Not exactly, if a Yellowstone eruption follows prior patterns:
Well, at least Obama’s socialist America will be gone.
Not exactly, if a Yellowstone eruption follows prior patterns:
Farther east lies the New Madrid fault, on the banks of the Mississippi river. It has the potential to completely cut off ground transportation from east to west.
Feel safe, mac daddy has a pen and a phone.
In all seriousness, that would be a positive...(note my tag)
Don’t count on it. It could just be the event they will “not allow to go to waste”.
Most of the country east of the Mississippi would be fine. So would SoCal and maybe all of the PNW. I think Texas would be ok, too. The affected area would be the most conservative Midwestern and Mountain states with the largest amount of row crop and cattle production. Oil production in NoDak would be impacted by ashfall. Pipelines run through the affected areas.
The world would see reduced sunlight and reduced crop growth. Think this winter is bad? Next year could be 10x worse if Yellowstone blows. People would be clamoring for Big Government to “do something”. EPA would fulminate about the overload of particulate matter and effectively block wood burning and energy production in the rest of the USA. Those who made it out of the ash zone would be displaced persons. Historically, that is not a great category.
Frankly, I can’t see a silver lining.