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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:20:06 AM EDT
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I was too young to remember, but my parents still talk about it, and we were living in Nebraska at the time.
I also had a few zits that erupted like that in middle school. 
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:56:23 AM EDT
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I took a PSA flight from SFO to Sea-Tac about a month after the eruption. The pilot took a couple of steep orbits over the caldera, one for each side of the plane. It was like looking at the surface of the moon. Unbelievable. I flew over it a couple of days after the eruption,pretty impressive. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:01:35 AM EDT
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Mt. Rainer is listed as one of the most dangerous volcano's in the world. Claims about 2 lives a year from climbers. A good read on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier http://fotolotti.com/files/images/Rainier.preview.JPG Quote HistoryQuoted:
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... Mt. Rainer (I love that place, and many people that live near her) is next Mt. Rainer is listed as one of the most dangerous volcano's in the world. Claims about 2 lives a year from climbers. A good read on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier http://fotolotti.com/files/images/Rainier.preview.JPG The Lahars and pyroclastic is going to kill a metric fuckload of people.. then the floods from the instant ice melts is going to rip shit apart. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:02:14 AM EDT
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To this day I still can't believe seeing the interview of a local saying they just assumed some lava would roll down the side, and that "nobody ever thought it would explode" or something to that effect.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:09:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mt. Rainer is listed as one of the most dangerous volcano's in the world. Claims about 2 lives a year from climbers. A good read on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier http://fotolotti.com/files/images/Rainier.preview.JPG Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: ... Mt. Rainer (I love that place, and many people that live near her) is next Mt. Rainer is listed as one of the most dangerous volcano's in the world. Claims about 2 lives a year from climbers. A good read on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier http://fotolotti.com/files/images/Rainier.preview.JPG |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:09:47 AM EDT
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To this day I still can't believe seeing the interview of a local saying they just assumed some lava would roll down the side, and that "nobody ever thought it would explode" or something to that effect. Could you imagine that power? Just from heat and pressure of hot rock? Yes I know how it works and can happen at any time but this was comparable with a nuclear bomb. It's just... Amazing things. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:14:27 AM EDT
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Great pics Pretty much. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:15:11 AM EDT
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Lots of things died instantly. Too bad there wasn't a liberal convention at the peak. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:17:22 AM EDT
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I remember the National Geographic issue that had a huge fold out of the eruption. I remember the NG that had pics of african titties..... |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:30:02 AM EDT
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Could you imagine that power? Just from heat and pressure of hot rock? Yes I know how it works and can happen at any time but this was comparable with a nuclear bomb. It's just... Amazing things. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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To this day I still can't believe seeing the interview of a local saying they just assumed some lava would roll down the side, and that "nobody ever thought it would explode" or something to that effect. Could you imagine that power? Just from heat and pressure of hot rock? Yes I know how it works and can happen at any time but this was comparable with a nuclear bomb. It's just... Amazing things. The thing that sticks out in my mind is the speed of the flows when it hit... and the pics of the family that took the shot as the molten hot flows hit that canyon wall and went straight up. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:38:22 AM EDT
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In before the next season of "AX Men", where they pull logs out of the lake...
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:38:40 AM EDT
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Ranier going would be very very bad news. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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... Mt. Rainer (I love that place, and many people that live near her) is next Mt. Rainer is listed as one of the most dangerous volcano's in the world. Claims about 2 lives a year from climbers. A good read on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier http://fotolotti.com/files/images/Rainier.preview.JPG Yep... when it goes, it's going to be very bad. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:56:55 AM EDT
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Wonder how many Bigfeets dies in that eruption. 
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Posted: 4/26/2015 3:02:29 AM EDT
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That's alot of missing rock. It's not missing. We know exactly where it is. 
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Posted: 4/26/2015 3:02:44 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2015 3:16:59 AM EDT
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I need to go up there again. Haven't since I was a kid. There it is... I remember G-Series FAL posted that exact same thing. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 3:19:27 AM EDT
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There it is... I remember G-Series FAL posted that exact same thing. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I need to go up there again. Haven't since I was a kid. There it is... I remember G-Series FAL posted that exact same thing. oh teh noes 
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Posted: 4/26/2015 3:20:07 AM EDT
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In before the next season of "AX Men", where they pull logs out of the lake... That is a fantastic idea.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 6:58:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There it is... I remember G-Series FAL posted that exact same thing. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I need to go up there again. Haven't since I was a kid. There it is... I remember G-Series FAL posted that exact same thing. He was in WA too? |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:12:14 AM EDT
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Viscous rhyolite/dacite filled with steam, it was a cubic mile bomb. Quite a show, got out of school for a few weeks and had to wear a mask when outside for quite a while more.
They were plowing ash out of the streets in some towns with snow plows. We didn't get that much north of Spokane, but it was like night time at 3 in the afternoon that day. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:17:09 AM EDT
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Looks the same in both pics to me.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:33:09 AM EDT
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This is a Google Street View image, wide angle lens makes it look really damn small - but it's a decent size hill. Didn't used to be covered in green stuff. That whole thing is a pile of dredged ash, sitting right next to I-5 where it crosses the north fork of the Toutle River. It was a bit taller back when I was a kid, and nothing was growing on it yet - the big grey pile of ash was a very distinctive landmark as you drove along I-5.
The views before things started to grow again were amazing and damned creepy. Another trip as a kid, my dad drove us up to Mt St Helens and we were driving around on the forest service roads. One of them went right through the debris flow area - nothing bigger than small saplings and shrubs at the time, and not many of them - all rock as far as the eye could see, looking up a chute straight into the gaping side of the mountain. Really makes you feel small.  |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:37:44 AM EDT
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Yep... when it goes, it's going to be very bad. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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... Mt. Rainer (I love that place, and many people that live near her) is next Mt. Rainer is listed as one of the most dangerous volcano's in the world. Claims about 2 lives a year from climbers. A good read on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier http://fotolotti.com/files/images/Rainier.preview.JPG Yep... when it goes, it's going to be very bad. Or its going to save Washington State 
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Posted: 4/26/2015 7:43:43 AM EDT
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Fuji is going to kill an estimated 1 million people when it goes. When the earthquake of 2011 hit, most people were worried about Fuji going nuclear than the relatively insignificant Fukushima reactor getting wrecked. Here's some pics of my 2011 climb to the top.
Ever wonder what Mars looks like? Here you go... 
This is the Fuji crater. See the little dots on the left slope? Those are people going up to the highest point. 
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Posted: 4/26/2015 8:13:13 AM EDT
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I've got a jar of ash from the eruption. Collected in Spokane a few days after the event. Some 260 miles ENE of the mountain. I use it as a paper weight on my desk. It's fun to shake up and watch the ash settle. My brother was in Spokane. After a foot of Ashe fell, he packed his kit and said "You can all go to hell, I am going to Texas."
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Posted: 4/26/2015 8:15:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat scale is incredible. Makes us seem insignificant. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 8:31:33 AM EDT
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That scale is incredible. Makes us seem insignificant. Quote HistoryQuoted:
That scale is incredible. Makes us seem insignificant. Those logs will be there for a LONG time. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 8:35:19 AM EDT
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I remember the day ash fell on us. I was in middle school, in Maine. Not far from the Easternmost point in the US.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 8:41:09 AM EDT
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Could you imagine that power? Just from heat and pressure of hot rock? Yes I know how it works and can happen at any time but this was comparable with hundreds of nuclear bombs. It's just... Amazing things. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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To this day I still can't believe seeing the interview of a local saying they just assumed some lava would roll down the side, and that "nobody ever thought it would explode" or something to that effect. Could you imagine that power? Just from heat and pressure of hot rock? Yes I know how it works and can happen at any time but this was comparable with hundreds of nuclear bombs. It's just... Amazing things. Fixed. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 8:52:54 AM EDT
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Too bad GoPro's weren't around back then
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Posted: 4/26/2015 8:54:51 AM EDT
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Boom!
I worked with a geologist who went there 6 months after the kaboom. He said he had never seen something that made him feel so small and insignificant. Unless you observed it yourself there is no way to understand the scale of it. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 9:06:29 AM EDT
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You guys are NOT making me feel any better about the Yellowstone caldera. Mt. Saint Helens was a mouse fart compared to what Yellowstone would do. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 9:09:21 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2015 9:17:44 AM EDT
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That's alot of missing rock. They're not missing...we know exactly where they went.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 9:22:30 AM EDT
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Cool pics. I saw St Helens for the first time 2 weeks ago. When the mountain blew I was 4 but I still have vivid memories of the news reports.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 9:24:19 AM EDT
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The Lahars and pyroclastic is going to kill a metric fuckload of people.. then the floods from the instant ice melts is going to rip shit apart. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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... Mt. Rainer (I love that place, and many people that live near her) is next Mt. Rainer is listed as one of the most dangerous volcano's in the world. Claims about 2 lives a year from climbers. A good read on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier http://fotolotti.com/files/images/Rainier.preview.JPG The Lahars and pyroclastic is going to kill a metric fuckload of people.. then the floods from the instant ice melts is going to rip shit apart. Seattle, Tacoma, and bunch of little towns and communities are going to be in a bunch of trouble. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 9:25:35 AM EDT
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Could you imagine that power? Just from heat and pressure of hot rock? Yes I know how it works and can happen at any time but this was comparable with a nuclear bomb. It's just... Amazing things. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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To this day I still can't believe seeing the interview of a local saying they just assumed some lava would roll down the side, and that "nobody ever thought it would explode" or something to that effect. Could you imagine that power? Just from heat and pressure of hot rock? Yes I know how it works and can happen at any time but this was comparable with a nuclear bomb. It's just... Amazing things. a very large Nuke...equivalent to a 24 megaton bomb. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 9:28:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryI was out that way a few years ago, I couldn't believe there were still logs that hadn't rotted away. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 9:32:01 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2015 9:32:55 AM EDT
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I am amazed that more has not happened in the area, besides the Nisqually quake and the large ones that happen on faults on the edges of the CSZ.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 9:53:20 AM EDT
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These are from a motorcycle ride I did through Idaho, Washington and Oregon in 2002 - 20 years after the eruption. Pica are sort of small, made on a digital camera I bought 15 years ago.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 10:27:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You guys are NOT making me feel any better about the Yellowstone caldera. 1 in 700,000 chance |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 10:50:36 AM EDT
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Interesting thread
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Posted: 4/26/2015 11:45:46 AM EDT
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Been there, done that. Watched it blow up a couple times from my yard. Thought it was cool at the time. Looking back, I don't feel all that sorry for most of the people that died in that eruption. There were LOTS of quakes, warnings from volcanologists, and measured swelling of the mountain prior to the eruption. They told everyone to gtfo. Some just didn't listen.
What was crazy to me is that we were upwind and we still had use snow shovels to scoop up all the ash. Yikes! |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:00:29 PM EDT
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Ash cloud flew right over us in Walla Walla, WA. It only received a light dusting,
like if you haven't dusted your house in 2 months. Everywhere around us people were measuring the stuff in feet. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:08:07 PM EDT
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The thing that sticks out in my mind is the speed of the flows when it hit... and the pics of the family that took the shot as the molten hot flows hit that canyon wall and went straight up. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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To this day I still can't believe seeing the interview of a local saying they just assumed some lava would roll down the side, and that "nobody ever thought it would explode" or something to that effect. Could you imagine that power? Just from heat and pressure of hot rock? Yes I know how it works and can happen at any time but this was comparable with a nuclear bomb. It's just... Amazing things. The thing that sticks out in my mind is the speed of the flows when it hit... and the pics of the family that took the shot as the molten hot flows hit that canyon wall and went straight up. Where can I find pictures of this? |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:18:58 PM EDT
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Was equal to about a 24 megaton bomb going off. This crazy rock slab in the crater was growing @4-5ft everyday as was estimated at about 400+ft tall. 
those guys were pretty confident that it wasn't about to blow huh? or was that after? |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:35:07 PM EDT
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those guys were pretty confident that it wasn't about to blow huh? or was that after? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Was equal to about a 24 megaton bomb going off. This crazy rock slab in the crater was growing @4-5ft everyday as was estimated at about 400+ft tall. https://symonsez.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/sthelensrockslab.jpg those guys were pretty confident that it wasn't about to blow huh? or was that after? This would be after the mountain started becoming a little active again in 2004. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:37:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wiki says President Truman is buried in Independence, Missouri. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Was equal to about a 24 megaton bomb going off. This crazy rock slab in the crater was growing @4-5ft everyday as was estimated at about 400+ft tall. https://symonsez.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/sthelensrockslab.jpg http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060504/060504_sthelens_hmed_5p.grid-6x2.jpg Harry Truman is still entombed at his lodge 150ft below debri. http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/wastate&CISOPTR=1423&DMSCALE=100.00000&DMWIDTH=800&DMHEIGHT=517.70833333333&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&REC=1&DMTHUMB=0&DMROTATE=0 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Sthelensharrytruman.jpg Wiki says President Truman is buried in Independence, Missouri. Same name, different guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Randall_Truman |
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