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Lake St. Helens Lyrics

@ramona7877

No one seemed to take it seriously, I lived in St Helens Oregon at the time

@TheSignatureK

Sounds like typical United States citizens to me. Especially like those that had block parties during the pandemic last year.

@InternetGravedigger

The photo at 0:27 was of David A. Johnston, a vulcanologist who was only 10 miles away when the eruption happened 13 hours after this photo. He was the first to report the eruption, before it killed him.
There was also a photographer named Robert Landsberg who was also a few miles away when it happened. He realized he was already dead, it just hadn't reached him yet, so he rewound the pictures he'd taken of the eruption, put the camera back in it's case and into his backpack, then lay on top of his pack to protect the film as much as possible. This allowed his pictures to actually be developed and provide documentation of the actual eruption to geologists.

@HelterCas

Damn... he really made the best of it huh

@septarria

That's... kind of heroic

@cyrax94

R.I.P. to those poor brave souls.

I know it happened years before I was born, but it still sucks to hear about people passing like that.

@luciaqiao

So heroic for both of them. Thank you for sharing this information.

@nozyspy4967

Where can one find those photos?

@alexcosta3219

Who's got this recommended after 11 years

@Modestas_Stonkus

Me

@Hiboyboy123

Me

@luginess0

Everyone, get over it

@johnnyfoosball12

@@luginess0 bet you’re fun at parties

@MahkyVmedia1

@@johnnyfoosball12 probably a blast. Doesn't seem like an idiot.

@josie4065

The sheer amount of energy it took to move one side of a mountain is mind boggling.

@Ascertivus

My initial thought was about the motion of the earth around it! I wonder if it caused an earthquake or a significant amount of wind.

@mamacat63

@@Ascertivus oh, it definitely caused an earthquake

@juliusnepos6013

@@mamacat63 it was

@typ044

@n/a No.

@victorpradha9946

For nature...this is all effortless. There is no exertion involved in the happening of such phenomena. Gravity constantly drives one continental shelf against another. The result in powerful earthquakes that tumble dwellings and structures that took hundreds if not thousands of hours to construct in a matter of seconds.

@catthatlooksatyoufunny7377

Wow, I've never seen something like this before, i didn't even knew it was possible, part of the mountain just slides off it's both horrifying and amazing to see

@talkadelics

Right lol f mountains lol

@oogabooga6183

@@talkadelics 😂😂😂

@hobomike6935

1:20 “woah… well, it’s not THAT bad. I’m sure the locals survived.

1:42 oh.

@raisin4406

“And you will see the mountains and think them solid, but they shall pass away as the passing away of the clouds. The Work of Allah, Who perfected all things, verily! He is Well-Acquainted with what you do”

[an-Naml 27:88].

Allah can blast and scatter the largest and biggest of mountains if He wills, which is what will happen on the Day of Judgement. So return to your Lord and repent before there comes a day where the eyes will stare in horror.

@migsyp4292

You're mum's a mountain!

DOOOO
SUMMIN!

@chrisharmon1985

Mount St. Helen: " I'm just gonna stretch out. Had a long day."

@cirious1703

It's been a long eon

@AllenHanPR

More like it's been a long millenium.

@JantomPlayzGamez

shits vigorously

@jacob1931

@@JantomPlayzGamez 😂 why?

@poodle5421

@@JantomPlayzGamez ahh shucks, my ass fell ofg

@AverytheCubanAmerican

Mount St. Helens is feeling crazy and adventurous, that's the reason that it's so special

@jessecooper5900

And it's filled with music

@abhishekreddy2425

And it dreams of puppies

@improvingguitarist1595

Ponies

@snivylink2119

and it takes no answers

@anoon-

Bill wurtz chose good with this mountain.

@wendy833

I'm in Washington state and remember sunbathing when it got cloudy. All this stuff started falling on me so I went inside. My parents were out of town towards Chewelah and weren't allowed to come home. My grandfather came and got me and explained what had happened. It was a weird thing to experience. Ash was all over everything for years.

@whiteyfisk9769

Black Lives Matter

@danznh

@@whiteyfisk9769 no

@gayled3059

@@whiteyfisk9769 What's that got to do with this??

@timthompson8297

I used to,see ash on the side for the road in eastern Washington on my camping trips for years

@wendy833

@@timthompson8297 for sure!! I remember seeing it too.

@rat7099

Man, imagine if something like that was captured with modern microphones and cameras, it would be more terrifying than it already is, but if you were actually there it would be insane to look at.

@patrickdoyle9369

It would be the last thing you ever looked at.. Yeah man it looks like the mountains gonna blow, the mountain you say ? Yeah the volcano man its gonna blow real soon.. I think i'll go up there for a look.. LOL. What a complete and utter moron.

@angelsaxon6499

Both my parents watched this unfold and remember it distinctly. Mum was in school and my dad, bein the mad lad he kinda is, watched relatively closely, but not close enough to be in danger. Absolutely unbelievable, and even after the collapse the mountain is still a sight to see today. Summitting it back in 2013 is a fond memory of mine :3

@OdysseyABMS

i cringed reading this and proceeded to regurgitate my breakfast after seeing that pfp

@MisterJohnDoe

Interesting icon you have there.

@gerarddip

BASED PFP

@angelsaxon6499

@Burr Anderson whoa. Not sure if I've seen that, but I will note it for now 👀

@Niever

So he was like twenty miles from it? That's safe bit still could be danger. Anyone believing this guy needs to look at how far all the debris, ash and smoke travelled and how fast.

@jackdoe552

My father, being a true dad, took me camping at the base of Mt. St. Helens about a month before it blew. He was not particularly worried. 🤣 I was quite young, but distinctly remember seeing a large herd of elk in the forest.

@TopeA8

Survivor's bias.

@jenniferraymond9766

Your dad was an idiot

@RaffieFaffie

@@TopeA8 No because he wasn't there during the danger to survive it

@raylast3873

„It seemed like a perfectly safe place.“

Morgan Freeman narrating: But it wasn‘t safe.

@UserName-dt3kc

I can hear him saying it

@derp8575

lol!

@clarencebayer79

More like Ron Howard with the Arrested Development narration.

@Jimmyupadhyay

I literally heard him say that in my head when i was reading your comment.

@raylast3873

@@Jimmyupadhyay that‘s because he was actually saying it the whole time. Morgan Freeman narrates every epically dangerous event.

@thesleepycookie1381

No matter how inspirational it is, I will never look at the saying "make the mountains move" the same way again 💀

@Jogyot3260

Must be strangely disturbing to say it

@T3RRORGL1TCH

Here before the seventyth like

@thesleepycookie1381

@@T3RRORGL1TCH Haha that's a new one. I didn't even know I got like, past 3 likes 😅

@T3RRORGL1TCH

@@thesleepycookie1381 yeah, YouTube is Messy I noticed

@sharonmccann2902

I remember it well. I lived in Southern California at the time and we had ash falling and blowing. Live footage was on the news. A few years later I went to the site and the devastation was horrible. Whole hillside of timber were flattened as if they were matchsticks. Amazing...

@TheKennethECarper

I remember it as well. I lived in Portland, OR and I remember going outside with my parents. There was a thick layer of ash in our front yard and on top of our car. It was so deep that I thought it had snowed. I was only five years old and remember trying to make a snowball out of the ash and my mother forcing me to throw it down. I wish I had saved some of it. I had a ball of volcanic ash in my hand, a literal piece of geological history, and I threw it away.

@shayaankhan2578

Was it a landslide or landslide due to volcano?

@DerpASherpa117

@@shayaankhan2578 the magma chamber couldn't properly vent excess gas and molten rock, so the northern side of the mountain literally bulged out as this gas built up more and more from the magma moving underneath. Finally, it collapsed under its own weight after a small earthquake, which then led to the lateral blast that sterilized the countryside for miles.

@darrenheadrick3669

@ Sharon McCann
I was 14 years old, living Detroit when this happened. The blast was so powerful from Mt. St. Helens that Detroit got some of the ash from the eruption.

@Magnum_Wolf

I wasn't born yet (1989) when this happened, but I wish I couldn't seen it. I live in Southern Colorado and people said that it just got a little hazy over here.

@pux0rb

The amount of force it must have taken to move several million tons of rock so effortlessly is astounding.

@atomicskull6405

it's more like trillions of tons

@danielrodriguez5165

Dont think thats how it works. Sometimes all it takes is a butterfly

@Arcessitor

@@danielrodriguez5165That platitude doesn't really work since there's no such thing as a butterfly actually creating a hurricane.

@hairydogstail

We got ash all the way in Montana. The clouds looked so weird and ash fell everywhere. It was like living through fall out after WW3 occurred. The next day everything was grey like watching life in black and white..

@stephenjokela

We had ash fall all the way in New Brunswick, Canada. 3500 miles away. Crazy.

@Internet_Canuck

My Grandpa woke up one day in Alberta Canada to find ash covering his Car which he had to scrape off before heading off to Work for the day.

@hairydogstail

@Phuckofftopuss Yup, I still have my bottles of ash LOL. On our logging jobs we had ash fly out of trees for many years after the eruption...

@BrianJWood-dl3dv

I was in Victoria B.C when this happened. We are 200 miles away. I was in my bedroom and there was a huge rumble. The whole house seemed to have been hit by a truck
or something. I got out out of my bedroom and my sister had also left her bedroom. She looked really scared. I thought it might have been a nuclear bomb.
I wont forget that day.

@duderama6750

It was a bomb.

@devonalford3401

1:08
him: “one of the largest landslides in recorded history”

me: “bruh that’s only a few pebbl- oh shit...”

@Ahonya666

Yes...oh shit...It was like a half mountain 😱 That would be so scary to film

@tzeege

*1:14

@SH3ZR3X

🤣🤣🤣

@marcelinodarren10

Bruh not gonna lie it looked like a poor animation for a second as it stretch

@sunnynight6440

so youre stupid?

@vadenk4433

I just saw some ash from St Helens in the last month. There’s still drifts of it out towards Electric city. I remember seeing it every once in awhile growing up cause it blew just 2 years before I was born. I’ve also seen it when tearing up carpet in old houses. The ash is so fine it sifts down through the carpet to the floors

@firstnamelastname2552

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@Boobo_000

???

@dopplesoddner2899

Respect to the guys who worked for many days without sleep to capture this 2 mins of incredible footage.

@Ksweetpea

If you've never been to see the mountain, and have an opportunity to, go see it. The viewpoint just below the visitor center is a great place to really take in the scale of the mountain. It doesn't look nearly as large as it is especially from the south. Staring down the barrel of the gun, so to speak, it can truly be appreciated

@loopthetube

I finally went after 40 years. The visitors center we went to was Johnston Ridge. It is the ridge David Johnsron was sitting on.

@tony3313

I went mountain biking there several years ago and to see the wide swath of destruction miles wide was eerie. Definitely a vibe there to this day.

@nemospence2724

I've been fascinated by the eruption of Mount Saint Helens and the stories that surround it. From the Philippines

@TheLiamster

“Mount St Helens is about to blow up and it’s gonna be fine, swell day.”

@Cowmilker98

Took longer than expected to find a Bill comment

@theomcintosh

I'M RIDING A PONY!!🦄🌞

@fernando47180

INTO THE SUNSET 🌅

@objectivelytheworst1221

Wonder if that gift shop is still there...

@EPIXISCOOL

“Everything’s GREEN and GOLD” 🟢 🔔

@jessehutchings

The biggest natural disaster to hit Washington before I was born. The footage is incredible, but we could probably never imagine how shocking it looked to see it first hand with full depth perception of our own eyes

@mrloop1530

You being born was a bigger natural disaster?

@OutyMan

This is a really smooth, enhanced and slightly augmented morph animation of the eruption. No video footage of these moments exists--Only a series of photographs. A quick technical note in the presentation explaining this would have been appropriate and educational.

@calvincameron354

This wasn't an eruption though it was a Landslide

@septarria

It was both.

@heatherreadsreddit8579

@@calvincameron354 The eruption caused the landslide.

@AB-mu9hz

25+ second ad for a video less than 2 minutes long. Makes perfect sense. Why would anyone want a reprieve.

@rogerhwerner6997

I remember this event very well. Four years later I ws working in eastern Washington. The roadsides were still covered in Mount St. Helens ash. I collected some of it in a Tri-X fil. Cannister. I still have it and I'm looking it as I write this. In 1986, I drove up the Tuottle River to as close as I could get to the mountain. The scar was still fresh and the forest was just as scared.

@edithbannerman4

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

@eelano1070

i see st. helens every day from my neighborhood, and i've visited it quite a few times on field trips and stuff. it's insane how beautiful it is despite the devastation it faced. it's so green and lush in the spring, and the ape caves are so strange and fascinating. i wanna go camp up there someday.

@JustDaZack

"If you can't go to the mountain, the mountain must come to you."

@TVAProject

Lmao this comment is under rated

@Bitterbal05

In mother Russia you dont go to mountain, mountain goes to you

@tommyperez6824

Lol have you gotten the ad for the drink

@retardman5193

In Australia, you don't go to the mountains. The mountains stay there.

@snek3675

Putin was probably in the area

@Pompomeranian7

I've never been to Mt. St. Helens but the stories I've read about it remind me of a place I have visited called Turtle Mountain. It's not a volcano but in 1903 half the mountain collapsed and crushed the town of frank and all of its residents with the exception of a few very lucky individuals. Was mind boggling seeing the literal miles of boulder debris and knowing a whole town turned mass grave was burried somewhere under my feet.

@duderama6750

Been there. Spooky.

@Msfracture

I felt that same way the first time I was there at 10yrs old..

@damienvandenbranden7615

Man I love YouTube recommendations sometimes... This is just epic...

@Ascertivus

Agreed. It really is.

@ElSantoLuchador

I was 11 or 12 and mowing the lawn in Eastern Washington when it went off. The sky got gray and ash came down eventually covering the lawn with about an inch of ash. Some places in E Wa (Ritzville, for example) had ash on the ground for several years. It was hysterical to me that people were actually selling it.

@ramona7877

I was twenty and lived just outside of St Helens Oregon during that time. Hardly anyone around us seemed to take it seriously, as if all the scientists were completely wrong.
I stood in a field and watched when it erupted, the atom bomb shaped cloud and loud earth shaking rumble.
We were fortunate and only had a couple inches of ash both times.

@thethirdman225

That’s the price of ignoring science.

@duderama6750

Atom bomb. Not wrong at all.

@EchosTackyTiki

That mountain just decided to stretch it's legs out. The sheer weight of the entire northern side of a mountain makes me think that that shouldn't be possible. Baffling.

@ANKITYADAV-nv9wv

Everybody gangsta until the mountain starts walking away

@BlueSky......

everybody gangsta until i show up

@litrally6973

isaac douget you’re not really intimidating

@BlueSky......

@@litrally6973 probably millions of people are on the same level...of intelligence

@BlueSky......

@Mood - reading youtube comments intimidates me sometimes, but do they make 20 videos taunting the internet?

@tornadochaser7226

*sliding away

@robertlee8400

The ash from this reach my home town of Cincinnati , Ohio I remember going outside & seeing a faint grey dust sitting on cars , you could see it real well on black or dark colored cars . I was 7 when this happened . My uncle went out & collected the volcanic dust off of the cars & put it in a glass bottle because it was a historical event of the time & he still has the volcano dust labeled in that glass bottle from what happened . You can clearly see that the volcanic dust is like no other dust , it’s just a weird grey color . It’s a neat thing to pass on to future generations .

@OhPhuckYou

I have a jar with the ash too. Not sure how my grandma got it as we live in Kansas, but she used to travel a lot. I suppose she was near the eruption and decided to take some ash home.

@raimundosepulvedav.8572

Hello Storm... 10 years after, I still say... run and don't look back. Excellent images!!!

@landonspain193

My Nana, who lives in Southwest Virginia, says she remembers a very light dusting of ash on her car after the eruption. It's scary how much volcanic material is blasted into the atmosphere when one of these dormant giants explodes with rage.

@mcloathin9684

Now imagine a gigaton nuke

@Rebecca-1111

Even had dust in Michigan.

@FFEMTB08

My dad has ash from the first and second explosions. The difference in the two is incredible.

@torikenyon

“Mount St. Helens is about to disintegrate in an enormous landslide, and it’s gonna be a fine swell day” -Bill Wurtz

@overratedwood

0:52 I actually sometimes still think that 1980s is around 20 years ago. When in reality its around 40 years from now...

@kookiemonster6035

Crazy how time flies

@alyssaherdrich649

😥😥😥

@razzberry4756

me too, and I was born in ‘99 lmao

@thebestjisungista7055

Me too

@papaaustin1170

I do the same thing lol

@Rushmore222

Can't wait for Peter Jackson to Hi-Def that whole event.

@tenoremodernotecnicavecchi2151

Seeing this video has changed my life. Thank you, recommended algorithm.

@tufab3494

Thank God somebody filmed this.

@jamesdaughton8017

I had a college prof who had great photos- slides of the explosion. What really impacted about the slides - three of his grad students had gone to the mountain. That day, two were in town. The photos were taken by the third guy. He took the photos as the blast came toward him, wrapped the camera in something, stuck it under a truck seat, and he vanished forever. The film in the camera survived.

@thecommunistdoggo1008

Do you know if the photos are public? I'd love to see them

@desmond-hawkins

@@thecommunistdoggo1008 This sounds like a misremembered retelling of what happened to photographer Robert Landsburg. He was not a student, he was 48 years old. He took some photos of the pyroclastic flow as it approached him, then put his camera in his backpack and lay on top of it in his car before it was covered. He died in the process. Look up Robert Landsburg on Wikipedia for more. I doubt there's another Mt Saint Helens story about a photographer who died protecting his film at the very last minute.

@jamesdaughton8017

@@desmond-hawkins The prof, teaching at Penn State York Campus, told us that he had 3 grad students at the mountain. A married couple and another man. The married couple had gone for supplies when the eruption occurred. I'm not misremembering what the prof said. The prof taught at Kutztown full time. He has passed away; I don't know if any of the photos are online. My classmate will tell you same thing.

@desmond-hawkins

@@jamesdaughton8017 I didn't mean that you were misremembering it. I just highly doubt that there are two stories of people photographing this eruption who both died trying to protect their film by wrapping it in something to protect it and stuffing the whole package under a car seat. Really? One well-documented, and one coincidentally doing the exact same thing to the precise details of their action, only this time told by a university professor but without any reference to it online or in books about this event. Sure, these two stories are about different people. What are the odds?!

@thesaul9484

@@desmond-hawkins he is probably speaking of R. Landsburg. a Professor addresses someone his student, and vice versa even after their respective time in academy

@shannencj2282

I can't help but to sing bill wurtz's "mount Saint hellen is bout to blow up"

@trry2543

Parents: You’d have better luck moving a mountain
Mountain:👁👄👁

@theunderdog9353

Mountain: Anyway, I started slidin'

@lewis17297

Thank you for this comment, I have laughed to death

@netecrivernetecassassins2945

This inspired me to become mountin 🤓

@theunderdog9353

@Chris Whitty Braindead response

@hh582

Except the kid didn’t move the mountain the mountain moved itself...

@jyotirmoyhandique-7332

I dont know why it popped up but thanks for giving me some geographical knowledge.

I hope it helps someone else again after 10 years by popping up in his recommendations.

@Ascertivus

Absolutely amazing footage and video overall. Thank you for uploading this.

@les4767

I wasn't old enough to be someone who could say, "I remember where I was when Kennedy was shot." However, I was old enough to remember where I was and what I was doing when Mt. St. Helens erupted. I was in Woodinville, Washington, north of the mountain about 130 miles away. I was visiting my cousins and we were in the den watching tv when there was a light tremor and the news flash came on showing the eruption. We sat shocked by the awesome display of natural power and chaos that came on the screen. Luckily, we missed the worst of the ash cloud due to wind patterns, but we did get a light dusting over the course of the week. Mt. St. Helens was the main topic of interest for the rest of the year and then some. A year later, I visited Castlerock, Washington just 20 miles from the mountain for a festival the town held for surviving the event. It was quite sobering.

@banjohappy

I remember where I was when Kennedy was shot. I was in 7th grade gym class and Mr. Charcola came in and said "The president has been shot. School is being dismissed. Go to your lockers. Get your belongings. The buses are waiting outside to take you home." Nobody said he had died. A girl on the bus was crying, saying he was dead and we all ridiculed her. "They didn't say he was dead, just that he'd been shot." But she was right and we were wrong.

@axelwulf6220

I'm actually glad someone was actually talking video footage, it's really cathartic finally seeing the incident and not a series of stills

@jimmyjohn6504

But no one did record it.

@sacr3

These are images placed together with VFX artists.

There is no video footage

@thunderblossom8114

I’ve been out there. It was cool actually getting to go to the Observatory. It varies literally day to day if you can go or not because you’re sooo close to it. I think still like roughly nine miles away though

@AlexorPwnsAll

“Keeping an eye on an ominous growing bulge.”
That’s called cancer man, gotta get that checked

@negativeindustrial

I hate it when people eye my bulge

@chlorofoto

peepee?

@atomchild2619

Fuck this is so hilarious 😂😂😂

@fredjung

That’s what she said.

@tombick9311

Notices your pyroclastic flow 👉👈

@luisjakcooper2587

" Vancouver Vancouver, this is it. " Is all I can think of right now

@prarieborn6458

We lived a few miles north of Seattle, that sunday morning we slept in, did not hear the explosion…the sound wave traveled so fast, it passed over us and was heard near Idaho border, A friend who lived in the far NE WA mountains , near Idaho , said they heard it and saw the sky blackened far to the SW but thought it was a massive thunderstorm.. Two women TV news reporters, who were called in to anchor the emergency , showed up wearing the same dress. Another friend told us that her neighbor had borrowed a truck/ camper and had planned to take back roads into the red zone around St Helens to get photographs. Neither he nor the truck was ever found. For weeks before the eruption, people had reported seeing a beautiful lady in a white evening gown walking along the roads in rural areas at night. Those who stopped to give her a ride said she would sit in the back seat then would tell them the mountain was going to blow and people would die and told them to warn others. Then she would just disappear from the vehicle..poof! Native Hawaiians living in WA said the lady was Pelee, the volcano goddess. Of course scientists monitoring the seismic activity and the gas emissions knew an eruotion was coming, but I don’t think anyone expected it to be so explosive.. Governor Dixie Lee Ray had ordered an evacuation of the towns and settlements around the mountain and she was met with crticism, disbelief and defiance. But she stuck to her guns. There was so much pressure that she allowed people to go back into the red zone to check on their homes and retrieve possessions, for a few hours only, on the day before St Helens blew. Her action saved many lives.

@kdpjsp

On that Sunday morning .... May 18, 1980.......I was standing on a ridge top overlooking Auburn Washington.......looking to the south and watching Mt. St. Helen spew earth and ash thousands of feet into the atmosphere. It's a sight I'll never forget.

@duderama6750

I was at the Overlook. 8:32 DST.

@puirYorick

The landslide "video" was actually cobbled together from a series of still photographs IIRC. Amazing that it was over four decades ago already.

@mic787

A beautiful rendition of me slowly laying down instead of doing my school work and falling asleep

@AethernaLuxen

That's just the dragon moving his bed sheets, don't bother him

@meepbeep2464

Of course we won't

@leocastanon6194

Will you go to Heaven when you die? Here’s a quick test: Have you ever lied, stolen, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” If you have done these things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart, and the Bible warns that one day God will punish you in a terrible place called Hell. But God is not willing that any should perish. Sinners broke God’s Law and Jesus paid their fine. This means that God can legally dismiss their case: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Then Jesus rose from the dead, defeating death. Today, repent [turn away from your sins and don’t practice them] trust Jesus, and God will give you eternal life as a free gift. Then read the Bible daily and obey it. God will never fail you.

@leocastanon6194

@@meepbeep2464 Will you go to Heaven when you die? Here’s a quick test: Have you ever lied, stolen, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” If you have done these things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart, and the Bible warns that one day God will punish you in a terrible place called Hell. But God is not willing that any should perish. Sinners broke God’s Law and Jesus paid their fine. This means that God can legally dismiss their case: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Then Jesus rose from the dead, defeating death. Today, repent [turn away from your sins and don’t practice them] trust Jesus, and God will give you eternal life as a free gift. Then read the Bible daily and obey it. God will never fail you.

@AethernaLuxen

@@leocastanon6194
the only god im willing to worship is 4 cheese mega whopper

@dispencermain2735

@@leocastanon6194 ok but what does that have to do with the landslide or a dragon moving his bedsheets?

@SilverGroveCult

I live for this narration it’s such a nostalgia trip

@n16161

St. Helens, while not at pretty as Mt. Hood, sat in the background of my entire childhood and still gives me fond memories today. 😁 I just missed the eruption by a few years, but my parents still have a vial of front-yard ash tucked away somewhere.

@duderama6750

Mt. Hood you say? Only 60 miles away.
What time did Mt. St. Helens erupt? 8:32 am, local time. May 18th. Daylight savings time. So the real time was 7:32. Viddy well, me droogies

@jacknewman9256

I was on a school bus with classmates on a field trip. Ash started falling, the day turned pitch black and we were stranded for 3 days. No chaperones, just a busload of kids and the band director. I'm thankful for the Red Cross to this day.

@stephanieyee9784

The sheer power of Mother Nature is magnificent. This footage is amazing, thank you.

@alainportant6412

0:35 You should keep an eye on my ominous growing bulge

@bonusbaby801

I saw this live & in person. It was astonishing. There was an old man named Harry Truman that lived in a cottage on Spirit Lake at the foot of Mt. St. Helen's that they tried to get to leave. He refused & they took off. I'm sure they will find him perfectly preserved in a few hundred years.

@TheFreshTrumpet

Yo my jaw just dropped, half the damn mountain slid?? How is this only ONE of the biggest landslides in history i’m sprinting to google rn lol

@bigguy7353

It was the eruption in 1980. Why the idiot who posted this called it a landslide is a mystery.

@OwMeEd

@@bigguy7353 Well... because it was a landslide caused by an eruption. Most tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes, but the tsunami is still a tsunami.

Edit: Correction; the order of events at St Helens seems to have been: Earthquake -> Landslide -> Eruption, meaning it was a landslide before it was an eruption!

@ET-Gamer

Look up Doggerland, it use to be a land connecting England to main land Europe but was flooded by a massive underwater landslide on the coast of Norway.

@foxthefox1594

They two halves got a divorce

@Kamal_AL-Hinai

In recorded history*

@christophermyers3758

I remember when it happened, and was living in Stockton, CA. We received light ash, hundreds of miles from Mt. St. Helens, that was carried in the upper atmosphere. Was like somebody forgot to dust, on everything... cars, sidewalks, plants... 🤤

@jenniferraymond9766

I was born and grew up in Stockton too. I just turned 5 years old when it erupted so I don't remember much except I wasn't allowed to play outside for a day and the sky looked weird to me.

@shattersucks6270

The man who moves mountains. Starts with a mountain that can move itself.

@projectx5154

If I ever saw half of the mountain just sliding I would start questioning if my whole day was a dream

@FatalFist

Just imagine David’s last moments as a wall of gray matter is heading towards you.

@mysterygamermgclues8864

@@N0UsernameFound Hold up

@shabloomykazoo6225

“To keep an eye at an ominous growing bulge” is probably the most ass-n’-knee slappin’ shit i’ve heard today

@covertguy1575

My grandparents lived in Battleground, just south of Mt. St. Helens. We were up actually looking at it when she unloaded. My grandfather’s exact words not five minutes before she blew was, “I wonder if she blows today..?” I was 12 years old. It’s still one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.

@comicguy4624

What. The. Your Grandfather is a demi-god holy shit.. maybe an Earth Bender

@EfecanYSL

@@comicguy4624 you mean grandfather.

@comicguy4624

@@EfecanYSL oops yea autocorrect, ty

@duncanschwebel7264

Yooooo, I live in Battleground

@bluesap7318

I remember learning about it on the internet at around 2012-2013

@noahadams7784

It’s amazing what happens when Mother Nature sends us a reminder that we ain’t her boss. This volcanoes eruption was an aberration as the weird tumor like growth was the magma and pressure below was increasing and expanding and for an unknown reason went sideways instead of up. Had it kept going up it could’ve kept building pressure, and later turned into an even bigger and more devastating eruption. Some people might also not know but a MUCH bigger volcano lives close to St. Helens called mt. Rainer. Rainer has a mysterious past, but sonar models predict that an eruption from it could be cataclysmic to the area, and may far exceed St. Helens and might be on par with the likes of novarupta in Alaska or krakatau in Indonesia.

@michaelbechtel4944

I remember when this happend , I had 3 brothers at the time living in the castle rock area, I live in the Lagrande Valley and had volcanic ash that settled on my car it was not much but bits of it traveled that far, it sure destroyed alot of beautiful land and homes and some folks lost their lives

@edithbannerman4

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

@jesterlead

Based on melted items analyzed around the area - temperatures were above 300 degrees out to 11 miles away, and up to 700 degrees as far as 6 miles.

@amberhernandez

For most people, the sheer VOLUME of land that just slid is impossible to comprehend. Imagine your entire county was on the side of that mountain, and you're halfway there.

@thorr18BEM

County is an odd choice for a unit of measurement. I've lived in a county larger than ten of the US states, surely larger than some nations. This, yet there are also counties which are a fraction of the size of the city of Los Angeles.

@ianryan2058

Isn't mother nature a wonderful thing yet scary as hell.

@Coolasheck

a truly prolific commenter

@thatoneguy611

Or an even better and more accurate scale: the side of a mountain.

@bluebaby4120

My dad's cousin lives right behind Mount St. Helen, it erupted on his 5th birthday and he was able to watch it from his back porch- it was pretty cool to see when we visited

@HackedUpForBarbeque

Just so people know: This is a series of images that's had the gaps filled in with cgi. That's why it looks a little janky

@PresidentialWinner

Are you sure about that? Give me evidence.

@HackedUpForBarbeque

@@PresidentialWinner There is a video on this channel titled "photographing a catastrophic explosion at mt st helens"

@PresidentialWinner

@@HackedUpForBarbeque OK.

@fatherofdragons4880

@@HackedUpForBarbeque an eloquent answer on a YouTube comment? Now I've seen it all lol!

@AV1ch

@@PresidentialWinner Obvious evidence of CGI: small particles in the last shot that go straight up.

@emperorpalpatine3125

Im from spokane, a city in eastern washington, and I remember how the ash fallout just barely missed my city... Terrifying

@dwlopez57

Huh? Unless there's 2 Spokanes Spokane is on eastern Washington

@emperorpalpatine3125

@@dwlopez57 haha thanks smartass i revised it

@robertsabre49

I visited the mountain in "86 ten years after the eruption and the rivers and streams were still running solid grey.

@realalcibiades2909

*gray

@canamrider07

I played college football and our school played WSU in Pullman in September of 1980. The field under the turf was really hard. I was told the ash reigned down on the field, they tried to hose it off and it basically turned to concrete.

@gregorypkampwirth8852

Amazing!! Still after 40 years, this happened when I was in high school, everyone seems to be talking about this!! 🌋🗻

@mikereilly7629

Remember this like it was yesterday. At one time,it was a common thing to climb to the summit.then one day the summit decided to disappear in one cataclysmic moment. The forces of the earth are terrifying but majestic

@edithbannerman4

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

@cyrushyram5673

I watched it all from my parents back field. I was five years old and it's still by far the most memorable and incredible experience I've had with the power of nature.

@cltracy2921

Where did you live back then? We could see the cloud from my front yard, a few miles west of Chehalis. I was 6 years old at the time.

@johnshafer7214

@@cltracy2921 I have friends from Chehalis, Washington. I live in Wisconsin and was three years old at the time but remember the event.

@robertmoir-vj1kq

Cyrus Hyrum if I had seen the eruption myself I would have thought I was just seeing things I saw Mt.Saint Helen s in full for the last time in February 1980 on a visit to The Pacific Northwest

@robertmoir-vj1kq

@@cltracy2921 if I had seen the eruption myself I would have thought I was just seeing things in February 1980 on a visit to The Pacific Northwest I saw Mt. Saint Helen s in full for the last time

@darcybrummett7004

Cyrus Hyram I’m going to age myself but I was 13 when this happened.

@aqhasassy

Amazing & deadly nature.
I’ve tried to keep up with La Palma. I hope the ppl remain safe & the island stays intact.

@reallylionbastard

Never been there, but read an old national geographic on the eruption and aftereffects and this always fascinated me

@Saqua2289

May 18th 1980. I remember that day like it was yesterday. I was 9, and it dumped hot ash everywhere in Banks, Oregon. We had to shovel our roofs to prevent them from collapsing. We had to wear masks when we went out for weeks afterward. It killed quite a bit of livestock on our farm. The horses panicked and ran off. By the time we found them, they were dead and covered in a fairly thick layer of ash. It was like a nightmare. It was daytime but looked like night when the ash cloud hit.

@thierryparte2506

Greatest moment of the entire documentary and they cut in a guy talking about how its incredible....



I mean give this producer an oscar, I mean simply amazing directing

@duderama6750

He's no Stanley Kubrick.

@dutchman063

I was 17 y/o on a golf course that morning about 75 miles away nursing a hangover when i looked over and saw a ginormous plume shooting into the stratosphere.. St. Helens had blew its top!... coolest thing i have ever seen

@jackgraham3393

Live in the Yakima valley. I was planting corn that day, it never was able to come up thru all the ash. Disked the field to mix in the ash and replanted. The ash was so rich, had a bumper crop. A lot of machinery was ruined because the ash was so fine and sharp.
The next winter made several trip up there to snowmobile. You were on six feet or more of snow, all above the blown down timber. Made a number of trips before it all regrew up. One trip we made it quite a way up the mountain itself.
Like many others won’t forget that day.

@raosthegray7090

I’m so glad people are sharing their stories about it in this comment section, I’ve been very interested in them

@zacharyrollick6169

Thanks, very cool.

@1zz64

Hey I live there too

@rezz578

Anybody else read this like poetry?

@yankees29

That volcanic ash enriches soil big time. Thanks for the cool story. That’s incredible.

@lizsmith247

Half my middle school essays where about this mountain and this is the first time I’ve seen it. Woah .

@constructofeternity

Most of people's lives goes into believing in something nonexistent known as God, and yet they never see him.

@corporalradio6514

There’s an idiom in my language that goes like ‘tidak lari bukit dikejar’, which translated as ‘the mountain won’t run even if you try to catch it’ or sumn like that. It means that you don’t need to rush things, be patient and you will achieve the things you want. But ig based on this video, mountain do run (or move)

@noemie6804

Haha, you are right. Mind if I ask, what language is that?

@j0nni235

Imma memorize this phrase, thx

@nurbaini8789

@@noemie6804 It's in Bahasa Melayu (Malay)

@raikitsunagi

Hello in a 2022 edition of "how is it in my recommended"

@JDude-uj3lk

I remember the dust from Mt. Saint Helens in Nevada, because it scratched the heck out of the paint on my car. Hard to believe the dust from the eruption traveled all the way to Reno and the surrounding area.

@TheRealForgetfulElephant

Two men died to bring us this amazing footage. Makes me wanna shed tears of joy


Edit: I know that its not footage but really just photos, still god bless these people

I shook my head and said " Am I really seeing this?", then a 10 foot boulder hit me in the face.

@elenthora442

That really did happen to a man who was about 10 miles away, his wife died of asphyxiation

@folkwhore8322

I got to that part when I read your comment

@Darkasknightfall

Guy: “I shook my head and said Am I really seeing this?”
Mount St. Helens: “ok hold on I’ll show you again.”

@SOCCER_360

500th like

@125steini

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pompeii-man-crushed-stone-1295183

You mean like that? ;)

@applesauce_0743

I had a dream just like this, last night. I was standing right near mount Rainier, and I looked up at one of the glaciers near the summit, to watch it crack and start sliding. I thought "wow, that's a Huge avalanche!!" then in my dream a second later, the entire mountain basically imploded like in the video, and I immediately thought I was going to die, and this massive wave of debris started quickly rushing towards me.

@potatobird52

Man, I’ve had that before too but with Mt Vesuvius. In the dream, I’m visiting family that lives in Naples, Italy (they do actually live there) and then the volcano blows, burying us just like it did to Pompeii in 79 AD.

still love volcanoes though.

@Rebecca-1111

I'm here because I think Rainer or Hood could be waking up? Saw smoke coming up threw holes all over and the ground was hot. The street where the holes were smoking the guy was pushing the tar with his foot, it looked mushy as it was breaking apart. Have to keep my eye on it. 👀 🤔

@theHAL9000

Some of the most powerful few seconds of film footage around. We are dwarfed by the power of mother nature.

@wagman68

Hey its that cartoon history guy narrating, I like your work dude, my favorite are the ones about Roy benevedez and Simo häyha