robert bandle that’s a good question. My guess would be two reasons: 1) not enough public demand or state funding for the logs to be removed. 2) the park service wants to preserve the surrounding area the way it was left by Mother Nature and let nature take its course.

@@ogs1mpson609#2 is correct. The remaining logs on the surface are what is left remaining from the morning of the eruption. The lake surface used to be completely covered, and now must have sank to the bottom and rotted away over time.

Scientists being scientists.

Harry Truman, killed during eruption, is not the same as the president Harry S. Truman.

Why? Surrounding land is devastated. Its a testament to history. Never forget the danger...

Well, regarding the location of his lodge. Actually, Truman, his cats and the lodge, were blown to smithereens by the landslide and blast.

RW4X4X3006 while you are exactly correct, you also missed the point of the video.

But the past cannot be replace .....

I may have it mixed up, but I had the guys fix it that installed the system. I just remember them saying something about virtual and actual Tach as the issue. It's working correctly now.

Gordon Medley Diesels are weird with these systems. Some will work with Actual, and some only with virtual. There's just no telling. I have a voice module on mine, so when a false start occurs, it runs the "Valet Engine Shutdown" message when I deactivate remote start. When this happens, the audio sensor in my cab gets tripped because the system is rearmed at this point. Lol. It's more trouble than it's worth, but I've already spent the money, so there's no going back now...

Sorry, no. They were just screen captures I took from both Google Earth and one from the Forest Service.

yes, apparently, the device was set to "virtual tachometer" instead of actual. According to the tech, diesels need to be set to real/actual tachometer.

Thats Mt Rainer in the background. Mt St Helens wold be "underneath" the photo. Its much closer.

Aztec Girl. Nature has a way of healing herself pretty quick. I heard that his lodge was 4 miles from Mt. St. Helens and yes, that is Mt. St. Helens in the background.

tkguyok That's Mt Rainier to the north. The old photo (overlay) is taken from the summit of Mt St Helens.

No pretty sure that's Mount Rainer back there. Photo either taken from air or from rim of Mount Saint Helens itself.

That’s Rainier.

I have wondered the same thing. I never realized he was under water. I thought he just got covered in mud.

Im sure he (Harry Truman) knew it was erupting. If he was out side and had a view of MSH he saw the lateral blast coming. Thats if the landslide didnt reach him before the lateral blast. Does anyone know how much closer Harry was to MSH than David Johnston? DJ was about 5 1/2 miles away and from what Ive read it took the lateral blast about 40 seconds to reach him. Johnston def saw it coming. He knew he was doomed long before it reached him. Must have been a terrifying site.

I created video on my channel about what was probably happening those last seconds, so check it out if you want.

He was a family friend apparently. Last thing my family heard was "I'm going fishing on the lake" now, whether on a dock or boat I don't know. But I've been interested in finding the original area of his place.

That whole side of the mountain collapsed so fast, there was no time to respond with how close Truman was to it. Most estimates say from the hot temperatures of the slide, he was almost certainly instantly 'vaporized'. Likely didn't hardly have time for nerves to react to anything before he was gone. He did say a couple times that if the property was taken by the volcano, he likely wouldn't live very long without it anyway... if the eruption was going to take his spot on the lake, it was going to take him too. The interviews he gave in those final months are legendary. He lived his best life in those final months as a living folk hero for his stubbornness to leave, receiving all sorts of letters and banners of support from school children, media attention, talking with geologists and telling the sheriffs to sod off. He was quite the character.

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