User Panel
User Panel
User Panel
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 12:40:48 PM EDT
[#1]
Only pictures from a roll of film to make it through the blast after photographer Robert Landsburg realized he wouldn't get away, so he stuck the film in two bags and covered it with his body. (scan from National Geographic)
 Heck of a blast.  |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 12:43:17 PM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This is a Google Street View image, wide angle lens makes it look really damn small - but it's a decent size hill. Didn't used to be covered in green stuff. That whole thing is a pile of dredged ash, sitting right next to I-5 where it crosses the north fork of the Toutle River. It was a bit taller back when I was a kid, and nothing was growing on it yet - the big grey pile of ash was a very distinctive landmark as you drove along I-5. The views before things started to grow again were amazing and damned creepy. Another trip as a kid, my dad drove us up to Mt St Helens and we were driving around on the forest service roads. One of them went right through the debris flow area - nothing bigger than small saplings and shrubs at the time, and not many of them - all rock as far as the eye could see, looking up a chute straight into the gaping side of the mountain. Really makes you feel small. http://www.kd7bcy.com/images/arfcom/ashpile.jpg The Toutle River water is still white with ash being carried downstream from the eruption zone. It's not as pronounced as it used to be, but it's still white. Some years back it looked like a river of milk. If you are ever in the region...take a day and drive up to Johnston Ridge Observatory. It's too awe inspiring to describe. Just the scope of the devastation is unfathomable. The introspection on your insignificance is life changing. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 12:57:14 PM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Only pictures from a roll of film to make it through the blast after photographer Robert Landsburg realized he wouldn't get away, so he stuck the film in two bags and covered it with his body. (scan from National Geographic) http://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/images/2012/03/last-pictures-of-robert-landsberg/01-last-pictures-of-robert-landsberg.jpg Heck of a blast. http://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/images/2012/03/last-pictures-of-robert-landsberg/09-last-pictures-of-robert-landsberg.jpg Wow, never seen those until now. RIP.  |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 12:57:29 PM EDT
[#4]
Quote HistoryQuoted: those guys were pretty confident that it wasn't about to blow huh? or was that after? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Was equal to about a 24 megaton bomb going off. This crazy rock slab in the crater was growing @4-5ft everyday as was estimated at about 400+ft tall. https://symonsez.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/sthelensrockslab.jpg those guys were pretty confident that it wasn't about to blow huh? or was that after? That was after it blew. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 1:04:34 PM EDT
[#5]
I played out in the falling ash that day.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 1:11:37 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Insurance adjuster said that it would buff right out. Not covered under your policy. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 1:22:23 PM EDT
[#7]
My sister lives about 20 miles from St. Helens. It's an eerie place to visit--even 35 years later.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 2:39:33 PM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
That's alot of missing rock. My family has a mason jar of it. A lot of it is in mason jars, hour glasses, and other containers distributed throughout the US as souvenirs. 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 2:41:04 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
You guys are NOT making me feel any better about the Yellowstone caldera. Naw. Yellowstone will make Mt. St. Helens look like a little misfire. Not even near the same orders of magnitude. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 3:23:56 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Naw. Yellowstone will make Mt. St. Helens look like a little misfire. Not even near the same orders of magnitude. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You guys are NOT making me feel any better about the Yellowstone caldera. Naw. Yellowstone will make Mt. St. Helens look like a little misfire. Not even near the same orders of magnitude. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 3:30:10 PM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
You guys are NOT making me feel any better about the Yellowstone caldera. What've YOU got to worry about Yellowst... oh... WY.... |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 3:39:45 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryWorth Watching. Thanks, never saw that one! |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 3:40:14 PM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: What've YOU got to worry about Yellowst... oh... WY.... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You guys are NOT making me feel any better about the Yellowstone caldera. What've YOU got to worry about Yellowst... oh... WY.... |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 3:49:37 PM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
My family has a mason jar of it. A lot of it is in mason jars, hour glasses, and other containers distributed throughout the US as souvenirs. I was a kid in Milwaukee when it happened. I remember after a week or two, the news was full of pleas from the USPS not to mail envelopes of the ash because it was gumming up the mail sorting machines everywhere... |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 3:52:56 PM EDT
[#15]
Scientist said it would take at least a decade or so for the magma pressure within the caldera to build up to a point where an eruption would happen. So people around Yellowstone shouldn't have any worries.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 3:57:06 PM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryGreat video! Thanks! |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 4:03:37 PM EDT
[#17]
Just because the Yellowstone caldera is big doesn't mean that the eruption will be the end of the world. You never know with volcanic shit. It MIGHT kill us all, or it might just act like Hawaii...constant low energy gushing eruption for decades.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 4:06:00 PM EDT
[#18]
THIS looks scary! Can anyone say if this is current?
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 4:08:44 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Climate change or global warming did that. I thought that it was the Republicans trying to kill old people. 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 4:13:38 PM EDT
[#20]
Mother Nature is powerful
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 4:17:12 PM EDT
[#21]
Healing:
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 4:20:30 PM EDT
[#22]
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 4:24:13 PM EDT
[#23]
Keith Ronnholm is my dad's cousin. He took a bunch of the time elapsed photos that everyone see's. Its neat seeing him on tv once a year during the anniversary of the eruption. My parents have some photos from the original negatives floating somewhere around their house. My parents visited him about 10 years ago and he took them all around the mountain.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 4:24:30 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Healing: http://www.americanforests.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Mount-St-Helens-2007.jpg https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT_odfLXxEhaZze7VVXLEbro-nntngwXA0o3UUhjN7_yqYvNSaU http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/876/493/Purple%20Lupine%20on%20Mt.%20St.%20Helens.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 http://whyfiles.org/031volcano/images/3_trees.jpg http://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/100518-tech-helens-after.grid-6x2.jpg Someone needs to go reclaim that wood in the lake. 
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 5:16:41 PM EDT
[#25]
I had just started work at the Richland Police Dept. May 17th was my first night on graveyard and I got off shift at 6am. I went home and changed the handlines for 5 acres then hit the bed.
It wasn't long before my Mother was screaming for me that the mountain had blown. I grabbed my camera and got some pictures of the sky. I had never seen clouds like that before or since. They were like dirt (didn't think at the time they were filled with ash) and in the shape of giant puffs of cotton. With in minutes the ash started falling on us. We got around 6 inches or so of it in the Canyon and not so much in town. I would say it was like in the films of the Dust Bowl as when you drove anyplace there was a big ash cloud behind you. You had to replace your air filter constantly. At the time I had a 78 full size Blazer. One day that summer I took the top off and drove it to work. That night we got a teletype that St. Helens had blown an ash cloud over 20,000 ft up and it was headed our way. It covered us pretty good, leaving behind about an inch of ash. In the morning I went out to my Blazer and thats when I remembered that I had taken the top off. Shit. The inside was covered. It took 20 minutes of cleaning just to see the dash and clear the seat. When I got home I put the top back one. A couple of weeks later my younger Brother and I went to Vancouver to see some friends. While we were there St. Helens spit out some more ash and it was a big one. We had to buy a new air filter and decided to buy two. Thankfully we did as half way home the new one clogged up. I'll see if I can find the cloud pics and post them. Ed |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 5:19:10 PM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Only pictures from a roll of film to make it through the blast after photographer Robert Landsburg realized he wouldn't get away, so he stuck the film in two bags and covered it with his body. (scan from National Geographic) http://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/images/2012/03/last-pictures-of-robert-landsberg/01-last-pictures-of-robert-landsberg.jpg Heck of a blast. http://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/images/2012/03/last-pictures-of-robert-landsberg/09-last-pictures-of-robert-landsberg.jpg They found that poor guy buried 17 days later. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 6:38:46 PM EDT
[#27]
What caught everyone off guard was that the mountain blew sideways first and not straight up. So while people several miles away from the north side of the mountain died, people actually working on the south side of the mountain survived.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 7:47:45 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 1 in 700,000 chance Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You guys are NOT making me feel any better about the Yellowstone caldera. 1 in 700,000 chance |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 7:49:17 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Those odds are a lot lower now. Something is gonna happen soon. Not sure what it is but the state of this world gives me the creeps lately. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: You guys are NOT making me feel any better about the Yellowstone caldera. 1 in 700,000 chance Odds for Yellowstone are currently are 1 in 10,000 chance something will happen in our lifetime. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 7:55:52 PM EDT
[#30]
nature continues to amaze, and frighten me all at the same time....
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 8:06:02 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Just because the Yellowstone caldera is big doesn't mean that the eruption will be the end of the world. You never know with volcanic shit. It MIGHT kill us all, or it might just act like Hawaii...constant low energy gushing eruption for decades. Two entirely different magma types. Hawaiian volcanoes expel very low viscosity, low gas content basalt lavas while those underlying Yellowstone are high viscosity, high gas content types. The longer the caldera charge cycle takes, the more gas (pressure) buildup can occur. When the magma is finally vented to the surface it'll explosively decompress and produce Plinian-style eruptions. That is, vertical ash columns, pyroclastic flows and a shit-load of tephra whose overall ejected volume is dependent on the size of the magma chamber supplying the system. In Yellowstone's case, nothing about a ring-fracturing eruption will be considered "low energy". |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 8:06:58 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: So...the front fell off. it fell UP |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 8:11:38 PM EDT
[#33]
Anyone still have that water skier pic while Mount St Helens was blowing its lid?
 |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 8:19:15 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: To this day I still can't believe seeing the interview of a local saying they just assumed some lava would roll down the side, and that "nobody ever thought it would explode" or something to that effect. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 8:29:11 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If Yellowstone went off the whole world would be fucked, not just a corner of WA. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: You guys are NOT making me feel any better about the Yellowstone caldera. Naw. Yellowstone will make Mt. St. Helens look like a little misfire. Not even near the same orders of magnitude. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 8:29:15 PM EDT
[#36]
18 Very High Threat volcano's in the U.S.
http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-most-dangerous-volcanoes-2014-9?op=1 |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 8:31:00 PM EDT
[#37]
Damn, shit blew up yo.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 8:42:41 PM EDT
[#38]
More then the front fell off.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 8:43:52 PM EDT
[#39]
IIRC, it was recently discovered why ancient Roman concrete was so durable--as in centuries, as opposed to modern concrete's decades.
The Romans included lots of volcanic ash in the mix. http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-06-14/ancient-roman-concrete-is-about-to-revolutionize-modern-architecture Sounds to me like an opportunity. We should be mining all that FREE construction material, and making roads, bridges, and buildings that will last for centuries. It's an ill wind that blows no good. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 8:45:21 PM EDT
[#40]
That was a small zit
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 8:46:49 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That's alot of missing rock. About 1 cubic mile's worth. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 8:47:11 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Amazing.  Quote HistoryThe wood swamp guys wet dream |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 9:21:44 PM EDT
[#43]
And another picture, this is southeast of the mountain, you can see the huge swath of the lahar flow.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 11:00:02 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Two entirely different magma types. Hawaiian volcanoes expel very low viscosity, low gas content basalt lavas while those underlying Yellowstone are high viscosity, high gas content types. The longer the caldera charge cycle takes, the more gas (pressure) buildup can occur. When the magma is finally vented to the surface it'll explosively decompress and produce Plinian-style eruptions. That is, vertical ash columns, pyroclastic flows and a shit-load of tephra whose overall ejected volume is dependent on the size of the magma chamber supplying the system. In Yellowstone's case, nothing about a ring-fracturing eruption will be considered "low energy". Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
Just because the Yellowstone caldera is big doesn't mean that the eruption will be the end of the world. You never know with volcanic shit. It MIGHT kill us all, or it might just act like Hawaii...constant low energy gushing eruption for decades. Two entirely different magma types. Hawaiian volcanoes expel very low viscosity, low gas content basalt lavas while those underlying Yellowstone are high viscosity, high gas content types. The longer the caldera charge cycle takes, the more gas (pressure) buildup can occur. When the magma is finally vented to the surface it'll explosively decompress and produce Plinian-style eruptions. That is, vertical ash columns, pyroclastic flows and a shit-load of tephra whose overall ejected volume is dependent on the size of the magma chamber supplying the system. In Yellowstone's case, nothing about a ring-fracturing eruption will be considered "low energy". Yep...the "stickier" the magma, the bigger the bang.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/26/2015 11:30:42 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryDang, the mountain looked like pudding when it started to go. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/27/2015 7:33:41 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryShelby would have a field day there!
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/27/2015 7:46:39 AM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Two entirely different magma types. Hawaiian volcanoes expel very low viscosity, low gas content basalt lavas while those underlying Yellowstone are high viscosity, high gas content types. The longer the caldera charge cycle takes, the more gas (pressure) buildup can occur. When the magma is finally vented to the surface it'll explosively decompress and produce Plinian-style eruptions. That is, vertical ash columns, pyroclastic flows and a shit-load of tephra whose overall ejected volume is dependent on the size of the magma chamber supplying the system. In Yellowstone's case, nothing about a ring-fracturing eruption will be considered "low energy". Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
Just because the Yellowstone caldera is big doesn't mean that the eruption will be the end of the world. You never know with volcanic shit. It MIGHT kill us all, or it might just act like Hawaii...constant low energy gushing eruption for decades. Two entirely different magma types. Hawaiian volcanoes expel very low viscosity, low gas content basalt lavas while those underlying Yellowstone are high viscosity, high gas content types. The longer the caldera charge cycle takes, the more gas (pressure) buildup can occur. When the magma is finally vented to the surface it'll explosively decompress and produce Plinian-style eruptions. That is, vertical ash columns, pyroclastic flows and a shit-load of tephra whose overall ejected volume is dependent on the size of the magma chamber supplying the system. In Yellowstone's case, nothing about a ring-fracturing eruption will be considered "low energy". Very interesting, but the only word that my small mind understood in that paragraph was "shit-load." lol.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 4/27/2015 3:06:27 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Was equal to about a 24 megaton bomb going off. This crazy rock slab in the crater was growing @4-5ft everyday as was estimated at about 400+ft tall. https://symonsez.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/sthelensrockslab.jpg http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060504/060504_sthelens_hmed_5p.grid-6x2.jpg Harry Truman is still entombed at his lodge 150ft below debri. http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/wastate&CISOPTR=1423&DMSCALE=100.00000&DMWIDTH=800&DMHEIGHT=517.70833333333&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&REC=1&DMTHUMB=0&DMROTATE=0 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Sthelensharrytruman.jpg Wiki says President Truman is buried in Independence, Missouri. Same name, different guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Randall_Truman Thanks. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/27/2015 3:13:34 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I remember the day ash fell on us. I was in middle school, in Maine. Not far from the Easternmost point in the US. No. Easternmost, westernmost, and northernmost points belong to Alaska. |
|
|
|
Posted: 4/27/2015 3:57:00 PM EDT
[#50]
I just read the "18 volcanoes" article.
I've never been there (that I'm aware of) so does anyone know what direction that picture is taken from of Crater Lake? |
|
|
Win a FREE Membership!
Sign up for the ARFCOM weekly newsletter and be entered to win a free ARFCOM membership. One new winner* is announced every week!
You will receive an email every Friday morning featuring the latest chatter from the hottest topics, breaking news surrounding legislation, as well as exclusive deals only available to ARFCOM email subscribers.
AR15.COM is the world's largest firearm community and is a gathering place for firearm enthusiasts of all types.
From hunters and military members, to competition shooters and general firearm enthusiasts, we welcome anyone who values and respects the way of the firearm.
Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more.
Copyright © 1996-2024 AR15.COM LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Any use of this content without express written consent is prohibited.
AR15.Com reserves the right to overwrite or replace any affiliate, commercial, or monetizable links, posted by users, with our own.
