[js1138]

No one is going to be around to remember a supervolcano. There is hardly any orally transmitted history of the year without a summer, or the little ice age, or the seven mile wide tornado that ripped through the American midwest last century.

On the other hand, there are lots of vague stories and legends of catastrophes. There are plenty of them in every generation.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

There is hardly any orally transmitted history of the year without a summer, or the little ice age, or the seven mile wide tornado that ripped through the American midwest last century.

Those are small fry in comparison. Civilization survived -- even thrived -- during those disasters. We're talking a disaster that reduced the human population to a bare minimum.