The Day Mount St. Helens Destroyed Everything - Washington 1980
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⚡ WHAT SURVIVES AN ERUPTION — GEAR THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS
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On May 18th, 1980, after two months of earthquakes and warnings, the entire north face of Mount St. Helens broke loose and slid away. But it wasn't the ash climbing into the sky that killed 57 people that morning. It was what the mountain threw sideways – a wall of rock and gas at 660 degrees, racing north near the speed of sound, that burst from the volcano's torn-open flank, flattened 230 square miles of forest in minutes, and reached a ridge six miles out that the science of 1980 had called safe. What followed became the deadliest volcanic eruption in modern American history.
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Later the ash started falling. We had to roll up the car windows (we lived out in the country). So I volunteered to go into the black.
I put on ski goggles, used a scarf for an air filter. We wraped a rope around my waist to go out. The cars were only 20-30 feet out. I could not see my finger touching my nose. It was that black. Mid Day.
The oddest thing was...it was HOT. Before it was like 77 before the ash, darkness but 90f or more! It was HOT!
It was the beginning of a volcanic winter that would swallow the area for weeks.
The Day Mount St. Helens Destroyed Everything - Washington 1980
Dark Horizon
1,397,573 views
⚡ WHAT SURVIVES AN ERUPTION — GEAR THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS
N95 respirator masks (volcanic ash destroys lungs and engines): https://amzn.to/4z4zCtD
Portable power station (ashfall took down power lines for weeks): https://amzn.to/4wMUwMo
72-hour emergency kit — water, light, first aid: https://amzn.to/4g4jLmh
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. These are affiliate
links — they cost you nothing extra and help keep this channel running.
On May 18th, 1980, after two months of earthquakes and warnings, the entire north face of Mount St. Helens broke loose and slid away. But it wasn't the ash climbing into the sky that killed 57 people that morning. It was what the mountain threw sideways – a wall of rock and gas at 660 degrees, racing north near the speed of sound, that burst from the volcano's torn-open flank, flattened 230 square miles of forest in minutes, and reached a ridge six miles out that the science of 1980 had called safe. What followed became the deadliest volcanic eruption in modern American history.
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Music by Epidemic Sound.
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