When Yellowstone Erupts, what is your plan?
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Because the US government has a really great track record with disaster relief...Esotera said:
Frankly, if people are expecting any government to be able to do anything other than collapse after a super volcano erupts I think they're probably being a bit too optimistic.
I'm from the UK and live right next to a substantial millitary base, along with about 20 miles of agricultural land any way you go. So I'd be one of the lucky ones, probably. I also have extensive building materials, food supplies, and various tools, etc. I'm relatively prepared for any disaster.Vivi22 said:
I dunno, start living underground like Gollum? Maybe I should start investing a underground reseach of building a working house underground or at least a underground bunker.
hate to be annoying and realistic here, but regardless of what you have seen on panorama or the history channel, "supervolcanos" are not that big of a deal.
It's not even a scientific term, but is generally used to refer to eruptions of VEI 6+. The most dramatic predictions of the yellowstone vocano are VEI 8.
VEI 8 eruptions have occured about a hundred times in the last millennium, and there was a VEI 7 in 1991.
Their effects ARE global and ARE severe. The 1991 eruption of pinatubo reduced the GMST by about 0.5 degrees for 3 years, and the Tambora explosion caused something called "the year without summer".
so famine, yes.
extinction of a few species, possibly.
Apocalypse, definitely not.
It's not even a scientific term, but is generally used to refer to eruptions of VEI 6+. The most dramatic predictions of the yellowstone vocano are VEI 8.
VEI 8 eruptions have occured about a hundred times in the last millennium, and there was a VEI 7 in 1991.
Their effects ARE global and ARE severe. The 1991 eruption of pinatubo reduced the GMST by about 0.5 degrees for 3 years, and the Tambora explosion caused something called "the year without summer".
so famine, yes.
extinction of a few species, possibly.
Apocalypse, definitely not.
The trouble as I understand it though is that an eruption of super volcano, start a new ice age proportions is probably going to mean that just about every country in the northern hemisphere is going to be affected to some degree. Even the UK may experience shorter growing seasons. And even minor changes in an ecosystem magnify into massive problems when they happen in a short time period. And it's my understanding that the last time Yellowstone erupted would have made Mount St. Helen's look like something of a firecracker, and it deposited ash in 11 states.Esotera said:
Even if the UK were largely untouched though, the effect on the world economy of the US ceasing to exist as it does today, and perhaps millions of people trying to flee to other regions means not many places would be ok at all. A lot of people would probably die, including those less directly affected.
Fuck that man. The sky will be a funky colour for a few years, but most of us outside North America won't have much more to deal with than that. One documentary I watched about this suggested that western Europe was worse affected by Chernobyl than it would be by this.Baron von Blitztank said:
It depends: If the thing erupts within the next 1 to 3 months than I'll still be in NW-D.C. and depending on which way the winds blow the giant ash cloud I'll be fucked thanks to the aforementioned ash-tainted water mentioned by the OP. If it erupts after that then I'll be in Georgia and not quite as fucked though still quite fucked depending upon wind direction etc.
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If you have the money for it, you can always buy and live in a decommissioned missile silo. They're underground and apparently it is legal to buy and, live in one. Granted I get my information from Cracked so take that for what it's worth.Scarim Coral said:
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don't know how exactly it would affect Europe, if it's an ice age you're talking about then I guess I could move south.
I live in the UK. Probably far enough away to not feel any seismic activity, and when the ash starts falling we'll all just carry on as normal and complain about the weather like we usually do.
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