I was 5 years old last time that mountain popped. Just a short time now for round 2


Please be careful in the vicinity of Mt. St. Helens. It WILL HAPPEN AGAIN SOON!

Kid Sauk

I was in Darrington the first time, I was fishing.

Was anyone in the area of Concrete or upriver from there tonight?

I was down fishing, and about 5:50 I heard the BIGGEST explosion I have ever heard.

VAAAAAAAAVVVVVOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!

I have been in thunderstorms in texas where the thunder clapped right on top of me...but it wasn't this loud. Sounded like the top of Sauk Mtn. was blowing off!

Guess it wasn't St. Helens, but a neighbor who lived here when St. Helens blew last time said that is what it sounded like.

Still don't know what it was...but it scared the heck oughta me. Only thing I can figure is the road construction crews blew off the side of a mtn. somewhere around Rockport or Marblemount. The boom echoed for a couple minutes, so I figure it was up the canyon a ways.

Mike

That sounds too scary, Mike.

Mike you probably heard one of Whidbey NAS's finest flying over.

I remember 5/18/80 clearly. I was on Cherry Crest hill in Bellevue above the 124th entrance onto 522, and could see the plume clear as day. The whole freeway stopped to check it out.

The coming eruption could look like this:


or like this!


Ya just never know!

I was jigging Kings off the tip of Ediz Hook when she blew last. My fishing partner said, "What's that?"

I said, "I don't know.....sounds like Seattle is getting bombed."

I don't remember how we made out that day, but whatever it was, it was a helluva lot better than Harry Truman.

I was close enough to see the lightning out of the ash plume during the May 18 eruption. I was 7 yrs old and was so scared that I couldnt stop shaking.

I was sleeping off a college kid party in my VW van on Camano Island. It sounded like someone bouncing tennis balls off my roof.

We all got up and turned on the TV to ooh and ahh along with Jeanne Enerson (sic).

"Awesome!"

I was sitting on the 13th st overpass in Chehalis. Was living down that wasy at the time. Had a good view of it.

I was fishing the N fork Toutle in Kidd Valley 2 weekends before she blew. I still miss that fishing hole. I was living in Kirkland at the time, and the day she blew I was washing the salt off my boat from the previous days fishing trip. I had the stereo on and didn't hear a thing. A neighbor walked over and said that St Helen's blew her top. After I finished cleaning the boat I turned on the tube and watched the video clip of the wall of hot mud and debris going under the I-5 bridge over the Toutle. Not an easy sight to forget.

This is an interesting event. Stay tuned to the evening news. What perked my attention was how the jist of the story has changed over the last week. It went from a predicted "simple steam explosion" to "the likelihood of an eruption that may or may not be significant".

Regardless, be aware and stay out of the area until we know what unfolds. The 57 people who died in 1980 "didn't think a major eruption was likely" either.

Food for thought!

Ah, I remember this day clearly.
I was 11mo old and was crapping in my diaper. This was a good day

It's good to see nothing has changed sled

i was at my senior kegger or was it just another kegger???... man what a sobering efect that had on a few people..

ckeck this out;
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

I was waxin' up my '68 Chevelle SS... gettin' her ready for senior prom that coming Friday night. I was living in California at the time so I watched it on the news as well.

Right on 4Salt!
You're a big block Chevy SS man.
My first car was "70 ElCamino SS 396 4spd"

Getting back to the volcano.
I think I was sleeping that Sunday morning when it blew.

Ruined my 8 yr old birthday party in Tri-Cities. Was supposed to take all the boys from class (15-20) fishin on the Yakima and a spend -the night. Nobody showed. It really sucked. It got really dark around 9-10am and the clouds looked like waves on the ocean. We collected a 5lb bucket of ash. You can still see the ash layer on some eastern washington roadsides where the ditches are.

rumbling in St. Helens.......

mysterious blob looming off the coast......

coincidence???

Maybe it's your hat SQ :p