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On May 18, 1980, in Washington state, Mount Saint Helens violently erupted, spewing ash and rock for hundreds of miles. 
At the foot of the mountain was Spirit Lake, reshaped and devastated after the blast. The lake is still there, and amazingly, also seen in this picture, more than twenty years later, still contains thousands of logs floating in it. The logs were from all the trees that were splintered and toppled from the initial blast. They actually change locations around the lake as the wind directions change.