[Salgak]

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

[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)

[Dog Gone]

Maybe we'll be lucky and the continent will continue drifting until the hotspot is under Martha's Vineyard before blowing.

[blam]

Toba
The last super-volcano to blow it's top 75,000 ya.