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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:31:54 PM EDT
[Last Edit: JarheadPatriot]
I do! I was 11 years old and it was a big deal back in 1980.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/photos-show-mount-st-helens-105801306.html eta: 44 years ago today. May 18, 1980 |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:33:08 PM EDT
[#1]
Yes, it was a big deal.
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NY, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:33:39 PM EDT
[#2]
I was in second grade. I ordered a little bottle of ash from it.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:34:02 PM EDT
[#3]
I do.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:34:17 PM EDT
[#4]
I do. I was 9 years old living at Mountain Home AFB, ID. We got a dusting of ash following the eruption.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:35:07 PM EDT
[#5]
YES!
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OH, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:36:08 PM EDT
[#6]
I do. Was in high school.
Nowhere near Washington state but there was lots of news coverage. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:36:11 PM EDT
[#7]
I was at my Granny's playing and her and my grandfather ran to the TV to watch. I remember reading the national geographic front to back when it arrived.
Big damn volcano |
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IN, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:37:59 PM EDT
[#8]
I do, I was 9 and have a glass paper weight made with some ashes.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:39:37 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AnalogKid: I do. Was in high school. Nowhere near Washington state but there was lots of news coverage. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:40:03 PM EDT
[#10]
I was working for an aircraft operator in northern Wyoming. I remember it. Cleaning ash from airplanes.
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TN, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:40:29 PM EDT
[#11]
Yep
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:41:01 PM EDT
[#12]
I was a little kid but I remember my dad cleaning the ash off of his car.
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GA, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:41:30 PM EDT
[#13]
Yes, I was about 18
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:41:47 PM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Earl_Basset: I was at my Granny's playing and her and my grandfather ran to the TV to watch. I remember reading the national geographic front to back when it arrived. Big damn volcano I was only 6 but do remember the NG issue. |
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MI, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:42:12 PM EDT
[#15]
I do ,I was in 5th grade, cousin sent us plastic bags of ashes.
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USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:42:41 PM EDT
[#16]
My folks were camping there the Friday before it popped. My sister was throwing fits and making the trip miserable and mom was 7 months pregnant, tired and not feeling great so they went back home on Saturday morning.
I guess after months of warnings, people just ignored them and went about their business in the red zone. I'm on my way back from there right now actually. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:43:47 PM EDT
[#17]
I wasn't even 1 years old yet so I basically missed it.
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OR, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:45:09 PM EDT
[#18]
I was too young to remember since I was conceived during the eruption. My parents lived in a small mountain community outside of Yakima and when it erupted the ash was miserable. I was born almost 9 months to the day after. I asked my dad about it and he told me no need to pull out when the world is ending.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:45:57 PM EDT
[#19]
I was 13 and lived in Western MT. By that afternoon we were getting ashed on, we ended up with less than an inch.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:45:58 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GNJ: My folks were camping there the Friday before it popped. My sister was throwing fits and making the trip miserable and mom was 7 months pregnant, tired and not feeling great so they went back home on Saturday morning. I guess after months of warnings, people just ignored them and went about their business in the red zone. I'm on my way back from there right now actually. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:47:18 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BigDeeeeeeee: I was 13 and lived in Western MT. By that afternoon we were getting ashed on, we ended up with less than an inch. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:49:47 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Treadhead]
[#22]
I do, I was 16 and working as a cook after school and on weekends at the old Burgerville USA on Market ST in Salem. Everyone had been waiting for it for weeks. I was getting the grill ready when someone came in and said the mountain "blew up".
 We hadn't opened yet so the whole crew climbed up on the roof ladder and watched it up there for a little bit. We ended up with ash everywhere and I remember the car dealerships talking about what a disaster it was for them because the ash wasted the paint jobs on all the new cars. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:49:50 PM EDT
[Last Edit: JackRebney]
[#23]
I wasn't around yet. In 2004 when it "woke up" we watched a small eruption from my high school.
I captured this last weekend. 
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WA, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:51:33 PM EDT
[#24]
Watched it from my bedroom window in Olympia, WA, was 8 years old...
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:51:46 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AnalogKid: I do. Was in high school. Nowhere near Washington state but there was lots of news coverage. |
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WA, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 7:54:42 PM EDT
[Last Edit: stiff1]
[#26]
Eastern Washington checking in. I was a smaller lad (6) but yes, that day and the ones immediately following are etched well in the memory. We were out on the tractor that AM, and I recall the dark horizon and occasional lightning as it approached.Later, sky black as the ace of spades by early afternoon, with an uncomfortable stillness following by a gray “ snow”. We called the school early that year if I recall correctly due to the substantial amount of ash we received.
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WA, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:00:45 PM EDT
[#27]
Nope. Wasn’t alive.
On a clear day you can see Rainier, St Helen’s and Mt Adams from the 512/I5 interchange. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:01:22 PM EDT
[#28]
Me. One of my earliest memories. I was 5.
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:02:32 PM EDT
[#29]
I don't, but I was there 10-11 years later. The damage was still very visible; flattened trees everywhere.
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USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:04:26 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JarheadPatriot: Wow. What's it like now? Obviously nature has persevered, I'm sure. Is there any obvious remnants of that day? Besides the giant crater on the mountain? Gray cold and rainy today.  Nature has pretty much reclaimed what the eruption destroyed, but if you know what you're looking at is a result of the eruption it's pretty neat. I remember around 1990 being in the area and it looks much better now obviously. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:05:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: rdsr]
[#31]
Yes. When my son was in grade school he took a trip up there (80's) and brought back a sealed souvenir container of ashes.
edit: still have them Roy |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:05:45 PM EDT
[#32]
Yep. As soon as we heard it on the radio we drove to the top of the hill we lived on and watched it for a while.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:05:52 PM EDT
[#33]
I do.
I also remember the cover of Time and the photos they had in there. |
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PA, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:07:45 PM EDT
[#34]
Go visit, if you get a chance. Museum is cool. You get to see rocks younger than you. And shame is, the one scientist that said the mountain was ‘dangerous and we’re too close’ was the poor bastard on watch when it blew. Never found him.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:11:38 PM EDT
[#35]
I do. That is when landscape timbers became real cheap.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:11:54 PM EDT
[#36]
I remember my bully neighbor saying it was going to blow up my house.
I was 6 at the time. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:13:08 PM EDT
[#37]
We finished our work shift a day or 2 later and our vehicles in the parking lot were covered in ash. Lived in central Oklahoma.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:13:36 PM EDT
[#38]
Yup. I was about 11 too. It was all anyone talked about.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:14:40 PM EDT
[#39]
Blew on my 6th birthday of course I remember. I was in WA at the time.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:15:06 PM EDT
[#40]
Yes, I was 22. In the early '80s one of my coworkers at a bank had a jar full of ash from the eruption. He was often seen contemplating it at his desk.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:15:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:15:34 PM EDT
[#42]
I was a senior (I think) in HS.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:18:11 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Treadhead]
[#43]
Here's a pretty watchable made for TV movie about it. Art Carney plays Harry Truman.
 St. Helens (1981) - Full movie with eng. subtitles |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:21:12 PM EDT
[#44]
I was a junior in high school. My uncle lived in Everett, WA. during the eruption, he said they were cleaning ash up for weeks.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:23:13 PM EDT
[Last Edit: LESPAUL1]
[#45]
I was 12 and thought it was really cool to see. Only saw volcanoes on Gilligan's Island. Didn't really think they were in Washington.
Wasn't til years later I could appreciate the lives lost when it happened.  Attached File Attached FileTop pic is from the South side near Ape Canyon and the bottom one is from the Johnston Ridge Observatory. |
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OR, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:24:34 PM EDT
[#46]
I was living near Portland at the time. We got a few inches of ash, then it rained. Turned our deck grey. All the decks and wooden fences in the area turned grey.
And Windshields. So many people didn’t realize the ash was powdered glass, so they tried clearing the ash off their windshields by turning on the wipers. For months you would see cars driving around with scratches where the wipers run. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:30:37 PM EDT
[#47]
13, 8th grade.
Carried the news for a while, odd now looking back at the way news was broadcast and big stories became part of your friends and neighbors conversations. Man things were just different back then. |
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:31:49 PM EDT
[#48]
Home for me is Spokane. My dad and I were on top of our garage installing a basketball hoop. Our eyes started really bothering us, and the skies started to darken. We finished up and went inside. We turned on the tv and saw the volcano had erupted. My mom wanted to go to Fred Meyer to shop for supplies and food. When we came out, day had turned to night in the middle of the afternoon, and there was always an inch of ash on the cars. I was ten years old. The news said the ash might be dangerous to breathe, so we had to stay inside for two weeks. No school, no nothing. It looked like winter outside.
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:34:24 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jambalaya: Yes, it was a big deal. |
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MS, USA
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Posted: 5/18/2024 8:35:59 PM EDT
[#50]
I was 22. It was crazy.
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