Posted on 05/02/2019 5:51:47 PM PDT by SJackson
I agree with you, but you fail to understand that a Yellowstone eruption would devastate some of the most conservative areas of the nation, leaving the west and east coasts unaffected.....all those liberals would have a massive majority.
It would impact the main food production area of the US.
The West and East coasts would suddenly find themselves being unable to afford feeding their underclass populations.
I’ve spent some time monitoring YouTube regarding the Yellowstone caldera, including official USGS Yellowstone Caldera updates, monthly. Conspiracy theories abound. Every time a computer reports an earthquake (a 4.9 just outside the park, for example) and the USGS fails to report it, there must be a cover-up. The government must know something we don’t, supposedly and are not telling us. Three events need to happen before a major eruption, according to the USGS:
1) Significant uplift in a short period of time (meters, not centimeters
2) A major seismic event (a magnitude 6 or greater)
3) Hydrothermal explosions, not just geyser activity
A super eruption is not likely at this time. But they admit this could change quickly.
note the time 5/3/2019, 3:43:30 AM coffee was still brewing
That sounds like an amazing experience.
These days, they do not recommend bells, as they seem to catch the bears’ curiosity. They recommend instead to hike in groups of at least three, make lots of noise, and carry bear spray. Making noise seems to defeat the purpose of communing with nature...but that is the recommendation. “They” are Jen and Eric, who broadcast on Yellowstone radio.
Fair enough.
I know quite well who lives in the areas of the country that would be most devastated by an eruption. My point is that leftism is a luxury exercised by people who have never had to develop real survival skills. In the case where they would be in a fight for survival, the useless leftists would either die or switch to survival mode. And once in survival mode, those leftist attitudes cannot persist.
How would a rich but useless leftist like Nancy Pelosi survive and keep an iron grip on power when her money is useless and she has no skills? How would poor leftists who are willing enough to submit to power survive when the rich leftists who have made them dependent for so long can no longer confiscate enough from working people to feed and clothe them?
There are many leftist fantastical beliefs that simply would not stand up when the reality of survival rears its head.
On I-84 through Connecticut, I came across a dead deer, then two stopped cars on the side of the road. The first was a Datsun 240Z with a smashed windshield. The second car—ahead of him—had a completely smashed front end. Pretty sure I know what happened. ;)
Maybe it’s a vomitorium so when they drank and ate too much there was a hole to spew it. Regarding 70,000 years ago, there were 3 major eruptions in a little over 2 million years: 2.2M, 1.3M and 600,000 years ago. I also read there have been about 70 lesser eruptions since the most recent mega-eruption. The lesser eruptions have NOT spread ash over more than half the US. My father wrote a book about the “next” big one. It needs serious rewriting but had a lot of factually based conjecture about survival and the like. Some day I might edit/rewrite it.
Actually, corrected figures for mega-eruptions are 2.1M, 1.2M, and 640,000 years ago. Below is a map showing the ask spread of two of the major Yellowstone blows, and the Long Valley one that occurred in the 800K to 700,000 ago period. Mostly the ash blows east, and these maps don’t show N. ID or Spokane in the likely path for heavy fall. For more images, Google “Images of Yellowstone mega-volcano ash dispersal maps”
https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/yellowstone_sub_page_91.html
I think your mistake is believing the left and right coast liberals will be affected at all. They will continue their lives. Any disruptions to the food supply will be compensated quickly from other areas, including foreign....at their invitation.
Washington DC will be unaffected, but the "emergency legislation" will be massive and will transform everything.
After 9/11, people outside the NY & DC areas went right back to their routines while the WTC was still burning.
Los Angeles and Chicago were business as usual...and where the left started to disrupt our national unity.
The same would be true of a Yellowstone eruption....LA, NYC and DC would go right back to work as usual.
It would be news for a week or so before the media moves onto other things. Look at the latest midwest flooding that got almost zero attention elsewhere in the country.
Look, we can have fun with this conjecture all day. Until the extent of an eruption (small or large) is known and what the actual affects are, we will not know how it will play out. It also depends who is in control in DC.....socialist or Conservative.
An eruption on the scale of a Yellowstone super volcano would be a bit more devastating than some Midwest floods. It would dump ash over a large part of the country, and disrupt worldwide weather patterns for possibly years. The worldwide food supply will be severely impacted. Add to that the fact that we sell food to many other countries, further decreasing the world food supply.
I don’t think other countries would necessarily provide us their limited food, either. Trade depends on each partner providing something of value. What value could we offer, when our economy is all but destroyed? We can give them dollars, which at that point would be just paper.
In short, the entire world would be put in survival mode.
I read that there have been around 70 lesser eruptions since the big one over 600Kya. So maybe we will have one of those lesser eruptions that still would kill people close by like Mt. St. Helens, but only annoy people farther away.
And Toba left a caldera 18 x 65 miles. So big it took a long time for people to realize it actually was a volcano. I have read that there was probably 6 years of nuclear winter which reduced the breeding population to no more than 10,000 sapiens.
Regarding New Madrid quakes, I read somewhere that large ones occur about every 200 years, but really big ones about every 400 years. Wish I could remember the source. Meanwhile, Venezuela had a really big one in 1812 that killed 20,000 people mostly around Caracas. And 2 more really big quakes at New Madrid also occurred the first half of that year.
Was the author of Soilent Green a liberal? Also those who survived the Andes plane crash by eating their dead were mostly medical students. If at 80 I were to died from such a disaster, I would ask my family and friends to honor my passing by using my nutrients. Who would be more able to think that way, liberals or conservatives?
“which reduced the breeding population to no more than 10,000 sapiens”
So what happened to the LGBTQ population?
The articles @ Wikipedia on the New Madrid Quakes, and the New Madrid Seismic, are fairly good. If you want to get into it deeper:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/aboutus/nepec/reports/NEPEC_NMSZ_expert_panel_report.pdf
VERY roughly, the sequences of big quakes appear to occur in the New Madrid Seismic Area every 600 years or so. The thing to remember is that these occur as clusters of big quakes, with several strong quakes thrown in for good measure. The series in 1811-12 consisted of 4 quakes 7.0 or larger (even by conservative estimates of magnitude), several more in the 6-7 range, over nearly a year-long period, and very numerous quakes below 6.0.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/1811-1812newmadrid/summary.php
It’s no wonder many residents concluded the area was cursed, or if not that, simply uninhabitable, and left!
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