Harry Truman and Mount St. Helens | KATU In The Archives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9TkFVh-m7I
Minute by Minute: The Eruption of Mount St. Helens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fArB5Jz2wos&t=2506s
Photo Essay: Visiting The Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
I still have a packet of ash that my grandmother gave me. We didn’t get any worth noting where I lived in Idaho, but she was in Bend, OR, and got a layer of it. Hard to believe it was 45 years ago.
Guess it was a different guy
S’okay, I’m feelin’ stronger every day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJy9V9krLdc
Was just thinking of that guy the other day. Wish he had left that mountain before it blew.
RIP Harry.
Having camped in tents more than once at Spirit Lake in the 1970’s, I had a chance to meet and talk to Harry Truman. We were living in southwest Washington state when the mountain blew up.
My father-in-law and I once took a canoe from Bear Cove, where we had been tent camping, across to Harry’s lodge. Bear Cove was a canoe-only-access camp site (tiny) beside gigantic, old growth Douglas Fir trees. The trees could have been 150 years old.
It was a paradise of a spot beside the crystal clear waters of the lake. I once swam there and “cold” is a laughable understatement of being in that water when swimming.
Harry Truman was not “crusty.” He was an insufferable prick. He was horribly rude and disrespectful to the two of us who were smiling, friendly strangers without any negative attitude whatsoever. He was drunk when we met him. He acted as if the lake belonged only to him and nobody else even had any right to be there.
When I heard he had been buried under about 600 feet of superheated mud almost instantly upon the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, I immediately laughed at the Divine justice of his fate.
He was not some “folk hero.” He was the epitome of the what anyone could possibly imagine to be a truly mean human being. He was a character right out of a Charles Dickens novel.
I have never met another human being more deserving of being buried alive by an erupting volcano than Harry Truman on Spirit Lake at the foot of Mt. St Helens.
I believe Art Carney played Truman in a movie called St. Helen’s which came out in 1981.
Forgot to post the only tangible video about the other victims. I have not watched the entire video.
Mount St. Helens: Why They Died - 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVh22EHcnhY
Too bad about his cat though...