This guy told me that his grandson was really pissed that the news reports preempted The Muppet Show

[humandoodad]

Livejournal, 30 years ago today, this happened. And Mt. St. Helens went from looking like this:





To looking like this:



Look, a dramatically narrated informational video! I like this one too.

And you should seriously check out some of the photos and things here! I love the USGS. Possibly more than I love NOAA. Because I'm a nerd.

Comments

[strigine.livejournal.com]

I remember a TV movie, featuring Wilford Brimley as a grumpy old man who refused to evacuate.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

Harry Truman! He was notoriously crotchety and is now somewhere under a mountain of ash and mud.

[pearldrop.livejournal.com]

Not THE Harry Truman, I'm assuming?

[speshope.livejournal.com]

Not the President, no. This causes a lot of confusion with people.

[strigine.livejournal.com]

Thank you for asking so I didn't have to. XD

[honooko.livejournal.com]

I had a plastic model of the Mt. St Helen's caldera when I was a kid that had space underneath for you to put baking soda and vinegar to make your own little eruptions. Super. Cool.

[yoritomo-reiko.livejournal.com]

You know, I could swear that I actually remembered news reports of Mt. St. Helens going, but I was only 3. If I do actually remember it rather than just having seen stuff when I was a bit older? I think that'd probably be the youngest memories I have.

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

There are pictures of me crawling through lava tubes and playing in ash at Mount St. Helens when I was young. It's really weird to think that that happened just 6 years before.

[celli]

I wanted to be a volcanologist for a long time because of that. :)