[Paul C. Jesup]

I don't watch TV if possible. Don't have the foggiest what sort of stuff they feed the "public".

I am talking about the original British Documentry on super-volcanos.

I saw a repeat of it on the Discovery Channel and I remember very vividly that they stated only around two meters of ash fell on the eastern side of Ohio in the last eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera.

[EUPHORIC]

I remember very vividly that they stated only around two meters of ash fell on the eastern side of Ohio in the last eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera.

ONLY two meters of ash? Do you have any idea how nasty that stuff IS? 2 meters is SIX FEET and it don't melt away any time soon either!

That is like six feet of fine stinky DUST we are talking about!!!

[Robert A Cook PE]

But that much ash would damage crops --- not forver, but for several seasons certainly.

It's a problem, but not a crisis.

And besides, what can you prevent?

If you try to "vent" the thing....but it's already overpressurized, you end up blowing it prematurely but into a disaster anyway.

You blow it too early, and you've done no good - since it might have have blown 40-400-4000 years from now anyway, and not have caused damage then because they could handle a "minor volcano" at that time!

(What will the capability of the human rce in 40 years? In 400 yers? In 4000 years?)