We have snow in these mountains year round. All I have to do is dig below the ashline and filter what’s underneath.
I’ve been planning this since 9-11-01.
You think the ash is powder? Think about glacial snow pack—how fluffy white snow turns to glacial ice.
The first good rain and the ash turns to rock. Cement. About six feet thick. Everywhere. In everything. No machine is going to work five minutes without choking.
Small volcanoes like mt St. Helens screwed up that area for years. That would be the pimple on a super caldera explosions little brothers ass.
This wouldn’t be like Mt. St. Helens. The super heated ash cloud would destroy everything as far south as central Texas. No one in Colorado would survive. Except maybe those at NORAD.