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Tapescript 6.






Int: On the morning of May 18th, 1980, Liz Nielson was camping with a friend about 18 kilometers from Mount St.Helens in Washington State in the United States. She was making coffee and her friend Dave was fishing. So, Liz, when did realize that something was wrong?

Liz: Well, Dave lost the fish and came up to replace his line. He Looked up and saw a small black cloud on the horizon and said there must be a forest fire. Within 30 seconds it was absolutely enormous and then it just kept getting bigger and bigger, and coming at us faster, and it was very dark and black. The cloud of ash was the first sign we had that anything was happening.

Int: What were you thought at that moment?

Liz: I’m not sure I had any –apart from maybe wishing I were somewhere else! It wasn’t like a smoke cloud, it was as if it were alive and it was massive and dense, and very black. It was the strangest thing. It was totally silent until it got down into the canyon where we were and then there was a huge roaring. I remember looking at the fire and the wind just blew the flames out low along the ground, and watching the handle of my coffee pot just kind of melt in the flames, and then this awful cold –it just surrounded us.

Int: I expect you were very frightened by then, weren’t you?

Liz: Frightened! I was absolutely petrified, and also was Dave. Well, we started to run back towards to tent. Stupidly I thought that if only we could get in the tent we’d be safe! Then the cloud hit us. It was like an explosion of sound and I fell over backwards and was covered with dirt. I remember wishing it would stop and almost immediately it did, and then Dave reached over to me and me if I was Ok. We got up and realized that there were trees all around us. In fact, we’d fallen down into a hole left by the roots of a tree and then other falling trees had covered us. Dave tried to climb out of the hole but it was too hot. Then, when we did get out we were met with such a scene of total devastation. Everything had happened so fast. When we set off it was difficult to breathe so we took our shirts off and wrapped them around our heads. There were flashes of lightning across the sky.

Int: Was it difficult getting out of the valley?

Liz: The ash was nearly a metre deep and it was so hot underneath you could only stay in it for a short period of time. Then we had to get up on a tree stump and take our shoes off and unroll our trousers, but within a few minutes they would be filled up again. It gave off a terrible smell-like rotten eggs. Anyway, we were really lucky. A falling tree could easily have crushed us. I wish now that we’d taken a radio with us, then maybe we would have had some warning. Even a couple of hours warning would have helped. We went back a few days alter and found the site where our tent had been. Thank goodness we fell in that hole instead of reaching the tent!

Int: A lucky escape indeed. Now in the studio we also have…..






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