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Thermal Hot Spot Melts Yellowstone Road
The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 11, 2014 | Associated Press

Posted on 07/13/2014 3:32:06 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

CHEYENNE, Wyo.—The ever-changing thermal geology of Yellowstone National Park has created a hot spot that melted an asphalt road and closed access to popular geysers and other attractions at the height of tourist season, officials said Thursday.

As they examined possible fixes, park officials warned visitors not to hike into the affected area, where the danger of stepping through solid-looking soil into boiling-hot water was high.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: booboo; caldera; catastrophism; fireholelakedrive; hotspot; jellystonepark; wyoming; yellowstone; yogibear
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Fear Not!!!

We have a President that can stop the rising seas and heal the earths burning fever...

What's a little super volcano to a man of his stature and ability ?

21 posted on 07/13/2014 3:58:54 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: GeronL

Yep, it was kind of amazing how much hot tar we could collect on the bottom of our feet by the end of a day.

I bet kids don’t even go barefooted anymore, for entire days.


22 posted on 07/13/2014 4:03:27 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: gorush

Most states don’t even have thurs.


23 posted on 07/13/2014 4:04:45 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Chinese asphalt?


24 posted on 07/13/2014 4:05:25 PM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That was hard to clean up!


25 posted on 07/13/2014 4:05:51 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Glad we visited there on July 3, not this week.


26 posted on 07/13/2014 4:08:21 PM PDT by 05 Mustang GT Rocks
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To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
Thanks Tolerance Sucks Rocks.

27 posted on 07/13/2014 4:09:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: GeronL

We’d lose a lot more than that all over the world, what with the ensuing nuclear winter...


28 posted on 07/13/2014 4:11:11 PM PDT by wastedyears (Everything Obama does wrong is Bush's fault.)
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To: wastedyears

OHmigosh, if it does, like are we all gonna die?

Like, are we so not gonna give a hoot about Obama, etc. because we are all going to be D.E.A.D. dead?

This thing sounds super scary.

I am in New Jersey, am I going to die if this volcano blows?

You see, I ask about us all, but really I only care about me!

Do not like this “the road is melting” story one little bit.


29 posted on 07/13/2014 4:23:05 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Where are you going to go when the volcano blows Mr. Utley?

5.56mm


30 posted on 07/13/2014 4:27:10 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

31 posted on 07/13/2014 4:28:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That looks like your average road in Pennsylvania.

But that road is likely to get fixed a lot sooner than any PA road.


32 posted on 07/13/2014 4:31:49 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yeah, the road in front of our family home was tar and chip. As kids, we’d go out and pop the tar bubbles when the stuff pooled in the road, and used to tear up chunks and play with it like it was Play Doh. We were weird kids.


33 posted on 07/13/2014 4:36:23 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean I'm wrong.)
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To: GeronL; wastedyears

We could lose a LOT of states if this thing blows. #collapse

The ash and lava shall fall on the liberals and conservatives alike.


34 posted on 07/13/2014 4:38:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (They're not illegals, they're crimmigrants!)
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To: Born to Conserve
I think an eruption here would be the best political and cultureal move we, as a nation, could make.

Maybe it will have a bimbo eruption.

35 posted on 07/13/2014 4:40:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (They're not illegals, they're crimmigrants!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Have the liberals blamed it on fracking yet?

Along with the earthquakes in Oklahoma and Mauna Loa coming back to life, it sounds like the North American plate is acting up.

-PJ

36 posted on 07/13/2014 4:48:13 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: wastedyears

> I think... it’s gonna blow soon. I think the park is gonna blow.

If Yellowstone did blow it would be of epic Revelation proportions. The damage would most likely kill people in very large numbers in multiple states.


37 posted on 07/13/2014 5:16:57 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: wastedyears
A couple of months ago there were reports of animal streaming out of the Yellowstone area. Not a good sign.

If it blows, it will be a double catastrophe, because the muslim community organizer will have no idea how to respond, and he won't care anyway.

38 posted on 07/13/2014 5:33:42 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want 0bama to make history - First to be IMPEACHED and REMOVED!)
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To: ansel12

When I grew up in the Delta, we use to roll sticks in the road to make tomahawks.


39 posted on 07/13/2014 5:41:19 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Firehole Lake Drive is closed

Aptly named road!

40 posted on 07/13/2014 5:52:12 PM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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