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Originally Posted by Task Force
hmm if she does"blow" wounder how that would affect the east us coast.  probably get covered with ash... and stuff...
probably like the Pompeii from hell.  |
Yeah, pretty much. No sun for quite a few months, no air travel, road travel difficult unless road sweepers are out non-stop, average temperatures plummet (there was a dip after Mt St. Helens went up IIRC), roof collapses after ash build up (that's one of the main things you need to look out for), mass crop devastation, supply shortages due to panic buying, hoarding, civil disorder, brown-outs, black-outs, loss of telephonic communications (overground cables pulled down by settling ash, transformers shorting out).
Off the top of my head that's some of it, although looking at the distance between Yellowstone and the eastern seaboard, you'd probably be spared the worst of the ash but would receive at the very least 1cm of it (all of the US would get min/max 1cm).
I've heard it referred to a mini-nuclear winter, of course the likelihood of a nuclear winter occurring after an exchange is something which has received much debate, particularly during the Cold War, and thus some of the descriptions of a 'nuclear winter' might not apply to such a scenario, however it'd be pretty reasonable to assume that a northern hemisphere average temperature drop of a few degrees would be likely.
Some reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano
Although TF, if I were you, I'd be more concerned about the volcano at La Palma:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Palma#Volcano
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami#Canary_Islands
Although, it's a fair bit more likely that the Yellowstone caldera would go up, than a mega-tsunami would be generated by the collapse of the Cumbre Vieja, however it's still something that cannot be counted completely one hundred percently out. Certainly nothing to lose sleep over though, both Yellowstone and the Canary Islands
