Relive the survival story of a KOMO photographer during the Mount St. Helens eruption
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted. A chunk of our world was uncorked and blown off the face of the earth in a billowing, colossal blast of inconceivable destruction.
The world wasn't ending, but for a time it felt that way.
KOMO News photographer, Dave Crockett, woke up at 3 a.m. on the day of the eruption, afraid he was going to miss out on the story of a lifetime. Something told him he needed to drive to the mountain.
"I guess you'd call it a hunch. I just had a feeling something's gonna happen," he said.
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I heard the mountain explode that weekend - and I was at the house of a work colleague in South Seattle that morning. My daughter and her father were watching it erupt from a viewpoint south of the mountain. I watched David's interview on TV as I waited to hear where my daughter was. It took hours for me to find out she was okay. I had to work further - then on that Monday it was announced on the radio that the Tuttle River Bridge across I-5 might go out - so they were going to shut down the freeway. I hopped in my car (in the center of Seattle) and raced down I-5. I was literally the LAST car crossing. Behind me were some semis (we were going in caravans, with semi-trucks in from and in back with cars in the middle - so as to keep the tempo at a crawl. They shut the freeway down right after the last truck crossed over. I was stranded in Vancouver, WA for a good long period of time. My car, the engine of which my dad had just helped me rebuild, needed a new air filter and more work, due to the ash. I finally made it back to Seattle and my work at a local university there. Showing how small the world is - my best friend began working at KOMO. Some months later - she and David were married.
Wow! Sounds like a hell of an adventure. Glad everyone you know made it out okay.
I remember watching this! I was 18 years old at the time and in college.
Thank you for posting!
In my class at TCC, we got to visit Johnston observatory. I remember being told that Rainier would likely blow from the ears instead of the forehead (euphemistically speaking)
I love KOMO 4. I believe that Eric Johnson is the last of the old KOMO guard and I will miss him when he retires. He embodies that old spirit of Seattle which for me is something that has long since passed: the little engine that could and the red headed step child of lower 48.
My mother called me from Arlington asking if I heard the Mt. go off ? Nope, slept through it. There was some one else there and she heard his last
words on a CB radio, the Mt. is exploding.
Thank you, well done!
I remember that day. I was in High School at the time.
Wasn't that day may 18th a Sunday??. _so you was in school on Sunday??.
It has been an unique lateral blast. But the Katmai eruption of 1912 was the only ignimbritic eruption in recorded history. Only in Alaska it could be without catastrophic loss of lives.
You are looking at a place and things that no longer exist and werd wiped off the map in an instant from the collapse of M.t St. Helens. Every shoreline, building and the lake itself is now under 200 feet of the debris from the side of of that volcano collapsing. It filled that lake as high as thapse helicopters are flying in spme lf these shots and sent the lakes water rushing OVER the ridgelines you see in the background, wiping trees and soil from the hills and leaving it bare rock in many places.
The next film you should watch to understand this is KOMO reporter Davy Crocketts video where he barely survived the eruption, where the lahars and debris rushed around him while he was hundreds of feet up on a ridgeline and debris came within 3 feet of his car, which is now in a museum. Day Crocketts raw video is available on youtube also.
He picked the wrong day to go, he had to race a 30 foot wall of trees and rock laden debris to a logging road up a ridgeline where he barely escaped death several times.
I'd like to know if he has grandkids.
So this is where the inspiration of dantes peak came from