Oklahoma City can't even get bypassed by some volcanic ash.
Let's not forget that Black Mesa is a lava flow from a volcano in Colorado.
My first child was born and we were preparing to move from Luke AFB, AZ to Shaw AFB, SC...and we were glued to the TV. Awesome display of "natural" power.
Yeah, the human interest aspect of Mr. Truman really intrigued me. I mean, they knew what was on the way but he refused to leave. To me, the notion of a violent volcano on the lower 48 was mind blowing. I was pregnant at the time and wondered if this was the start of a bad geological cycle that would impact my babies.
I was - I think - a 6th grader in Wichita, KS, and I remember that you could wipe your hand across the windshield of an automobile in the days following the eruption and come away with gritty ash on your palm.
I visited Mount St. Helens in 1999, and I was alternately struck by how resilient nature was (you could clearly see areas reforesting and wildlife returning), but also by how devastated the surroundings still were nearly 20 years later. I'd like to make it back and see what it's like now, 15 years after THAT visit.
[QUOTE=Urbanized;788624 I'd like to make it back and see what it's like now, 15 years after THAT visit.[/QUOTE]
I sure hope it DOESN'T look like this...
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mt...ddb4f4b6cf94c7
Sure hope "The Feds" would help to bail us out . . .
Or would shovels be more effective than buckets?
Maybe there could be a helicopter drop of snorkels?
(and some cuff clips or wading boots to avoid the inconvenience of dusty trousers?)
The recent mudslides in Washington killed dozens and that was a mile of mud. Imagine hundreds if not thousands of square miles of ash? Shiver...
They've tamed their predictions quite a bit over the last couple of years from what I've read. Many are saying now is that from the Midwest and Central US back to the Pac NW would get the bulk of the ash fall...though ash would still fall up to 2,000 miles away and be noticeable. The Yellowstone Volcanic monitoring offer should allow for plenty of advanced notice as well to evacuate those whom are nearest to the volcano. The good thing is most of those states around it are some of the lowest populated ones in the country.
I think the biggest issue we'll see are the obvious global cooling we would see for 6+ months due to the ash cloud blanketing the Earth. Then the fallout of ash causing an impact on farm lands and such. I would hazard to guess more people would die from the panic and civil unrest than from the blast itself.
There are some old coal mines, near Marshall, Colorado, that have been burning for about a hundred years.
Unlike Mount St. Helens . . . Human intervention probably had something to do with it.
("Nae, Cap'n Kirk . . . I dinna have anything t' do wi' it . . . I'm an Engineer . . . no' a scriptwriter . . . " )
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