When Yellowstone Erupts, what is your plan?

[Combustion Kevin]

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.

 

[spartandude]

ive got an ocean between here and there so im ok

 

[Ympulse]

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.

Education. Isn't it something?

 

[Idlemessiah]

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.

 

[spartandude]

I'll watch the Republican potential candidates blame each other for it, and promise if they are elected, to remove all volcanic activity from the US.

If i am elected into office i shall declare the environment illegal, its expensive, difficult to keep clean and takes up too much space

Im spartandude and i support this message

 

[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.