Col. Terry Connell was at his downtown Portland church’s Sunday service on May 18, 1980, when Mount St. Helens erupted.

WASHINGTON STATE – On this 45th anniversary of the Mount St. Helens ... and kept working." The Toutle River flooded old SR 99 and the I-5 bridges, and the St. Helens bridge on SR 504 was buried.

ST HELENS, Wash — Engineers who spent the days and years following the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens working ... built at the north fork of the Toutle River. ”Things start coming back ...

After more than two months of rumbling, Washington state's Mount St. Helens erupted ... and 15 miles of railway. River valleys were smothered and the path of the Toutle River was altered.

His lede read, "President Carter flew over the volcano ravaged Toutle River Valley in southwestern Washington today, then described the impact of the eruption of Mount St. Helens as 'unbelievable.'" ...

That's the day that Mount St. Helens erupted, flattening miles of ... "This was another logger that was found in the middle of the Toutle River, on a log in the middle of the mud flow, and he ...

But he’s ready to sell it to keep the lights on at his Mount St. Helens and Bigfoot interpretive ... which washed out the 85-foot Spirit Lake Outlet Bridge and left tons of sediment behind ...

The sediment retention dam was built in 1989 on the North Fork of the Toutle River to retain debris flowing from the slopes of Mount St. Helens — an issue that continues today, 45 years later.