Boy, was it a little over a year ago that we were doomed to die under several feet of choking ash due to the Yellowstone supervolcano?
Well, we’re doomed again!!! If you think the snow was bad, enjoy breathing in cubic buttloads of fine ash!
DOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!
Sadly, it’s going to happen some day.
Is there anything that we can do in preparation for this, if it does happen?
Or are we basically doomed to a The Road scenario?
Orbital laser to punch a small hole through to release pressure? If nothing else it would be hella cool to watch it being fired…
Stockpile food and evacuate the region.
But the bears! We’ve got to do something for the bears! And the elk!
Anyway, you guys are mighty slow on the trigger. The recent swarm, which ended up totalling more than 1700 quakes of 1.0 or larger, is pretty much finished.
Here and here are maps showing roughly the region we might need to evacuate.
The volcanic winter afterward will probably make what the east coast is experiencing now look like flurries.
I’ve known that I’m screwed, living here; from those maps I’m on the edge, but realistically, I’m only a few hours away by car – I’m totally screwed.
I really don’t think about it. It’s not like we could do anything about it.
Yehhh, famous last words.
I’m in Michigan, so I suppose we’d get the fall-out. Either way It’d be catastrophic for the country. Better start building that bunker…
Well, we know from that fine theatrical documentary that came out last year that, if Yellowstone blows, the ashfall will go at least as far east as Washington DC, so we’re all pretty much DOOOOOM!ed.
I’m going to learn how to drive a large jet, just in case.
Yep. This is why I didn’t have children. I didn’t want them to be DOOOOOOOOOMED!
It’s true! Within the next 130 years, every person currently living on Earth will be dead!!!
We are DOOOOOOOMED!!!
You do realize you can travel further and faster if you learn to fly a jet.
Call DERA. They’re the only ones that know.
Well heck, that was supposed to be a play on words but in checking to make sure that there is no DERA I see that not only does it exist but it’s devoted to disaster preparedness. DERA What a bizarre coincidence.
As a physics professor of mine once said, “You’re DOOMED! Have you ever been doomed before?”
But a taxi-ing* license is much easier to get!
Nope, not really.
The only plan I have is to pile food and water in the vehicle, along with a few portable valuables, and head east to my family living in Buffalo. At least I’ll die with family, or something. Fact is, sticking with family is one of the better strategies for surviving Dire Conditions. At any rate, things will be better in New York than in Indiana, though likely they’ll still be awful.
I once thought I’d had a vision of what it would look like and then realized I had fallen asleep during the Macy’s Day Parade (flying moose).