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Richard Lasher, a Boeing employee at the Frederickson Plant, was on his way to ride his dirt bike around Spirit Lake when the mountain erupted in front of him. Original image taken at Mount Saint Helens May 18, 1980. (Washington State Archives

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There's a movie on Prime called "The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari," (2022) a documentary about a tragic volcano disaster in New Zealand. It's fascinating but truly tragic. Something like 25 people were on the island for sight-seeing. when the volcano erupted.  A number of people died or were horrifically burned. People didn't look burned since their clothes showed no trace of burning. But beneath, the steam has totally cooked these people. Sounds horrible but it's real and a great watch. 

If you're into this stuff, Werner Herzog's documentary, Into the Inferno is quite good:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/into_the_inferno

The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

There's a movie on Prime called "The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari," (2022) a documentary about a tragic volcano disaster in New Zealand. It's fascinating but truly tragic. Something like 25 people were on the island for sight-seeing. when the volcano erupted.  A number of people died or were horrifically burned. People didn't look burned since their clothes showed no trace of burning. But beneath, the steam has totally cooked these people. Sounds horrible but it's real and a great watch. 

I watched that.  It was a horrific story, 22 out of 47 people died. Heroic efforts were made by a few commercial helicopter pilots after the eruption happened.  They risked their own lives to find as many survivors as possible.

Jaytee said:

Richard Lasher, a Boeing employee at the Frederickson Plant, was on his way to ride his dirt bike around Spirit Lake when the mountain erupted in front of him. Original image taken at Mount Saint Helens May 18, 1980. (Washington State Archives

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/10n90xj/mount_saint_helens_may_18_1980_washington_state/

My first reaction when seeing the photo was to think it was possibly fake. But it's definitely legit.

yahooyahoo said:

The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

There's a movie on Prime called "The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari," (2022) a documentary about a tragic volcano disaster in New Zealand. It's fascinating but truly tragic. Something like 25 people were on the island for sight-seeing. when the volcano erupted.  A number of people died or were horrifically burned. People didn't look burned since their clothes showed no trace of burning. But beneath, the steam has totally cooked these people. Sounds horrible but it's real and a great watch. 

I watched that.  It was a horrific story, 22 out of 47 people died. Heroic efforts were made by a few commercial helicopter pilots after the eruption happened.  They risked their own lives to find as many survivors as possible.

It puts volcanoes on the short list of things I'm deathly afraid of. The other thing? 

Bears. Don't put me anywhere near a bear, I don't care how friendly it is. Noooo. 

yahooyahoo said:

My first reaction when seeing the photo was to think it was possibly fake. But it's definitely legit.

Reason why I love this picture is because I had the same color Pinto. 1979. 
He drove the car until the air filter clogged up. Good thing he had his dirt bike. The other good thing was he overslept, if he had waken up on time he would have been right in the pyroclastic flow. Amazing.

Jaytee said:

yahooyahoo said:

My first reaction when seeing the photo was to think it was possibly fake. But it's definitely legit.

Reason why I love this picture is because I had the same color Pinto. 1979. 
He drove the car until the air filter clogged up. Good thing he had his dirt bike. The other good thing was he overslept, if he had waken up on time he would have been right in the pyroclastic flow. Amazing.

I read that if he had been on the other side of the ridge on the left, he would have died.  The trees were flattened on the front side, but still standing on the back side.