Scientists closely monitoring Yellowstone. 200 degree ground temperatures reported.

Idaho Observer ^

[oceanperch]

Heavy Dude.

I was able to totally invision that as I read along with your post.

So much for having the O2 tanks I have stored for Emergencies.

[Quix]

Well said.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

If you could vent the pressure with drilling and/or conventional explosives, it would already be too late to avert the disaster. Again, if there is even the faintest chance of the article's apocalyptic forecast actually happening, a little above ground nuclear fallout will be the least of anyone's worries.

[Quix]

I was out on skyline drive with my wife and mother-in-law. We saw this line of people parked and pointing to the storm cloud looking bunch of clouds in the distance heading evidently our way and we kept on driving without the radio on.

We went to an open house a block from our apartment to see if it was an attractive house to buy. There the realator told us what was going on. By the time we finished looking at the house, it was beginning to get dark--about twilight worth--as ash was starting to fall. We left our car there for a couple of weeks and walked home. Thankfully, the wife's Nursing job at the hospital was a block away--Sacred Heart on South Hill.

I remember it as quite an awesome time. Dark in the middle of the day was a new experience.

I used to have a jar of the ash for scrubbing things. But I didn't carry it to China!

[oceanperch]

Sale out on Leaf Blowers no doubt.

[lepton]

They did. In January 93.. Stayed until January 01.

I coulda sworn I saw them there for about three more weeks.

[Quix]

Which aspect of the government in what context and what set of contingencies with what goal(s) in mind amidst what other global goings on?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Mountains more than a mile wide are blasted through in a year or so, without nukes. Taking a decade to get down there (magma is less than 10 miles below) doesn't sound like a bad plan. That's less than a moment on a geological scale.

[Quix]

Not surprised, given Spokane experience.

[Quix]

FOR SURE.

BAN SHRILLERY FROM PUBLIC LIFE.

Send her home to Reno.

[Sabertooth]

Ok, I bite. Trees breath CO2, how it kill them? Sulfiric gas, I understand, CO2?

From the article...

Mammoth Mountain, a young volcano in eastern California, sits on the southwest rim of Long Valley Caldera. In 1994, scientists detected high concentrations of CO2 gas in the soil on Mammoth Mountain.

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Although leaves of plants produce oxygen (O2) from CO2 during photosynthesis, their roots need to absorb O2directly. The high CO2 concentrations in the soil on Mammoth Mountain are killing trees by denying their roots O2and by interfering with nutrient uptake. In the areas of tree kill, CO2 makes up about 20 to 95% of the gas content of the soil; soil gas normally contains 1% or less CO2.

[Quix]

Then there are those who are religiously intense about their evil.

[oceanperch]

thanks timesaver on looking it up

[oceanperch]

LOL FREE CAMPING SITES

[SevenDaysInMay]

CO2 exposure causes rapid, shallow breathing.

If you're hyperventilating, it may not be from anxiety.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Bottom line is that things are getting pretty interesting in Yellowstone park.

Glad I'm out of the blast zone. I figure the entire northwest well be a smokin crater, and the mid west and back east will be covered in 2 feet of ash.

If it goes off, I'll try and catch as many of you as possible on your way down..Maybe investing in a parachute would be a good idea.

[Quix]

Well and good . . .

though . . .

The Bible does speak of the sun becoming darkened--many of us believe in the prophetic era we are now well into the beginning of by 50+ years.

[SevenDaysInMay]

You would have to worry about your buildings' structural failures while you asphyxiate.

[oceanperch]

PARTY CRASHER!

[Quix]

I believe the issue is that the ash compromised life through the lungs. Sluggish and slowly dying animals collected at the watering hole and were buried by more windblown ash.

It seems to take a while to compact if my Spokane experience is a clue.