Scientists closely monitoring Yellowstone. 200 degree ground temperatures reported.

Idaho Observer ^

[punster]

Very good! We are having an eruption of puns.

It does appear that Yellowstone has not been taking her earth control pills.

[Quix]

Thanks.

I think the crowd control issue is a complex and certainly serious one.

But I think there's no choice but for the government to attempt at least some migration from the most critical, nearer regions.

Then there are all those stories of the concentration camps built and ready for inmates on abandoned military bases in the West.

And, what if we are in the midst of the road of another set of national emergencies at the time. What if the government is ALREADY too tasked to hardly even more than blanch at the new crisis?

But how could a government stand which was shown to have known of a coming cataclysm and said nothing?

. . . apart from martial law and Beijing like control.

[Quix]

Understand the humor.

But the weight would be especially serious on those least able to handle it--the poor in poor shacks, older buildings etc.

Though, if even not too many inches were involved, it could quickly become disasterous for almost any normally constructed would frame building, I'd think. They were quite concerned that Keytronic's factory roofs would be compromised in Spokane.

[Quix]

True. Is that because of the irregular shapes and surface tension on those shapes as well as the cavities between particles?

[Quix]

I doubt they were fakes, you have triggered some faint memories of those colors. They still weren't that attractive to me. I'm a potter who likes blues, whites, reds, rusts, greens. I think there may have been a few pieces with white and a darker brown which approached attractiveness, to me.

[CindyDawg]

Yeah, I'm no scientist but I was also wondering about the effects on our air. Obviously there might be some severe resp problems but could a blanket of this stuff in the air affect our amount of O2? If the earth guys really felt an eruption was imminent, imminent wouldn't they start at least closing down areas really near?

[Quix]

One spelling dictionary doesn't have the word at all. The other has tweak.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ping

[Travis McGee]

I guess I'll hang onto my steel sailboat for a while! I wonder how the sunsets will look on Bora Bora?

[RussianConservative]

Ha, grain grow in Siberia during brief summer, very intense grow season...and that far north. Most Russia produce grain, especially huge south region Stavrapol. End of world will not come.

[RussianConservative]

Also, depend on prevelent wind, depend where ash go. Big chance that such huge explosion disrupt gulf stream and thus not spread as far, and when do spread it stay in north hemesphere, thus south still have light and grow grain in Australia and Africa and South America. Equater is huge buffer wall that keep north wind from south. Mass extinction not happen 600,000 years ago, not happen now. Everyone run with hands in air screaming end of world, it is no end of world.

[bootless]

Thanks for that, Carry_Okie. I agree with you about the 600K year frequency, but that's only what common sense I have talking, not any expertise.

[Well, as my pastor often says, "I've read the end of the Book, and you know what? We win." :-) ]

[Squantos]

LOL.........From the sounds of things it'll be snowing too hard in Bora Bora to see a sunset.........:o)......Bring yer ice ax !

Stay Safe !

[Travis McGee]

My boat's on SD Bay. Not that I spend much time on it anymore mind you...

I always figured I'd know when the enemy ICBMs were inbound, if I saw all the gas turbine destroyers heading for the ocean at 35 knots, throwing 15 foot wakes through the marinas. Perhaps they'll also do the emergency sortie for a mega eruption.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

That recent bulge in the bottom of Yellowstone Lake is Bush's fault.

If the volcano erupts before this November, that will also be Bush's fault.

Everything is Bush's fault.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

A bunch of rich Kalifornians have run all of the locals out of Jackson and turned it into another Berkeley, so now is a good time for it to blow. Hopefully, the volcano will take out Jerry Spence and a whole bunch of celebrities. I hope the Klintons will be on vacation there, too.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Quick! Somebody get Joe up to Yellowstone to talk the volcano out of blowing its top!

Joe who? Lieberman? I say, get Kucinich. This volcano is obviously belligerent and a threat to world peace...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Is there some way the pressure could be let off more gradually, such as digging into the magma?

If it weren't for the radioactive fallout, a small nuke in Yellowstoned Lake might be the way to go...

[r9etb]

Not the blast, but the FALLOUT! 5 inches of volcanic junk dumped on our head in a few hours would suffocate just about everything.

Not true. Mt. St. Helens deposited several inches of ash in some parts of eastern Washington, including (IIRC) at least a couple of inches in Spokane. The ash deposition corridor was fairly narrow: my hometown got ~1/4", while 10 miles away they got dumped on. There was no notable suffocation, and I don't think the wheat crops were significantly affected even that year.

[nhoward14]

I was referring to Tom Hanks' character in the movie Joe vs. The Volcano.