Yellowstone HEATING up

[aluminitus]

We were just there a few weeks ago and were also struck by just how fragile the ground is there. We saw a parking lot that had sprouted a steaming hole in the middle of it, and a drainage grate that had most of the metal eaten away due to the sulfuric steam shooting out of it. My advice: Go see Yellowstone before it blows!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIrG3Ykqwmw

[rodsterinfl]

You would NOT want to be in Idaho. Look! So, with the blow of Yellowstone and the ground shaking probably dropping California in the sea, that would leave the island of Washigon, the southwest and the rest of us. The potential burned pot smoke cloud from Colorado would keep us dazed for weeks!

[PharmGeek]

If it blows - is rather simply be in the blast radius and get it over with

[rodsterinfl]

I was in NZ and spent time in Rotorua. It is highly volcanic, bubbling mud, fields of muck and steaming water too. There were a few earthquakes too while visiting. Soon after I was there, Christchurch experienced that earthquake that caused so much damage.

Wow Pharmageek, just finished listening to the mp3. Wild place. Yellowstone is the MOST volcanic

[rodsterinfl]

Love the Bear AG&AU!

[Gnorts]

Originally Posted by PharmGeek

its absolutely stunning that we exist on this tiny layer of crust essentially floating around on a friggin ball of magma.

we visited st. lucia back in like 2009..places like that too (as I recall) really could just blow in a short (relatively) time period....

We live such short lives as opposed to geological time....

I guess I know so little about yellow stone, but it just seems completely mind numbing that the roads just up and turn to "soup"

Our geology prof in college put the concept in perspective for us: We all remember drinking cocoa made with hot milk. When you blew on it to cool it, a skin would form on the surface of the cocoa. The ball of magma is the cocoa. We all live on the skin...

[Rocinante]

As one of the park rangers at Yellowstone succinctly put it, "One day we won't have to come visit Yellowstone, because it will come to visit all of us."