That was pretty scary when that happened. I lived in Idaho and almost had to be evacuated due to all the ash in the air. I was in the 1st grade when that happened. Every since then, volcanoes have fascinated me. They're incredible to look at..of course, I don't live anywhere near one, so that's good news for me.

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Now that sounds exciting!! Nothing exciting ever happens around here. Hurricane Gloria was the most action we've had over here. Boooring! It was actually a pretty cool storm, really..

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I was 14 when Mt St Helens erupted and remember it all too well considering I live about 125 miles northeast of it. My dad woke us up around 9am saying that the sky was turning dark and the street lights were coming on, it was the eeriest thing. We turned on the tv and radio to find out Mt St Helens had erupted and the ash was coming our way. We went outside to see what it was like cause it came down like steady rain, but found out that it was hard to breathe from the sulpher. Like just about everyone else, we set out a couple of cans to catch the stuff as a momento. We ended up with about 5 inches of ash on the ground that needed to be cleaned up. What a smelly, gritty mess! We had to wear surgical masks outside for days during the cleanup. The ash was finer than sand and got into everything as it blew around. It was the worst feeling to have your hair full of ash. Needless to say it was not good for car engines either so the town pretty much shut down for a week.
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I wasn't no where to be found!!!!!! I wasnt alive yet!!!!! LOL!

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I remember Mt.St.Helen! It was a long weekend and I was camping with my family at a little lake called "Bose Lake". Heard it on the radio, we even had some of the ash up this way in the Interior of British Columbia. I remember watching the news on it and how much land was totally wiped out.

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I remember it vividly. I am from Oregon originally. I was outside at a friends house and we were feeding the chickens and we heard a extremely loud noise, like dynamite blasts. The area is way out in the country and it is not unusual to hear dynamite being blasted as logging roads are being built in the mountains. The only thing was that it was a sunday morning. We both joked that 'it must be Mt. St. Helens'. We went inside and my friends mom told us that the mountain had erupted. The sound we had heard was the shock wave. It was so weird.

Mike

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Wow! These are some exciting sounding stories! hehe Imagine that? Put out a can to collect a momento! hah! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif

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I actually have a pen filled with the ashes from Mt. Saint Helens. Used it for show and tell back in the elementary days http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif

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And where was I in all of this? Sun bathing... waiting to get borned... gee http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/tongue.gif

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I came to the United States at the time.. My father had to wear a protective mask when his unit was sent to clear the ash from some streets...

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I want to thank you

I remember this very vividly. I was 10 at the time. I'm originally from Oregon. I recall having the ash about 2-3 inches thick on the cars and streets. My grandfather and uncle had to go and drudge up the Toutle River, so we went up to visit them. There were houses that you could only see the chimneys. The mud had completely buried them. To this day, my grandpa will not tell how many bodies he drudged out of that river.
Now, I must be getting brave, since I live between Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Hood...who's been rumbling quite a bit lately. I can stand on my back porch...look north and see St. Helens and look south and see Hood. Quite breathtaking.

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I was 16 then, and still living in the oklahoma city area when that happened, and even way down there we got ash, although I don't remember how long after, but I'm sure it was weeks later.

Man.. I loved in Florida.. so I didn't get to see or hear it.. I've lived through quite a few hurricanes and tropical storms though!

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That view must be wild Myst....better hope nature doesn't get pissed off! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//VIBRATOR.gif

I don't remember where I was....probably wreaking havoc http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif My mother gave me a pen filled with the ashes from Mt. St. Helens....I remember bringing it in for show and tell http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//baby.gifhttp://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif

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I was 8 when this happened. Lived in southern Oregon, so we weren't affected as much as some areas. I was some 500 miles from there. Do remember that we had a fine coating of ash though. Live closer to it now. Not as close as Myst, but can still see it on a really clear day. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif

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Isn't it breathtaking Jazz? Every summer, we drive up Mt. St. Helens to the visitors center and watch the actual footage of the mountain blowing. It's just sooo...puts everything into perspective, ya know?

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I've never actually been up to the visitors center there. I'll have to see about doing that this summer. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif Going to be a busy summer at this rate. Suppose to go back to the east coast in JUly and Florida in Sept. as it is. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif

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Well, if ya go, let me know.....Maybe we could meet up on the mountain? http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif That'd be pretty cool!

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I remember seeing it on the TV. Can't pinpoint what I was doing precisely. Most likely being my normal vegetable self. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//biggrin.gif

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If I can find the time I'll let you know Myst. Would be cool to meet ya up there. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif Such a beautiful thing to see on a clear day. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif

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Heh, I was only five when Mt. St. Helens erupted... but for a few years after that, I remember learning that some of the rocks near my house were igneous/came from a volcano millions of years ago, (mom's a science teacher... lucky me!) and being afraid that the mountains near my house would erupt. A very vivid fear for a little tyke!

I grew up near Acadia National Park / Bar Harbor, ME... there's no chance of our cute, rounded, little, pink-granite mountains erupting any time soon *g*

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"Life's like a movie, write your own ending" - The Muppet Movie

I was in third grade. Since I was born and raised in Erie PA, it didn't affect me too much but I remember reading about it in my Weekly Reader.

I was on my roof in Portland, Ore watching thru binoculars. I remeber waking up the next morning and feeling like I was in the twilight zone, everything covered in ash, what a bitch that was.

I don't remember exactly where I was at the time..but I remember the days leading up to the eruption when they were interviewing Harry Truman, how he didn't want to leave since he was "born on the mountain, his wife was buried there, and he would die there too". The movie based on the eruption was interesting IMO.

Must have been in school that day. Here on the east coast, it wasn't a big deal (well, not for a 6th grader, anyway). I vaguely remember seeing it on TV and I remember thinking "wow, I didn't know there were any active volcanoes in this country." Well, geography/history/social studies were always my worst subjects in school.

Where was everybody in May of 1980 when Mt. St. Helens erupted?
I was in 1st grade, living in Mt.Home Idaho..almost got evacuated to Texas when it erupted. Been fascinated with volcanoes every since then...

I was 2 years old :lol:

But I do remember hearing alot about Mt. St. Helens all through the 80's.

I was visiting my grandparents in Kelso Washington. I played in the Ash, not fully understanding what happened! We had several inches. I just though it was 'dirty' snow in May! :lol:

I was in the 4th grade when that happened. I remember seeing all the ash from falling on houses, cars etc. It was a big mess!

Where was everybody in May of 1980 when Mt. St. Helens erupted?
I was in 1st grade, living in Mt.Home Idaho..almost got evacuated to Texas when it erupted. Been fascinated with volcanoes every since then...

Air Force brat by chance????

My parents have a Christmas ornament made from that ash.


Ash (http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/christmasornaments.htm)

Air Force brat by chance????

My parents have a Christmas ornament made from that ash.


Ash (http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/christmasornaments.htm)

Why yes..I am an Air Force Brat..check out the "Things that aren't Generally known about me" thread to find out more interesting things about me. (j/k)
I vaguely remember Idaho..but man..that volcano was the most interesting thing to me in the 1st grade..

I was camping with my family at a Bose Lake..........couple days after we even had ash up that far......I still have some of it in a little vile in my trunk!

Did I hear correctly that Mt. St. Helens has been rumbling again, lately??

Did I hear correctly that Mt. St. Helens has been rumbling again, lately??

Yuppers. The prediction is it could blow within the next 48 hours. It's a cat 3 out of 4 right now. But they say it won't be anything as big as 1980. They are evacuating within a 12 mile radius of the mountain. It's all over the news here out in the Pacific Northwest.

Why yes..I am an Air Force Brat..check out the "Things that aren't Generally known about me" thread to find out more interesting things about me. (j/k)
I vaguely remember Idaho..but man..that volcano was the most interesting thing to me in the 1st grade..


I knew that I had seen that before !!!!!! :thumb:

I was 8 when this happened. Lived in southern Oregon, so we weren't affected as much as some areas. I was some 500 miles from there. Do remember that we had a fine coating of ash though. Live closer to it now. Not as close as Myst, but can still see it on a really clear day. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif

Jazzmyn http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//witchbroom.gif http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//vampire.gif
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BREAKDOWN

Press on regardless; life is a dangerous bridegroom and to survive we need to approach each day as if going to war; as if giving ourselves up to intense enjoyment. As we do, we must travel lightly and simply and we must have some method of keeping up our spirit; for example, seriousness and humour, and reverence and persistence in the face of obstacles and a code to live by.
-Ron Price with thanks to J.C. Powys, In Spite Of: A Philosophy for Everyman, Village Press, 1974(1953).


He’s having a breakdown. thought he was heading
for something. days and day of depression. should
see a doctor. it runs in his family. what did they call
it? hypomania? a mild schizo-affective state? kept
going off the rails. that big psychiatric hospital,
locked doors, keys, cleaning floors, always walking
around, ECTs, then lithium came along. thank god
for that and all this craziness came to an end. ‘Cause
it wasn’t really craziness, just bio-chemical imbalance
as they called it. and all his breakdowns became history:
colourful, strange, eccentric, finished. now little pills
every day keeping me regular, easy, never fragmented,
broken, crumbled, scattered. coming undone is no way
to do. it’s not romantic or groovy. i wouldn’t recommend it.

Ron Price
31 December 1998

:spankin:

That was my 9th birthday, so I was pretty pre-occupied with other things. I remember hearing about it on the news a day or so later.

I lived in Olympia Washington. about 80 miles north of Mt. St. Helens. I was about 13 at the time.

I can still see the tip of the mountain and the ash cloud vividly in my memory.

We drove through the area a couple of months after it happened on a family vacation, probably on our way to California. There was still lots of ash over everything. We collected some jars of it for sovineers to give away.

I remember some harrowing tv footage of the destruction and this other crazy story about a news reporter who had the feeling to go check it out the day it erupted and he barely survived somehow but had lots of footage.

This was one of the few times in high school that I was allowed to drive to school, and since it was my senior year, I didn't feel constricted by all of that "going to class" garbage. I had treated myself to a long lunch and was returning from McDonald's when the news report came across. I didn't get an idea of the full scope of the explosion until I got home from school.

Mount Saint Helens activity is measured in 3 seperate Volcano Advisory Alert Levels. Ranging from a relatively minor level 3 to an Imminent Level 1 (May 18, 1980 would be classified on this scale as a Level 1 Volcano Advisory). Currently it is at level 2.


If you would like to see the levels on a day by day basis, visit the Gifford Pinchot National Forest website at: http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/recreation/current-conditions/special.shtml
or call (360) 891-5202.
You can see updated Webcam images of the volcano at http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

Well we are coming up on the 25th anniversary of Mount St. Helens explosion May 18th...1980....does anybody know where they were?.....lol..I know where I was...about 65 miles NE....in Centralia,Washington....it was my freshman year in high school.....3rd period.....we thought that a nuclear bomb had hit Centralia...man it was scary.....we had ash on our streets for years.....

I was still in H.S. getting ready to graduate.

My dad, however, was part of the USGS that surveyed Mt. St. Helens before, during and after. He came back with a few thousand very interesting photos!

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BREAKDOWN
Press on regardless; life is a dangerous bridegroom and to survive we need to approach each day as if going to war; as if giving ourselves up to intense enjoyment. As we do, we must travel lightly and simply and we must have some method of keeping up our spirit; for example, seriousness and humour, and reverence and persistence in the face of obstacles and a code to live by.
-Ron Price with thanks to J.C. Powys, In Spite Of: A Philosophy for Everyman, Village Press, 1974(1953).
He’s having a breakdown. thought he was heading
for something. days and day of depression. should
see a doctor. it runs in his family. what did they call
it? hypomania? a mild schizo-affective state? kept
going off the rails. that big psychiatric hospital,
locked doors, keys, cleaning floors, always walking
around, ECTs, then lithium came along. thank god
for that and all this craziness came to an end. ‘Cause
it wasn’t really craziness, just bio-chemical imbalance
as they called it. and all his breakdowns became history:
colourful, strange, eccentric, finished. now little pills
every day keeping me regular, easy, never fragmented,
broken, crumbled, scattered. coming undone is no way
to do. it’s not romantic or groovy. i wouldn’t recommend it.
Ron Price
31 December 1998
:spankin:
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We often tend to measure our lives by crisis points, points in the public sphere and our own private sphere. Here is a piece I owe to poet
Wallace Stevens that touches on this theme:
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PROPULSION

The whole race is a poet that writes down
The eccentric propositions of its fate.
-Wallace Stevens, “Men Make Out Words”, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play by Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens, editor, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1971, p.282.

Yes, Wallace, an eccentricity, a strangeness, a puzzle,
a fate, a freedom, a solitude and a sociality: I write
them down---a poet telling of his defeats, dreams,
victories, crises, calamities, those reveries, Wallace,
those reveries, certain propositions and descriptions.

Those terraces, the emerald green grass, Zoysia,
bush-hammered, white sand, fair-faced, special
release agent on a tapestry of beauty so right for
the time, so right for that history of a century and
a half and all those men and women and children.

Italian marble, tonnes of steel fixings, contracts
for this roadwork and that building in a stupendous
architectural ediface at this climacteric of history
with its marble columns, immense stone work and
a Strong Room so fitting for their sacred texts.

And, Wallace, none of it was easy, hard stuff,
the kind of thing to make you cry if you had
not seen the same thing for fifteen decades,
right from the first burn-outs and another
propulsion of a galaxy of God-intoxicated heroes.

Ron Price
22 May 1996

I was @ home,didnt even know it happend (Till years later)

I saw that movie and all also

Well, my vacation time is coming up (June 2nd), and the wife and I decided not to go to california this time. One of two possible destinations is Mt. St. Helens. If we go there I'll be sure to get pics! The volcano is less then 2 hours drive from our house now.

I was in Vegas with my parents when it happened. It was definately the biggest news story out there.