Yellowstone Volcano Eruption in 2014? Are Animals Fleeing Park As ‘An Alert’?

Epoch Times ^ | 4-1-14 | Z. Stieber

[MaxMax]

That looks like the Zit on face.

bison and other animals allegedly leaving Yellowstone National Park

It's spring time, Animals migrate.

[MaxMax]

Maybe if our Government throws money at the Volcano and a few virgins,
it could be stopped like Climate Change. Boy, our Gov are all powerful.

[McGruff]

Did Thai elephants sense pending tsunami?

Call me crazy but I believe.

[Gadsden1st]

I enjoy the show, but I have one question. If they are allowed one “tool” each, why do they bring a flint and steel and not one of those big BIC lighters?

[PIF]

“why do they bring a flint and steel and not one of those big BIC lighters?”

I have no idea - ask the producers/script writers. I don't get the point - beyond the titillation factor - why those people are naked when the producers are just going to blur out the ‘interesting’ bits.

My point was in those days (74,000 years ago) everyone knew how to survive, not just self-proclaimed ‘wilderness survivalists’. Same situation today, not millions, but billions on billions would die.

Survivalists claim they are prepared for anything - anything known - the catastrophic effects of a super volcano eruption on modern civilization can only be posited from the historic geologic strata, and cannot be known or prepared form, beyond it will be bad, very bad for everyone - survivalist or not.

Many people equate volcanic ash with dust, but it is actually powdered rock. How does one prepare for one to three feet of rock per square foot suddenly deposited on one's roof? Breathing the rock dust will tear up lungs, and death will follow shortly - unless treated by the nearest existant medical facility, assuming it would even be possible to get to it.

[tsomer]

Thanks.
This could be hugh and series.

Many moons have passed since I slept through Intro to Geology, but I retained some— enough to wonder if moving to
Wyoming is the smart thing to do.

[JimSEA]

Your point that we were a much more robust species 70,000 + years ago is sobering. Even the survivalist is a bit of a wuss in comparison. ;-)

[Red Badger]

BTTT!.................

[Night Hides Not]

If the deer and the antelope are close behind something HUGE is about to happen.

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Are the skies cloudy all day?

There's been a lot of discouraging words on this thread...lol.

[Night Hides Not]

Lupshu said in a later video that scientists say they can’t predict when the Supervolcano will erupt.

No $hit, Sherlock. Think I'll pass on this genius' videos.

[Conservative4Ever]

You could be right. However, it begs the question...has this behavior happened before, in this way and at this location? Are there signs of other large animals common to the area behaving in this way or other unusual behaviors. Interesting video, the bison were moving at a pretty good clip, and they were using the road, not moving over open land.

[TurboZamboni]

I thought the EPA already had regulations against calderas.

[familyop]

Yes—likely to be explosive but possibly with quite a few minor vents over quite a few miles. Still, the damage of most concern would be to crops, water supplies and to people’s lungs.

Here’s the probable deal from what I’ve read over the years. Crops would be wiped out for decades for about 500 miles or so to the east of the eruption. Downwind surface water supplies for several hundred miles might be very toxic for a short time—very bad.

Further to the south, north, and well beyond 500 miles (2-inch or so ash cover, less of it further away), arable land (included ranchland) would need to be plowed and planted (tough to do in dry ranchland and not many willing to do that much work these days). Those areas with less ash cover would recover and do even better after about 2-4 years. The initially toxic ash, given time and buried further into the soil, helps to better fertilize plants.

For people, some windows would need to be covered with filters and fans (large, slow fans being best). Particle masks or other facial coverings would be needed outdoors. People have survived in recent years downwind from eruptions and close to them. Do people prepare in such ways for such a large eruption? Nearly no one does...maybe a few, who already do so with window filters in wildfire areas (smoke).

But yeah, within a few hundred miles, the cold ash would be a killer. The chances, though, of Yellowstone going off within any designated ten-year period are extremely slim. The chances of a tornado hitting a pre-designated, 100-year-old house in the Midwest are probably much greater.

There would also be the change in worldwide climate—much colder and drier for several years (probably about 3 or so before warming very noticeably). That would have a terrible influence on crops.

So yes. It would be quite catastrophic but not in ways most often described in articles and discussions. The chances of Yellowstone blowing anytime soon—virtually infinitesimally low.

[dead]

Whatever happens in Yellowstone, it will be the fault of western industrialization.

Send your guilty money to Pope Gore to buy absolutions for your ecological sins.