40 years later: Spirit Lake's looming threat

A magnitude 9 earthquake and there will be massive devastation state wide.

Blocked liez😅

I call bullshit..u journalists suck badly 😊

WTF !!! If a magnitude 9 earthquake hits the west coast wouldn’t Spirit Lake be the least of the problems. How many miles high will the Tsunamis be ? Mt St Helens will be the coastline 🤣

I control my "Tool" with oranges once a day.

If there is a magnitude 9 earthquake, we have much larger problems! This is just a scare tactic for more money.

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Thats why its “spirit” lake

My Dad used to go to summer camp there he said he saw a UFO there one summer lol

there is no scientific evidence to back up a magnitude 9 other than...."it may happen someday"

If a 9.0+ quake hits the area, a little flooding affecting a few thousand people will be the least of the area's worries.

I often wonder where old Harrys final resting place is amongst all that. Is he hundreds of feet under dirt or under the lake. Sadly we will never know. I really don't think he expected it to even get to his home.

Anyone who chooses to live near that area should accept the risk. No need to spend public money protecting a handful of fools.

Why don’t someone come in remove all those logs out of the lake?

Let's the Chips fall and stop messing with Mother Nature please.

Pure BS won't work this time Democrats.

I just found out about this lake while reading a comment in the Mount St Helens video on the Fascinating Horror channel. Very insightful, Great video.

Apparently in addition to Harry’s home it also had boating, a tourist lodge he owned, a gorgeous scout summer camp that probably used its once-pristine water for the swim-tests and aquatic merit badges, and it had landlocked trout and salmon. And to think that it’s now a charcoal-covered pit of ruin filled with toxic gases from the lava, and that all of these lovely things are now gone. Reduced to atoms.

Thanks for the information I do remember May 18th 2020 Mt. Saint Helen s really was a beautiful mountain Such a pity it was destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption in February 1980 I was visiting The Pacific Northwest I saw Mt. Saint Helen s in it s full shape for the last time By the way you folks up there Have a happy 2023

Unfortunately man can not fight against the absolute powers of Mother Earth….

you mean they never could use those logs? That a lot of lost lumber

Won’t ever forget that day and seeing these strange looking clouds at 14 years old from a couple hundred miles to the east. Ole Harry went down with the ship... 🤭

Truman said it was his life but also his death

were all gonna die

RIP Harry Truman

I am old, and remember the entire explotion.

Fucking delusional bullshit if it happens it happens what are you going to do about it??? Nothing because you can't .

Mount St Helens 2: Truman’s Revenge.

I remember our car being covered in volcanic ash a day or so after the eruption.

Someone someday is going to make a fortune off all that fallen timber. Wish it was me.
That whole area needs to be reclaimed for public recreation instead of leaving it to rot like some half assed experiment in environmental science.

LOL this is so stupid! Don't have any real news?

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Screw your stream libs

As former logger in alaska in worlds largest logging sord yard our bay died killed all the crabs from methane gas from rotting timber in the bay.that timber In That lake will kill

Fake news

Everyone says ooh people need to relocate. Do you know the geography of PNW ? No ,otherwise you’d know that the west part is blocked off by the cascade mountains . It’s hard to relocate. Y’all are dumb. Like asking people to relocate from Kansas cause it’s flat and you get tornados. Yet still people build their homes to try to withstand those things. Natural disasters happen everywhere.

Big Corrupt government money Grab, Nothing more!!

Why build a tunnel not strong enough to withstand a 100% volume of water in it?

Live next to a volcano, this shit happens. Stop trying to manipulate something more powerful than you, and move the fuck else where or accept death for you and your kids. When it happens the whole country will pay more taxes for people who live on a volcano or on a shoreline that is under the sea lvl where hurricanes happen yearly. What a waste of money.

So how is a tunnel OK but a creek isn't? Serious question folks! Why are people yet again funding a huge project to preserve a lake that is enjoyed by no one. It's a science experiment and nothing more. The idiots that are trying to stop nature are the reason the original tunnel wont do in the first place. Fact is that if a channel was opened years ago it would have naturally eroded all the loose shit away and that riverbed would be solid as hell right now. The experiment is BS anyway. How do you determine "natural" recovery when you are purposely setting and changing all the parameters for that recovery.

Here's an idea. Move.

Well shit. I live in Yacolt, about 20 air miles from the mountain. We'd be doomed.

When will we learn. "Don't fuck with Mother Nature"... Every man made thing on earth could be wiped out in seconds, by many different natural disasters...

Hopefully this initiative passed and hopefully law makers/coin purse owners have learned from the slide in Oso, WA. You don't fuck with preventable geological situations.

why wouldn,t they move the logs out of the lake and use it

Mt. Saint Helens is not dead yet. With 40+ volcanos just recently starting to erupt all around the world. We easily se Mt Saint Helens and even Mt. Ranier blow their tops as well. As well as those in California. Never say never.

Don't live under a volcano. Pretty simple. Wasted money, again.

If a 9.0+ quake hits the area, almost all of the first responder/FEMA/emergency response resources will be directed to dealing with the 650,000 people in Portland. This will be the least of their concerns.

It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature ! 😬 remember that one ?