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Yellowstone’s Ear Spring erupts for first time in recent memory; officials close boardwalks...
KSL ^
| Sep 20th, 2018 @ 10:01am
| Nate Eaton, EastIdahoNews.com | Posted -
Posted on 09/23/2018 9:44:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Ear Spring went from being dormant on Saturday to spewing steam and water between 20 and 30 feet high, a height not recorded since 1957, said park spokesman Neal Herbert.
On Saturday tourists and surveillance cameras captured the rare eruption around 4:50 p.m. Ear Spring contains permanently seething water at or above boiling point. The ear-shaped pool has been known to erupt to a height of around 2 feet, but officials say that only happens one or two times each decade.
Geyser Hill lies across the Firehole River from Old Faithful and features dozens of hot springs, geysers and fumaroles (openings where steam and volcanic gasses are emitted).
The eruption of Ear Spring comes the same year that the Steamboat Geyser is experiencing record-breaking activity. So far the geyser has erupted 19 times in 2018 with the latest eruption happening Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; earspring; fireholeriver; geyserhill; heybooboo; jellystone; oldfaithful; steamboatgeyser; wyoming; yellowstone
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09/23/2018 9:44:46 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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09/23/2018 9:47:45 AM PDT
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deadrock
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/23/2018 9:47:45 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/23/2018 9:52:21 AM PDT
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GRRRRR
(Make America Greater Than Ever Before!)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
09/23/2018 9:52:48 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: deadrock
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posted on
09/23/2018 9:53:36 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Erupting geysers.
Just another excuse for the slut puppy not to make it to DC on time.
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09/23/2018 9:55:23 AM PDT
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TADSLOS
(Are you Humbly Grateful or Grumbly Hateful?)
To: TADSLOS
I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if the left had her murdered and blamed it on us.
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09/23/2018 10:16:39 AM PDT
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null and void
(The big problem is that the republicans don't keep their campaign promises and the democrats do!)
To: BenLurkin
First time in recent memory?? I didn’t know 1957 was ancient?? According to my kids I am, but...really...(must be Trump’s fault)
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09/23/2018 10:46:48 AM PDT
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Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
To: BenLurkin
More Glo Bull Warming Proof
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09/23/2018 10:49:12 AM PDT
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truth_seeker
( ^^\/**|_|**\/ ^^)
To: Deplorable American1776
Recent memory as opposed to living memory, I guess.
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09/23/2018 10:57:16 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: null and void; SunkenCiv
“Suicide by bridge abusement” (er, abutment! Bridge abutment!) .
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09/23/2018 11:34:00 AM PDT
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Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: BenLurkin
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09/23/2018 11:51:41 AM PDT
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deadrock
To: Robert A Cook PE; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
The eruption of Ear Spring comes the same year that the Steamboat Geyser is experiencing record-breaking activity. So far the geyser has erupted 19 times in 2018 with the latest eruption happening Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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09/23/2018 1:27:27 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: dfwgator
LOL! One of my favorite commercials! Thanks!
:o]
‘Face
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09/23/2018 1:47:45 PM PDT
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Monkey Face
(The soul usually knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.)
To: SunkenCiv
Another reason to not visit a tourist trap. Thanks, SC!
:o])
‘Face
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09/23/2018 1:49:32 PM PDT
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Monkey Face
(The soul usually knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.)
To: deadrock
The movie is “2012” and that was Woody Harrelson’s final scene, after a flying mountain lands on him.
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09/23/2018 2:07:11 PM PDT
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DNME
(The only solution to a BAD guy with a gun is a GOOD guy with a gun. Period.)
To: DNME
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09/23/2018 2:09:28 PM PDT
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deadrock
To: TADSLOS; null and void; BenLurkin; All
Regarding Null and Void’s comment, it would be just as easy for the right to kill Ford and blame the left. President Trump has been blaming Democrats for things that don’t seem to make sense as argued. Also, now that Patti nee Reagan has said she finds Fords account believable based on her own ugly experience 40 years ago, there is even more visability to this whole mess and there would be even more intense investigation if something were to happen.
https://wtvr.com/2018/09/22/ronald-reagans-daughter-patti-davis-reveals-rape/
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