Your Most Likely Scenario

[River Song]

[quote='Nix' pid='70807' dateline='1379277729'

Am I really the only one who considers the Yellowstone caldera a major threat?
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probably

[Midnitemo]

[Kiril]

If Yellowstone goes off... Well, I don't think it'll matter how good our preps are, a super volcano is an extinction level event, I don't know if we'd die out but spiders, rats, cockroaches, they'll survive.

[Jonas]

Looking over the thread, it's interesting to note how many of us believe that the Gulf Stream and our financial instability are major concerns.

Am I really the only one who considers the Yellowstone caldera a major threat?

Probably. We'll hereby pronounce you the official SUK Yellowstone Caldera worrier! No use for the rest of us bothering about what is totally uncontrollable. We prep for what we can deal with, not for ALL possibilities. Aliens from the planet Ork attacking, the sun exploding, Mutant Zombies taking over London and Washington at the same time? Not so much, (but you can worry about those too and I'll scratch them off my list as well)!

[Scythe13]

Yellowstone is an interesting one. It's a situation that would be so catastrophic, it would likely cause a major oxygen deficiency, due to the reduction of light and therefore photosynthesis.

Even though we only use 20% (it might be 12%, but I can't remember. Pretty sure it's 20% though) of the oxygen we breath in, I'm not sure would could cope with an 80% reduction in free oxygen in the air.

It's a situation that I would be fascinated to know how to prepare for. If you have the time Nix, write up a post about the effects and how we could best prep for them. I know a pyroclastic surge would cause instant death (think Pompeii) but we are far enough away to not be damaged by that.

Genuinely, I'd love to see the effects it would have. So, if you have time to search for links and models of the effects, please do post them up.

[Highlander]

[Nix]

I'll see if I can get some links together.

Saw a documentary some time ago about the Yellowstone caldera. These super volcanoes are fortunately rare but when they blow, you know about it! Basically, Yellowstone is overdue. It has been proven that this caldera blows at regular intervals and affects the world mainly with the tons of ash in Earth's atmosphere blocking out the sun etc. NOT total wipe out but certainly nuclear winter scenario where it could take years to recover. The planet does survive this, it has done before, not sure about aliens from planet Ork though!

Normal volcanoes explode, lava flows out, things eventually peter out and you have a slightly bigger mountain. Caldera lava consists of pressurised gas that is unable to escape. When these babies blow, they do it all at once, similar to a can of Coke that you open after someone kindly shakes it for you.

The threat is real. They reckon that when Yellowstone does go, the bang will be the loudest sound ever heard.

So, Jonas, mutant Zombies is the least of my worries.

[Nix]

[Highlander]

[Skean Dhude]

I think we should put together a list of everything and then prepare mitigation where possible. I've kind of done that on the main site but left many things out because a) They are not survivable. b) They can be mitigated by a sub set of something else or c) I never thought of them.

So let me start with the obvious ones
1) Sociatal collapse
2) Financial collapse
3) EMP attack
4) Biological attck
5) Chemical Attack

6) Global Cooling

7) Global Warming

8) Floods

9) Govermental Takeover

10) Yellowstone

11) Arizona Bay
12) Supernova
13) Asteroid strikes
14) Convential War
15) Super Flu
16) Population explosion
17) Nuclear War
18) .....

I'll make a big list and we can mitigate them. Put everything down and it should make an interesting discussion