One of the most-changed stories was Walter 's , Edie 's son that withdrew after the death of his older sister Barbara and locked himself away in a basement bunker , only decades later deciding to leave via a tunnel and getting hit by a passing train . Originally , once in the bunker , Walter would have experienced still people that moved when he looked away , similar to '' Doctor Who '' s Weeping Angels or '' The Prisoner '' , and then would imaging himself living on a model trainset where an invisible hand would move pieces around on the set . Both aspects were to represent the passage of time for the decades Walter lived there , and out of paranoia , Walter would then escape through the tunnel and to his demise . This was ultimately trimmed down to showing Walter going through the same routine each day , eating peaches from a can , until one day he decides to escape . Another scrapped idea for the game was to bring in " Weird Al " Yankovic to compose a song about Edie . Inspired by the story of Harry R. Truman , a man that had stubbornly refused to leave his home prior to the eruption of Mount St. Helens , the team had envisioned a scenario that Edie would have also refused to leave her family home despite the threat of a nearby forest fire sometime in the 1980s . With this concept , her story made national news and made her a national icon that , in the timeline , Yankovic would have made a song about her that would have been included as part of Edie 's story . However , this idea came too late in the development without enough time to follow up on it
eruption of Mount St. Helens
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
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