Posted on 05/09/2014 8:30:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin
If the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts then millions of U.S. citizens could end up in Brazil, Australia, or Argentina.
That’s according to the South African news website Praag, which said that the African National Congress was offered $10 billion a year for 10 years if it would build temporary housing for Americans in case of an eruption.
The potential eruption of the supervolcano, one of the biggest in the world, has been a hot topic ever since videos of animals allegedly fleeing the area before an earthquake were posted online. Although the veracity of the claims haven’t been backed up, dozens of bloggers and others have been trying to figure out what, if anything, is going on.
One of the latest theories is that the U.S. Geological Service and its partners, which keep an eye on the caldera, are hiding data from the public.
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So, it would depend on what type of crop that could be grown. Grains like wheat and corn wouldn't make it. Peas and barley, might make it, depends on the cloud cover. Oats might make it also.
When my wife and I bought our new house, we insisted on a steep pitch, steel roof, with 12, NOT 16", space roof. We could take a few FEET of heavy, wet snow, and our roof would survive. I don't know what wet pummice weighs, but I bet it is an order of magnitude higher.
IIRC most deaths and damage when Mt. Penitubo blew was from collapsed roofs (most of which were not steep enough pitch) to allow ash to fall off.
LOL. They will -- because the volcano will blow them miles into the air and they (or pieces of them) will land in Brazil, Australia and Argentina.
LOL. They will -- because the volcano will blow them miles into the air and they (or pieces of them) will land in Brazil, Australia and Argentina.
I’m thinking everyone would just relocate to Mexico seeing as we have reciprocal amnesty programs ;-)
In truth though, that would be the best thing to ever happen to Mexico.
bttt
great graphic
True, but there are variables:
A little ash fall will be great fertilizer.....say, a dusting.
A little more and they will inhibit growth and size of harvest.
A little more (more than an inch) will kill plants, and the harvest, but can be skidded/scraped into a new planting for next season.
A few inches will not only kill the crop, but be very problematic in disturbing the dirt and soil composition, specifically chemistry.
Drop a foot of ash? I cannot even contemplate the vast amount of resources that would be needed to rehabilitate the area for quick resumption of farming.
Im taking my guns if I do. F**k their laws...they have been breaking ours for decades.
Me too. No point in flipping a coin between Australia or Brazil. Planning on breaking out the good Scotch, cuddling up with Hubby, and toasting the end of the world.
Harry Turtledove: Supervolcano! released a couple years ago is an interesting and sobering read.
Notice the affected area is where most of U.S. food is grown plus the Dakota oil fields.
Likely effects would be a year without a summer for at least the Northern Hemisphere.
A prudent government would have policies that,all along, encouraged maintaining stocks of food and everything else in many warehouses dispersed throughout the nation so that localized catastrophes did not cripple the entire system.
If you are the only one out of a hundred to have stocks expect to be raided by desperate people.
If there is any advance notice — the “important” people will be notified slip away before the rest of us find out.
False flag evac?
You are missing one item: when the volcano erupts and empties the chamber below, there will be subsidence. We are talking about dramatic alteration of the topography above.
We here in the Pacific Northwest have only recently become aware that the underground magma pool for the northern Cascades is very VERY large and interconnected. This means it may extend from volcanoes up near the Canadian border, possibly all the way to Lassen and Shasta in northern California.
Experiencing a massive subduction earthquake with a subsidence of the shoreline may result in a dramatic topographic alteration.
“One of the latest theories is that the U.S. Geological Service and its partners, which keep an eye on the caldera, are hiding data from the public.”
Maybe what Drudge meant when he said have an exit strategy?
Faking such an event would be a good way to rid the midwest of those troublesome white people, formerly known as Americans.
The ash is not that great a problem. The amount? Yes. I see the climate as a greater problem.
See..the year without a summer, 1816, etc.
That eruption, disrupted climate over the whole world.
In effect, those who die directly as a result of a mega eruption might be the lucky ones. And Tambora, was TINY compared to historical Yellowstone eruptions.
Well, crap. We’re in NW AR in a 110 yr old house. Maybe the first floor won’t get crushed.
The proposal is absurd on its face. This sounds more like a subterfuge for handing more of our money to the ANC than anything else.
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