When Yellowstone Erupts, what is your plan?

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

Be happy I'm not living anywhere near Yellowstone! I think North Carolina is far enough away that we'll escape the worst of it. If it gets too bad, I could get on a boat and head East, or south to the Caribbean.

Dude your in NC? I'm up near Greensboro, where you at?

OT: I'm going to do nothing. It's gonna put a big ass hole in the ground make some noise and we'll all have a moment of silence for the idiots who stayed or the unfortunate who couldn't leave. After five years no one will care.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Given that Dundee, UK is clowdy, cold and dreary most of the year, I don't think I'm going to notice the Ash Cloud fueled ice age that will probably envelop the Northern Hemisphere. It'll just be a normal Scottish day

yeah... probably.

OT: couldnt we just... not ***** and do something. like... put a big lid on it or something? or just not ***** about something we can't stop...

 

[Westaway]

Get my ass out of Toronto and into Christchurche

 

[riverblue]

Whatever happens its a legitimate reason to go whoring

 

[HotFezz8]

So yes, for everyone who doesn't know, there is a Massive Volcano system, known as a Super Volcano, underneath Yellowstone Park. When it erupts, it will cover a majority of the world in ash and it will block out the sun causing a new Ice Age. So fellow Escapists, what do you plan on doing when it erupts, or how do you plan on surviving?

Since I live on the East Coast of America, Ash is gonna be a problem. I'd have to towel up all the creeks and crevices in the house so that it couldn't get in. Also, Water is a priority since most of it will become ash polluted. So I'd be storing water bottles and hope it can last long enough for the ash to stop. I'll also have non-gas generators, millions of batteries, and a ton of movies I would want to ride out the initial fallout, then when the worst is over, I will go out and scavenge. Plus, I will stock up on Diabetic Supplies because I am a diabetic.

"it will block out the sun causing a new ice age", = no vegetables = no domesticated animals = no food = mass starvation + almost immediate break down of society = death within three months.

basically if yellowstone goes up in my life time i'm going to die. your going to die. everyone i know is going to die.

 

[BigDrig]

What is this doomsday bullshit?

The Regular Schedule for the Yellowstone Volcano is: We're way past due for an explosion... So yeah, it can happen at any time, and probably soon...

On a scale of hundreds of thousands of years, "soon" probably means "in the next 10.000 years". We're not going to live for the next hundred.

Massive caldera-forming eruptions, though the most potentially devastating of Yellowstone?s hazards, are extremely rare?only three have occurred in the past several million years. U.S. Geological Survey, University of Utah, and National Park Service scientists with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) see no evidence that another such cataclysmic eruption will occur at Yellowstone in the foreseeable future.

Source: http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2005/3024/

So my plan is to put my trust in science and ignore all the current generation's typical scares and paranoia unless there's solid evidence for it. We're not going to witness the end of the world or any world-scale cataclysmic event in our lifetimes. Try to accept that fact.

^This. It seems like every single person I see post in threads like this is either horribly pessimistic, and thinks the world is going to end in the next 5 mins, or they are blissfully ignorant and optimistic.

Please, stop all this doomsday stuff and just have fun with life. The average lifespan is ~80 years (I think). Not a very long time. I just don't understand why everyone has this grotesque obsession with the world ending....I almost get the impression you lot want it to end just for entertainment purposes.

They have been talking about "OMG, yellowstone is going to assplode!" for years. I think there has even been movies concerning it.

*Climbs off of soapbox*
Just my 2¢

 

[Robert Ewing]

From what I can see, it seems that the scale of Yellowstone is a bit... overestimated. It just seems like the very Californian thing of bigging everything up, and internet conspiracy types not helping the issue.

I doubt it could cover the world in ash and trigger another ice age. If it had that sort of power, what the fuck is stopping it from erupting now? Sure, i'm not denying the eruption will most likely be fucking huge, and devastating to quite a large area. But here in Britain, I think i'll be relatively safe.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Guess I'd be safe in the UK from the immediate effects of the eruption, but I get to enjoy a decade of winter! Hooray for slow deaths.

Though if the world does end I may finally get some action. There's nothing better than Apocalypse sex.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

America will have a smoking butt hole in the north west, the farm belt will be incinerated or frozen due to lack of sunlight and global temperatures will drop 4 maybe 5 degrees. America, Canada and Mexico will all feel the worst of it.

I have never really subscribed to the timetable theory that events happen with any sort of predictability. Sure they can say every 600,000 years, but our species (humans) began our evolutionary climb 13 odd million years ago. Yellowstone's "timetable" doesn't exactly mesh with it. If it were capable of wiping out all life, then we wouldn't exist.

Maybe continental drift has stabilized the region and added another 50,000 years or so to the clock.

 

[MrFalconfly]

Well usually the only thing being affected by an ice-winter in Denmark is the public transport (trains, busses and so on because they're useless) so I think I'll manage by just preparing for a slightly longer winter.

Also Denmark is one of the biggest producers of bacon in the world so food shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Bloodtrozorx]

A six pack, a lawn chair and sweet sweet death.

 

[Sonicron]

Get a gun, of course. That way I can blow my brains out before frostbite claims me.

Oh yeah, prior to blowing my brains out... well, loot (and, by extension, murder for loot) I guess. Society as we know it would collapse, so it'd be everybody for themselves...

Not the biggest chance of that mother blowing in my lifetime, so no worries I suppose. If it happens, it happens.

 

[Edible Avatar]

I'm just throwing this out there: Rapture
A underwater city does'nt need to worry about ice ages or ash clouds.
Looking for and hiring overprotecting babysitters
I'm accepting donations to get started XP

OT: i'd be in 7 shades of s***, but i'd be happy if i survive to see the next ice age.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

Pray and make human sacrifices to the fire god. Its the only way.
Otherwise I would get all the water, canned food and batteries I could.
I've always been of the mentality of if I am stuck somewhere with a group of people where we have little supplies that I would try to form a tribe with the strongest and quickly kill anyone I think would be a threat.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Move to New Zealand. The whole north hemisphere will be various shades of fucked.

You do realise New Zealand is one of the more geological active areas in the world? There is at least one active volcano, the largest city here is built on top of over 40 of them and the country's largest lake was a mountain that blew itself up.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

...Well crap. Maybe I could try to move somewhere else, not sure if that'd help...

 

[mrhappy1489]

Considering Australia is thousands of kilometers away, the most I'll have to worry about is the possibility of some damned refugees coming in and takin are JOBS!

 

[RJ 17]

Yeah, not sure if anyone has already pointed this out (just got done reading the first page of responses) but this is one of the many possible "doomsday" theories out there. Be assured, that when/if this does happen, there'll be no "riding it out" We're talking a volcanic explosion so massive that it'll literally blow up pretty much all of western Canada and the western US. The "immediate death zone", if I remember correctly, is said to reach all the way to Kansas or something (could be wrong on that). But even the OP is boned if he thinks he can put some towels under the doors and windows. Canned food and bottled water will only get you so, but rest assured when Yellowstone kerplodes, the whole world is boned. The amount of ash and dirt in the planet's atmosphere will be ridiculous and, as the OP mentioned, it will most assuredly usher in a new ice age.

As to what I would do, living in Kansas City, Missouri, if I wasn't killed in the immediate explosion or the pyroclastic flow that swept out like a shockwave afterwards...I'd probably buy a bullet and rent a gun. Patience has never been one of my virtues, and at that point we'd all just be waiting to die.

 

[DkLnBr]

It seems like every single person I see post in threads like this is either horribly pessimistic, and thinks the world is going to end in the next 5 mins, or they are blissfully ignorant and optimistic.

Correct me if im wrong, but aren't these the only options? Either you think it will turn out bad, or you think it will be alright. There isnt much of a middle ground, the glass is either half empty, or half full, it cant be both (well I guess technically it can... but you can still see my point right?)
On topic. If the volcano does go off soon, then im probably going to get showered with rocks and lava (depending on the strength of the blast). As for the nuclear winter? I like the cold, so i'd be fine (but probably a little more hungry).

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.

Minor change. VEI of 7-8. a VEI of 6 is too small (in a manner of speaking). But you are right, blasts like that are too rare to worry about. The way things are going now, the global economy will collapse and we'll have WWIII before any 'supervolcano' goes off

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

It seems like every single person I see post in threads like this is either horribly pessimistic, and thinks the world is going to end in the next 5 mins, or they are blissfully ignorant and optimistic.

Please, stop all this doomsday stuff and just have fun with life. The average lifespan is ~80 years (I think). Not a very long time. I just don't understand why everyone has this grotesque obsession with the world ending....I almost get the impression you lot want it to end just for entertainment purposes.

They have been talking about "OMG, yellowstone is going to assplode!" for years. I think there has even been movies concerning it.

*Climbs off of soapbox*
Just my 2¢

Took the words right out of my mouth. I couldn't have said it any better myself.

This doomsday bullshit is really pathetic. One will go insane thinking about that kind of stuff. Like you said, just enjoy life.