Posted on Nov 20, 2017
Living Nightmare of Mount St. Helen Eruption Uncovered in Unbelievable Photos
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I was in Basic Training when this occurred. My family sent me pictures from newspapers, so I was somewhat informed. I saw films of it eventually, and I was awed by the explosive power of the eruption.
Living Nightmare of Mount St. Helen Eruption Uncovered in Unbelievable Photos
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I watched it happen. We lived in Hillsboro, Oregon, which is about 100 miles from the mountain. I was playing outside and saw the mushroom cloud go up. It being the height of the cold war, I thought the Russians had attacked us (I was 12 at the time) and I ran inside yelling to my mom that we'd been nuked.
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SN Greg Wright
PO3 Bob McCord - SGT (Join to see) LTC David Brown Yeah we got about 3 feet of ash. It was pretty hellish for a few weeks.
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CWO3 Dennis M. - I was lucky flying into Seattle Tacoma Airport last month seeing in October the snow capped mountains of Mount Saint Helens, Mount Rainier and I don't know what the other Mountain was. You can see how the one side of Mount Saint Helens is blown away and that half of its cone is gone
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CWO3 Dennis M. - I was lucky that I was flying back to Canada on a plane and we were Landing in Seattle to get these great pictures.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SGT Mary G. - Got Short Changed on My Flight Out there 3 Weeks ago. Either Dark or No Window seat to admire the View. I Do Love My Trips out that way. Seeing 3 Sisters, Hood, Mt St Helens, Rainier from the Air is Beautiful.
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Matter of time for the next time- we just did Cascadian 17 this year. Bleak outlook.
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My unit does internal joint planning for different COCOMS. We did a planning effort for USNORTHCOM for the CSZ event a few years ago. Yeah if the worst case scenario occurs it will not be pretty that's for sure.
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