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  On 12/7/2023 at 12:19 AM, miguelito said:
For those who didn't know, Johnston was a USGS scientist, who was studying the strange new bulge on the mountain on May 18, 1980.  He was killed in the blast, and the ridge where he died now bears his name, and there is a great observatory there.
 
He made the famous radio transmission call, "Vancouver!  Vancouver!  This is it!"

Johnston was the hiker in the pic?
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No, that was someone else, on a different mountain miles away.  Johnston was VERY close to St. Helens.  If you go to the Johnston Ridge Observatory, there's just a small valley between you and the volcano. 

This is basically the view from there:

 

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My family lived about 120 miles south of St. Helens when it blew.  We could see Mt. Hood from our deck and the day of the eruption could see the plume cloud arising beyond Hood.  It was pretty surreal.  

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  On 12/7/2023 at 12:59 PM, CooterBrown said:

Johnston was the hiker in the pic?

This was Johnston shortly before the eruption. Other than being in the caldera itself, there wasn’t a worse place for him to be when the eruption occurred. The eruption was pretty much directed right at him. On the bright side, it was probably pretty fast and painless. On the not so bright side, he knew for a couple of minutes he was proper fucked and there was nothing he could do.

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  On 12/7/2023 at 5:15 PM, Hate said:


This was Johnston shortly before the eruption. Other than being in the caldera itself, there wasn’t a worse place for him to be when the eruption occurred. The eruption was pretty much directed right at him. On the bright side, it was probably pretty fast and painless. On the not so bright side, he knew for a couple of minutes he was proper fucked and there was nothing he could do.

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Also, Harry Truman(not that one) at Spirit Lake which is directly adjacent to what is now called Johnston Ridge.

Harry Truman vs. The Volcano - John M Jennings

 

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  On 12/7/2023 at 12:57 PM, CooterBrown said:


How do they propel that heavy giant all of explosive powder without it igniting instantly on the ground?

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I’m no expert, but I would guess wadding separates the propellant charge from the explosive package that has some sort of fuse. 

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  On 12/7/2023 at 11:20 PM, TrashMaster G said:

Adam's????

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Yeah, he butchered the name.   The major peaks in the Cascades mountains of Oregon and Washington have some weird nomenclature.  You have the ones named after Royal Navy dudes ( like Rainier, Hood, Baker, St. Helens, etc.), Presidents (Jefferson and Adams), random Europeans who passed through certain areas (McLoughlin, Lassen, etc.), those named after their features (Glacier Peak, Three Sisters, Bachelor, etc.) and then the randomly named ones like Shasta.   All of this completely ignores indigenous names for those peaks as well.  

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  On 12/7/2023 at 5:02 PM, Macanudo said:

My family lived about 120 miles south of St. Helens when it blew.  We could see Mt. Hood from our deck and the day of the eruption could see the plume cloud arising beyond Hood.  It was pretty surreal.  

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Did yall get a little bit of ash?  Seems like it all went East from what I have read. 

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We got just a little bit the first day or so.  Yakima and the Kennewick area got the worst.   Interestingly, all that ash may have helped the hop industry albeit 15-20 years later.  Central Washington is prime hop growing land and the soil benefited from the ash.

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  On 12/8/2023 at 3:12 PM, Macanudo said:

Yeah, he butchered the name.   The major peaks in the Cascades mountains of Oregon and Washington have some weird nomenclature.  You have the ones named after Royal Navy dudes ( like Rainier, Hood, Baker, St. Helens, etc.), Presidents (Jefferson and Adams), random Europeans who passed through certain areas (McLoughlin, Lassen, etc.), those named after their features (Glacier Peak, Three Sisters, Bachelor, etc.) and then the randomly named ones like Shasta.   All of this completely ignores indigenous names for those peaks as well.  

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Dude. It's like you've never contemplated the geological significance a tasty affordable beverage.

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