caused by cooling magma and this was having a dramatic effect. growing by 5 feet per day. end local knowledge is really did not know exactly what was going to happen. they thought, this polls can't keep going forever. it will come cascading down at some point. the general consensus was that it would simply be an avalanche. the problem was, it happened to be right on the side of the volcano. so that was essentially the situation. saturday may 17. the 1st clear weekend after a cloudy and rainy stretch. about two dozen people were getting ready to spend the night in the area north of mount saint helens. harry truman who had refused to leave his lodge was getting ready for bed on the edge of spirit lake. bob and weatherly were in their cabin a couple of miles down the river. they have permission to stay. theystay. they said they were doing a photographic study of the mountain from the desk. although they thought there was a bit of a ruse and they were doing this just so they could use the cabin. the next closest person was geologist j johnson who was keeping watch from the rid

it seemed to be caused business magma that was pooling underneath the volcano and pushing out the side and this was having very dramatically. this bulge growing by five feet per day. and volknologist didn't know what was going to happen with this. they said it could take forever and cascading down the mountain at some point towards spirit lack underneath the bulge but general consensus was that that it would be an avalanche that nothing else would happen. and with bulge it happen haded to be on the side of the volcano where danger zones were closest to the volcano to speak. so that was essentially the situation on the evening of saturday may 17th. it was a first clear weekend after a cloudy and rainy spring and that evening two dozen people were getting ready to spend the night in the area north of mount st. helens. harry truman who had refused to leave his lodge was getting ready for bed on the edge of spirit lake, and again about four miles away from the mountain. portland general electric named george were in their cabin a couple of miles down the tiew la river from spirit lack so t

it seemed to be caused by magma it was cooling underneath the volcano and pushing out the site. this was having very dramatically, this bulge was growing by five feet per day. and volcanologists who are studying the volcano did know exactly what is going to happen. they thought this bold can't keep going forever. it will come cascading come about at point towards spirit lake. the general consensus of level technologists was that it would simply be an avalanche and nothing else would happen. the problem was he just have the right on the side of the volcano with the danger zones were that were closest to the volcano's peak. so that was essentially the situation on the evening of saturday may 17. it was the first clear weekend after a cloudy and rainy spring, and that evening about two dozen people were getting ready to spend the night in the area north of mount saint helen's. harry truman who refused to leave his lodge was getting ready for bed on the edge of spirit lake. again, about four miles away from mounting them. to employees named bob and beverly were in the cabin a couple