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Post by puhlease on Jan 3, 2009 20:40:34 GMT -5
Yellowstone is what's called a "supervolcano" or would be if it blew. None of us are far enough away if it really blows its top. The caldera, or collapsed cone from an ancient eruption, is a mile wide. I have seen a Discovery Channel special and a made-for-TV movie on this topic and according to them (and actual articles I have read) there may not be a safe place anywhere if a volcano of this magnitude had a major eruption. The cluster of quakes sounds similar to what happened in early 1980 at Mt. St. Helen's but the warnings were pooh-poohed by many as scare tactics. Mt. St. Helen's is a drop in the bucket to what's under Yellowstone.
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Post by Fairweather on Jan 8, 2009 13:33:47 GMT -5
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Post by moonstone on Jan 8, 2009 15:56:33 GMT -5
Oh, my. Gorgeous. I've never seen ANYTHING like those. Thank you so much.
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Post by g1 on Jan 9, 2009 12:50:19 GMT -5
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Post by Fairweather on Jan 30, 2009 19:33:18 GMT -5
As a woman of a certain age, I can definitely relate to a planet that suffers "hot flashes." news.aol.com/article/planet-with-hot-flashes/320901?icid=200100397x1218133730x1201185065Ten times closer to its sun at its nearest approach than Mercury is to ours, this planet in just six hours goes from a seasonable 980 degrees to a charring 2200 plus. Or, as one astronomer puts it, from "hellish to super hellish." I wonder if mood swings go along with it.
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Post by moonstone on Feb 4, 2009 16:59:39 GMT -5
Hello, everyone. Just dropping off this great little article from Yahoo about the discovery of a previously unknown volcano in Siberia that erupted approximately 250 million years ago and killed off 90 percent of all life on earth at that time. This is, of course, about 185 million years before the asteroid that is thought to have hit the Earth in the area of the Gulf of Mexico, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. What a violent history Earth has had. dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/04/volcano-mass-extinction.htmlAnyway, the volcanic rocks from this eruption apparently cover an area about the size of Alaska in the Tunguska Basin area, which of course, is the same general area where a huge meteor impacted in 1908, flattening forests and killing herds of reindeer and many other animals. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_eventSmall world, isn't it? By the way, there's a great little video with the first article that shows the top five (in the minds of the Discovery Channel) volcano webcams and videos. Who wouldn't like a good volcano anytime, but the last one, showing the piston-like action of magma at Kilauea in Hawaii, is especially suggestive. All right, I promise to behave. For the rest of this hour.
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Post by Laura on Feb 4, 2009 17:45:20 GMT -5
Hello, everyone. Just dropping off this great little article from Yahoo about the discovery of a previously unknown volcano in Siberia that erupted approximately 250 million years ago and killed off 90 percent of all life on earth at that time. This is, of course, about 185 million years before the asteroid that is thought to have hit the Earth in the area of the Gulf of Mexico, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. What a violent history Earth has had. dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/04/volcano-mass-extinction.htmlAnyway, the volcanic rocks from this eruption apparently cover an area about the size of Alaska in the Tunguska Basin area, which of course, is the same general area where a huge meteor impacted in 1908, flattening forests and killing herds of reindeer and many other animals. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_eventSmall world, isn't it? By the way, there's a great little video with the first article that shows the top five (in the minds of the Discovery Channel) volcano webcams and videos. Who wouldn't like a good volcano anytime, but the last one, showing the piston-like action of magma at Kilauea in Hawaii, is especially suggestive. All right, I promise to behave. For the rest of this hour. Oooh..wonderful volcano action there Moon..but why in the world would you want to behave even for the rest of the hour? We like you so much better when you're being naughty
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Post by moonstone on Feb 5, 2009 0:20:58 GMT -5
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Post by missatheornery on Feb 5, 2009 8:44:04 GMT -5
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Post by puhlease on Feb 5, 2009 13:36:52 GMT -5
Well all I can say is thank God for electricity and man's ingenuity in harnessing it. Electricity for lights and for things such as well pumps and water heaters. My grandmother and her mother, who both lived in this house before me, were laughing if they were watching the past 10 days, I'm sure. (Thanks for the oil lamps, Grandma Jeffery) Ten days we were without electricity, and I am happy as can be to have it back today because they told us it could take as long as 3 weeks, and we were not expecting much better than that.
It will be my entire lifetime before the scars from this icestorm are gone from the northern third of Arkansas. Just a few feet in elevation made a world of difference between not too much damage and every single tree cracked in two or missing half its branches or just plain uprooted from the weight of the ice. Power poles, too, snapped clean off. It took a couple of days to clear the roads enough for power crews to even begin working! Phone service out for a week. I hope 10 days is the longest time I ever have to go without electricity, unless I choose to drop off the grid somehow somewhere. One ticket to Bora Bora, please.
Now I am ready for whatever comes. I have ample supplies of fresh water, batteries, Spam and candles stored and a shiny new generator ready for the next disaster. It was a year ago today that a massive tornado struck a neighboring county including the hospital where I worked, and the whole county was without power for a week. They took the brunt of this icestorm, too, and most of that county is still without power. In between we had 2 hundred-year floods that really dropped the resale value of a lot of riverview lots.
So if I learned anything from Calvin's dad, of Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip fame, it is that we should have a ton of character built up by now. As soon as I can see past these dishpan hands, I will look for it.
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Post by Fairweather on Feb 5, 2009 13:50:08 GMT -5
DDDDUUUUUUDDDDDEEEEE!!! I couldn't help but think of Miss A's pootie pic when I saw this article (also on Yahoo! News and at HuffPo, who picked it up from WaPo): www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/04/titanoboa-cerrejonensis-2_n_163943.htmlForty-two to forty-five feet long and twenty-five hundred pounds, this snake may have been the world's dominant predator for some ten million years after the demise of the dinosaurs. Artist's conception (scale model): I don't see Brady Barr jumping THIS monster without divine intervention. ;D
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Post by Fairweather on Feb 5, 2009 13:54:32 GMT -5
Well all I can say is thank God for electricity and man's ingenuity in harnessing it. Electricity for lights and for things such as well pumps and water heaters. My grandmother and her mother, who both lived in this house before me, were laughing if they were watching the past 10 days, I'm sure. (Thanks for the oil lamps, Grandma Jeffery) Ten days we were without electricity, and I am happy as can be to have it back today because they told us it could take as long as 3 weeks, and we were not expecting much better than that. It will be my entire lifetime before the scars from this icestorm are gone from the northern third of Arkansas. Just a few feet in elevation made a world of difference between not too much damage and every single tree cracked in two or missing half its branches or just plain uprooted from the weight of the ice. Power poles, too, snapped clean off. It took a couple of days to clear the roads enough for power crews to even begin working! Phone service out for a week. I hope 10 days is the longest time I ever have to go without electricity, unless I choose to drop off the grid somehow somewhere. One ticket to Bora Bora, please. Now I am ready for whatever comes. I have ample supplies of fresh water, batteries, Spam and candles stored and a shiny new generator ready for the next disaster. It was a year ago today that a massive tornado struck a neighboring county including the hospital where I worked, and the whole county was without power for a week. They took the brunt of this icestorm, too, and most of that county is still without power. In between we had 2 hundred-year floods that really dropped the resale value of a lot of riverview lots. So if I learned anything from Calvin's dad, of Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip fame, it is that we should have a ton of character built up by now. As soon as I can see past these dishpan hands, I will look for it. Good LORD, Lynn, you were in the middle of that mess?! When I heard the words "Arkansas" and "ice storm" I wondered. Glad you made it through to the other side. And I know how you feel about how long it will take nature to repair itself--the broken trees and all. We got lucky--when we've had ice storms the longest the power was off was four days. Our last one was sometime back in the late nineties. Hang in there, gal!
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Post by Laura on Feb 5, 2009 16:00:28 GMT -5
Well all I can say is thank God for electricity and man's ingenuity in harnessing it. Electricity for lights and for things such as well pumps and water heaters. My grandmother and her mother, who both lived in this house before me, were laughing if they were watching the past 10 days, I'm sure. (Thanks for the oil lamps, Grandma Jeffery) Ten days we were without electricity, and I am happy as can be to have it back today because they told us it could take as long as 3 weeks, and we were not expecting much better than that. It will be my entire lifetime before the scars from this icestorm are gone from the northern third of Arkansas. Just a few feet in elevation made a world of difference between not too much damage and every single tree cracked in two or missing half its branches or just plain uprooted from the weight of the ice. Power poles, too, snapped clean off. It took a couple of days to clear the roads enough for power crews to even begin working! Phone service out for a week. I hope 10 days is the longest time I ever have to go without electricity, unless I choose to drop off the grid somehow somewhere. One ticket to Bora Bora, please. Now I am ready for whatever comes. I have ample supplies of fresh water, batteries, Spam and candles stored and a shiny new generator ready for the next disaster. It was a year ago today that a massive tornado struck a neighboring county including the hospital where I worked, and the whole county was without power for a week. They took the brunt of this icestorm, too, and most of that county is still without power. In between we had 2 hundred-year floods that really dropped the resale value of a lot of riverview lots. So if I learned anything from Calvin's dad, of Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip fame, it is that we should have a ton of character built up by now. As soon as I can see past these dishpan hands, I will look for it. My goodness Lynn, so glad you are ok now. 10 days without power, now that is frightening. It would use up every single nerve fiber in my body were I to be without power for that long. So glad you survived and are prepared for the future. You have to be prepared for your weather related problems like we in California have to be prepared for the ground shaking.
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Post by g1 on Feb 6, 2009 0:39:30 GMT -5
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Post by puhlease on Feb 6, 2009 16:36:24 GMT -5
Thanks guys. I think 3 days was the previous longest time without power. Ten was more than enough. Laura, it would not have been so nerve-racking if I didn't have bored kids in the house. Schools all over the northern third of the state were closed, some for a week or more. Cell phone service was out for a few days, too. We really came to dread nightfall, for then the young became the restless.
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Post by Laura on Feb 6, 2009 16:40:02 GMT -5
Thanks guys. I think 3 days was the previous longest time without power. Ten was more than enough. Laura, it would not have been so nerve-racking if I didn't have bored kids in the house. Schools all over the northern third of the state were closed, some for a week or more. Cell phone service was out for a few days, too. We really came to dread nightfall, for then the young became the restless. I forgot kids never want to go to sleep and being bored to boot..wow, you survived and that's what's important. Have a great weekend friend.
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Post by puhlease on Feb 26, 2009 17:01:55 GMT -5
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Post by g1 on Feb 28, 2009 21:41:31 GMT -5
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Post by puhlease on Feb 28, 2009 21:57:09 GMT -5
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Post by moonstone on Mar 1, 2009 13:27:42 GMT -5
Whoa. Turkey may be where REPUBLICANS come from ....
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Post by Laura on Mar 1, 2009 21:08:21 GMT -5
These are two incredible stories..thanks g and Lynn..
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Post by g1 on Mar 19, 2009 9:28:58 GMT -5
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Post by moonstone on Mar 19, 2009 12:17:11 GMT -5
I can't imagine who would be interested in such a silly thing. Thanks, G.
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Post by Laura on Mar 19, 2009 12:48:50 GMT -5
Thanks g. Those people seeing it while it's happening must have been awesome. I would have loved to see it.
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Post by Aunt Ornery on Mar 19, 2009 14:41:50 GMT -5
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