Mount St. Helens Disintegrates in Enormous Landslide
2010 ж. 8 Шіл.
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Is any distance away from a volcano safe? Find out when an eruption causes one of the largest landslides in recorded history on Mount St. Helens. Unbelievable footage is studied and explained. (from Discovery Channel's "Raging Planet")
1:08 him: “one of the largest landslides in recorded history” me: “bruh that’s only a few pebbl- oh shit...”
Yes...oh shit...It was like a half mountain 😱 That would be so scary to film
*1:14
🤣🤣🤣
Bruh not gonna lie it looked like a poor animation for a second as it stretch
@DontFuckWithUnicorns so you're stupid?
Mount St. Helen: " I'm just gonna stretch out. Had a long day."
It's been a long eon
More like it's been a long millenium.
*shits vigorously*
@@JantomPlayzGamez 😂 why?
@@JantomPlayzGamez ahh shucks, my ass fell ofg
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.
Damn... he really made the best of it huh
That's... kind of heroic
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.
So heroic for both of them. Thank you for sharing this information.
Where can one find those photos?
Who's got this recommended after 11 years
Me
Me
Everyone, get over it
@@luginess0 bet you’re fun at parties
@@johnnyfoosball12 probably a blast. Doesn't seem like an idiot.
For those who may not be aware, the video of the mountainside sliding at 1:17 is partially animated - sort of. The photographer at 0:55 (Keith Ronnholm) took a series of still photos, each several seconds apart, and years later a graphics crew used CG software to "fill in the frames" between Ronnholm's photos to stitch together this smooth timelapse. It's a remarkable job which gives a real-time impression of the devastating scale of the eruption.
Thnks for explaining Bcuz the video was looking CGI so I thought this video must be a prank
Yeah, it looked doctored.
To my knowledge there is no actual video footage of the eruption ever recorded. I lived in the vicinity of where this happened. I was 4 years old at the time. I remember being scared out of my mind to the point that I couldn't even sleep some nights. I remember one time my mom came into my room to check on me and I could hear her whisper to my dad I think he's finally asleep. To which I replied I'm still awake! Another time I remember finally falling asleep when it started to get light outside. When the eruption did occur I remember it snowing volcanic ash everywhere as if it were a heavy snow storm. I remember cars getting stranded everywhere because back then most cars used carburetors which were getting clogged with ash.
@@statik47 Thanks for sharing that story, that must have been frightening for a little kid at the time. I live in Australia. There are no active volcanoes here at all and apart from the very, very occasional earth tremor, this country is almost completely seismically inactive. I can't imagine what it must have been like to experience such an event, especially at such a young age!
I was wondering why I had only seen stills of that. Thanks for the info.
„It seemed like a perfectly safe place.“ Morgan Freeman narrating: But it wasn‘t safe.
I can hear him saying it
lol!
More like Ron Howard with the Arrested Development narration.
I literally heard him say that in my head when i was reading your comment.
@@Jimmyupadhyay that‘s because he was actually saying it the whole time. Morgan Freeman narrates every epically dangerous event.
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
Right lol f mountains lol
@@talkadelics 😂😂😂
1:20 “woah… well, it’s not THAT bad. I’m sure the locals survived. 1:42 *oh.*
“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.
You're mum's a mountain! DOOOO SUMMIN!
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.
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.
“Mount St Helens is about to blow up and it’s gonna be fine, swell day.”
Took longer than expected to find a Bill comment
I'M RIDING A PONY!!🦄🌞
INTO THE SUNSET 🌅
Wonder if that gift shop is still there...
“Everything’s GREEN and GOLD” 🟢 🔔
"If you can't go to the mountain, the mountain must come to you."
Lmao this comment is under rated
In mother Russia you dont go to mountain, mountain goes to you
Lol have you gotten the ad for the drink
In Australia, you don't go to the mountains. The mountains stay there.
Putin was probably in the area
The amount of force it must have taken to move several million tons of rock so effortlessly is astounding.
it's more like trillions of tons
Dont think thats how it works. Sometimes all it takes is a butterfly
@@danielrodriguez5165That platitude doesn't really work since there's no such thing as a butterfly actually creating a hurricane.
I heard that it was equivalent to like 3 Hiroshima bombs
It's one of those events that put human size and scope into perspective
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.
Survivor's bias.
Your dad was an idiot
@@TopeA8 No because he wasn't there during the danger to survive it
Everybody gangsta until the mountain starts walking away
everybody gangsta until i show up
isaac douget you’re not really intimidating
@@litrally6973 probably millions of people are on the same level...of intelligence
@Mood - reading youtube comments intimidates me sometimes, but do they make 20 videos taunting the internet?
*sliding away
0:52 I actually sometimes still think that 1980s is around 20 years ago. When in reality its around 40 years from now...
Crazy how time flies
😥😥😥
me too, and I was born in ‘99 lmao
Me too
I do the same thing lol
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.
It was a bomb.
I was in bed in Victoria too. The booms scared me and I thought could it be a bomb, or maybe just naval exercises across the harbour, but there had never been any before, and so early on a Sunday morning? that didn’t make sense… then the curtains really billowed inward, twice, on a windless day with the window partially open. Very spooky. Then next day cleaning all the volcanic dust off my car. I try not to think about what Yellowstone will be like “😢”
25+ second ad for a video less than 2 minutes long. Makes perfect sense. Why would anyone want a reprieve.
Parents: You’d have better luck moving a mountain Mountain:👁👄👁
Mountain: Anyway, I started slidin'
Thank you for this comment, I have laughed to death
This inspired me to become mountin 🤓
@Chris Whitty Braindead response
Except the kid didn’t move the mountain the mountain moved itself...
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.
What. The. Your Grandfather is a demi-god holy shit.. maybe an Earth Bender
@@comicguy4624 you mean grandfather.
@@EfecanYSL oops yea autocorrect, ty
Yooooo, I live in Battleground
I remember learning about it on the internet at around 2012-2013
I've been fascinated by the eruption of Mount Saint Helens and the stories that surround it. From the Philippines
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.
Now imagine a gigaton nuke
Even had dust in Michigan.
And what's really scary is, as eruptions go, this was midsized. Not that huge, relatively speaking
Friendly reminder that everyone was warned to stay away for weeks and some people just brushed it off
56 people simply vanished. Bodies never found.
I remember have watching about when you feel something is wrong and need to get out of the area, and in that episode, a father and his son was camping in the area of the Mont, the kid feel something bad because he was Very close to nature, so they Go home and the mont explode moment after they get the roda for their home
Actually the Red Zone had few deaths. Truman, some geologists. This was _much_ worse than expected, lateral blast not taken into account. Many died who were 20 MILES away - thought to be 100% safe. Scymanky for one. His 3 coworkers died.
No one seemed to take it seriously, I lived in St Helens Oregon at the time
Sounds like typical United States citizens to me. Especially like those that had block parties during the pandemic last year.
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
It was the eruption in 1980. Why the idiot who posted this called it a landslide is a mystery.
@@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!
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.
They two halves got a divorce
In recorded history*
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.
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That's just the dragon moving his bed sheets, don't bother him
Of course we won't
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@@leocastanon6194 the only god im willing to worship is 4 cheese mega whopper
@@leocastanon6194 ok but what does that have to do with the landslide or a dragon moving his bedsheets?
“Keeping an eye on an ominous growing bulge.” That’s called cancer man, gotta get that checked
I hate it when people eye my bulge
peepee?
Fuck this is so hilarious 😂😂😂
That’s what she said.
Notices your pyroclastic flow 👉👈
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
I finally went after 40 years. The visitors center we went to was Johnston Ridge. It is the ridge David Johnsron was sitting on.
“Mount St. Helens is about to disintegrate in an enormous landslide, and it’s gonna be a fine swell day” -Bill Wurtz
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.
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.
@@cltracy2921 I have friends from Chehalis, Washington. I live in Wisconsin and was three years old at the time but remember the event.
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
@@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
Cyrus Hyram I’m going to age myself but I was 13 when this happened.
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
Are you sure about that? Give me evidence.
@@PresidentialWinner There is a video on this channel titled "photographing a catastrophic explosion at mt st helens"
@@HackedUpForBarbeque OK.
@@HackedUpForBarbeque an eloquent answer on a KZhead comment? Now I've seen it all lol!
@@PresidentialWinner Obvious evidence of CGI: small particles in the last shot that go straight up.
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.
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.
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.
The sheer amount of energy it took to move one side of a mountain is mind boggling.
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.
@@Ascertivus oh, it definitely caused an earthquake
@@mamacat63 it was
@n/a No.
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.
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.
I’m so glad people are sharing their stories about it in this comment section, I’ve been very interested in them
Thanks, very cool.
Hey I live there too
Anybody else read this like poetry?
That volcanic ash enriches soil big time. Thanks for the cool story. That’s incredible.
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.
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.
I was at the Overlook. 8:32 DST.
I remember being in school and watching it erupt with my class when I was 9 years old. 1980 was a big year for crazy and bad things to happen - Mt. St Helens eruption, John Lennon getting shot, Terry Fox running the Marathon of Hope and dying before he completed it, I got to shake his hand.
I’m young so I never heard about terry fox dying. It’s pretty ironic tho that somebody died before finishing “the marathon of hope”😅
It happened on a Sunday
happy 50th
@@JayTheTruth It wasn't like he dropped dead during a one day marathon - he was running across Canada to raise money for cancer research since he lost his leg to it. He made it like 4,000 miles, but his cancer relapsed and appeared in his lungs forcing him to stop. He died months later.
@@syts oh okay slightly less ironic now. That’s sad
I shook my head and said " Am I really seeing this?", then a 10 foot boulder hit me in the face.
That really did happen to a man who was about 10 miles away, his wife died of asphyxiation
I got to that part when I read your comment
Guy: “I shook my head and said Am I really seeing this?” Mount St. Helens: “ok hold on I’ll show you again.”
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news.artnet.com/art-world/pompeii-man-crushed-stone-1295183 You mean like that? ;)
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
I can't help but to sing bill wurtz's "mount Saint hellen is bout to blow up"
Mount St. Helens: "I don't feel so good..."
JusticeForce End oғ тнe World this is what I came for.
TOO QUIZNACKING SOON!
Mount St. Helens 2 mins later : "no dun do it, i am a virgin"
End oғ тнe JusticeForce bahahaha #TeamThanos for the win.
End oғ тнe JusticeForce St Helens mom is like, "Oh your fine honey!". 5 seconds later . . .
The mountain really said “Aah- ah- ahchew *dies* “
*ACHEW* *HEAD EXPLODES*
Ok
😐
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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
A beautiful rendition of me slowly laying down instead of doing my school work and falling asleep
KZhead after 10 years: Maybe the people have forgotten the legendary sliding mountain......
Ok
Maybe US
Totally
Yeah
everybodys gangsta until the whole mountain collapses
I lived in Sunnyside Washington when Mt. St. Helens made an ash of herself. That was the end of the school year and we were getting ready for graduation. When the ash cloud passed over the Yakima Valley the sun hit the ash cloud at just the right angle and it looked like a rolling river of blood.
That’s fucking crazy
I had a similar experience thier was a wildfire miles from where I live and the smoke traveled down the mountain pass toward our town and the sky and color outside was bloodred the town had a movie filter on it, an apocalypse, or hellfire and brimstone
Was the ash red? If it was grey, it might have been pulverized lava.
@LaughToMouth maybe it’s because English isn’t my native language, but what does it mean? I get the literal part, but not the other one.
@@GinoNL , he made a pun by changing one word of a common idiom from ass to ash. (Ass being an impolite animal and ash being the volcano's so obviously he was implying the volcano was being impolite). www.google.com/search?q=idiom+make+an+ass+of+yourself
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.
Thank God somebody filmed this.
I watched this happen from around sixty miles as the crow flies, south west. May 18th, 1980. A day and event I'll never forget.
I know this true cuz bro said as the crow flies he a mountaineer for sure
My grandparents told me that they got ashes on their car even though at the time they lived in Oregon.
I remember it as well. We were just over 80 miles SSW. Didn't hear it, but could see the ash plume going up.
@@dhuckins79 dog that shit could end north California
@@dhuckins79 I remember ash on my parents car in Canada
It's a wee bit more than just a land slide
Katie Morrison more like it’s a gigantic landslide that triggered an eruption
"The public was shocked by the extent of the eruption, which had lowered the elevation of the summit by 1,313 feet (400 m), destroyed 230 square miles (596 km2) of woodland, and spread ash into other states and Canada. The lateral blast that killed Johnston started at 220 miles per hour (354 km/h) and accelerated to 670 miles per hour (1,078 km/h)." According to USGS Scientists, the top of the volcano basically became plugged and the pressure started to bulge out of the side. I think an earthquake triggered the event by loosening the ground and the pressure did the rest and ended up laterally erupting out the side of the volcano rather than straight up. Imagine how much land it would take to destroy 230 SQUARE Miles. Now imagine it is moving towards you at 670 miles per hour. That's hard to put in perspective. The cruising speed of a 747 is 570 mph. I agree. Just a land slide. LOL
It's a *MOUNTAIN SLIDE!!!!!*
First Last the pictures after of the mowed down trees and debris and just nothing left in some parts were unbelievable. The destruction was enormous.
Can you just imagine what it was like, being on the side of the mountain and that was your way to die. That was be fucking terrifying. O_O
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.
“Mount. St. Helen is about to blow up, it's gonna be a fine swell day!"
Mountain : The camera was on me. "So I had to do something"
"So I just started blastin"
We're so lucky to have those pictures.
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.
Black Lives Matter
@@whiteyfisk9769 no
@@whiteyfisk9769 What's that got to do with this??
I used to,see ash on the side for the road in eastern Washington on my camping trips for years
@@timthompson8297 for sure!! I remember seeing it too.
I never thought I'd see Peter Crouch and Anthony Hopkins in the same vid. Love it !
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.
I remember the days leading up to and then after the eruption, the network news teams were getting interviews with scientists, park rangers, campers and a few residents. Two I remember. 1. A man who'd been camping by the mountain was buried under several feet of ash and mud when his car, traveling at 90 mph was overtaken by the mud. They know he was doing 90 because he was passed by a guy doing 110, who just made it out. 2. A guy in his 70s was interviewed about his refusal to leave. "I was born here, raised here, spent my whole life here. I ain't leaving." They found him weeks later. A rescue dog, a German Shepard, smelled him under 5 feet of mud. The rangers kept digging and digging and not finding anything. "Are you sure boy? You smell something?" And the dog kept giving all the signs. Finally they found him. The dog said "Told ya!"
@Kasen Barrolaza Yeah dogs can talk ok. Got that?
The old fellow's name was--no lie--Harry Truman! Additional fun fact: HE, not the U.S. president, was the namesake of the sheriff in Twin Peaks.
Avoiding a volcanic landslide in a high speed car escape is the coolest story you could tell
@@imthedarknight-8755 , and the funny thing, it's true.
@Kasen Barrolaza Yes, but he said it in German.
Thanks to KZhead, this delaying interrupting the main content is going away. This is why Daily dose of internet is so popular.
There’s still a pretty popular thing on here called hitting the 8 minute mark.
@@XZ-III 13 million subscribers would disagree
Maybe 13 million people just enjoy bad content
@@hadeskiller1 Or, and hear me out, it's just you who don't like it.
How is it bad content it’s literally the coolest video all wrapped in one.
The most incredible, beautiful, and terrifying thing you could ever witness
Except for Madonna's acting.
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
You know what I find weird? the sound effects - If you've ever seen these things for real, you'll know that it's the silence that's chilling, that it's so big that the sound hasn't even reached you yet.
the speed of sound isn't as fast as light, soundwaves take more time to travel
Xaiano true af
Isaac White That was the point.
People was there reported the silence they experienced at the very moment of the explotion
Ok that's scary af...
Nobody: Mt. Helen: aight imma head out
Stop with that stupid "Nobody:" comment, you unoriginal moron.
@@ATalkingBadger Shut the fuck up, you uptight dipshit.
Nobody: ATalkingBadger: *people who use this meme are morons and idiots because meme usage totally shows people's IQ levels and I'm not just some triggered douche*
@@somehaloguy9372 nice, hahaha
@@somehaloguy9372 Exactly.
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
"🎵Mt. Saint Helens is about to blow up, it's gonna be a fine swell day🎵"
It's at this point that you realize that mountain and the pile of sand you made at the beach are scarily similar, just on different scales. To the forces of a massive earthquake and eruption its just a bunch of little grains of rock.
As Above, So Below
Mother natural dont give a shit Its all the same
@@ancientfractal2526 that saying doesn’t apply
@@zzodysseuszz depends on which version you are perceiving. I use it in reference to the fact that the same processes take place at all scales in the universe, from the microscopic to the macrocosmic. In that context it very much applies to this comment.
@@ancientfractal2526 no it doesn’t. Stop using mental gymnastics to justify nonsense
Bill Nye: "It is known fact that it takes millions and billions of years for these kinds of geological changes to occur." Mount St. Helens: "Hold my beer!"
Also bill nye... not a real scientist 😭🤣🤣
Joshua Thompson huh that meme is dead and is irrelevant you dumb fuck 😂😂
Kim En it is very much not dead, and in many places is still going strong
Caldera*
@Joshua Thompson I put the milk in before the bowl
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.
I lived in Gladstone, OR at the time. I was still in bed sleeping off a hangover when the eruption hit. What an awakening!
Mount St. Helens is feeling crazy and adventurous, that's the reason that it's so special
And it's filled with music
And it dreams of *puppies*
Ponies
and it takes no answers
Bill wurtz chose good with this mountain.
I lived near there when I was a child remember my mom wrapping a scarf around my face from all the ash in the air as we were evacuating every time I smell sulfur it triggers a memory of that day.
Jeremy, I lived in Glanoma when it blew, you were close too if you remember the sulfur smell. Did you get the mud too? Thanks for sharing. I lived just 4 miles north of the blown down trees. The ground was shaking, thunder and lighting from these big bellowing dark clouds of ash. It rained down 4 inches of hot stinky smelling mud, then we had a foot of ash on top of that. It knocked out our power and we could not see the flower box out the window. 3 1/2 hours later we could see the cows still out in the pasture. Amazing they survived. If it would have blown the next day, Monday, I would be dead. It took over 4 months to get to the logging equipment where we were working.
@@johnwright8703 that’s crazy. Thanks for sharing yourself.
If I ever saw half of the mountain just sliding I would start questioning if my whole day was a dream
I donno why this popped up in my recommended 11 years later, but I am not disappointed
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
i cringed reading this and proceeded to regurgitate my breakfast after seeing that pfp
Interesting icon you have there.
BASED PFP
@Burr Anderson whoa. Not sure if I've seen that, but I will note it for now 👀
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.
RIP David Johnston
Hank Bridges The animal or David?
Hank Bridges Well you said squirrel. I wasn’t sure which you were referring to
@Hank Bridges That was a chipmunk...
@Hank Bridges I think you missed my point. You called it a squirral. It was a chipmunk. I'm not denying it's a dead chipmunk, but it's not a dead squirrel.
His last words were, "Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!"
I was driving when and was looking right at mt St. Helens when it went. It was so intense and scary I remember pulling off to the side of the road and just being mind blown and scared at what I was seeing before turning around and drivng home
I wanna appreciate the quality of this video which is 13 years old .
Never seen a mountain melt before. I don’t know what I’m gonna do with this knowledge now
Watch La Palma 🌋
Never go hiking? 🤣
Why not saw?
Man its easy to see why early civilization clung to mystical beliefs of gods and spirits, cause this shit is mind blowing.
Too many still do. And they’ve never even seen a volcano.
@@MrRyan-wu4jx Yeah I was just going to say, billions of people still believe in mystical gods and spirits.
I Garantee you theres a Power beyond this. I use imagination to manifest All the time and Happens, even the crazy stuff.
My girlfriend and I were about 140 miles ESE that morning, playing tennis when we heard it go. By noon it was a dark as midnight. Rather ominous.
Well? Don't keep us in suspense! What happened?! Who won the tennis game!?
That is horrifying and terrifying at the same time.
when you finally let off that belt buckle after being out for a big meal and you're back home.
Homer Simpson type beat
That's just TOPH doing her thing. 🤜🪨
i am the greatest earth bender in the world
Lol
Is your mom shaking the streets
This is Toph gering her thing done
I was just about to comment Kyoshi lmao
Cool to see it almost as if I were there... Thanks for posting!
That's quite a transformation! Nothing has the power to elicit awe like Mother Nature!
when the mountain face started to slide i was like "ok surely theyre exaggerating, it cant be that big of a landslide" and then half the mountain fell
Having lived in Washington my entire life... I actually guess I didn't realize people in other parts of the world aren't aware of the insane volcano mountain that literally blew its top. It's a beautiful snowy mount right now, I can't imagine not seeing it every day.
Imagine being a person or animal and being on or near St. Helens when she started sliding. Just imagine: a whole mountain, something that was supposed to be stable and eternal even if lava and water ran down it, and it just... ...melted.
“To keep an eye at an ominous growing bulge” is probably the most ass-n’-knee slappin’ shit i’ve heard today
No matter how inspirational it is, I will never look at the saying "make the mountains move" the same way again 💀
Must be strangely disturbing to say it
Here before the seventyth like
@@T3RRORGL1TCH Haha that's a new one. I didn't even know I got like, past 3 likes 😅
@@thesleepycookie1381 yeah, KZhead is Messy I noticed
Mount St Helens said: “My main goal is to blow up and then act like I don’t know nobodaeee”
Yawk Yawk Yawk yawk yawk
LMAO
Hey its that cartoon history guy narrating, I like your work dude, my favorite are the ones about Roy benevedez and Simo häyha
If this were me my glasses would have chosen this moment to place themselves in an obscure corner of my jacket as I fumble around in my myopic frenzy.
Mount St. Helens is ‘bout to blow up and it’s gonna be a fine swell day
Everything’s gonna fall down to the ground and turn gray
i was looking for this comment
@@fishiefish6179 all of my friends family and animals probably going to run away
but me, im feeling curious so i think i just might stay
@@seantheshimp5296 the Dow Jones just fell down to zero and it's gonna be a *fine swell day*
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...
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.
Was it a landslide or landslide due to volcano?
@@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.
@ 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.
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.
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.
"Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it! Vancouver, is the transmitter on?" David Johnston's last words. He wasn't even supposed to be there that day, and I cannot imagine Carolyn Driedger's survior's guilt.
so my question is: why did this show up on everyone’s recommended ten years later?
I don’t know
The mystery of youtube algorithms
Algorithm
Its cool
You rang?
Just imagine the immense power behind all that. It's amazing and scary at the same time
I also can imagine I have $1000000000000
@@frankyymilkyy9001 ?
@@frankyymilkyy9001 I wish I did too, I have too much rn
@@frankyymilkyy9001 facts right here
@@EkardRimidalv Nobody understands the pain of being a multitrillionaire.
It may look small on the video, but absolutely gigantic to who was close by. The people who filmed were most definitely several miles away.
That eruption in 1980 left ash over everyting in Edmonton AB, Canada. About 2000kms away.