Posted on 07/10/2014 9:53:46 PM PDT by Enterprise
The Yellowstone Caldera at it’s full potential would make Mt. St. Helen’s look like a popcorn fart.
Based on this link: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2001AM/finalprogram/abstract_27084.htm
There are Lava Creek (Yellowstone) ash deposits as much as 1.5 meters thick near Amarillo, and there’s no indication as to whether those exposures are unmodified by compression or other geological processes, so it could have been more originally. Closer to the caldera, in Wyoming, the Lava Creek deposit is nearly 600 feet thick.
Bet there will be more than one big one that blows.
Joel 2:30-32New King James Version (NKJV)
30
“And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
Blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
31
The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
32
And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.
Well, we have bulldozers, excavators, etc. to help Mother Nature a bit.
“mostly ash”
Don’t be so dismissive of volcanic ash in quantity. For instance, how does nearly 5 feet of Stone ash (per square foot) falling in your area compare in weight to 5 feet of Paper ash as in lies on your roof - before it rains?
Also any Yellowstone eruption could go on for weeks or months ... especially now that the magma chamber is twice as large as previously thought.
Mt. St. Helens was a five on the Volcanic Explosive Index, while Yellowstone would be a 10 or 1000 times larger, lasting a minimum of days to months of eruption, compared to St Helens minutes.
It really will not mater how far away one is, most will die one way or another (since it would be a world-wide disaster) ... from immediate effects, starvation, disease, lack of any civil structure, and so on. Guns will be mostly useless for hunting as there will be little game to hunt.
Be sure to stock your southern bunker with seveal years of water, food, and air for you and yours, as well as a jack hammer (with fuel and some where to vent the exhaust fumes) to break through the some feet of ash turned to concrete and a power supply for light, and so forth.
Pray to G_D, He holds it off for another 1000 years or more - but then He’s held it off for longer than average now ... in other words, an eruption is over due ...
I’m sure you have enough of those machines and stored fuel to dig out half of the US - assuming the machines are not also buried ...
Oh, and don’t skimp of the food supply for the guys operating them - assuming people do not forget that food doesn’t grow in grocery stores, but grows mostly in the western US under the ash fall (now there’s a title for someone’s book - Ash Fall: or how I learned to love digging hardened volcanic ash in huge quantities).
Plan on working at the project for decades ... bring a plentiful supply of face masks to keep out the billowing ash as it will cut lungs to ribbons - resulting in messy deaths.
This is normal stuff for the area. Nothing new.
Many thanks for the info!
I found some more info here
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=43010.0
Yet the ‘tourons’ (cross between tourist and moron) will still do it anyway.
Some people will do anything to win a Darwin Award.
And the Mexican Army would last about five minutes against a few million armed Texans.
And the Mexican Army would last about five minutes against a few million armed Texans.
Damned right!
I saw this on the news yesterday. Just one more thing to worry about , thanks Mother Nature!
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