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Originally Posted by seagull
...Anyway, this incident makes me wonder what sort of plans we can get together in the event of a MAJOR eruption like Yellowstone (it's got to happen sometime)
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In that sort of event, you're talking about a complete breakdown of societal structure over a huge swath of the planet. There isn't much in the way of a plan you could construct. Even were you able to reliably predict the event with, say, six months' advance notice, you're still faced with constructing a plan that would require evacuating pretty much the entire western two-thirds of the United States, Canada, and Mexico; and the global climate consequences would stretch on for years. I doubt with existing technology that we could possibly construct a "plan" that would be even remotely effective in preventing hundreds of millions of deaths from that kind of an event; a great deal of human society would undergo a monumental breakdown and rearrangement that would be basically unpredictable in its outcome. I hope I'm not here to see it.