[blam]

"When it starts rising at centimeters per month or week. . . then I'd start clearing out the West and mid-West (g)"

The last time this thing blew (Super-Volcanoes) it deposited 6 feet of ash in Nebraska. Toba (same category) exploded 75,000 years and extimates are that only 5,000 people worldwide survived. (DNA studies support this contention)

[Salgak]

Mind you, world population, 75,000 years ago was likely to be only a few million at most. None of which knew what was coming, or could take effective precautions....