Did you say "over"?
Posted on 02/22/2009 4:14:03 PM PST by Flavius
So, the message we get from this is: I you’re taking the family to Yellowstone this summer, go in early spring - while it’s still there.
And sing along with Jimmy Buffet: ...I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know where Ima gonna go when the volcano blows.
I hoped it was over.
Yellowstone has about 15 calderas actually. The shapes of the mountains as you follow the Snake River into Idaho you can see somewhat on a relief map of the area. It is a wonder of geo-thermal activities. Even “Old Faithful” is out of time to a certain degree. But how does one know when its going to blow? 640,000 years ago or so. I love the park, it is always changing.
....and my apologies to Flavious for stepping on his lines and not paying enuff attention.
You KNOW what the warm-mongers will blame it on!
OK. Can we drop a big heat pipe into it and hook that up to a generator?
And if you are taking your family to Yellowstone this year, stop by and say hi.
To the arabs that would certify that we are the great satan. Hope to see them go first!
Did you say "over"?
There was a map in the recent past predicting that the ash would blow straight south. There’s no way, and that’s an error. The Caldera is not on the west coast any more, and the weather must be considered.
It would only blow to the west-southwest for a couple of hundred miles during the middle of winter. Beware in states to the east, then the Great Lakes area.
As for the ash, we’re not cave people any more. Plan and build filtering for your houses, if it comes to that. For those of you with enough land, build more indoor spaces with plenty of windows to the south. And stock-up on dust masks, rain coats (with hoods or hats) and ski goggles.
And if it happens, gardening will be great afterward.
Even if you can, and it probably could be done, it would bother their precious wolves...
You’ve got to think of it all in these terms; 1) the core of the Earth cools down, volcanism and the pate techtonic engine grinds to a halt = we’re all dead. 2) the Earth’s internal combustion machine keeps chugging along and a ginormous caldera erupts = we’re all dead. 3) the Earth’s internal combustion machine keeps chugging along, the caldera doesn’t erupt but a big asteroid or comet collides with Earth = we’re all dead. 4) the Earth’s internal combustion machine keeps chugging along, the caldera doesn’t erupt, no big asteroid or comet collides with Earth but we are zapped by a huge gamma ray burst = we’re all dead. 5) the Earth’s internal combustion machine keeps chugging along, the caldera doesn’t erupt, no big asteroid or comet collides with Earth, we are not zapped by a huge gamma ray burst but Earth’s polarity suddenly changes = we are not dead at first but society plunges into a literal dark ages, breaks down and most of are dead and those who aren’t wish they were. 6) the Earth’s internal combustion machine keeps chugging along, the caldera doesn’t erupt, no big asteroid or comet collides with Earth, we are not zapped by a huge gamma ray burst, Earth’s polarity doesn’t change but the next ice age makes 2/3 of the world uninhabitable = most of us die, except those of us who cross the boarder into Mexico as illegal aliens ;), 7) the Earth’s internal combustion machine keeps chugging along, the caldera doesn’t erupt, no big asteroid or comet collides with Earth, we are not zapped by a huge gamma ray burst, Earth’s polarity doesn’t change, the next ice age doesn’t happen but we fall victim to some super bug, natural or man-made or nuke ourselves into oblivion = we’re all dead. 8) we manage to avoid all the above catastrophes but eventually our Sun goes super nova = we’re all dead.
Moral of the story – don’t worry be happy.
If anything catastrophic happens, Zero will be a real Blanco over it.
Damn, “The sky is falling” sounds good.
Now I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow
You watch to much History Channel.
I see a guy bent over kissing his butt good-bye, but, I am not worried. The dOpey-One is in charge and will bring in the Hawaiian EMA, because, they know how to deal with volcanos. Uh, never mind, Hawaii is just where he is going to sit it out.
There won't be anyone around to service a bailout. There will be worldwide starvation in weeks. Money will be the least of anyone's problems.
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