Major doom in Yosemite

FALSE ALARM. "DOOM" NOT OCCURRING YET.

Read the article -- and, really, people, you should stop broadcasting doom until you have some FACTS.

I hate to ask the obvious BUT this thread got PINNED and the OP is nowhere to be seen.

Where is OP ?

What the hell are they doing with 600 bags of sulpher in that park to begin with?

yeah....more like trying to scramble a cover for the volcanic activity that is now coming from the long considered extinct extension of cascade range volcanoes that are within the park boundaries. remember when the mono lake hotel employee saw (was it?) geysers in mono lake not too long back?

Chemical spill closes Highway 41 near Fish Camp

SIX HUNDRED bags of sulfur were spilled on the road.

The sulfur sparked a number of small fires on and next to the road.

[link to www.fresnobee.com]

Really?

First, why did SIX HUNDRED bags spill onto the road?

You'd think the driver of the ruck would have noticed there was a problem when even ONE bag of sulfur fell out of the truck.

Even IF SIX HUNDRED bags of sulfur did fall from a moving truck onto the road, I find it hard to believe that more than ten percent of the bags (SIXTY bags) broke open upon impact.

Of most concern with this story is the fact that sulfur, though a flammable substance, does not have a high level reaction to normal air or oxygen and will not combust on contact with either element.

One must also keep in mind that sulfur deposits are found naturally in areas around hot springs and in the majority of volcanic regions.

[link to wiki.answers.com]

Has Yosemite become volcanically active and the government is trying to keep knowledge of that development away from the public?

BTW, burning sulfur is often referred to as "Fire and Brimstone".

thread from last summer: Thread: My friend just saw an eruption in the water of Mono Lake - it's a CALDERA

The Feds are having major involvement with this. I think it's a cover story. We've been having booms and metor sightings in this area for the past couple days. I think something major is going down.

You are assuming the trucker was driving safely...and not texting or speeding..

Get out of their way or die..

Fire would be the big concern since they are in RED FLAG area for drought.

Read the whole article. It says the Park Police ARRESTED the driver for being under the influence.

I just saw a report where they said the driver was either DUI OR may have been overcome by the fumes . . . does that make sense?

I just saw a report where they said the driver was either DUI OR may have been overcome by the fumes . . . does that make sense?

I thought trucks were not allowed to route through yosemite. Looking at the map, fish camp is south of the park and from what I see, very sharp turns. I would guess the trucker was going to fast for the curves and his bagged load tilted and over turned the rig and spilled all over.


Was the truck coming into yosemite or leaving. And whats sulfur used for in bulk bags in the middle of nowhere.

I don't buy this story either. A guy driving a truck full of toxic material was under the influence? What?? Does that make sense? Did that really look like 600 bags in the road to you? Also...why no mention of the driver other than he was intoxicated? He must have had extreme exposure to the sulphur when he jumped out of the truck. Did he suffer burns from inhalation? End up in the hospital? Is he ok? Where did he go?

who here actually accepts that this is nothing more than a lorry crash involving sulphur?


myself find it odd in the extreme that such large quantities of the stuff were needed in or around a nature reserve
and that a place where the government would be sensitive to the appearance of the stuff just ever so happens to be involved in a crash of said substance

Read the whole article. It says the Park Police ARRESTED the driver for being under the influence.

this happened very near Yosemite

[link to spaceweather.com]




SIERRA FIREBALL DECODED: On Sunday morning, April 22nd, just as the Lyrid meteor shower was dying down, a spectacular fireball exploded over California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. The loud explosion rattled homes from central California to Reno, Nevada, and beyond. According to Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Envronment Office, the source of the blast was a meteoroid about the size of a minivan.

"Elizabeth Silber at Western University has searched for infrasound signals from the explosion," says Cooke. "Infrasound is very low frequency sound which can travel great distances. There were strong signals at 2 stations, enabling a triangulation of the energy source at 37.6N, 120.5W. This is marked by a yellow flag in the map below."



"The energy is estimated at a whopping 3.8 kilotons of TNT (about one fourth the energy of the 'Little Boy' bomb dropped on Hiroshima), so this was a big event," he continues. "I am not saying there was a 3.8 kiloton explosion on the ground in California. I am saying that the meteor possessed this amount of energy before it broke apart in the atmosphere. [The map] shows the location of the atmospheric breakup, not impact with the ground."

"The fact that sonic booms were heard indicates that this meteor penetrated very low in atmosphere, which implies a speed less than 15 km/s (33,500 mph). Assuming this value for the speed, I get a mass for the meteor of around 70 metric tons. Hazarding a further guess at the density of 3 grams per cubic centimeter (solid rock), I calculate a size of about 3-4 meters, or about the size of a minivan."

"This meteor was probably not a Lyrid; without a trajectory, I cannot rule out a Lyrid origin, but I think it likely that it was a background or sporadic meteor."


[link to maps.google.com]

Sounds like a cover story for sure. Sulfur smell is an accident! Fukushima radiation won't hurt you! Vaccines are good for you!

The blue flame of burning sulfur flickers near a miner on Kawah Ijen volcano in East Java. The pungent element is mined near the crater’s highly acidic lake for such industrial uses as rubber and sugar processing.
photo- [link to ngm.nationalgeographic.com]

First they believe in chemtrails and now this...

What next? Toxic anti-caking agents in the salt, which the FDA says they don't have to admit to on packaging?