?... when Yellowstone blows up? (or another super volcano)

[parabellum9]

All right, so everyone here is getting their basement stocked and looking at their ammo stash and going to bed happy with their little AR-15 or Glock etc...........
No, the zombies will not come, gentlemen, the Ruskies neither.
What I am reading is that there are a few super-volcanos on this planet, capable of killing everything within 500+ miles and possibly even causing an "extinction level event".
One of those is Yellowstone and it sounds like its overdue to go KA-BOOOOM! in the near future. (ok, noone knows when exactly)
Anyway,
if that should happen what am I doing -- putting the kids in the Jeep and driving South-West bound to avoid the huge dustcloud? (which will be born East by the jetstream...) Anyone with kids out there have a plan for that? (gear, supplies, route, communications, meds etc.)

Thanx!
[NoEvil]

[parabellum9]

oh, here is a good link...
http://www.earthmountainview.com/yellowstone/yellowstone.htm

[SuperiorDG]

Growing up during the cold war and living within the biggest group of military bases on the East coast and three hours from DC we had a saying. "At least we will not know what hit us." If that thing goes you will not have much of a chose.[Beer]

[Big Wall]

Right now there is a thicker layer of the Earth's crust covering the hot spot in Yellowstone than there was the last time it blew. It will be a LONG time before the Earth's crust shifts enough for a thinner region of it to be over Yellowstone again. Somewhere around 8-9 years ago there was a tv catastrophie movie made about it. The movie sucked but after it there was a hour long show about the science of the hot spot in Yellowstone which was very good.

[SA Friday]

If a super volcano goes off, it's a game ender. Excessive amounts of carbon dioxide gas and hydrogen sulfide a couple years later from certain bacterias stimulated from the CO2 will one, choke off the O2 users (that's all the animals and most of the plants) and then superheat the atmosphere. There is simply no way to predict which one of the super volcanoes will go and when they will do it, and any survival will be determined by chance. One cannot plan for this type of crisis. It's too random and too global. If it's Yellowstone, we are all toast anyway. We are too close.

Krakatoa's (SP) last eruption put the entire globe in a depressed temperature state for years and the ash blocked what little solar radiation could get through. Crops all around the globe failed, starvation was moderately systemic everywhere. That was just a regular volcano, albeit huge.

[ghettodub]

If a super volcano goes off, it's a game ender. Excessive amounts of carbon dioxide gas and hydrogen sulfide a couple years later from certain bacterias stimulated from the CO2 will one, choke off the O2 users (that's all the animals and most of the plants) and then superheat the atmosphere. There is simply no way to predict which one of the super volcanoes will go and when they will do it, and any survival will be determined by chance. One cannot plan for this type of crisis. It's too random and too global. If it's Yellowstone, we are all toast anyway. We are too close.

Krakatoa's (SP) last eruption put the entire globe in a depressed temperature state for years and the ash blocked what little solar radiation could get through. Crops all around the globe failed, starvation was moderately systemic everywhere. That was just a regular volcano, albeit huge.

^this pretty much covers it. We'd be over with.

[Irving]

But isn't there some way to subsidize our way out of this problem?

[Big Wall]

But isn't there some way to subsidize our way out of this problem?

Not after Bush screwed everything up.