Posted on 07/10/2014 9:53:46 PM PDT by Enterprise
You'll never guess why "Firehole Lake Drive" is temporarily off-limits to tourists in Yellowstone National Park. Yes, the popular 3.3-mile loop is closed for a while because the asphalt is melting, reports National Parks Traveler. "Extreme heat from surrounding thermal areas has caused thick oil to bubble to the surface, damaging the blacktop and creating unsafe driving conditions," says a park release. While that kind of thing isn't uncommon given Yellowstone's geology, the damage to the road is "unusually severe," reports the AP.
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I’m ok with that. My ancestors got the best part of Mexico a few hundred years ago. I don’t feel a need to move south.
/johnny
You missed my point. I said the Mexicans would block the Gringos from entering Mexico.
/laplata
Yep ... didn’t want that front-page news story, though ... :-) ...
I bet the Guatemalans would not hesitate to used armed force to repel refugees coming from the North.
The only problem with that is, last time the caldera erupted, it put down nearly a meter of ash. Once that gets wet, it essentially turns to concrete. Kind of tuff (heh) to grow things in. It would probably take at least a century of freeze-thaw to break it up enough to start things growing again.
My G-G-G-Grandparents took the best part of Mexico here and called it Texas.
I don't want to run south. It would suck worse than going to New Mexico. Or Europe.
I'm not being dense, I'm being obnoxious. ;)
/johnny
“Salud!”
Better get on over there before it blows!
When I first saw the area of the Norris Geyser Basin, I was sure I was going to see dinosaurs walking around. It was like out of a scene shot in the movie “One Million Years BC” ... :-) ...
Did you sleep through the last few months? We've got labor coming up. They can break it up.
You decide whether I'm joking or not.
I know which way I would bet. I don't have a century left in me.
Besides, Mt. St. Helen didn't take a century to grow 12" pines. History mean anything to you?
/johnny
I will take it under advisement for next year.
Paxton is one of those guys you hope is conservative, cuz damn he’d make a great one. I love his work, a rare diamond in a sea of crap.
Katrina showed us that they'd switch from entitlements to looting...
Katrina showed us that they'd switch from entitlements to looting...
Unless you lived in Pompeii. Otherwise the grapes were great. In reality volcanic ash is great fertilizer but it is best used in moderation.
На здоровье!!
/johnny
/johnny
I don’t know about that. Eastern Washington got a lot of ash from Mt. St. Helens and they’re not dealing with “cement” over there. I’ve been up to Mt. St. Helens many times now and it’s not that way with the ash.
I was out there before it blew ... at those camp-out parties where everyone was just “hanging around” waiting for it to blow. Fortunately I wasn’t there that particular Sunday morning.
/johnny
There have been a number of events recently. The latest one I read was that it has been discovered that the volcano below is much larger then it was thought to be.
On that map of the ash fall, how deep was the ash at the outer perimeter, for example, northern Texas?
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