St. Helens Page #7

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Everybody around here knew Edie.

We had 24 years.

Not bad.

She's the one I bought the pink caddy for.

God how she loved them gold wheels.

Can you imagine, some guy offered me

seven grand for that, after she died.

I ain't never gonna sell her.

Never!

Jesus, I just realized something.

I ain't played the piano for

anybody since Edie died.

Did you know I played the bagpipe Harry?

Haven't got them with ya' have ya'?

- No.

- Good.

I hate the bagpipe.

Sounds like pigs being murdered.

You know Dave,

that mountain gonna blow it's cork anytime.

I know it is.

I think I knew it from the beginning.

How come you can feel it so

good and you just got here?

Seems like I've been here a long time.

How come you staying? Knowing what you do.

Same reason you are Harry.

Not really Professor.

I'm gonna level with ya'.

You know I got an awful

lot of fans out there.

I kinda enjoy all the

attention I'm getting.

Besides...

Where would I go anyway?

Come on Harry.

No it ain't the same Dave

I've been and I've done.

Went to war, lived with a woman.

I've seen a lot of times.

But yours is still ahead of ya'.

A lot of promise too.

Your not gonna pull me

off this damn mountain.

This ones mine.

I wanna be there.

I cant explain it any better.

To me...

The worse thing that could happen would be.

At the moment when I...

felt my life slipping from me...

The last thought I'd have would be.

Oh God, if I'd only done

this, if I'd only done that.

I think that's the same no

matter how old you get.

Don't you?

Yeah.

But your gonna be dead

for a long long time.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

Nobody really knows the answer

to that one. Do they Harry.

Maybe we just keep coming

back over and over again.

Till we finally get it right.

Well it's, sure something to sleep on.

Gotta get going.

Wanna take a couple of pictures

of the mountain in the morning.

Ah, Dave...

Your more than welcome to

stay here if you want.

Thanks Harry. I'd like that.

.

You!

Your suppose to be here at 6:00!

Not 20 of 7:
00!

Time is money!

You waist anymore of ether

and your out on your ass!

You understand that!

Go on get to work.

That ought to do it.

That'll just make more smoke.

Come on let's go up on the ridge.

Hunny, no I'm sleeping.

Vancouver! Vancouver!

This is it!

Dear God.

Oh, dear God.

I'm walking towards the

only light I can see.

I can feel the ash now.

My eyes.

It's getting very difficult to breath.

It burns.

At this very moment I... I

honest to God, believe I'm dead.

...Believe among the missing.

We do know that Harry Truman was

at his lodge at spirit lake.

Which was obliterated by the explosion.

And that David Jackson the

young geologist from Boulder

was monitoring interments on the north

face of the mountain when it exploded.

On the international seen

the price of gold...

"Me..."

"The worse thing that

could happen would be."

"At the moment when I... felt

my life slipping from me..."

"The last thought I'd have would be."

"Oh God, if I'd only done

this, if I'd only done that."

"You know you can sit out here sometimes,

in the middle of the afternoon"

"it's so peaceful and quiet"

"you can hear chainsaws 50 Miles away.

Clear as a bell."

"And then sometimes the wind starts

blowing the tops of trees."

"It comes in gusts you

can hear it coming..."

"And all of a sudden, right over you.

And then it's gone."

The eruption of Mount

St. Helens was equivalent

to the explosive power

of 500 atomic bombs.

It was heard over 300 Miles away.

More than a cubic mile was instantly

blasted from the top of the mountain.

That's over a ton of rock for

every person on this earth.

Enough dust and ash to cover

all of Manhattan Island

to a depth of 400 feet.

The blasts flattened 200

square miles of forest.

Over 175,000 animals were killed

59 people are dead.

According to scientists, Mount St. Helens

could erupt again at any time.

He told us he would never

leave the mountain

no matter what he

did he wouldn't go

some folks think he's crazy

but how can you blame him

because they couldn't

force him from his home

he said, I'm living here

the best years of my life

and I can't throw

those memories away

the lord's been good to me

so has the mountain

I settled here so this

is where I'll stay

here's to you Harry Truman

they can't talk

to into moving

you're not going to leave

your mountain home behind

here's to you Harry Truman

you've shown the pride

of a great human

if the mountain go's so I

this is where I live

and where choose to die

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