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|u/rva23221 - 12 hours
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|The Mount St. Helens major eruption of May 18, 1980, remains the
|deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in U.S.
|history.
|u/yummykookies - 11 hours
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|Stick around for Yellowstone!
|u/homebrew_1 - 7 hours
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|Just put me in a coma for 100k years please.
|u/astrozombie2012 - 10 hours
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|Can’t happen soon enough… this country (the world really) needs a
|hard reset
|u/jolle2001 - 5 hours
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|Personally I want to live and hope the next generations can
|aswell, we can do better as a species
|u/Azmoten - 7 hours
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|The whole planet could be affected by the Yellowstone Supervolcano
|going off, just from ash and smoke being thrown into the
|atmosphere. And that’s not even mentioning the absolute havoc that
|blowing up 1/3rd of the continental US could cause. The US remains
|the world’s premiere nuclear power and they would be nationally
|shattered, panicked, and in despair. There’s at least a million
|and one ways for that sort of situation to spin out of control
|globally. I don’t know where you live but I can almost guarantee
|your own life would suffer a massive negative impact, if not an
|unexpected ending. Don’t go thinking you’re immune to a “reset” as
|you called it.
|u/Vaping_Cobra - 9 hours
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|Go reset your self if you want to, but those are people's lives
|you are casually dismissing. Like for real life people with
|thoughts are feelings. Are you a psychopath?
|u/Monovon - 9 hours
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|Agreed. Dickcheese sociopath over here likely never lived a hard
|day in his life talking as if they’re above what it means to be
|human.
|u/Madeupaccountcuzshy - 8 hours
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|Maybe he's lived the hardest life.....(Shrugs)
|u/Just_a_Guy_In_a_Tank - 8 hours
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|That’s not our fault or problem
|u/Madeupaccountcuzshy - 7 hours
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|How compassionate.
|u/Just_a_Guy_In_a_Tank - 7 hours
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|He wants us all to die, so……
|u/Madeupaccountcuzshy - 7 hours
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|(shrugs)
|u/Tokishi7 - 1 hour
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|The west has fallen. Billions must die 🗿
|u/Which-Service-5146 - 8 hours
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|44 years ago
|u/masterrtech - 12 hours
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|I live I so cal. We had ashes dropping on us here.
|u/osteomiss - 9 hours
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|Vancouver Island BC - my parents collected some from the deck
|u/Chromophilic - 11 hours
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|Didn't someone do the math on this and they determined that the
|photographer of this photo died in this event?
|u/RAWisROLLIE - 8 hours
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|"Partially protected by the ridgeline in the foreground, Lasher
|avoided the initial explosion of volcanic ash and the more than 600
|degree wave of heat it blasted out. However, the rain of ash made
|driving almost impossible, eventually disabling Lasher's car as he
|drove down the zero-visibility mountain pass. He traveled the rst of
|the way on his dirtbike, leaving behind the Pinto. The next day,
|Lasher rode his motorcycle back up into the mountains to take more
|pictures, but was intercepted by a helicopter and arrested. Lasher,
|since retired (and unavailable for comment), survived his close
|encounter with the deadly explosion, but as many as 57 other people
|lost their lives."
|u/caligaris_cabinet - 8 hours
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|Thank god he ditched the Pinto.
|u/why_u_baggin - 7 hours
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|Owning a Pinto was enough of a risk he didn’t even need to be a
|volcano photographer
|u/selz202 - 7 hours
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|Lol basically driving a volcano
|u/Spongman - 2 hours
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|If you’re ever caught in a volcanic eruption, ditching the Pinto
|is the best move.
|u/tossaway78701 - 5 hours
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|I can't imagine hopping on a motorcycle during limited visibility
|while trying to breathe in that ash. Damn. I would love to hear the
|story from him.
|u/Few-Celebration-5462 - 9 hours
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|If the volcanic explosion didn't kill him driving that Pinto surely
|would have.
|u/Just_a_Guy_In_a_Tank - 7 hours
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|Not this photographer but at least one did die soon after taking some
|photos that were later recovered
|u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener - 3 hours
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|That particular one you are referring to used his own body to shield
|the contents of his bag which includes the camera and film so that
|they could be recovered after his death.
|u/yummykookies - 2 hours
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|I think it's just as likely he collapsed on top of them.
|u/I_like_boxes - 2 hours
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|He also rewound and stowed his film in a film canister before
|putting it in his bag to protect it, so it seems like he knew
|how hopeless his situation was. Doesn't really seem that much of
|a stretch to assume that the guy protected his bag too, which is
|how it has always been reported.
|u/Rexxhunt - 6 hours
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|Donno, you're the one telling the story here mate
|u/pinewind108 - 3 hours
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|No,this guy was fine. They came up the mountain to do some biking, but
|got the hell out of there once they saw this.
|u/tangcameo - 10 hours
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|My grandmother lived over 900 miles WNW in Saskatchewan in Canada and
|she said the ash was on her lawn like a skiff of snow.
|u/wish1977 - 12 hours
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|That's even more dangerous than the potential rear end collisions in
|that Ford Pinto.
|u/BunsenHoneydewsEyes - 9 hours
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|My father had a pinto. I sat on a phone book in the front seat because
|car seats weren’t a thing. One day we were driving home and I turned
|to him and said, “Daddy, I love this little yellow car. You have to
|keep it forever.” The next day they released the info about all the
|explosions. He told that story until the day he died with a big belly
|laugh and slapping me on the back.
|u/CaptainA1917 - 9 hours
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|HEY THAT’S A PINTO!
|u/MindfulMoon62 - 8 hours
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|Incredibly explosive as well 😂
|u/Jazzlike_Muscle104 - 8 hours
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|80 year old [Harry R.
|Truman](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R._Truman) became somewhat
|of a folk hero for refusing to evacuate from his lodge by Spirit Lake.
|Harry and his multiple feline companions died when the pyroclastic flow
|from the eruption swept over the lodge. The 1981 film *"St. Helens"*
|saw Harry portrayed by his favorite actor, Art Carney. His cats did not
|get a mention in the film and were instead replaced by a single faithful
|dog. The real Harry never owned a dog in his life.
|u/bananas2000 - 5 hours
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|>During the 1930s, Truman divorced his first wife; he remarried in
|1935. The second marriage was short, as he reportedly attempted to win
|arguments by throwing his wife into Spirit Lake, despite her inability
|to swim.[^(\[13\])](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R._Truman#ci
|te_note-FOOTNOTEKean201717%E2%80%9319-13) He began dating a local
|girl, though he eventually married the girl's sister Edna, whom he
|called Edie.[^(\[13\])](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R._Truma
|n#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKean201717%E2%80%9319-13) This third marriage
|held, and he and Edna operated the Mount St. Helens Lodge together[^(\
|[14\])](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R._Truman#cite_note-
|FOOTNOTEFindley19812-14) until her death from a heart attack in 1975.[
|^(\[15\])](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R._Truman#cite_note-
|FOOTNOTEKean201720-15)
|u/bananas2000 - 5 hours
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|>He loved discussing politics and reportedly hated [Republicans](htt
|ps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)),
|hippies, young children, and the elderly
|u/RationalLies - 3 hours
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|>He loved discussing politics and reportedly hated Republicans),
|hippies, young children, and the elderly I mean, who doesn't
|u/Hosni__Mubarak - 5 hours
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|There used to be a restaurant in anchorage named after him.
|u/cromagsd - 8 hours
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|44 years? I also remember the ash.
|u/RoutineSignature1238 - 8 hours
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|I was 12 years old in Thompson Falls, MT. and watched this wall of
|gray/black ash head towards us… Got out of school for a week!
|u/NunquamAccidet - 41 minutes
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|I was in high school around 100 miles north of the mountain at the time.
|I watched the eruption from the top of my street. The major ashfall from
|the first eruption went east. But we did get ash on and off from
|subsequent small eruptions over the next few months.
|u/AndringRasew - 9 hours
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|I vaguely remember this. Didn't the guy who took this picture use his
|own body to shield the negatives from being destroyed, knowing he
|couldn't outrun the eruption?
|u/Devium44 - 9 hours
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|That was a different photographer who was much closer to the eruption.
|u/Strikereleven - 9 hours
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|I guess the camping trip was cancelled
|u/Norwester77 - 6 hours
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|I don’t remember an eruption 40 years ago. I (vaguely; I was 3)
|remember the one *44* years ago…
|u/Savoir_faire81 - 9 hours
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|This happened about 9 months before I was born. I maintain it was
|heralding my coming.
|u/Bebopo90 - 8 hours
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|Your dad came, and so did the Earth.
|u/AEveryDayIdiot - 2 hours
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|RIP Harry R Truman’s cats
|u/BLAZER_101 - 1 hour
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|The definition of a cataclysmic event. This reminds me, I can’t wait for
|Dante’s Peak to be released in 4K!!
|u/jgarcya - 10 hours
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|It will happen again in near future
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