29 yrs ago today... she blew her top off
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this may hold more of a memory for us living in the Northwest than it does for people living in other parts of the U.S./world. A day/time I will never forget. 
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Vancouver, Canada Sept 30th, 2012 - Madonna concert :cheesygrin:
Vancouver, Canada Sept 30th, 2012 - Madonna concert :cheesygrin:
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that was 29 years ago?!! Man I feel old.
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danger boy wrote: »this may hold more of a memory for us living in the Northwest than it does for people living in other parts of the U.S./world. A day/time I will never forget.
I remember this quite well. I was wiping ash off the windshield of my car a couple days later... in Minesota! It was determined that Mount St Helens did more environmental damage during her eruption cycle than mankind has done during our entire industrial period from the 1870's to present day...The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
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the ash traveled around the world.. think about that? had to have been one of the most violent intense eruptions of a volcano in history. and we all lived through it.
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That was one of the greatest 9 day trips to Hickam AFB that I ever had. We were only supposed to fly missions for a couple days and come home, but when it blew its top, HQ kept us in place for another 5 days cause they didn't want us to fly home through the ash cloud. It was terrible, we had to live downtown Waikiki and everything.
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George I'm sorry you had to spend an extra 5 days in terrible Waikiki in the hot sun and lush greenery.
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Holy crap, that was 29 years ago!DKG999
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It's astounding how much damage was done in about a 50 sq mile area Northeast of the mountain. I've seen pics showing boulders the size of a tractor trailer being hurled about a mile away.TNRabbit
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nooshinjohn wrote: »It was determined that Mount St Helens did more environmental damage during her eruption cycle than mankind has done during our entire industrial period from the 1870's to present day...
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I remember like it was yesterday. The sky was dark from the ash clouds all the way to Philly.
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It blew up because of the Republicans and Global Warming.
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George Grand wrote: », we had to live downtown Waikiki and everything.
please advise exactly what "and everything" included to a hot shot fly guy like yourself...........
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I was -6 years old at the time, so I don't remember much of this...Ludicrous gibs!
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Yeah, I was born in 83, so just missed it. I remember hearing about it from the parents and such...and i've been over there to see some of the damage caused by giant boulders and such. There's actually an area that's all white boulders of all sizes, kinda humbling to see that power."Dr Dunn admitted that his research could also be interpreted as evidence that women are shallower than men. He said: "Let's face it - there's evidence to support it."
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It was so saddening.engtaz
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I remember that day well. I was in Yakima at the time, I woke up around 10:00 am that morning and the sky was dark as hell and there wasnt anything moving outside it was completley silent, no birds no nothing, I went out on the front porch of the house I was in and there was this **** falling from the sky, a mixture of fine particles and burnt material. I climbed in my car a 66 Ford fairlane 289 4 speed 2 door hard top and headed to town to look for signs of life :eek: More to come time to get back to work.
REGARDS SNOWWell, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all -
Cool graphic about the size of the eruption, VS some of the bigger ones in the past.
The littlest one was St. Helens, and if that was more CO^2 output than humans, take a look at the others.
If Toba or Yellowstone go again, there wouldn't be anything left to worry about.
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2282.asp-Ignorance is strength - -
"And everything" means 3 years before I got married and 4 before they invented AIDS. I wasn't even 29 years old yet. PARTAY!
Plus, that trip, I had a big Chevy that I rented off one of the enlisted guys at Hickam. That was one of the good deals in the old days. Every base had a couple senior enlisted guys that were the original founders of the Rent-A-Wreck thing, and had a pool of cars you could rent off them during your stay at their facility. This was a humongous, bright red Impala with a white vinyl roof. The Red Shark. It was totally cockroach infested, and it took us 3 or 4 days to figure it out, cause we didn't drive it at night until 3 or 4 days had passed. -
SKsolutions wrote: »Cool graphic about the size of the eruption, VS some of the bigger ones in the past.
The littlest one was St. Helens, and if that was more CO^2 output than humans, take a look at the others.
If Toba or Yellowstone go again, there wouldn't be anything left to worry about.
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2282.asp
I don't know that india daily is a reliable source
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Ok thats all for nowI remember that day well. I was in Yakima at the time, I woke up around 10:00 am that morning and the sky was dark as hell and there wasnt anything moving outside it was completley silent, no birds no nothing, I went out on the front porch of the house I was in and there was this **** falling from the sky, a mixture of fine particles and burnt material. I climbed in my car a 66 Ford fairlane 289 4 speed 2 door hard top and headed to town to look for signs of life :eek:
I only seen one car on the way into town in my lane coming at me, the ash was falling so fast and it was so dark he didnt even see me until he almost hit me. Of course I was glad to see him because then I knew that whatever had happened there was at least 2 survivors. Funny how all kinds of strange thoughts run through your mind at times like these, I didnt know whether there had been some sort of nuclear disaster or what. The worst in my mind was the months afterwards everytime the wind blew it got into everything, your house your car everywhere. Of course the farmers crops suffered badly because of the ash and lots of peoples roofs caved in due to the weight of the ash.
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REGARDS SNOWWell, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all -
Seems like yesterday to some of us Old Farts:D Quite the event for sure...I can remember the dark clouds and ash falling in Missouri.
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I remember that day well. I was in Yakima at the time, I woke up around 10:00 am that morning and the sky was dark as hell and there wasnt anything moving outside it was completley silent, no birds no nothing, I went out on the front porch of the house I was in and there was this **** falling from the sky, a mixture of fine particles and burnt material. I climbed in my car a 66 Ford fairlane 289 4 speed 2 door hard top and headed to town to look for signs of life :eek: More to come time to get back to work.
REGARDS SNOW
I could have written this myself. I lived in Yakima too at the time.. it was very ominous to say the least. The street lights started to come on.. because the sky was dark.. and the sand sized ash was falling from the sky. It smelled like sulfer... rotten eggs basically.PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
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Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all
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not me. but we all were wearing those face masks back then.
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Yup and within days shovels and facemasks were selling for 5 times what they were before the eruption.
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I remember that day well. I was in Yakima at the time...
REGARDS SNOWdanger boy wrote: »I could have written this myself. I lived in Yakima too at the time..
Me three...grew up in Yakima and remember that day very well (though I was pretty young also). I remember being scared to death when the hot ash was "snowing" down, and then wearing the masks and playing in the piles of ash for days. Parts of our yard never grew vegetation again and always had a thick layer of ash.
I was able to visit St Helens the following year after the blast, and I have visited a few times since...quite a devastating event for sure.
