Mount St. Helens erupts in 1980. Steve Firth, a friend of the man who took this photo had the following to say: “...That Pinto and dirt bike belonged to a good friend of mine and when he stopped to turn around, he took this picture. He told me that there was lightning bolts shooting out of the smoke but he didn’t have the right filter on his camera to capture them at that moment. The picture could have been even more amazing. It was used on the TV news and used to be on the cover of Mt. St. Helens brochure at the Johnston Observatory / visitor center. He gave me an original 8×10 copy of it although it looked like he was a good distance away from the blast, he barely made it out of there alive. Had the blast came more in his direction he would have died in seconds. Sometime later he returned and photographed a burned-out pickup with a horse trailer attached to it. He told me he had talked to them that day and said they never made it out. He is a freelance photographer so he took some amazing pictures of the aftermath as well. Anyhow, I thought I’d let you know a bit more about that fabulous picture."
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Harry R. Truman was a resident of Spirit Lake, located at the foot of Mount St. Helens in Washington state. He famously refused to evacuate during the volcano's 1980 eruption despite numerous warnings from authorities. Truman became a symbol of defiance and independence, but unfortunately, he lost his life when the volcano erupted and buried his home and surrounding area in ash and debris.
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I was at the Fairchild Air Force base that day for an airshow. As the volcano blew the alarms sounded and we all evacuated. I was 6 I sat in the back seat of our Chevy Malibu (it was pea green) as my family raced home to Coeur d’Alene watching the wall of ash envelope everything as it followed us. We lost livestock The ash was inches thick like snowfall The streams were unfishable for the longest time. Everyone came to school with jars of the stuff. It was nuts.