This is cool.
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Let's get this all centered.
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Let's get this
all packed in here.
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There's Harry Truman!
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Heh Josh, you
should go get grandma Neil.
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Hi Josh, where are you
taking me? - it's a surprise.
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A surprise, what
have you guys been doing?
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Is this what you've
been doing? - Explosion!
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It's going to explode?
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I think so, you guys
have been gone too long
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and I'm nervous.
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Are you ready for this
grandma Neil- no! I'm not!
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Let her rip. The kids
don't know that I really know
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what is going on out
here, I've kept an eye on them.
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But I'm going along
with the game, this is going
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to be fun, okay!
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Whoa, the
ground is all rumbling.
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That ain't nothing yet,
we still have a grand finale.
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I'm going to go
back behind the tree.
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That might be a
good idea, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha! Way to
go! oh that is fantastic!
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I love it, oh that was
a magnificent explosion.
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Do you think it's safe
to come out now? - probably!
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Probably, let's go
check it out. Come on!
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Heh guys where's the rest of
you? Damien come on let's look
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at this, you guys
did such a good job.
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I love it, look it
is still smoldering.
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And there's Harry Truman
down there and he is all covered
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up too, this was so realistic
that it makes me want to go
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up to the mountain again.
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Have you been up
there recently? - no!
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We ought to go
don't you think? - yes!
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This is an inspiration, well
let's go, let's head up there
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this is wishy-washy
and could be dangerous.
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We have just come out of
a movie watching the actual
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eruptions of Mount St.Helens,
we're at the visitor center.
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I wonder if you would
like to see what a real volcano
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really looks like?
Close up and personal.
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So come on outside, I've
got something to show you.
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Well there it is
kids, what do you think?
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That is Mount St. Helens and
we are up close and personal.
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In fact if we have been
standing here 27 years ago
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we would have been
blown off that way.
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Well what happened was the
beautiful cone that was on top
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of there, this side blew
out first, and then that whole
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cone just collapsed
right down into this valley.
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I hope that you can see
down there, and see all the ash
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and stuff that has
filled up the whole valley.
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Covered over Spirit Lake.
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Were you living here
when it happened? - I was.
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I was living out of sight
of Tacoma, I remember that
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morning as I was driving
to church and I heard it on
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the radio and I looked up
across Puget Sound and then
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I could see just massive
clouds of dark, dark ash and
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smoke coming up, it
was just an awesome thing.
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It just seemed like
its filled the whole sky.
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You know it was really
exciting because we knew it was
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going to erupt, but we kept
thinking it was going to any
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time and my kids
were little then.
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We used to come up the
Toutle river and we would go up,
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there was a place on this
mountain side were people would
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come and wait for it to erupt.
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Then it was only erupting
steam and ash a little bit.
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So was like a
picnic atmosphere up there.
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it was really a silly thing
to do, but we didn't realize
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what was going to happen and
when it blew, it really blew.
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I'm so grateful we
weren't up there that day.
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There's some wildlife up
here, there is a chipmunk.
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You see a chipmunk down
there? - down on the side.
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The plants and animals are
starting to come back in some
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areas more than others.
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But the whole chain of
the Cascades Mountains is all
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volcanic activity, very
exciting, very fun and some
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really ragged mountains you see.
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You see a lot of those
just where the explosions have
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happened, an
blown away the rock.
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But there is so much
more to see and do up here.
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This log was one that was
blown down when the mountain
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erupted, you can see it
is pointing straight into the
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mountain and straight
out, got blown completely over.
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Look at here guys it didn't
even break off neatly, it's
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kind of twisted and bent off.
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Doesn't look like
they cut it with a saw.
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No they sure didn't.
It just blasted it over.
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Yeah there is some lichens
and stuff growing in here now.
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That's the strength of the
volcano was to take trees this
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size and
smashed them clear over.
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Want you guys to notice this
ridge across the valley here.
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That is Coldwater Ridge.
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Up in the very top there
is an observatory, but if you
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look you can see where the
trees have been flattened by
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the blast and those kind
of behind the ridge are still
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standing upright where
the talks have blown off too.
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It's an awesome sight
up here isn't it guys?
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This beautiful little
area is called Coldwater Lake.
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Believe me that water is cold.
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You can check out the boys
legs, they're turning blue.
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It is cold
isn't it Rory? - yeah.
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This little lake wasn't
here before the eruption.
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It formed after the eruption
and the bottom of the valley
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got damned up with all the
mud and silk, then the rain
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water started to
gather here and made
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this beautiful little Lake.
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Before the mountain erupted
there was another lake called
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Spirit Lake just
over the way a piece.
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It was a beautiful resort
area, that is where Harry Truman
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lived, and I will tell you
more about Harry Truman later.
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But it was just beautiful,
heavily forested and a beautiful
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little Lodge there, then when
the mountain blew, the whole
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side of the mountain
went down into the valley and
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covered that all up.
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There is a tiny bit of
Spirit Lake left, but it is all
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full of Long's that looked
like toothpicks all shoved to
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the end of the pond.
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The waves, when the eruption
happened the waves that went
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up the side of that
valley were 800 feet high.
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That is just unimaginable,
that would have been something
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to see that wall of
water coming at you.
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But it created another
beautiful little spot and
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I am glad we are
here to enjoy this one.
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There are some more spots
around the lake I would like
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to show you, do
you want to come?
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Come on Rory lets go,
let's take a look around
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the lake a bit.
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See right up and there
you can see the volcano, look!
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Yeah. - just right up
there on the other side of the
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ridge - it's starting to
steam more than when we saw it.
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Ya! - Ah look,
isn't that pretty?
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Oh what a great
day this has been.
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Did you guys have
fun? - yeah we had a blast.
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Oh good, yeah I do
know what you mean.
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Well it is time for us
to head for home, but it has
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been a wonderful day.
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Thank you guys so much for
coming with me. - thank you!
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Ah, give me a
hug. Head for the van.
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All right, for you guys at
home I'm not going anywhere.
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You could just take this time
now to write down my address,
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get a paper and pencil
and I will be right back.
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Hey kids Graham Joyce
would love to hear from you.
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So why not sit down
and write her a letter?
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Like every grandma
she loves to get pictures,
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drawings or
anything else you send her.
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Just write to:
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So what are you
waiting for? Write her today.
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Now I want to tell you
the story about a man named
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Harry Truman. Remember him
from earlier in the program?
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He's the guy who lived
right up close to Mount Saint
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Helens at Spirit Lake just
before the mountain erupted.
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Harry lived in a lodge
there and took care of the place
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even though he was 83 years old.
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He was kind of stoved up,
but in spite of all of that,
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he was what some people
might call a bit of a crusty
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old codger, that meant he
still had some pretty strong
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opinions of his own
and he did not mind sharing
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them with everybody around.
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He had a beard of short
stubbly whiskers that made you
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just want to
itch to look at them.
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The words he used
weren't always very polite.
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People today would say he
wasn't politically correct.
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Well here is his
picture, what do you think?
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Anyhow when the earthquakes
around the mountain began
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and people started thinking
maybe it was going to start
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erupting again, reporters
would go up to the area every
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few days to show on
TV what was happening.
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Sometimes they would stop
and talk to Harry at the lodge.
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They would have a bit of
lunch with him and he would tell
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them that all this fuss
over a dormant volcano was just
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plain silly and a waste of time.
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Well the signs of the
coming eruption were happening
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oftener every day, with the
earthquakes getting stronger
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and sometimes little plumes
of steam or ash would puff
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out, but Harry said, everybody
was over exaggerating and
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he would pay no attention
to the warnings for people
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to get ready to evacuate.
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One day the sheriff and
his deputies came to the little
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valley and told
everyone it was time to go.
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It was just too dangerous
for them to stay where they
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were, and though the people
were not happy about leaving
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their homes behind, all
of them left except Harry.
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Harry refused to believe
the mountain would hurt him.
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The sheriff tried one
last time to warn him and beg
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him to get out of the way.
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But Harry just snorted, if
the mountain goes I go with it.
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It ain't going to hurt me boy.
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He showed the sheriff the door.
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Later that evening Harry
fed the 16 calves he owned, and
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he turned into bed for
a night of quiet slumber.
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Everything was peaceful as
he slept, but early the next
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morning before he was
even out of bed an earthquake
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rumbled, the mountain exploded
and tons of rock and earth slid
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down the mountain side and
it raced across Spirit Lake
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and slammed right into
the lodge where Harry lived.
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The water and the debris
made a wall that went some
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800 feet deep up the
sides of the hills around his
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home and it buried the
lodge under 150 feet of
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ashes and mud,
and that is a fact.
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Now here's the thing, I
didn't tell you the story to
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make you sad, but
to help you think.
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Lots of you who watch this
little program are going to
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be be-bopping down the
road and don't even know about
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another earth shattering
event that is just around the
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corner for all of us.
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I'm scared for you because
I love you, and I know that
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while some kids are blessed
to know about Jesus and the
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Bible, lots of other
folks haven't been as lucky.
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So it is them that I
especially want to hear me now.
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Jesus is coming very soon
and that is fantastic news for
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everybody who loves Him.
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But if you don't know Him
and why He is coming back,
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you might be tempted to
brush the idea aside and not
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pay any attention.
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You might think people
have been saying that for
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a long time now, and
think that it is just not real.
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Kind of like what Harry Truman
thought about his mountain
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Volcano, Oh if you have
never heard about Jesus I want
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to reach right through
this screen and put my arms
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around you, and draw
you really close and tell
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you everything I know about Him.
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I want to tell you everything
all at once so you will
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love Him too, but this program
is just too short to do that.
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But here's the
most important thing.
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Jesus is God and He loves you.
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Jesus created you with His
very own two hands and gave
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you a life that He met
for you to keep forever.
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Our arch enemy tricked us
into sin which means that now
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we can't live forever.
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People get old and
sick and then they die.
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You know that don't you?
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But Jesus has a way to
give you back your forever life
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if you will follow Him
and the instructions He gives.
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In the Bible the friends of
Jesus wrote down what He said.
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Some of it was for how we
can tell when He was ready to
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come and take us to heaven.
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He told the signs to
watch for and He said they would
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get bigger and stronger
and closer together the nearer
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we got to His return.
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Those very signs are
happening today, earthquakes,
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tsunamis, tornadoes,
wars everywhere and they are
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getting stronger and closer
together every single day.
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And now for the very best
part, this means that Jesus
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is waiting for you
just around the corner.
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He is waiting because He
loves you so much He just can't
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bear to think you
may not be ready yet.
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He is giving you a
little more time to decide.
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Please decide, be saved today.
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Bye, and until the
next time, I love you.
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When Mount St. Helens
blew it sounded like this.
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(gun shot sound)
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Boys and girls,
don't try this at home.
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Okay this experiment proved
rather successful as you can
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see there is no
more volcano left.
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Kids do not try this at home.
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(Bang sound) I
think I'll plug my ears.
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(bang sound)
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