The size of Mt. St. Helens
Added 2024-07-05 20:03:31 +0000 UTCThere are points during the making of the scale of videos when I audibly let out a quick "woah". For Scale of Tornadoes, it was Greensburg '07 and Andover '91 having a similar con-funnel height; for Scale of Mushroom Clouds, it was the fact that the Castle Bravo cloud was several times larger than Bikini Atoll itself; and this time around, it's the realization that you could quite nearly fit the entire skyline of Chicago inside Mt. St. Helens's eruption crater.
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Some of my favorite photos of the eruption were taken by some climbers near the summit of Adams, and the ash cloud completely buries St Helens after a few frames. Chicago is a city that I have walked up and down several times, so it's just wild to think the entire downtown would be engulfed in seconds.
Jackson Douma
2024-07-24 19:24:11 +0000 UTCoh wow, i live a couple counties north of st helens and i still had no idea it was THIS large. puts the size of that landslide into perspective, damn
comma_D
2024-07-23 23:34:46 +0000 UTC
