Ping Mr. Robert Lee

Phlubarb wrote:
I wound up watching the Discovery Channel's thing about a super eruption of Yellowstone.
My question is (besides do we need to kiss our collective asses goodbye) has your agency
been paying attention to any info we haven't heard or is it just the usual media hype about
something that is a long way off?


Yellowstone is a long time off.
Long Valley (Mammoth) is much sooner.
Yellowstone will take out much of the country.
Long Valley will only take out the West.

No kidding.
The town of Mammoth Lakes deliberately built an alternate escape road in
case the main exit is blocked by lava or something.

Occasionally the earthquake rate in Long Valley crescendos and property
values temporarily drop - interested (and patient) skiers can sometimes
find bargain property, and may even be able to close escrow before a
lava bomb falls on their newly acquired property.

(Up here at Truckee we only have to worry about floods and earthquakes.
Over by the lake they also have to worry about tsunamis [I am absolutely
not ****ting you - tsunamis on the lake!] From earthquake induced
landslides - the evidence is there for previous events!)

Phlubarb wrote:
I wound up watching the Discovery Channel's thing about a super
eruption of Yellowstone.

ah ha. we over this bit of the world, meantime, are keeping a close eye on
Krakatoa, and Toba!

ant

ant wrote:
Phlubarb wrote:

I wound up watching the Discovery Channel's thing about a super
eruption of Yellowstone.


ah ha. we over this bit of the world, meantime, are keeping a close eye on
Krakatoa, and Toba!

Forget Krakatoa, add NZ Taupo. Let the worries commence.

(My wife's granmother remembered Krakatoa - lived in Indonesia at the time.)

lal_truckee wrote:
ant wrote:
Phlubarb wrote:

I wound up watching the Discovery Channel's thing about a super
eruption of Yellowstone.


ah ha. we over this bit of the world, meantime, are keeping a close
eye on Krakatoa, and Toba!

Forget Krakatoa, add NZ Taupo. Let the worries commence.

remember a few years back, the NZ ski season was completely buggered by a
volcano going off... actually it might have been Taupo, come to think of it.


(My wife's granmother remembered Krakatoa - lived in Indonesia at the
time.)

changed the weather for quite some time, they reckon. Good for snow, not so
good for growing food though.

ant

"ant" wrote in message
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lal_truckee wrote:
ant wrote:
Phlubarb wrote:

I wound up watching the Discovery Channel's thing about a super
eruption of Yellowstone.


ah ha. we over this bit of the world, meantime, are keeping a close
eye on Krakatoa, and Toba!

Forget Krakatoa, add NZ Taupo. Let the worries commence.

remember a few years back, the NZ ski season was completely buggered by a
volcano going off... actually it might have been Taupo, come to think of
it.


That was near Taupo, on Mt Ruapehu.. I doubt the season on the south island
was affected however

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 18:46:57 +1000, "AH" wrote:

That was near Taupo, on Mt Ruapehu.. I doubt the season on the south island
was affected however

As long as they have an extraordinarily good late season on the south
island commencing September 2 for three weeks, I'll be one happy
vegemite. I *hate* waiting.

AH wrote:

That was near Taupo, on Mt Ruapehu.. I doubt the season on the south
island was affected however

well, a lot of foreign ski teams who were headed to NZ for their mid year
training, came to australia instead (south america had a crap season too, so
we were the fall-back).

ant

Bob Lee wrote:

Beats me, they never bother to talk with me about anything until the
whole place bursts into flame, like last time:
http://www.swcp.com/~rlee/ystone.jpg

Caption this shot.

"hey, bob (scctch)"

"what?" (scctch)

"There's a fire near you, just thought you might like to know" (scctch).

"Dang, now you tell me". (scctch).

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:51:15 -0600, Bob Lee wrote:

Phlubarb wrote:

I wound up watching the Discovery Channel's thing about a super eruption of
Yellowstone.
My question is (besides do we need to kiss our collective asses goodbye) has
your agency
been paying attention to any info we haven't heard or is it just the usual
media hype about something that is a long way off?

Beats me, they never bother to talk with me about anything until the
whole place bursts into flame, like last time:
http://www.swcp.com/~rlee/ystone.jpg

I have tremendous respect and admiration for people who go bust their
hinders in the smoke and soot and flames and danger for
nowhere-near-as-much-money-as-it-should-be, so please don't take this
the wrong way, but...



......why in hell are you wearing a freakin' ASCOT?

bw

bdubya wrote:
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:51:15 -0600, Bob Lee wrote:


Phlubarb wrote:


I wound up watching the Discovery Channel's thing about a super eruption of
Yellowstone.
My question is (besides do we need to kiss our collective asses goodbye) has
your agency
been paying attention to any info we haven't heard or is it just the usual
media hype about something that is a long way off?

Beats me, they never bother to talk with me about anything until the
whole place bursts into flame, like last time:
http://www.swcp.com/~rlee/ystone.jpg


I have tremendous respect and admiration for people who go bust their
hinders in the smoke and soot and flames and danger for
nowhere-near-as-much-money-as-it-should-be, so please don't take this
the wrong way, but...



.....why in hell are you wearing a freakin' ASCOT?

bw

It looks like a bandana to me - something you near-easterners may not
have heard about? You know, like cowboys and indian fighters and buffalo
shooters and firefighters wear?

Actually (for real) I carry a bandana in both my spring and winter parka
pockets (and summer hike packs) - dandy for first aid compresses and a
whole slew of other functions ...