Is Yellowstone Getting Ready to Blow?

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  1. longknife

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    [FONT=Times New Roman, serif][video]https://youtu.be/DL5vG8uRYe8[/video][/FONT]


    [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]There are places s(t)eaming I have never seen steam before….and also note that the bright ground is back. There are no shadows, so it is not from above! As you know the cameras were froze up last night, so we could not see what was going ….or so we thought LOL…I found a way. Somehow (don’t ask me how), the Geyser Observation Study site was able to capture the ENTIRE night with NO freeze ups and cutting in and out….how is THAT? Anyway, I got it and slowed it down so you can see better. Old Faithful had weird seismos last night, and was going off constantly.[/FONT]


    [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]And that tidbit is followed by this:[/FONT]


    [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]The Shoshone River, near Yellowstone National Park, suddenly and without warning started boiling, changed color and began to emit a sulfuric odor on March 25. Nearby witnesses wondered if they were “all going to die.” The current consensus among geologists and other experts is that a portion of the Shoshone River began to boil, located near Cody, Wyoming, and a new Yellowstone vent has opened up.[/FONT]


    [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Read the full story and decide for yourselves @ http://www.prisonplanet.com/yellows...s-what-is-really-going-on-at-yellowstone.html[/FONT]


    [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Earthquakes across the world including powerful tremor in Ecuador and series of shakes in Japan could herald new MEGA quake, warns top scientist[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...MEGA-quake-warns-scientist.html#ixzz46BWpiTf6[/FONT]


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    [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]The words mean little. It's pictures like this that tell the real story.[/FONT]


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    [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]More @ http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36065644[/FONT]
     
  2. JakeJ

    JakeJ Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So we should hope Yellowstone blows to save us all from burning up from global warming? :smile:

    Although considered a remote possibility, very, it also means the survialists/preppers are all that crazy if out of the blow and debris path. We're ready for it. You?
     
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    So how many times has it been now that Yellowstone is about to blow? I've lost track.
     
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    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    That's because Yellowstone is always ready to blow. Nothing to worry about because there is nothing we can do about it.
     
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    Deckel Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    If there is a Yellowstone caldera blow out, there is nobody in the mainland US out of range. It is just a matter of when it reaches you and how quickly you croak.
     
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    Man boils to death in Yellowstone acidic pool...
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    Yellowstone Park accident victim dissolved in boiling acidic pool
    Thu, 17 Nov 2016 - A man who died in a hot spring accident in Yellowstone National Park dissolved, US officials say.
     
  7. sawyer

    sawyer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I have been to Yellowstone many times, it is one of my favorite places and if you go off season the crowds are not that bad. Last spring I went there and somehow felt in my gut that something seemed different. The entire region just felt more active to me and this article confirms what I was thinking and feeling. The fact is Yellowstone is an active super volcano and it surly will blow someday and it's as likely to blow tomorrow as it is in a thousand years from now, just no way to tell. Having said that, I was working on Mt St Helens when it started acting up and had the same gut feeling about it as others shrugged their shoulders. I quit my job and went home as friends and coworkers rolled their eyes at my decision. Some of them died on that mountain while many more got lucky and lived because it blew on a weekend and fortunately most were at home.
     
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    It's a super volcano! And days and weeks after the US is destroyed the rest of the world will be in darkness, no crops, no air travel, no economy, etc.

    But hey...humans inhabiting Earth are truly just along for the ride...we have no control...
     
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    Deckel Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Science tells us that man will go extinct; religion tells us that mankind will end. There is no argument on that fate. As long as the place sticks around another 70 years, I should be fine either way.
     
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    Must be nice to be young.:smile:
     
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    Deckel Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I say the same thing about retired people. A check to do nothing has appeal.
     
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    sawyer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The check is nice but don't count on it for much. Good investments and good financial decisions allow me to live the good life in retirement. If all I had was the check I'd be a regular at the local food bank and or be a Walmart greeter. As it is I tell my wife every day, "have I told you today how much i love being retired?" Time is the blessing here, time to do what you want when you want why you want, money allows you time.
     
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    Deckel Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Oh I won't need a lot of money when I retire. House will be paid for and my sister is looooooaded and sort of likes me. I say things like, "I need to save up to buy a new car" and she is suddenly out car window shopping.
     
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    Some of us have a lot less years but this doesn't change my concern for mankind's future...
     
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    Deckel Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I see no point on fretting over something we have absolutely no control over.
     
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    OldManOnFire Well-Known Member

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    I agree with things like Yellowstone but regarding other issues like building on or near volcanoes, building at sea level along the coasts, trying to understand how mankind effects Earth and if there might be anything we can do to mitigate potential problems...
     
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    We could have lots of mandatory relocations and it really won't make much difference. Not allowing people to live on the shoreline would actually make people care less about what happens to the shorelines. I had a 25-30 foot wide swift water river running through my property during Hurricane Matthew when there otherwise is no river running through my property. I didn't and don't blame it on anybody's lifestyle choices. I kept a close eye on my new high-tech dual stage 17 seer heat/AC unit to make sure it didn't get hit, but beyond that, life went on. Mankind adapts even if Mother nature elects to compost a lot of specific mans in the process.
     
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    I'd be happy if we just stopped building in these precarious places and worry about relocation another time. As a taxpayer it irks me to think governments and people can be so arrogant, building in known problem areas, then when the (*)(*)(*)(*) hits the fan most of them demand the government bail them out...solve their problems.

    People don't need to live on shorelines to appreciate and care for them...we just extend the existing beach parks further away from the shoreline, public parks for everyone to enjoy.

    If you get a permit to build your house in the low area where your hurricane river showed up IMO this is an arrogance. Seems to me if people demand to build in these areas then two things should exist; first they cannot obtain home owners insurance, and second, government cannot bail them out when something happens. Even with this policy people will still build in harms way and will still demand government bail them out. This truly helps explain why so many don't give a rip about climate change.

    We are a nation deeply in debt with more debt every year! We cannot afford to continue to be stupid. We don't have the money to simply 'adapt'. We need to make better decisions but IMO we're too stupid to do this. So life goes on and the cycle never changes...
     
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    Deckel Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I live about two hundred miles inland in the mid-atlantic. What you deem as "arrogance" is a swath of land with millions of people living in it. I can only assume you know nothing of hurricanes, rain bands and the east coast.
     
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    I've personally experienced three hurricanes...one in FL and two in NC. I owned a home in NC on the beach and when I realized it would be a fruitless and senseless battle against mother nature, I sold and moved. Ever since then I wonder why we keep building more and more homes and businesses in these guaranteed flood areas? The single largest catastrophic event forecasted for the USA, other than Yellowstone erupting, is a potential tsunami that starts in western Africa and hits the east coast of the USA killing and destroying everything in it's path! We know this will happen but we don't know if it will be tomorrow or 500 years from now. Arrogance is assuming it will be 500 years from now...
     
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    I have experienced several and more remnants than I could count. One in Florida was the worst I have been in right on the beach. The water was blowing in around the windows and doors where we were staying. Matthew was a problem for my area because the rain bands smacked into a cold air pocket and produced hours of heavy rain.
     
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    Nope. The Rust Belt will only get rustier.
     
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    And every time we have these disasters it costs people and the government lots of money! We never learn our lesson and abandon areas...we just rebuild and rebuild and rebuild! These disasters have huge impacts on local and national economies.

    What would you do if the government gave you 10 options to relocate?


     
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    Unless it involved another country, not much. Half the population of the US lives in Hurricane country.
     
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    I agree. Hurricane, flood, earthquake knocks out an area, and people rebuild right on top of the rubble. It would be different if these people had to cover the costs of their decisions, but the govt bails them out or forces property insurance rates below what the risk requires.
     

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