Just posted this in LBN- no comments, any here?

[BeHereNow]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3674796

Yellowstone is the unspoken pending disaster, yet not a peep from our representatives...
Imagine that.

BHN

[tkmorris]

1. Been hearing about this for years.

Lots of people make it sound like it'll happen any day now, but of course it hasn't. It may, certainly, but I don't think the situation is as dire as some folks would have you believe. As to our Representatives not making a peep about it, well, what could they possibly say? There is naught I am aware of anyone can do about it in any case so it's the kind of thing you just keep an eye on and hope doesn't happen on your watch.

[Lucian]

4. Agreed.

There's nothing our reps can do about it anyways.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. Been hearing about this here for weeks

Old news

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Scary to think about. n/t

:scared:

[Greyhound]

3. A super-volcano is like a giant asteroid strike, if it comes it will be an ELE

and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it, so why worry?

We've had half a century to work on escaping the cradle and we've decided that killing one another is more to our liking. Our choice, our future.

[merh]

6. What do you think the reps should do?

Warn us to sit down, stick our head between our knees and kiss our asses goodbye?

Make amends, tell our loved ones we love them, forgive our transgressors and attend confession if we can?

Find the weed, buy some good whiskey, grab our lovers and get high, get drunk and screw like there is no tomorrow?

If Yellowstone blows, there won't be much left of the rest of the states to worry about saving that isn't dead under the layers of ash.

Pompeii would be like a memento dropped in a liter of coke.

[Adsos Letter]

8. Issue sternly worded letters...

demanding that all volcano's representatives appear before appropriate Congressional Committee.

Issue subpoenas.

Express futile outrage when they get ignored...

[merh]

9. I like my suggestions better.

Making amends, telling folks you love them and getting drunk, high and having sex like there is no tomorrow seems a much more realistic avenue and very satisfying.

:smoke:

[SoCalDem]

16. Harry would shake his finger, turn redfaced, and say stern things & then

take them all back the next day..

[TahitiNut]

10. Resurrect the "Duck and Cover" drills in public schools.

:evilgrin:

[charlie]

12. Heck no

If I'm going to be unearthed as a Pompeiian curiosity one day, I want to be found in a pose other than on the floor with my butt in the air. Hopefully, it'll be with one hand gripping my sack and the other with an upraised finger. Hopefully.

[merh]

13. God, do you remember those.

Even as a kid I knew that if the bomb were dropped, if those nasty commie bastards launched all those nukes, sitting in the hall with my head between my knees was not going to save me.

I think that was when I had my first drag on a cigarette. The teacher was busy giving us directions from under her desk, beating the top of it with her ruler to try to quiet us down, while a hand full of us stood up by the window and puffed away, laughing at how totally stupid the whole thing was.

I was very mischievous and somewhat of a rebel. :evilgrin:

[TahitiNut]

14. Oh, yeah. I started school in 1947 and had the Complete Course in "Duck and Cover."

Originally under desks in the classroom and then in the interior hallways. Insane.

[Sherman A1]

18. Agreed & Well Said

This might move a few other problems (such as the economy) from the top of the list. :hi:

[lob1]

7. It'd be a shame to have something as beautiful as Yellowstone blown away.

Okay, all of humanity would die, too...but it'd be a shame to lose Yellowstone.

[Warpy]

11. It's settling down now

and there has been no activity for 24 hours and only three in the last couple of days.

It was scary a few days ago when there were over 50 quakes >1.0 on the Richter scale.

Our fine representatives are reactive, not proactive. They don't react until after a disaster has occurred, in other words.

[tavalon]

20. But again, I am left to wonder, just what would the proactive stand be on this issue?

[Warpy]

22. Well, with much of the center part of the country buried under

several meters of ash and no food production for at least five years, it seems a little counterproductive to try to save lives only to have them die slowly of starvation later.

I'd rather be stunned by the shock wave and vaporized by the pyroclastic flow adjacent to the event than evacuated and either suffocated or starved by the events after it.

[Sanctified]

15. I think it would be pretty cool to see that blow, we all gotta die anyways. n/t

[MazeRat7]

17. Something needs to agitate it to erupt...

If it were to happen, my best humble guess would be the increase of solar radiation we expect over the next 4 years.

Peace,
MZr7

[tavalon]

19. If it is going to be a cataclysmic event, just what would you like our

representatives to say? Gosh, guys, good news! No depression because we're all going to die! Isn't that great!

:sarcasm:

Seriously, though, while there is new activity at Yellowstone, there is nothing to be done. I live in the shadow of Mt. Rainier, a somewhat active volcano that could blow tomorrow or 100 years from now and when it does, I die. There is nothing I can do about it except move and I actually moved here - I love the surroundings, but since there is nothing I can do, I choose not to consider the mountain in any of my worrying. I suggest the same about Yellowstone.

[MiniMe]

21. Hard to get comments on a locked thread