Footage digitized from the Mount St. Helens Eruption Aftermath Films (FV341:006), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries. Detailed description of this item is as follows:
Street sweeper cleaning road; car driving in the dark and passenger gets out; close-up of layer of ash on car; people walking with umbrellas; parking meters covered with ash; person scraping at ash in street with foot; footage of mostly empty street in dark; car headlights on dark road; ash raining from sky; car driving and ash billowing behind it; road covered in thick ash; logging truck driving and stirring up ash; car at gas station; road covered in ash; writing in ash on window reading “Help under ash”; aerial view of river; worker spraying road with hose; cars driving in downtown Portland; people spraying away ash with hoses; cars driving on road; aerial view of plume over Mount St. Helens; aerial view of river and mountain; view of ash cloud during eruption - perhaps a later eruption during summer 1980; view of Spirit Lake; officer talking to people on road; aerial view of plume and river; debris in water; airplane and helicopters flying over mountain; aerial view of mountain; view of plume; view from helicopter of mountain; close-up of plume.
