Interesting maps. I suggest that the unmarried women in the area evacuate immediately to the Pacific Northwest.
From your second link:
180-200 metres?!! :eek: :eek:
If that thing blows, we’re DOOOOOOOMED!!
In the air? Isn’t that dangerous?
Of course it is. He’s DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!
Life As We Knew It is a young-adult novel that while fictional (and based on an astronomical absurdity) talks about environmental changes caused by massive volcanic eruptions; the main character is on the Eastern Seaboard.
I’m thinking life would pretty much suck (for as long as it lasted) for all of North America and it wouldn’t great anywhere else either.
Especially since, IIRC, the ash would gum up jet engines and cause 'em to shut down. 
Though I can’t help thinking, given the rate of technological advancement, if we can make it another 100-150 years, we just might develop geologic pressure alleviators.
Realizing I’m doomed by choking on volcanic ash is very disappointing. I’d hoped to go out by waving a golf club while standing on a tall building during a storm and yelling “Take me home!”
Whew! I’m in Seattle, WA so I’m outside the danger zone. Yep, perfectly safe here. Nothing to worry about.
Alla y’all are sissies. It’s just a little volcanic ash. Why, back in my day, when I was a kid, we breathed in Mount St. Helens ash for fun, and we liked it. We turned out just fine with none a this “WE’RE DOOOOOOMED” this and “WE’RE DOOOOOOMED” that. Kids these days.
Of course, once Yellowstone blows, it’ll change the entire pressure distribution beneath the western part of the North American plate, so things’ll shift around a bit. You’ll probably be subducted to death.
Looks like LA and San Diego might get a little crowded…
Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed!
Sounds like the State of MIchigan’s slogan right about now.
There’s still time to make this a reality. The next thunderstorm in your area is exceedingly likely to happen a lot sooner than the Yellowstone eruption.
Oh, with the kind of technology we could have ( barring collapse/stagnation ) in 100+ years I’m sure it’ll be quite possible to deal with such problems. If not by relieving the pressure, then by just piling on so much mass that the caldera never blows. Before then, we should be able to build self replicating machines; which means the sheer scale of a problem won’t be much of a challenge. It’s the same principle that has let life largely resurface the planet and change the atmospheric composition, after all; what one plant can’t do, billions can do. If we need to pile an extra mile or two of rock atop the weak area, then all we’d need to do would tell the replicators to build up their numbers high enough that they can just haul what’s needed there in a reasonable timeframe and pile it up.
Right now though, if something happens we’re screwed, period. We are at an awkward stage where we are capable enough to see all sorts of major disasters coming, but still not powerful enough to do much about them.
Whew! I’m safe. Let the ash fall.
So this is a geological zit being discussed?
Juat a little Rainier Weather, huh?
This is what happened the last time. Yes, it’s the same magma pot that has migrated to its present location under Yellowstone.
[Gir]I’m gonna’ sing the Doom Song now![/Gir]
Doomdoomdoomdoomdoom doomydoomydoom!
The End!
Well, if it does go, at least you guys should be able to pass health care reform.