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I would actually live closer, and die instantly rather than live far away and die slowly through pain and torture.
Same here. I don't believe for a second that it's going to happen in my lifetime, but I live only 75 miles away, so the dogs and I will be vaporized and won't have anything to worry about.
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Well, at least the AGW deniers will finally be right about something.
No place in the US would be free of at least some ash fall. Remember even Mt St Helen's ash went around the world twice, in a small way. It would be safest to move to the southern hemisphere, since the atmosphere there doesn't mix much with Northern Hemisphere air.
It's worth noting that the human race survived Toba, though it was touch and go for a while, and that was just as we were migrating to Europe. Helluva vacation. A few people even survived fairly close to the explosion - one assumes they were all deaf for that generation.
Maybe all those tsunamis from Toba sparked off the various world flood myths.
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I don't think that S Africa has the same cultural thing about April 1 ...... at any rate, it's a real concern that Yellowstone could erupt again. Maybe not that we have extensive contingency plans for it though.
This is a "cool" thread for me, as I'm currently writing a book about the aftermath of such an eruption, which I hope to release on Kindle e-books by early July (fingers crossed!)
The gist of the story is this - a family takes a vacation to Yellowstone just before it erupts (government cover-up, so they don't know what's really going on), and they witness the eruption itself as they flee back east. They take refuge in upper Michigan, at the house of a "prepper" and hunker down as society falls apart (there's a nuclear war thrown in there for good measure too...lol) as the northern hemisphere descends into a terrible volcanic winter. The last part of the novel involves the family making an escape to Costa Rica, where they can have a chance to start over with a new life.
Writing this thing has made me realize how tough things really would be if this thing went off - not having any food to eat, the destruction of social order, etc. It's a great "beach read" (imho, of course), but it's something I'd NOT want to experience in real life.
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Don't forget to write that the family would probably be permanently deafened by being close to an eruption of that size.
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