“First, I heard three booms,” Austin Jenkins wrote in his first-grade journal. “Then my teacher said, ‘Look up,’ and I looked up and there was a big cloud that looked like a tornado.” Minutes later, he was fleeing Mount St. Helens's eruption. (KUOW)
Olympia Correspondent Austin Jenkins was a first grader on a school camping trip near Mount St. Helens when the volcano erupted on May 18, 1980.Austin recently unearthed his scrapbook from that time and interviewed several others who were on that memorable trip. On this 40th anniversary of the eruption, Austin recounts their harrowing escape.
An excerpt from Austin Jenkins' first grade journal about the Mount St. Helens eruption on May 18, 1980.Others there that day don’t recall hearing the mountain erupt. But they do remember the cloud. “All we knew is that we had 30 kids to protect … and we had to make a decision in a very short period of time about what we were going to do,” Patterson said.more than 7,000 years ago, creating Crater Lake, the surrounding area was buried in deep ash.The decision was quickly made to evacuate.
“I was sitting on top of some other kid in the middle seat and my mom was on top of me,” Bender said. “I feel bad for whoever that other kid was.” In Randle, according to my journal, we stopped at a gas station where, “There were some men who told my teachers to go to a nearby church for safety.” “The time in the church basement was in some ways the most interesting,” said Bakke, who was then a pediatric nurse and is now a writer in Seattle.Hear Seattle writer and former pediatric nurse Kit Bakke describe the debate over whether to stay sheltered in a church basement in Randle, Washington or try to make it back to Seattle following the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980. Bakke was a parent chaperone on a school trip that had to evacuate Camp Cispus which was in the blast zone.
“I had five kids in that car and three of them in the back seat, we’re just lucky none of them were hurt,” Patterson said. "All of a sudden it was just amazing, it was clear," Wagner said."There wasn't any ash. It was just like from night to day." “All of a sudden big white clouds came out of the sky,” she wrote. “The fire alarm went off. All the little kids ran in different directions. The grown-ups ran after them and caught them.”
Over the years, I’ve occasionally revisited with my mother, Victoria, why she let me go on the camping trip. "Nobody objected," Wagner said."It just wasn’t considered to be a problem at all. That’s why we went.”Hear retired Puget Sound Primary School teacher and co-founder Sharon Wagner describe the decision to proceed with a school camping trip to Camp Cispus near Mount St. Helens in May 1980. On the last day of that school trip the volcano erupted, forcing the school group to evacuate.
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