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How do you prepare for something like this? Where do you go? National Geographic says something like 93% of the US affected - millions upon millions would die - economy collapses - catastrophic food shortages. 1000 quakes in the area can't be good....
Soon we or later it will blow up again but I doubt it will in my life nor hopefully my kids. Not much you can do anyways if it does.
You would probably need minimum of 2 years worth of food, water stored just to make it to the point of when things would start getting back to normal and who knows what that would look like.
I chalk this up in the category of asteroid impact, alien invasion, planet 9 etc... If it happens your SOL. not much you can control about it so I'm not wasting much energy thinking about it.
I stress about things like major grid down, nuclear detonations, pandemic, bio attack etc... To me these are much more of an eventuality in my lifetime than Yellowstone going off.
When it blows, I figure we will have just about enough time to say "OH, CRAP!", then bend over and kiss our butts goodbye.
Of course, it is possible we will get enough warning to load the cats and the dog in the motorhome and head East, but I doubt we could outrun it.
It would be worth a try, though...
There will be a bright flash and everyone will say "oh lo..." then we'll be in the upper atmosphere. Can't worry about something you have no control over.
I live 2000 miles away so I won't go up in a puff of smoke like some will. Ash will cover most of the US and probably parts of Canada. To me this is more real than the Russians hacking the election and there is proof of activity. This might be where that website figured in a drop of the US population by 85% by 2025.
I live 2000 miles away so I won't go up in a puff of smoke like some will. Ash will cover most of the US and probably parts of Canada. To me this is more real than the Russians hacking the election and there is proof of activity. This might be where that website figured in a drop of the US population by 85% by 2025.
Interesting stuff.
It will all come about in due time, of course, and I don't see how I (Mississippi) could ever survive it.
But I'm pretty old. 72. Most of the mega-disasters would kill me. But the human race, which once decreased to a few thousand individuals, will probably survive. How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C. : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR
How do you prepare for something like this? Where do you go? National Geographic says something like 93% of the US affected - millions upon millions would die - economy collapses - catastrophic food shortages. 1000 quakes in the area can't be good....
I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. According to Ilya Bindeman, associate professor of geological sciences at the University of Oregon;
''If it happens again, and he says most scientists think that it will, he predicts such an eruption will obliterate the surroundings within a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and cover the rest of the United States and Canada with multiple inches of ash. This, effectively, would shut down agriculture and cause global climate cooling for as long as a decade, or more, he says. A volcanic event of such magnitude "hasn't happened in modern civilization," he says.''
However, the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded scientist doesn't think it's going to happen anytime soon--at least not for another 1 million to 2 million years.
"Our research of the pattern of such volcanism in two older, 'complete' caldera clusters in the wake of Yellowstone allows a prognosis that Yellowstone is on a dying cycle, rather than on a ramping up cycle," he says.''
And earthquake swarms are common at Yellowstone. Regarding this current swarm;
''This is the highest number of earthquakes at Yellowstone within a single week in the past five years, but is fewer than weekly counts during similar earthquakes swarms in 2002, 2004, 2008 and 2010.''
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