BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It’s 3AM on any given day of the week, the concussion slams into your home like a 600 mph freight train, it’s thunderous, unimaginable, knocking you and your wife/hubby/significant other/bed buddy completely out of bed onto the floor, pictures crash to the ground, glass breaks, plaster falls from your ceiling, your home alarm goes off along with every house and car alarm in your neighborhood.

Your cat is now permanently attached to the 28-foot cathedral ceiling in your den, the water in the fish tank is now, suspiciously, a mucky brown color. There is a hole in the wall next to the hampters cage in the dubious shape of the wheel, which once occupied the cage. The dog is now half way to China.

“What the hell just happened� You proclaim.

A rumble continues in the distance and a constant shaking hampers you from standing much less walking, you think it’s over the good Lord has returned.

Five miles beneath Yellowstone, lies an immense pool of red-hot magma. Fed from the Earth's mantle, it has been growing. This reservoir of magma and gas is now 31 miles long, 19 miles wide, and six miles deep. The building pressures must be enormous.

The Yellowstone "hot spot" is considered the foundation of a rare "supervolcano." It is estimated that a supervolcano would erupt with the power at least 1000 times greater than that of an 'ordinary' volcano.

The Yellowstone Calderia in Wyoming just exploded. The west coast is gone; everything from Louisiana to Wisconsin will soon be covered in volcanic ash, large chunks of rock have been propelled miles into the air; they will be crashing down soon, some as far as 600 miles away. The explosion has triggered may local faults to give to has placed much stress on them, now once stable fault lines are weak and tremors are abound.

IMHO the ultimate and most realistic SHTF scenario, it’s 3AM you have what you have, for those who survived the tremendous blast, what would you do?

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Me: "Hi Mr. St. Peter."
SP: "What are you doing here, you aren't scheduled to show up for quite a while"
Me: "Darned if I know. I'm sleeping in my house on the West coast and suddenly I'm here."
 
Hose your dog off the side of my house and assume that I don't need to be on time for work (...my boss is in Michigan :D ).
 
This is why I have several thousand rounds of .22lr and will be buying more. Need to buy another .22lr rifle or two, maybe some pistols.
This is why I'm buying an SKS and will stock ammo for it.
Purchases in the near future:
Survival manuals
Long term food storage items
water purification


The yellowstone supervolcano is the ultimate SHTF. This would shut the world economy down, destroy our government, and bascially send our civiliation back several hundred years.
 
Forget about location. You will either be wiped out in the blast (which will exterminate life across much of the North American continent), killed by the resulting earthquakes, or starve/freeze to death in the mini-ice age caused by ash and particulate matter blocking out the sun.

Assuming you survive all that, you will still have to survive your fellow man struggling to stay alive himself. If you are extremely lucky (or perhaps unlucky), you will go through all of this to find yourself trying to figure out how to stay alive in a world that has regressed to the pre-Industrial Age, with some modifications (the knowledge to make Penicillin and other "home grown" antibiotics will be available, although the necessary infrastructure to manufacture it will be difficult to produce and its effectiveness on many diseases has been reduced).
 
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THR thread: how can we blame "liberals" for the eruption?
 
shermacman, too funny and too true.

If I remember correctly, the caldera is believed to do the big blow at more-or-less regular intervals of 600,000 to 800,000 years. It would kinda suck, statistically speaking, to have it happen during our lifetimes, but I vaguely recall that the last big blow was about that long ago.

If it happened, the Minneapolis area would probably have at least a 10 hour head-start before the ash started raining down, hopefully longer. So there's a little time to try to find out which way the winds are blowing, and if it's smarter to stay put or to bug-out. My preference would be to stay at home, since we've got a lot more stuff here than we can fit into two cars, and realistically we'd probably only get about 250 miles away before running out of gas, and then we'd be on our own in a strange place (pretty well-armed, with lots of food, water, lights, blankets, etc., but still).

If we stayed home, we'd break out the plastic sheeting and duct tape and go to work on sealing up at least one floor of the house and moving all of the supplies to that floor. Provide for some ventilation through garage with a sheet or two as a makeshift filter. Also try to seal up the engine compartments of the cars, which will never be totally effective but may still help. As long as the water works, fill every bathtub and container in the house. If the water stops, go to pond in backyard and fill every possible container for future use with filtering and/or bleach treatment. Turn off the water to the house, and there's 50 gallons in the hot water heater. Make improvised masks. Go get my Mom.

If it happened tonight, we could last about a month before having to go outside for more water. Food stash is good for 60 days. What I can't judge is just how bad the ash would be. It might do us in long before then, through respiratory overload, collapsing the roof, whatever. If we make it a month, who knows what the conditions will be then, other than 90%+ of people will be dead or gone. Scrounge for a couple years, then try planting seeds, we might just make it. Or not, but we'll give it a good effort.

Will THR still be working?
 
"I'd thank the Almighty that I live in New York, heh heh."

Actually, in addition to living in the most earthquake ridden town in North America, distance would not save you.

If yellowstone goes up, it will more or less exterminate all of humanity, globally.

You will simply have the luxury of starving/freezing to death.
 
FYI, the supervolcano is the latest prime suspect in mass extinctions. So once again, distance is irrelevant.
 
FYI, the supervolcano is the latest prime suspect in mass extinctions.

Of course, being blessed with legume-sized brains and being shortchanged in the opposable thumb department did prevent any dinosaurs from getting their merit badge in igloo building. ;)
 
So once again, distance is irrelevant.

Yup. Just look at the effect of a 'regular' volcano eruption. Ash fallout causing nuclear winter, lowering average world wide temps for a little while...
A true supervolcano erupction would cause massive nuclear winter. Crops would fail, temperatures would lower dramatically, and precipitation would go up. But at least it has potential to be acid rain....
 
It's worse than that. A current theory is that the eruption of the supervolcano will send a massive chunk of rock into a suborbital path, bringing it down on the other side of the planet. So we get the best of both worlds: massive supervolcanic eruption combined with the equivalent of an asteroid strike.

Igloos ain't going to cut it. Maybe deep earth shelters with massive supplies ala Deep Impact.
 
There was an interesting article in this past Sunday's Parade Magazine, the cover of which is attached.
 

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Well, personally I dont plan on surviving it, being about 300 miles from it and all. Funny though, our family cabin is IN the cauldera, the insurence guy asked us if we wanted volcano insurance, now that is one you don't hear every day. LOL
 
Costa Rica could look real attractive then...

But I suspect there wouldn't be any places to avoid something that nasty. Sometimes you just can't win.
 
Of course, being blessed with legume-sized brains and being shortchanged in the opposable thumb department did prevent any dinosaurs from getting their merit badge in igloo building.
Tamara,

Thanks for my first good laugh of the day.

pax
 
Yellowstone going again wouldn't just affect surrounding states. Expect USA to drop into third-world status for a good long while, and billions over the Earth to die.
 
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