@mountsthelens1980
Former SciComms guy Chris here, chronicling Mount St. Helens' history: the mountain before 1980, its eruptive fury, and nature's stunning comeback. Links: https://linktr.ee/sthelensin1980
🗣️ Mount St. Helens.
A whiteboard displays the quote "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. -Wayne Gretzky" followed by "-Michael Scott" written below in blue marker. Michael Scott foreground, hand raised to his chin in a contemplative pose.
ICYMI: The recording of last night's livestream is now available on YouTube. Taking a short break this week — this should hold you over in the meantime!
Thanks!
I'm going to think more about topics to cover, so stay tuned.
Thanks!
I talked a lot—that went on way longer than expected. Speech Comms minor in college with my actual bona fide ADHD energy. Shocker, I know.
Thanks to everyone who joined. Probably won't be a frequent thing, but hey, anything's possible.
Tonight’s the night. 🌋
Join me LIVE at 7:30 ET / 4:30 PT for the first official Mount St. Helens Archive livestream on YouTube — we’re watching “Echoes of the Blast,” KGW Portland’s 10th-anniversary special from 1990.
Context, stories, and community. See you there.
Mt. St. Helens.
Tonight’s the night. 🌋
Join me LIVE at 7:30 ET / 4:30 PT for the first official Mount St. Helens Archive livestream on YouTube — we’re watching “Echoes of the Blast,” KGW Portland’s 10th-anniversary special from 1990.
Context, stories, and community. See you there.
A promotional graphic over a bluish, hazy wide photo of Mount St. Helens. Large peach-colored text at the top reads, “Mount St. Helens Archive LIVE STREAM!” Center text in yellow says, “Sunday, March 1, 7:30 p.m. Eastern / 4:30 p.m. Pacific.” At lower left, more yellow text reads, “Watching ‘Echoes of the Blast’ (1990).” At lower right, a small inset image shows a VHS-style frame with the title “Echoes of the Blast” in red-orange letters over an eruption scene.
Okay, let's try this again.
Join me TOMORROW night at 7:30 ET, 4:30 PT, for the first official live stream of the Mount St. Helens Archive! We'll be watching "Echoes of the Blast," KGW Portland's 10th-anniversary special from 1990.
Context, stories, and community. Join me, won't you?
Set a reminder, pour a glass of Courvoisier...or have a Spindrift or something else, I'm not having the Courvoisier. Maybe wine.
Okay, drink choice doesn't matter. See you there.
A promotional graphic over a bluish, hazy wide photo of Mount St. Helens. Large peach-colored text at the top reads, “Mount St. Helens Archive LIVE STREAM!” Center text in yellow says, “Sunday, March 1, 7:30 p.m. Eastern / 4:30 p.m. Pacific.” At lower left, more yellow text reads, “Watching ‘Echoes of the Blast’ (1990).” At lower right, a small inset image shows a VHS-style frame with the title “Echoes of the Blast” in red-orange letters over an eruption scene.
Okay, let's try this again.
Join me TOMORROW night at 7:30 ET, 4:30 PT, for the first official live stream of the Mount St. Helens Archive! We'll be watching "Echoes of the Blast," KGW Portland's 10th-anniversary special from 1990.
Context, stories, and community. Join me, won't you?
Of course, cheers!
Today is Nisqually Earthquake Awareness Day! “Prepare, don’t despair”—that’s our message on the 25th anniversary of the 2001 M6.8 earthquake. Learn more in this clip: www.king5.com/article/news...
Split-squad games.
There are enough players on a team's roster in Spring Training to split the team into two groups.
(NOT TRUE PART) Then they all come back together afterward over sandwiches and tea and talk about their days.
Anyway, gonna log off and space out to Donkey Kong Country.
Eleanor Swanson's poem for Harry Truman, from ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Spring 2015.
It's a thread, so click for the full work.
Sad but true.
FFS.
A mostly empty stretch of Interstate 5 is filmed through a gray, ash-hazed sky, with pale volcanic ash dusting the roadway edges, the gore point, and the right-hand exit ramp. Overhead green freeway signs span the lanes: “Seattle” to the left, “US 12 West / Aberdeen / Next Right” in the center, and “Tenino” with a right-pointing arrow. One car drives ahead in the center lane as visibility fades into the ash-muted distance. May 1980. Exit 88, Interstate 5, Rochester, Washington. Source: Search on St. Helens, Jeffry Doran (1980).
May 25-31, 1980
Exit 88, Interstate 5
Rochester, Washington
Western Washington thought it dodged the ash. The second major eruption of Mount St. Helens proved otherwise.
📸 Jeffry Doran
Mt. St. Helens.
A mostly empty stretch of Interstate 5 is filmed through a gray, ash-hazed sky, with pale volcanic ash dusting the roadway edges, the gore point, and the right-hand exit ramp. Overhead green freeway signs span the lanes: “Seattle” to the left, “US 12 West / Aberdeen / Next Right” in the center, and “Tenino” with a right-pointing arrow. One car drives ahead in the center lane as visibility fades into the ash-muted distance. May 1980. Exit 88, Interstate 5, Rochester, Washington. Source: Search on St. Helens, Jeffry Doran (1980).
May 25-31, 1980
Exit 88, Interstate 5
Rochester, Washington
Western Washington thought it dodged the ash. The second major eruption of Mount St. Helens proved otherwise.
📸 Jeffry Doran
Since there's been so much interest, here is a KGW segment from a few years ago about Steve Terrill, his son, and their experience at Mount St. Helens during that eruption weekend.
Enjoy; it's an incredible story.
Have a blessed day.
This sounds a lot like the Keith and Dorothy Stoffel charter flight out of Yakima with pilot Bruce Judson!
Is that the one you mean? If you know the pilot’s name or aircraft type, that might help.
We want your input! Join one of our community workshops to learn and share your thoughts on geothermal energy in Washington:
📆 Today, Feb. 26: Mount Baker
📆 March 4: Mount St. Helens
📆 March 5: Wind River Valley
Learn more at ecology.wa.gov/geothermal
Mount St. Helens
A mangled and rusted Pontiac Grand Prix destroyed in the Mount St. Helens eruption.
It's #throwbackthursday so here are some shots from last summer at #mountsthelens. 🌋
1. This was the magnificent view from our lunch spot.
2. The remains of a '72 Pontiac destroyed in the 1980 eruption.
#pnw #sthelens #washington
Since there's been so much interest, here is a KGW segment from a few years ago about Steve Terrill, his son, and their experience at Mount St. Helens during that eruption weekend.
Enjoy; it's an incredible story.
Save for very small rockfalls from the walls of the crater, which continue from time to time to this day, nothing even remotely close to what was witnessed on May 18 has occurred.
Steve Terrill’s photograph of Mount St. Helens erupting on May 18, 1980, viewed from Yale Lake: a massive gray ash column billows above the volcano’s snow-streaked cone, with dark evergreen ridges and the lake in the foreground; the image is shown here as a black-framed print with faint reflections on the plastic cover. Photo of photo by admin.
Steve's photo hung up in my office at my one job. This is from about ten years ago.
Not a great print bought online, but hey, I had my own office for the first time. Had to zhuzh it up.
Work at a science place? Put up some science wall art.
