🌋Things have calmed down enough that the St. Helens disaster information center in Vancouver will close overnight starting July 4th. 🌋 Tourists flock to Toutle to see the aftermath of the lahars from May 18—including where the Coal Banks Bridge once stood.

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[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:50 UTC

July 3, 1980 | News 🌋 The $951M federal disaster aid package is headed to Pres. Carter's desk from Congress. 🌋 Bids for two Army Corps of Engineers sediment-retention dams will open on Tuesday, July 8. One will be above Camp Baker on the N Fk Toutle, the other above 12-Mile Camp on the S Fk Toutle.

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[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:54 UTC

We end our journey through the camera lens with USGS geologists at the Columbia. Dredging operations remove sediment deposited by lahars from St. Helens here and along the Cowlitz River. Hope you enjoyed the trip! Wullseeyas tomorrow. I really enjoy doing this, folks.

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[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:53 UTC

And further down the Toutle and Cowlitz River valleys, the damage to other bridges, facilities like the Green River Hatchery, farmlands, and homes marks the landscape.

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[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:52 UTC

Carrying Highway 504, the Al Raught Bridge crossed the North Fork Toutle River west of Camp Baker, some 20 miles from St. Helens. The massive lahar on May 18 swept it a quarter mile downstream. Now, it sits buried in mud along the river.

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[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:51 UTC

Heading downstream, we come to what remains of Camp Baker, Weyerhaeuser's closest logging camp to the mountain — 17 miles West. A fair amount of cleanup has occurred, but the property would never reopen for business post-May 18.

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[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:50 UTC

Geologists examine logging equipment damaged in the blast. Heavy machinery was tossed and twisted around in the lateral blast like Tonka toys. Imagine the forces at work here.

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[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:49 UTC

Heading west, we stop at the ridge between South Coldwater Creek and the growing Coldwater Lake, ~7 miles north of the volcano. This is near where ham radio operator Gerry Martin broadcasted his last words on May 18. Nothing remains of his camp.

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[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:49 UTC

🧵Alright, let's take a long, threaded trip around the area through the camera's eye of USGS scientists on July 2, 1980. We'll start at the center of it all—Mount St. Helens and Spirit Lake. With clearer conditions, the devastation and change at the mountain's base are evident.

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[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:31 UTC

Another member of this unfortunate club is Doug Nosler, a geology instructor at Clark College, who was quoted in a Columbian column on January 28, 1980, about the potential of an eruption at St. Helens. And again, welp.

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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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[ 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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[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:08 UTC

Welp. 💀💀💀

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[ 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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"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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[ 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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[ 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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[ 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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[ 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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[ 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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[ 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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[ 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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[ 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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[ 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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[ 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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[ 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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[ 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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[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 12:34 UTC

But rest assured, the content will keep coming.

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