[blam]

"Destruction of crops in Europe may have helped increase hunger and trigger the French Revolution. Let us hope this volcano does not get too bad."

That would be on heck of a Black Swan Event.

We'd have a nationwide (worldwide) problem like hurricane Katrina was in New Orleans. Is it even practical for the government to try to have food stocks in storage for such an event?

[Quix]

A half a dozen or so Christian prophetic sources just in the last 3-5 days have sent yet another warning around about looming famine. They first did such with a relatively ‘distant’ in time perspective a decade or 2 ago.

This time, they weren’t sounding like they thought it was a long ways off.