I wish I could go back in time and stay at his lodge, and listen to him tell stories all night and day long. Rest easy Truman!

This guy was what I can only call a genuine character. I could listen to him all day.

@johnathanrush4666

Жыл бұрын

Great descriptive. He was definitely a character.

@anabella2014

5 ай бұрын

Is this Harry R

@Guitcad1

5 ай бұрын

@@anabella2014 Yes. Harry R. Truman.

@davepowell7168

3 ай бұрын

Truman always has a glass of coke with him ( even walking in 2ft snow) and didn't stop talking so you'd have to

Better than dying in a hospital bed.

@somethingtojenga

9 күн бұрын

Being buried in scalding hot mud that you desperately try to claw your way out of until either you suffocate or bake to death is 'better' than peacefully slipping away on a comfortable bed, maybe with loved ones around you? What's wrong with you?

RIP Harry R. Truman (1896-1980)

At least Harry Truman got to die where he wanted to be. Not all get what they want.

@TransoceanicOutreach

Күн бұрын

He probably wouldnt have wanted to be cooked alive, inside and out, by a thousand degree avalance of ash.

I knew Harry as a young kid in the late 60's, early 70's. He was a character. My mom knew him from her days at Y-Camp across the lake. We'd rent rowboats from him.

You know I just used to think he was a crazy old man, but I understand now. When you lose a mate from so many years it must be just absolute hell. That place he lived in was his fortress, his last stand.

@gjussaume

2 ай бұрын

Amazing what living does to your perspectives. Younger me was not the same person that I am today, that's for sure.

@Yojimbonh

Ай бұрын

Yeah, as if his wife would have wanted him to stay there and die horribly in a volcanic eruption.

Brave man. I do respect people of his generation.

@somethingtojenga

9 күн бұрын

He said there was no way the mountain could send 'stuff' his way, and it did. He's a complete idiot.

I don't think Harry would have coped well with the devastation of his lodge and the entire area. Im glad he never had to see the effects of it beyond the few seconds in which the eruption overtook him.

@patrick1564

6 ай бұрын

He had already had to rebuild everything after a fire years before so I agree with ya

Crazy to think that Truman must've been sitting in that chair drinking and waiting before that mountain wiped him out. RIP Truman. Hope you reunited with your wife.

@TheNightWatcher1385

10 ай бұрын

I like to think he was out fishing.

@DSToNe19and83

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@TheNightWatcher1385it sounded like he enjoyed his whisky cokes… a lot

@somethingtojenga

9 күн бұрын

I don't think it would have been an immediate death, he would have been suffocating or baking alive and struggling in some way to get un-buried. People talk bravely until they're struggling to survive, and then almost everyone is scared sh**less and trying to live. It isn't like the movies at all.

We have stayed at Harrys and fished the lake for many years. We talked to Harry a few days before he lost his life, he talked a big game but was honestly scared of some of those bigger quakes, but he truly thought nothing was going to happen to him. None of us thought it was going to be as big and violent as it was, had Harry actually known what was about to happen he would have stayed with family. I was only about 20 to 25 miles away when it erupted, it was so loud, its hard to compare it to anything. The ground shook and the sky turned black so quickly. Its a shame so man people had to die, some were completely avoidable, unfortunately some were arrogant. It was ridiculous that so many people gave geologists and government officials such a hard time for closing down the mountain, then when it erupted and destroyed everything in its path, those same people blamed the same officals for not doing more or making the safe area bigger. Its frightening to think that was a small volcano compared to the super ones, it was a once in a lifetime experience that i don't want to repeat.

@Derek032789

Жыл бұрын

He was old and spent most of his adult life on that mountain. I think he went out the way he wanted, considering the circumstances. If he’d have left, he would’ve died in a week.

@chiasanzes9770

10 ай бұрын

You are not Harry. So do nit put your cowardly words in his mouth.

@DSToNe19and83

9 ай бұрын

Johnston was the only person with business to be there… I don’t blame Harry though, I would’ve probably did the same thing! It should be noted that the loggers mostly had a day off, otherwise the death toll would have been way worse!

@karenharris722

9 ай бұрын

@@DSToNe19and83 Very true! The guy was a fool for staying there though.

@DSToNe19and83

9 ай бұрын

@@karenharris722 well, look at it this way, his next stop was probably a old folks home… I don’t know if I would call him foolish. 🍻

God Love Ya, Harry Truman! May you and your wife be in heaven together right now, looking down on your mountain, enjoying a good glass of hooch! Rest in peace, Sir! xo

Nothing but respect for him.

@RT-qd8yl

11 күн бұрын

Do you respect that he threw his wife into the lake knowing she couldn't swim when they fought

@Neverforget71324

9 күн бұрын

@@RT-qd8yl When you're married forever, that's not a big deal...

I remember as a kid seeing the ash plume when the volcano erupted. I remember thinking poor Harry.

At that age, with that life, I think most of us would go out of Truman. Especially after considering what the end result of the lodge and spirit lake was. He would have been absolutely devastated.

He seemed like a really cool old dude. RIP.

@DSToNe19and83

9 ай бұрын

Sank by a uboat in ww1, survived that only to get involved with prohibition and the mob. His story honestly could be made into a movie.

Harry must of accepted when the wind was 300 mph and the wall was 200ft hi ready to hit him. Guys like this come along only once in a lifetime. What a piece of work i hope he rested and in peace.

The aerial footage at 1:52 I believe was filmed by geologist Dorothy Stoffel, literally a few minutes before the eruption. She and her husband chartered a small plane to view the mountain, and they were right over it when it blew. The pilot nose dived to gain speed and turned due south to avoid the eruption. If you haven't seen her interview about this, you really should look it up. Incredible story

@brianadamsDC

4 ай бұрын

That wasn't footage from their plane. This footage was taken from a news helicopter, not a plane.

good thing we got to get all these interviews on film, so we all got to know Harry, so apart of him will live for on in our memories. world could sure use some more Harry Trumans right now

@eazypeazy33

7 ай бұрын

Damn right!

@greasesicle

4 ай бұрын

There are a lot of old drunks now.

@coreym162

4 ай бұрын

@@greasesicle Not many drunks with fight like him though. That's too rare.

I find it hilarious they talked him into leaving… only to thank the school kiddos that tried to talk him out of staying and head right back home! True legend

I respect his choice.

It was really Harry Truman vs Mt St Helens. We all know Harry lost the fight, but he won the war

It was almost poetic that it erupted the way it did and the mountain literally fell on top of him.

God, he was cool. A different generation.

Saying it would never take him and the lodge out...reminds me of the unsinkable titanic..

@suzannelallen

5 ай бұрын

It’s serious business taking God’s name in vain and telling God what He can and can’t do.

@tommymyers3183

2 ай бұрын

It never took him alive.

@pl5624

2 ай бұрын

@@tommymyers3183 the heart and brain function probably lasted a minute or 2.

THE MAN, THE LAKE, & HIS MOUNTAIN! THE MOUNTAIN & LEGEND STILL STAND!

@DSToNe19and83

9 ай бұрын

So does the man, spirit lake will be forever his legacy and his name is brought up everytime Mt. St Helen’s is.

Harry once said that Mt. Saint Helens was a part of him and he a part of it. God Bless him , he was right.

God Bless America!

@Spiritlife01

4 ай бұрын

What? God bless the planet.

Nothing crazy about ya buddy. We need more men like you, especially in todays world.

@greasesicle

4 ай бұрын

There are lots of old drunks around.

I cried watching this video. I hope he got to see his wife again in heaven.

"I might be old but im kind of cute about it"

“I’m a religious buzzard too. I don’t know what anybodys gonna do to get in that GODDAMN tunnel too.”

Takes me back.

Lots of things have been said about Harry R. Truman. Me, I reckon he was a very determined fellow who departed from this world exactly on his terms. I do wonder if he was outside at 8.32am on that fateful day and saw that pyroclastic flow hurtling towards him and his lodge and if so what thoughts went through his mind.

@coreym162

4 ай бұрын

He might have given in and said "Okay!" in a somber voice and closed his eyes into the next world. His cabin faced the lake so, he might have been in his house looking at the mountain. If he wasn't a sleep from all the excitement and interviews leading up to then. There also was no loud boom either so, he might have been completely caught off guard when it happened.

Beautiful

They don’t make men like him anymore. Real American.

Respect, Mr. Truman.

He so underestimated the power of the volcano. I remember his interviews in the news in the days before. Quite a guy.

I remember this guy. God love him. I was in Vancouver Canada & we heard or sensed it with Helen's went. He was the first thing i Thought of.

I remember they made a song about him too

He didn’t expect the entire north side of the mountain to collapse…

@pl5624

3 ай бұрын

I guess he couldnt understand that the side was bulging out right in his direction.

RIP Harry

Boy was he completely wrong about that mountain...

“They know if They took me outta here I’d ruin em, if I ever got to town I’d ruin them just sure as hell, I’d break em’ up”

Seems like a good guy to sit around and listen tell stories. He underestimated the power of what was coming. Yet, he went out the way he wanted. RIP old fella! He's back with his wife now.

God Bless Harry he stood his ground!

Just proves God is real. Truman said, "now way that mountain can reach me if it blows". I'm sure he regretted that when he seen it was all coming his way. God will humble the proud.

@Luis-bo2uj

28 күн бұрын

he just wanna die there

I was in that area of the country just a few weeks ago,,,, And I saw a piece of him,,, He’s all over if you Look for him….

My mom and dad grew up in Longview and Kelso. They knew Harry and his wife. I am looking at a picture of my mom at Spirit Lake Lodge from about 1944-45. I spent a few weeks there myself back in the 1970's.

It's still your mountain Truman! 😊🎉 🌄

Today was the first day I heard of him, a lady who was stationed in Washington back then to help people evacuate was telling me about him and how everyone tried to convince him to leave and he didn’t want to and it was traumatizing finding the people that didn’t survive. They said one of the reasons he didn’t wanna leave was because he said that they kept saying it was gonna blow every year for 30 years and evacuate and it never did and he thought it was gonna be fluke . Pretty scary had to look it up to find out about his story was wild.

If Harry had spent five minutes looking at the geological records from the area he would have realized that the volcano could, indeed, reach Spirit Lake.

He definitely went out in a blast.

"It can't get across that damn lake" So much for that 🤣

It had to be cold in his house... you could see his breath.

@pl5624

3 ай бұрын

Place was totally buried in snow.

I told my wife if we get an asteroid strike and knowing I'm not gonna survive I'm getting a half gallon of whiskey and a lawn chair and sit in my drive a go down with my ship...RIP sir...

Tell me you're an alcoholic without telling me 😂

I can respect it. His wife had passed, he was very elderly and while not needing nursing care yet he soon probably would have and this kind of character would die quickly in a nursing home. I remember when my great grandfather died at age 90 and my mother was comforted by the fact he died in his bed asleep. Peaceful they call it. Well Harry drank a lot, he probably drunk himself to sleep and he died asleep never knowing was happened. Not a bad way to go.

good lord that mountain came DIRECTLY down on him.. yall should go look at satellite imagery from nasa before n after :p

Long rest Mr. Truman. A true character.

He got lucky believe it or not. He would have died before he even realized it. It has been determined that he died from heat shock within one second of the eruption which is less time than for him to comprehend. He doesn't even know he's dead to this day. It's like he never existed.

@RugMann

11 күн бұрын

Or like he's still living on to this day considering he died almost 20 years before I was born and I'm hearing him speak rn... to say he never existed is so deeply untrue I'd argue his existence is more set-in-stone than your own (literally he's part of the local geology now)

Same haircut I got

Here's to you Harry Truman

I’ll always wonder what Harry’s last thoughts were as it blew , if he regretted not leaving or at peace with it ?

@OzzyOscy

6 ай бұрын

As the final evacuations happened, he felt fear. To the point he said he didn't know whether his shaking were the earthquakes or his anxiety. He wasn't brave - he was in denial and almost suicidal. He told himself scientists were hippy liars. He must've felt great shock and fear if he saw the flow come to bury and burn him to death.

@Luis-bo2uj

28 күн бұрын

how would ya know that

A TOAST TO HARRY! GOD BLESS! GODSPEED!

2:19 "There's no god-d*mn way that that mountain has got enough stuff to come my way, I've got (something) trees between me and that, no way in the world to do it!" Nature finds a way

A tangible link to the twilight of the wild west, in a way. The 1920s were wild here, and it took a good while for us to be proper "civilized." To think a man could just toss up some timbers and open a lodge without any paperwork lol. Leased from the owners of the West, the railroad barons. Truman was a real fella, no doubt. He's missed, but it came swift for him and would have been but a moment or two of horror, if any, and he wanted to go deep down inside himself. Yeah he'd have fought if he could, maybe a thief or a robber, but the mountain? Yeah, he fought it by bunkering down, trying to outwit nature. But he was okay with going, he knew it was coming, or he suspected it despite his hilarious descriptions of the mountain erupting and "not having enough stuff" in it. Funny. He went with his boots on to be with his Edie, and their romance was one for the history books.

With hair like that, you’re either crazy or genius… or most likely, both!

The John Deere got free advertisement.

Harry Truman=John Wayne❤

“Spirit Lodge buried under 30 feet of mud”. It’s more lime 150 feet of mud.

@redlady8296

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s what I was thinking too. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I read somewhere that Spirit Lake is now around 200 ft higher after the eruption 🌋 so there’s no way any remains of this guy’s house/lodge is only under 50 ft.

@jllafoy8605

Жыл бұрын

Yes, so when the 300-400ft wall of mud, volcanic matter etc came barreling down that mountain at 150-200mph it pushed everything in that lake up thousands of feet into the hills. The mud settled quickly and the water rushed back in on top of the 100ft of mud raising the lake. Such a crazy situation, I’m a bit obsessed with the details on what happens here

@svnsetsomnia8280

Жыл бұрын

@@jllafoy8605 so the site where his lodge was is underwater now?

@whitetigergrowl

Жыл бұрын

@@svnsetsomnia8280 it's under about 150 of dirt and another 150ft of water. So it's now about 300ft down. All that's probably left are cement foundations and steps. While it's possible some of his stuff survived, it's incredibly unlikely most of it did. And what little did is likely now buried too. It's wild just to think about it all honestly.

@DSToNe19and83

9 ай бұрын

I bet it’s extremely well persevered of what’s left, but who’s gonna ever dig that deep under a deep lake? Him and his wife are apart of that mountain for eternity! To be honest, spirit lake is the perfect name for it… in hindsight.

Norm McDonald's muse

"I got a hill with trees between me and that"

He was the northwest’s version of Jack Wingate

He could have went to his cave and got trapped in there, we will never know.

@TheNightWatcher1385

10 ай бұрын

Unlikely. He wouldn’t have had time to get to it. The blast reached him in under 30 seconds.

@stevengallant6363

9 ай бұрын

Apparently harry died within seconds He felt no pain it was that quick

Im starting to see where Dantes Peak got its inspiration from

He was pretty lively fella for 84 years old.. I respect him for staying but after watching this, I really wish he had evacuated.

I can’t remember what this anchor’s name was?

@pacnwguy9056

3 ай бұрын

Robin Anderson?

YA! NEVER KNOW HARRY MAY HAVE MADE IT TO HIS CAVE! AND STILL LIVIN' IN THERE EAT'IN THOSE RATIONS!

This is the problem with know-it-all's. The pyroclastic flow traveled at 450mph!

His assessment of the geographic situation…… The man did not understand the force he was up against.

Good way to die. And it would have been quick. It's a good thing he didn't know how fast pyroclastic flows are.

It's ma property keep off 🌋

Harry looked like Brzezinsky

Robin Williams

What a man. Compare him to the "heroes" of today; "Khardashians, Donald Trump, Kanye West, Tom Cruise, slick Mega Church preachers and you can see where we are at as a society.

@greasesicle

4 ай бұрын

He was an old drunk you drama clown.

🍺

Harry was the first sociopath i never met

He is amazing, welcome to when men weren't gender confused.

@MazeOfClover

Жыл бұрын

Gotta bring politics into everything. Y’all are boring.

@Guitcad1

Жыл бұрын

What you are mis-calling "gender confused" has existed inall times and in all places.

@johnathanrush4666

Жыл бұрын

Oh Christ, not everything is about your impotent political grievances

@johnathanrush4666

Жыл бұрын

​@@MazeOfClover pathetically boring one note people lmao

@Capt_OscarMike

10 ай бұрын

@@Guitcad1 Not where I am from...Not even close

Blatant insurance fraud attempt Respect the ingenuity and patience.. Prayers were answered?

I wonder why his family didn't drag his azz out of there. I'm sure he had insurance on his property. He could have rebuilt elsewhere.

Americas mt. Vesuvius mt.st.helens like pliney the elder harry truman stubborn

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Stupid is as Stupid does. He was an ignorant old man & I thought the same thing as a 7 year old in 1980 when he was saying he wasn't leaving.

@Topsidemold19

3 ай бұрын

Bro he was 83 he could have died the next day or a week later

@Topsidemold19

3 ай бұрын

Ofc he was scared but his wife died on the mountain and he went to die on the mountain to join her, and like he said if he was to see everything destroyed he would have died a week later hinting that he would be very depressed but hes dead now just like he wanted to go out instead of being stuck in a senior care bed

@RugMann

11 күн бұрын

This old man who died when you were 7 had bigger balls than you'll have in your entire life

He was stupid, things are just things, rather live and keep the memory of my lost loved ones alive a while longer. But its his choice to make, and I'm glad he was allowed to make it rather than forced to make the smarter choice.

@Guitcad1

Жыл бұрын

He was not stupid. He was just determined to live (and if need be, die) on his own terms.

@Sevorast

Жыл бұрын

@@Guitcad1 And his terms were stupid because nobody is living through a volcanic eruption. If your house is on fire and you just don't leave and instead burn to death you're stupid. People just defend this shit because its an old man saying it.

@animalyze7120

Жыл бұрын

As you get older the things that made you cling to life so strong slowly start dying off or going away. At that point your life views change, suddenly you are very protective of what is left and find impossible almost to just pick up and leave it, you'd rather go with it then leave it behind. It seems a lot darker than it really is, you basically take the stand where if something wants it then it has to take you with it or before it.

@deniselane2500

Жыл бұрын

Did we watch the same video? It wasn't about "Things" He was going down with the ship, like a captain on a boat. to him it was honor and standing ground. If the mountain goes, he goes with it. It was him home. He even said if they took him away and his home is taken, he would die within a week. Now, I will admit he had no idea of what was to come, but if he did I doubt he would have cared any more that he did already.

@chiasanzes9770

10 ай бұрын

You are a coward yourself.

He actually had mean looking eyes. But anyway he got what he wished for.

What a total fool hairy was.

@stevengallant6363

9 ай бұрын

Silence is the only successful substitution for brains. It would be in your best interest to STFU!

@resurrection1784

9 ай бұрын

You're the fool Colonel Sanders. Harry was a gem.

@coryfice1881

4 ай бұрын

@@resurrection1784An old fool who didn't believe in science ended up getting his ego buried under the mountain.

@TheDennie75

3 ай бұрын

Hairy Harry? He would put up a good fight if you tried to drag him out of there! 🙂

He would have undoubtedly supported TRUMP 2024.

@seattlewa8500

3 ай бұрын

Why?

@johnmurdoch8534

3 ай бұрын

@@seattlewa8500 because hes not a scared libtard

@ballislife9989

21 күн бұрын

😂

Just proves god is not real

Harry trueman not much of a loss as he was plain stupid and they tried to help him but he refused any help just plain stubborn.

@Topsidemold19

3 ай бұрын

It was a sign of respect you are the true fool.