Thermal Hot Spot Melts Yellowstone Road

The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 11, 2014 | Associated Press

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

CHEYENNE, Wyo.—The ever-changing thermal geology of Yellowstone National Park has created a hot spot that melted an asphalt road and closed access to popular geysers and other attractions at the height of tourist season, officials said Thursday.

As they examined possible fixes, park officials warned visitors not to hike into the affected area, where the danger of stepping through solid-looking soil into boiling-hot water was high.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I read somewhere, this is at least in part weather-related?

Just don’t want people getting all alarmed.

:D

[dr_lew]

Well, in NEW JERSEY, we figured the tar on our feet was like free shoes.

[LonePalm]

In eastern North Carolina it only stuck to our heels.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[GeronL]

*facepalm*

[MoochPooch]

“Goodbye Yellowstone Road . . . .” (with apologies to Elton John)

[Shadowstrike]

Here’s the story I told you about.

[FlyFisher]

Looks like Wilshire Blvd. in L.A. The mayor should be ashamed.

[blam]

"Could be losing 4 GOP states if it goes boom"

A lot more than that. You could see the same effects as an:

Impact Winter

An impact winter is a period of prolonged cold weather due to the impact of a large asteroid or comet on the Earth's surface. If an asteroid were to strike land or a shallow body of water, it would eject an enormous amount of dust, ash, and other material into the atmosphere, blocking the radiation from the sun. This would cause the global temperature to decrease drastically.[1][2] If an asteroid or comet with the diameter of about 5 km (3.1 mi) or more were to hit in a large deep body of water or explode before hitting the surface, there would still be an enormous amount of debris ejected into the atmosphere.[1][2][3] It has been proposed that an impact winter could lead to mass extinction, wiping out many of the world's existing species.

Toba, Indonesia's Super volcano, Almost Wiped Out Mankind

Alongside gigantic Tsunami waves, there was the unimaginable amount of 2800 cubic kilometres of ejected ash, which, evenly spread throughout our planet’s atmosphere, should have reduced the total number of humans to just 5000 to 10,000 survivors, as the Australian vulcanologist Prof. Ray Cas explains in an interview

[gleeaikin]

I recall reading somewhere that while they have a megavolcanoe at around 6 or 7 hundred thousand year intervals, there have been something like 70 more local events since the last one about 640,000 years ago. So that would be about one every 10,000 years.

[GeronL]

Are we “due” for one?

[TBall]

A good thing the super moon has passed.

[gleeaikin]

The literature I have seen talkes about every 600 or 700 thousand years, which is very, very approximate. We are far more likely to have one of the smaller ones if the average is 1 every 10,000. I am not aware of one within that time frame, so it’s a possibility.