Harry Truman –- and his 16 cats -– refused to leave home at the base of Mount St. Helens before the eruption. The 83-year-old operated a lucrative lodge on Spirit Lake. (May 10, 2000)
Posted on 10/03/2004 3:57:36 PM PDT by NCjim
Harmonic Convergence redux.
I remember about 15 years ago, a skyscraper was being demolished in Boston on a Saturday morning. My wife and I got up at 4AM so that we could be in Boston by sunrise to see the demolition. To our surprise, there were many thousands of people there all set up with lawn chairs and coolers. The police had to set up barriers to keep people a safe distance back. My wife and I just shook our heads at all these people who had no life at all.
Harry Truman –- and his 16 cats -– refused to leave home at the base of Mount St. Helens before the eruption. The 83-year-old operated a lucrative lodge on Spirit Lake. (May 10, 2000)
Fine, but I think Mother Nature's gonna make that call as to what constitutes a "safe distance". Good luck, dummy.
I'm gonna save this for posterity.
Hey, although I'm not overly fond of Northwest "cool", a small blow-off from Mount St. Helens is a larger geophysical event than YOU'll ever experience, even including that moonshine still explosion.
Good grief--I KNOW one of the people interviewed! Hope everyone stays safe.
It's not quite like getting as close as is "safe" to see an atomic bomb go off, but I think I'd rather be as far away as possible.
He died, didn't he?
He did die and I don't think they ever found his remains. He was right on top of the section of the mountain that blew off in the 1980 eruption.
Sounds like we have the potential for a group Darwin Award.
More like the potential for Moronic Convergence.
This reminds me of the Vega party in the movie "Contact."
It's always nice to hear from one's children, right???
Well, I'm sure that cheered you right up.
I'm sorry about the cats.
(I assume that Mr. Truman is no longer with us?)
Oh gosh Kit! Tell William to get out of there! I can tell you that I remember 5/18/80 just like it was yesterday and trust me, it was not nice. For a year afterwards, the erruptions continued and the ash was dreadful. We used my old panty hose over the air cleaner on our cars - I had to hand wash all the rose bush leaves and the leaves of the other plantings. That ash is literally ground glass and it is a car killer. I don't think this erruption will be anything like 1980 because the top of the mountain blew at that time, however, it is still capable of sending ash and poison gases at incredible speeds - that is how so many died in 1980. That event was Mother Nature at her worst.
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