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Marshall

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IT is such a mind twister to consider these various natural calamities, like earthquakes, Catrina sized weather and others. They occur over large areas, or pinpoint with-in the same and to sort periods within a wide spread of time. The northwest is nearly covered in 30 to 90ft of pyroclastic material. How is that? Well, every 200 years or so something 'large' happens in the northwest. That would place about 50 events inside of 10,000 years. Imagine 50 events as big or bigger than Mt St. Helens.
With those events a small segment of the population suffers greatly. But the larger part is relatively unscathed. It's a tuff proposition to figure out how much you should do to secure your self. In hind sight, those 70 people that didn't leave the Mt ST. Helens really should have. The mud-flows afterward had a bigger effect on the population in general.
I think comparing that to what happened in Mexico city killing 25k people, and the tsunami that killed 200,000 shows it's very worth while to be aware and prepared. On the other hand these casualties are less than a drop in the bucket compared to a world of over 5billion.
I hate to mention this, but Mt. St. Helens was a rather small event on the geologic scale. Even the deadly tsunami was moderate at most. We are overdue for several events expected to be truly GLOBAL cataclysms. The most significant in the US is the Yellowstone super volcano. It could be today or 50,000 years from now since even a million years is a rather short blip on the geologic time scale. Of course, I consider that scale to be grossly inaccurate, but it's handy for relative dating.
 

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Was it Stalin? who said the death of a dozen or so is a real tragedy but that the death of 2 million is but a statistic? I think he holds the record for causing the most deaths. Or is it rather Chairman Mao Zedong? All I know is they dwarf all other tragedies. As far as natural disasters that scare me the most, ok, maybe three that scare me the most are; Thankfully none have occurred in recorded History. In their scariest order first. 1. Yellowstone supper volcano. 2. a meteor strike. 3. Super Volcano that destroyed an entire civilized culture of the Minoans (more advanced than the Greeks) an estimated 4000 years ago.
Finally the two largest Volcanos in record history are nothing to sneeze at either. Krakatoa in 1883 and Mount Tambora in 1815.

And neither of these is considered a SUPER VOLCANO eruption.
 

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I went and purchased a new vehicle too. Well, sort of. It is a Cub Cadet LT 46 XT1 lawn tractor. The old electric just couldn't cut it anymore. It will be nice to not have to worry about mowing over the extension chord too.

I should have it paid off (18 months) before my Elio is ready for me to pick up[.
 

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And neither of these is considered a SUPER VOLCANO eruption.
Right, Marshall, but please note that I said in "recorded" history. Turns out that the only super volcano irruption that could have been written about destroyed all those who could have possibly written about it. That is to say it caused the extinction of an entire civilization called the Minoins. LOL
 

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I went and purchased a new vehicle too. Well, sort of. It is a Cub Cadet LT 46 XT1 lawn tractor. The old electric just couldn't cut it anymore. It will be nice to not have to worry about mowing over the extension chord too.[.

All the way from a corded electric lawn mower to Cub Cadet lawn tractor? Heck, that firmly destroys the evolution theory of gradual natural selection. That's a gargantuan leap!!!!!!
 
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