Mt St Helens Erupts

Mt St Helens just erupted here in Washington...Right now I am looking at a huge ash cloud moving over the skyline...Eruption was around 5:30 and is still spitting ash into the sky...nothing major but its the biggest one we've had since the 1980 eruption that blew off several hundred feet of the mountain...I'll try and look for some pics for you guys

holy ****! how far away are you from it?

heh its snowing like a ******* here and its wickedly windy....so it looks like white ash is everywhere.

how close are you to the volcano?

A lot of the seismographs that were around the mountain have been obliterated but my college recorded several earthquakes...Plume is said to have been 36000Ft tall, good thing its moving towards Eastern Washington

I live 20 min north of Seattle...no worries here for anything as long as the wind stays the way it is...the real threat here is Mt Ranier, its the next one expected to go and was supposed to blow 20 years ago or so...no activity on that one yet but if that one blew...Id be pretty well screwed

The University of Washington isnt expecting anything after this besides whats been going on since Sept of last year....The Magma dome inside the volcano actually grew off to the side and was 4 times as big as the original lava dome left after the 1980 eruption.....They are still expecting an eruption in the near future that could mirror the 1980 eruption

damn...mother earth farted again

^ idiot!

well do you atleast have a good view of it Kyle?

damn you beat me to it!!

02BlueStang wrote:

good thing its moving towards Eastern Washington

Its going straight to where my parents are right now...I told them to grab some ash....

ASK FOR SALE!! lol

I have some ash from the 1980 eruption

one more for ya....


put your head between your legs and kiss your **** goodbye Kramer, were both going up

just got pics in from the King 5 helicopter here in Seattle, Mt St Helens is still emitting ash and steam but at a smaller volume, so its been going for 30+ minutes now....Im glad I dont live in Yakima, they are about to get some ash on their cars

I have ash for the 80 eruption also, we are going to get blowen up. I'll miss everyone

NOOOOOOOO! i'm going to miss you Kyle!

can you say ebay..lol


nice pic...i wanna go jump in it...

doesn't the ash fall all over your car and ****.... i wonder if it would damage your paint any. 1980... kyle you weren't even born... got it from parents or bought it?

hahaha, Kramer and I are fine from this volcano, we just have to worry about Baker and Rainier, those are HUGE and will cause some issues for Seattle as well.....I've personally been up to the observatory at Mt St Helens and its a pretty cool site to see the power of mother nature....Picture a huge forest and all you can see for miles and miles are trees that are all stripped of branches, bark, just the middle of the trees and all laid in the same direction, almost looks like a carpet of toothpicks....if you guys get the chance, look up some pictures of before and after the 1980 explosion if you have never seen it....Turned Yakima pitch black at 11 in the morning and I mean DARK

Jared, my dad got it off his roof in 1980 and its in a jar...also have pictures of the eruption when it first happend, we had a family friend who was flying his small Cesna over the volcano when it blew in 1980...AWESOME pics, i'll have to see if I can find them.....

Wind is blowing away from Kramer and I so we wont see any ash luckily....but if it gets on your car, imagine playing with sand that is mixed with plexiglass particles...it scratches the crap out of your car and is small enough to get sucked into the air intake and cease the engine, not very friendly stuff

Before 1980 eruption


After


Here is the same lake pictured in pictures 1 and 2...keep in mind this was a forest and the hills in the picture were once covered green by the trees (Mt St helens behind you, mountain in front is Mt Ranier)

damn! big difference!

one last picture....heres what happens to you guys if she blows

won't touch me at all woohoo. but sorry for the rest of you that get hit

good thing im not in oklahoma city anymore or id have some ash...thats amazing though

Interesting last picture of the US. Actually everyone in the world got a little bit of it...It went up and orbited the world twice!!!

Well at least you just saw ash and not lava destroying things.

^ intrersting i never knew that!

changed the average temperature like +1 degree or something for those 2 years after it erupted as well

Can't ya just wait till Ranier blows Kramer, we'll both be screwed, I just hope I wont be in downtown Seattle etc when it blows cause that would really suck

Wisconsin has the best weather evar.

Keep your car inside if it rains soon because it would probaly be acidic.

Hey stang, you said 20 min north of seattle. What town are you in??

Lynnwood area...Mill Creek is closer though

the 1980 erruption was on may 18th, thats my b-day! i was born 7 years after the erruption.. my parents said they got ash falling over here too, not much but a little.

I'm clear if it blows so no worry here

ha ha, i showed my g/f that before and after picture and she didn't belive me... she thought it was photoshopped.

that would be some good chopping

Damn!! Glad to hear that you guys aren't in the path of this one...and ash on the car would really suck! I know how bad sand in an engine bay is.

I'm surprised I haven't seen a single thing in the news about that.. I even looked for it yesterday.. hell, they still brought up stuff about the tsunami, yet that is breaking news and they didn't even make a brief mention of it... I'd think that'd be all over.. you know the news, always trying to cause mass hysteria...

It was on Fox News last night.

yeah it was a 10 sec clip on the news here.

02BlueStang wrote:

Lynnwood area...Mill Creek is closer though

I've been there, several times. In fact, my dad bought his Integra there back in 95. I've got friends all up and down the WA coast between Blaine and Chehalis.

It was on the news here....if you blinked tho, you'd have missed it...

Oh and totally off topic, Rob, that movie in your sig rocks!!

I just saw something about how their gonna do a special about volcanoes b/c mt st. helen errupted.