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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2017 20:38:38 GMT -5
Roquefort Raider - I remember that blast back in 1980 and I was outside that morning and watering Mom's hanging flower baskets just before we went to church/brunch that day and by time we came back we were coated with 1/8 inch of ash (light colored) in our backyard. The first thing that we did was to turn on the news and watch that footage that you've just shared for us to see and I seen that footage a thousand times because we live in Seattle about 185 miles from that Mountains and I saw the dark plume of ash and along with the light plume of ash at the same time. I was an experience that my Mom, Dad, and I'll never forget and we were late to church that day and most of our members were and that's was understandable. My 1970 Dodge Dart was coated with ash and my car was parked outside and we had to clean off the ash very carefully and fortunately my Dad's next door neighbor was a mechanic and he checked it out and my car was fine along with all the other cars in our neighborhood too. It's an experience that I just relieved seeing it and after 6 months after that eruption my whole family spent a weekend camping around St. Helens and seeing the destruction of that eruption first hand is an incredible sight to see and my Mom and I spent an extra day seeing it and my Dad had to go back home to get ready to work and took a small drive seeing the trees laying down like that was an sight to see. Unfortunately, my Mom forgot to bring her camera and regretted that. For the next 1-2 years we still dealing with ash and my Dad and I spent a couple of hours of air filtering system that uses outside air and we check it every 2 years and change the filters. We just did that three months prior that day and my Dad had ask me to check the filters because it's takes me a good hour to get to it. I called my Dad at work and told him that the filters are clogged of ash from St. Helens and I had to rent a special vacuum to clean it out and he went out and bought new filters and put those filters in and every six months after the blast we had to get the special vacuum and replace the filters again only once and that's the end of it. It's was nuts and I'll never ever forget this as long as I live.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 27, 2017 23:06:42 GMT -5
Roquefort Raider and @mechagodzilla, I too am fascinated by the Mount St. Helens eruption of May 1980, hence why I've seen that documentary that RR posted a clip from. Although I live thousands of miles away in England, I vividly remember the news coverage of the event. I was only 7-years-old at the time, but even at that tender age, there was something about the colossal power of nature on display that fascinated and slightly unsettled me. The footage of those huge plumes of smoke spewing from the volcano was indelibly etched into my memory.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 3:18:09 GMT -5
Roquefort Raider and @mechagodzilla , I too am fascinated by the Mount St. Helens eruption of May 1980, hence why I've seen that documentary that RR posted a clip from. Although I live thousands of miles away in England, I vividly remember the news coverage of the event. I was only 7-years-old at the time, but even at that tender age, there was something about the colossal power of nature on display that fascinated and slightly unsettled me. The footage of those huge plumes of smoke spewing from the volcano was indelibly etched into my memory. I was in my early 20's in College and that experience and seeing the actual eruption in my own eyes seeing ashes going up to 40,000 to 55,000 feet in the air and all that is a sight to see. Some places got an inch of ash and breathing was pretty bad for the most part of Washington State. I went through 2-3 air filters for my car during the early 80's and everyone else too. Like you said seeing those huge plumes of smoke is a sight that I'll never forget too. Seeing trees laying down like matches of which my Mom and I spent an extra day on Monday from the distance like this picture below  Shows the awesome power of nature. Then before we went home we stopped at a country store to get some sandwiches and drove to on one side of the Mountain and saw a scene similar to this one below  Showing Trees stripped of branches and exposed like this and my Mom brought a camera at the Country Store and took about 3-4 pictures of this and we were in awe of seeing trees like this. 1980 is one year that I'll never, ever forget ... it had another short eruption afterwards and I saw that too because I was in the backyard mowing the grass and I told my Dad ... St. Helens erupted again and the three of us saw ashes going up to about 11,000 to 13,000 thousand feet in the air and all that and in the city of Yakima that took the hardest hit ... it's took them 10 weeks to clear out all the ash and my Dad had to go to Yakima and couldn't believe how difficult to get around there. He had to go to settle some financial matters for my Grandparents that lived there. It took him 7 hours to get there by car - the trip normally took 3-4 hours tops. When he got home he was still stunned seeing ashes everywhere and had to use Yakima's buses to get around and all that. He was forced to wear a mask while there and had some trouble breathing too. About around the 8th to 9th week of the cleanup in Yakima ... we had to go there to meet my Uncle (my Dad older brother) and he was staying in Yakima and amazed seeing trucks going out and dumping the ashes elsewhere. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 28, 2017 15:56:02 GMT -5
There's an oft-repeated legend that the Grateful Dead played a concert in Portland as the mountain was erupting, and without any knowledge of the eruption, one of the songs they played was "Fire on the Mountain". The Dead actually didn't get to Portland until a few months after the eruptions. They did play "Fire on the Mountain", but they played the song often anyway, so it may or may not have been an intentional reference to the volcano.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 29, 2017 14:33:41 GMT -5
Wait, wait, wait... Flat Earthers are a real thing?
I was convinced they were some kind of parody group...
The mind boggles.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 29, 2017 14:46:31 GMT -5
Wait, wait, wait... Flat Earthers are a real thing?I was convinced they were some kind of parody group... The mind boggles. They are sadly a very very real thing. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 29, 2017 14:56:05 GMT -5
Do they demand equal time in geography class?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2017 15:28:56 GMT -5
Do they demand equal time in geography class? Did you see the guy who built his own manned rocket he plans to fly to prove the earth is flat, but keeps postponing his flight? -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 29, 2017 15:33:41 GMT -5
Do they demand equal time in geography class? Did you see the guy who built his own manned rocket he plans to fly to prove the earth is flat, but keeps postponing his flight? -M Because you can't do it cheaper and more easily with a camera on a high altitude weather balloon. Not that I mean you can prove the earth is flat...just that this guy is a con artist or incredibly stupid. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2017 15:38:13 GMT -5
Did you see the guy who built his own manned rocket he plans to fly to prove the earth is flat, but keeps postponing his flight? -M Because you can't do it cheaper and more easily with a camera on a high altitude weather balloon. Not that I mean you can prove the earth is flat...just that this guy is a con artist or incredibly stupid. Those two things don't have to be mutually exclusive though... -M |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2017 15:41:43 GMT -5
Genetic analysis of alleged Yeti remains purports to have solved the mystery of the Yeti. I have always been fascinated by cryptozoology (as well as speculative history), even though I am highly skeptical of both, but still a part of me keeps hoping one of these articles will have a different outcome. -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 29, 2017 15:46:28 GMT -5
Genetic analysis of alleged Yeti remains purports to have solved the mystery of the Yeti. I have always been fascinated by cryptozoology (as well as speculative history), even though I am highly skeptical of both, but still a part of me keeps hoping one of these articles will have a different outcome. -M Maybe they're highly evolved sapient bears. Saw this earlier today. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 29, 2017 15:47:06 GMT -5
Because you can't do it cheaper and more easily with a camera on a high altitude weather balloon. Not that I mean you can prove the earth is flat...just that this guy is a con artist or incredibly stupid. Those two things don't have to be mutually exclusive though... -M See, for example, our President. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2017 15:47:10 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2017 15:48:22 GMT -5
Genetic analysis of alleged Yeti remains purports to have solved the mystery of the Yeti. I have always been fascinated by cryptozoology (as well as speculative history), even though I am highly skeptical of both, but still a part of me keeps hoping one of these articles will have a different outcome. -M Maybe they're highly evolved sapient bears. Saw this earlier today. One of my wife's favorite fantasy creatures are werebears (or Beornlings in Tolkien mythos). -M |
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