Yellowstone caldera - concerning.......

[bigtiller]

We drove through in July of '68. We stood with about 10 strangers and watched Old Faithful blow one morning. I think the crowds are big enough now that they have bleachers to sit on. I also remember seeing signs all over the place warning not to feed the bears, and we only seen 3.

 

[charlz]

We drove through in July of '68. We stood with about 10 strangers and watched Old Faithful blow one morning. I think the crowds are big enough now that they have bleachers to sit on. I also remember seeing signs all over the place warning not to feed the bears, and we only seen 3.

There is a big deck sort of quarter-circle and sections of benches... no bleachers... yet.

 

[grsthegreat]

Also, if you look it up you will see that it is producing at least a 1000 times more Helium 4 than ever before in recorded history. I live in Northwest Iowa and right outside my town in an exposed sedimentary layer on a hillside lies exposed a 5 foot layer of volcanic ash that the Yellowstone volcano deposited 640,000 years ago that helped bring about the extinction of dinosaurs in western Nebraska. That is a quantifiable fact and no bull. So I can allow myself to be slightly concerned when the geologists in Yellowstone using their differential gps devices say the mantle has begun pushing up, it is real.

NO WHERES BUT THIS ARTICLE MENTIONED ABOVE, CAN I FIND INFO ABOUT HELIUM BEING 1000 TIMES more than expected. All the articles i find simply say that the levels are higher than they would expect from underground sources.... they also state that the gases may have been trapped in magma chambers. i did a google search.

Yellowstone Park Releasing Ancient Helium, Researchers Find : Science : Nature World News

http://phys.org/news/2014-02-helium-billions-years-yellowstone.html


see if you can find any real data..not from a prepper site

 

[dave1949]

When Yellowstone blows, don't start your tractors! The ash will ruin the engine.

Best thing to do, since Maine is well outside the projected impact area, is to ship your tractors to me for safe keeping.

Call now for shipping to beat the rush. Don't get caught sitting on your ashes. :laughing:

 

[charlz]

Also, if you look it up you will see that it is producing at least a 1000 times more Helium 4 than ever before in recorded history. I live in Northwest Iowa and right outside my town in an exposed sedimentary layer on a hillside lies exposed a 5 foot layer of volcanic ash that the Yellowstone volcano deposited 640,000 years ago that helped bring about the extinction of dinosaurs in western Nebraska. That is a quantifiable fact and no bull. So I can allow myself to be slightly concerned when the geologists in Yellowstone using their differential gps devices say the mantle has begun pushing up, it is real.

When Mount St Helens blew we only got about 1/4 inch at the house. I remember watching this dark cloud line coming over the mountains and moving across the valley. I can't image what 5 feet of the stuff would be like. I wonder how much of that fell directly in your area and how much was blown in by winds years or even decades later. All the plant life would die with much less that 5 feet of ash so I would expect moonscape for many decades after such an event. Any 'Yellowstone Eruption' preps would have to include a semi-truck full of air filters. I remember all the news reports showing people closer to the eruption having to stop pretty often to clean or change air filters on their vehicles.

 

[k0ua]

When Yellowstone blows, don't start your tractors! The ash will ruin the engine.

Best thing to do, since Maine is well outside the projected impact area, is to ship your tractors to me for safe keeping.

Call now for shipping to beat the rush. Don't get caught sitting on your ashes. :laughing:

Dave, you want my tractor shipped on a big pallet or what?

 

[turnkey4099]

When Mount St Helens blew we only got about 1/4 inch at the house. I remember watching this dark cloud line coming over the mountains and moving across the valley. I can't image what 5 feet of the stuff would be like. I wonder how much of that fell directly in your area and how much was blown in by winds years or even decades later. All the plant life would die with much less that 5 feet of ash so I would expect moonscape for many decades after such an event. Any 'Yellowstone Eruption' preps would have to include a semi-truck full of air filters. I remember all the news reports showing people closer to the eruption having to stop pretty often to clean or change air filters on their vehicles.

Wasn't just "close" to the eruption I am 300 miles away and vehicles were ruined all over. It was impossible to drive until they finally got the road cleaned many days later. I was the lucky stiff who bought a used pickup and found later that it went through the ash - took a total rebuild only thing original was the crankshaft. Block had a casting flaw that broke after the rebore.

I'm here in Eastern Washington. I had 2" measured on top of posts. Shut this whole area down totally for over a week. There are places out in the scablands where you can still see the grey of the ash all these years later.

Harry K

 

[polo1665]

When Yellowstone blows, don't start your tractors! The ash will ruin the engine.

Best thing to do, since Maine is well outside the projected impact area, is to ship your tractors to me for safe keeping.

Call now for shipping to beat the rush. Don't get caught sitting on your ashes. :laughing:

Well, we all might as well move there. What's the housing situation in Industry?

 

[dave1949]

Dave, you want my tractor shipped on a big pallet or what?

Why didn't I think of that? :laughing: Yes, big pallet, but make sure all the nails are straight.

I was at the Kubota dealer today getting some saw chain. They had a few new B30xx's sitting on pallets, I guess the way the come from the factory. No wheels, no loader, etc. They sure looked tiny. The Kubota hoods all look very narrow on the new tractors.

 

[dave1949]

Well, we all might as well move there. What's the housing situation in Industry?

Good idea.

I'll show you some of our Industry properties:

$25K 10 acres. Small house. There is a guy up the road from that house with a nice sawmill if you want to expand.
http://www.mainelistings.com/RealEstate/ByTown-State/ME/Town/Industry
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$99.9K 134 acres, no house, old pond, driveway and cleared building site.
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$45K 49 acres, no house, small stream, no electric service.
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$1.35M 75 acres on a nice lake, 7 bedroom home plus three cabins for your fellow refugees.
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