A native American Medicine man was camping next to Mt. St. Helens the night before it blew up. He woke up to take a pee off a cliff nearby the river. The concussion of the explosion of the Mountain blew him off the cliff and into the river where he was struggling to survive without drowning. He was drowning and fighting trees and debris floating down the river and struggling to get to the surface to get air. By the time he got a breath of air everything was gone. He was the only one who survived in the area that close to the mountain blowing up.
When he finally dragged himself onto shore after struggling for minutes everyone he had been with was dead as well as everyone for miles around him so he had to walk miles and miles for help because everyone nearby him was dead except him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYla6q3is6w
This eruption caused 57 deaths. The video above shows what happened then in 1980. I watched the sunsets turn green and purple and orange and blue for 2 to 3 years after this because (of pyroclastic dust and debris in the air from the eruption) I was living on 2 1/2 acres with my wife and children in Mt. Shasta then home schooling my kids for around 5 years 10 miles from the nearest gas station or small town or city in a very remote part of the Mountain at around 4000 feet in elevation at that time.
The temperatures were 5 to 10 degrees colder year around during this time so the summers in mt. shasta were much colder than normal with higher rainfall also caused by the eruption and dust and pyroclastic glass dust in the air for several years after this. It changed the climate not just in Washington, Oregon and California but to some degree the whole world's climate changed to a greater or lesser degree from this huge eruption too.
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