if i told you the ground is going to erupt in many many places soon, what would you do now?

Nothing, I own nothing and am happy...

It would create new trail systems for my distance runs, all good.

so fucking much

Shave my whole family, eat all my tomatoes, and panic sex with the unvaccinated ladies.

Is this the unimaginable thing that’s going to happen before next summer?

Not believe you

"pipeline" .

Will this be coming in "two weeks"?

Laugh at you, most likely, while asking where you got your degree in geology.

joking aside... accounts of survivors of the 1811 - 1812 new madrid quakes told of fissures, or "cracks" so to speak, that would open up randomly all over the place, and the would generally run north - south. so in between the earthquakes they would fell trees such that they would lay east - west and when the next quake struck they would lay on the felled trees in hopes that if one of the fissures opened beneath them, the tree would bridge the fissure and they could crawl to safety without being swallowed by the earth. interesting.

Ditto- shall we car pool?

Sounds like Beer-o-Clock!

To paraphrase the sepsis guy, it depends on the meaning of the word "soon".

There are quite a few things that I'd like to have done/seen, and of those, there are a few that I actually COULD do if I knew near-future solvency was moot. I'd like to see Michigan's Upper Peninsula. I'd like to have a Quarter Pounder $combo meal$. I'd like to have another dog (although depending on the timetable, we might not get bonded properly. But even so, I like dogs, and it'd be fun getting started.)

I'm not sure the ground erupting is all that far-fetched a thing. Lots of volcanic instability out there, it seems. What if something YUGE gave way in the Canary Islands? I'm talking cataclysmic yuge. Enough piping hot lava pouring into the ocean would explode some steam. We used to test nuclear weapons in the ocean, and they didn't make tidal waves, so it'd have to be mega mega megatons of steam blast. But nature can effortlessly do things that make man's puny efforts look inconsequential.

And if nature was REALLY wanting to show us how it's done . . . we can't imagine the shitstorm. Global Tunguska.

Last Edited by Overgoverned on 10/15/2021 05:51 PM

Wild stuff right there! Never heard that. I did hear there was volcanic activity in the Ozarks at that time.

The big quake in the 1800s on mississippi caused ground to spew forth sand mounds.this was due to sand seams less than 20ft below clay.this sand seam ran into depths that heated from lava deep down and basically became quicksand pits of scaling steam.odds are it also vented methane and may be how the caddo indians got wiped out.
If it happens it will be a kill shot for anybody that has gas wells nearby as wells fracture and shear.no low ground is safe,no riverbottom is safe.no lake is safe during calm winds.then theres the fires as lightning pops off clouds of methane.like regional random bombs.leveling whole forest and neighborhoods,leaving fires and flooding from busted water pipes and mains.
Lots of peeps running around screaming with melted skin and charred clothing.
Hospitals overwhelmed and roads blocked by felled trees.
Loyds of london claims act of god and pays out nothing in insurance.

Super doom dude, thanks for the willies!

Not a bad idea.

That's getting locked away in the old brain vault for future reference.