Posted on 06/09/2016 1:09:08 PM PDT by Gamecock
Edited on 06/09/2016 1:25:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Colin Scott and his sister, Sable, came Tuesday for the mesmerizing hot springs, a favorite sightseeing stop for millions of tourists each year at Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming, where mineral deposits tint crystal-clear pools of steaming water brilliant shades of blue, green, orange and yellow.
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People don’t read anymore. As a fan of the Little House on the Prairie series, I’m well aware of the horrifying reality of nature. And those are children books!
Also, as a victim of Sandy, I had it up front and personal recently. But what to do with the fools who visit our parks??
“Indeed it is. When I have the money, I will continue to vacation in London, etc rather than venture into admittedly beautiful but viperous nature...”
A false comparison. I vacation in Europe too and for history its great. But you can fall off a platform into the path of an underground, get blown off the cliffs of Mohr, fall off the trail in the Cinque Terre, step trough a platform in all kinds of ancient castles. Danger and foolhardiness is a fact of life and a trip to Europe..or Asia..or Australia..or Mexico etc. hardly changes that fact.
In your foolish attempt to denigrate either me or the ‘big city’ you totally misunderstood what I was saying. Or you understood but just decided to make an attack on cities - a familiar tactic which I’ve endured here since you were a dull glance in your father’s eye.
I’ve been to the Cliffs of Moher (not Mohr) and found it very hard to get blown overboard. So, as my friend Kimee used to say, back off, Jack.
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Like that woman who jumped into a hot spring and got parboiled to death.
Yellowstone is deadly beauty and the incautious are too often its innocent victims.
So being incautious (without perhaps even knowing so) is anything but innocent? I am sure children who have died in those springs were unknowingly incautious but likely innocent. What about the park workers that got in the wrong hot pot..or the person that picks up a coral snake thinking it to be a king snake?
“I’ve been to the Cliffs of Moher (not Mohr) and found it very hard to get blown overboard. So, as my friend Kimee used to say, back off, Jack.”
Well pin a rose on your nose. You might want to Google deaths on Cliffs of Moher.
Innocence implies some nefarious behavior by nature.
Nature just is, well, nature.
Darwin Award winner for sure
Well, they are almost as stupid as you, eh?
I went to Yellowstone with my family a few years back. I would not let go of my children. You could see the grip marks on around their arms once we got back into the car because I was holding them so tight. It’s beautiful there but it’s really no place for children considering what separates them from death. I didn’t realize until we got into the park how close we would be to the hot springs, nor did I realize that there were only wooden fences that kept people away from those springs. A child could quickly and easily cross over into the hot springs.
I’m floored that someone could be so foolish as to want to get closer to those springs. Horrible death. I feel for the sister and parents of that man.
Mother Nature’s in charge; we’re just along for the ride.
Just in case the words, “Don’t go near that, it’s hot as a sumbitch” hold no terrors for you...
Absolutely; the reason I completely disagree with Rousseau who got it all wrong in typical French fashion. Although a very great wordsmith!
“Death in Yellowstone; Accidents and Foolhardiness in that First National Park” by Lee Whittlesy is a book covering over 100 years of various kinds of deaths in the park. The one about the guy diving into a hot spring after his dog is a particularly chilling one. (No pun intended)
The very day that my husband and I were there in 1996, the boats went out from Doolin to find a woman who had fallen to her death.There are no guardrails, you can go right to the edge.In fact, I saw a small path along the edge that ended with nothing but air.
A trio of teenagers were sitting on the cliff top,dangling their feet over the sea below.I stayed well away from the edge and was anxious to leave.
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