Harry R. Truman
Harry R. Truman (October 1896 – May 18, 1980) was an American businessman, bootlegger, and prospector. He lived near Mount St. Helens, an active volcano in Washington state, and was the owner and caretaker of Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake near the foot of the mountain. Truman came to fame as a folk hero in the months leading up to the volcano’s 1980 eruption after refusing to leave his home despite evacuation orders. He is presumed to have been killed by a pyroclastic flow that overtook his lodge and buried the site under 150 ft (46 m) of volcanic debris.
This guy and the one scientist who stayed on the hill taking images and video knowing the pyroclastic flow would crisp him. Watching the flow overcome the camera was amazing… So sad I can not remember his name…
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
Some comedian does a great joke about this, about how his whole school was following the story about this American hero standing up to The Man that was trying to run him and his cats off his property. Then the mountain exploded and he died, and someone in school was like “what about all the cats?!” And everyone cried.
My Google skills are weak, I can’t find it.
Yeah, I’d probably be ~~hiding~~ living on a volcano if I’d done all that.
I was 10 years old when this happened, and at the time I thought it was the ex-President. I wondered why it wasn’t making more headline news.
>reportedly hated Republicans
Before anyone starts talking about that, the Republican party was identified with industrialists, bankers, and New York back in those days. The rural working class voted Democrat back then.
Poor cats 🙁
Man, mountain men are the same on both sides of the country. Hah. Sounds like a good number of people I grew up around in the Appalachians.
The “threw his ex-wife into a lake during arguments” implies this happened more than once and there’s something about that which I find hilarious
Aww. Those poor cats.
Sounds like a guy you wanna invite to a party every now and then, get drunk and drop him off in the middle of nowhere.
That’s interesting, although “threw his wife” and “hated hippies” makes him sound kind of like an a-hole to me.