What Would Be The First Three Actions You Would Take If Morning News Reports Indicated Yellowstone Caldera Had Just Erupted?

[Kristopher Kam]

The thing is... It's a super volcano so it's going to be minimum of 30-50x bigger than St Helens and anything within 1000 miles any direction is pretty much 99% death and sightly less death every additional thousand miles. Ash beyond anything we can imagine. Even if the jet stream catches some and carries it out east. The ash will still make it west to us. The ash going east will circle the planet and land on us from the west. The ash is like moon dust in that it's made of tiny razorblades. Gets in your eyes or lungs and some of it stays forever. Yellowstone blows and..... Cut to 200yrs from now when there's only a few thousand people left in scattered pockets of several hundred, Here or there around the world telling fables about how people used to be able to fly. Cut to 15,000yr from now where a professor at a college is lecturing about how it's absurd to even think there was ever an advanced civilization before theirs...

 

[CRBMoA]

Cut to 15,000yr from now where a professor at a college is lecturing about how it's absurd to even think there was ever an advanced civilization before theirs...

How can you be so sure the democrats will own the schools next time?

 

[Diamondback]

How can you be so sure the democrats will own the schools next time?

You never heard of Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy, did you?

 

[CRBMoA]

You never heard of Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy, did you?

I was being facetious.

 

[Capn Jack]

If you woke up one weekday morning to reports of a major eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera what would significant actions would you do first, second and third?

I'm sure the eruption would wake you up.

 

[Capn Jack]

If you woke up one weekday morning to reports of a major eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera what would significant actions would you do first, second and third?

Is this before, or after, "THE BIG ONE" hits, what's left of San Francisco slides up to Portlandia and, "We're tying the boat in Idaho." (From song, "Day after Day.")

 

[arakboss]

Is this before, or after, "THE BIG ONE" hits, what's left of San Francisco slides up to Portlandia and, "We're tying the boat in Idaho." (From song, "Day after Day.")

Good point, I hope she blows before that happens.

 

[The Heretic]

An Enormous Supervolcano Might Be Lurking Underneath Alaska's Islands - Interesting Engineering

If it erupted, it could have disrupted civilizations around the world.

interestingengineering.com

 

[GWS]

An Enormous Supervolcano Might Be Lurking Underneath Alaska's Islands - Interesting Engineering

If it erupted, it could have disrupted civilizations around the world.

interestingengineering.com

Another thing that might kill me?
This must be Tuesday.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Another thing that might kill me?
This must be Tuesday.

Yea, but it's Taco Tuesday, so were all good!

I substitute reality with my own!

 

[Capn Jack]

My Dearly Departed Mother-in-Law used to be big on, "What If's". She quit laying them on me when I started responding with, "Well then, I guess you die."

 

[308]

I'd be worried for Beth Dutton's safety
She's been through so much recently…poor thing.

 

[belshawelk]

Well according to the map " death zone", I am heading to my cabin. Have all the food and supplies I need for a very very long time, that is if Covid doesn't wipe us out first.

 

[RobMa]

Well,,, darnit then...

 

[clanhanson]

Since I'm pretty much right next to it, I'd pull up a chair and watch my inevitable death from the patio.

 

[Hop Sing]

I have two handles of Everclear so really won't give a sh!t.

 

[nwwoodsman]

Silly question. If that blew in the fall or winter when the rain in the PNW is pouring down like a cow pissing on a flat rock, wouldn't that help to knock a lot of the ash out of the air locally?

 

[wjv]

A super volcano could change the weather patterns enough that it might stop the PNW rainy season.

Ash patterns from prior North American super volcanos indicate that the Pacific NW and Florida are good places to be.

 

[Cavedweller]

I'd cancel my long term care insurance policy.