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Heavy Chevy
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 Posted - 10/03/2004 : 6:07:58 PM
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Resurrection Ghost ~~~~~~~~ 1110 up4
Fast -N- Furious ~~~~~~~~~~ 1101 up4
Drafters CSS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1079 up4
Ken's Racers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1076 up4
Belle of the South ~~~~~~~~ 1052 up4
DLM22 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1014
Animalheim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 996
Dragon99 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 997 up4
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Total top *8* - 8425 up24/8 = 1053.125 up3
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B.F.G. ALWAYS!!!!
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 JuniorRocksBox "BEVERS RISE"
Today, I saw a Black Flagged sticker, on a Chevrolet,a little voice inside my head "saying don't look back" The BFG is on attack! |
Edited by - Heavy Chevy on 10/05/2004 3:48:43 PM
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Drafters
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Posted - 10/03/2004 : 8:06:36 PM
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If this had been a 155 lap race I would have been the overall winner with a score of 1182.
Kind of went bad on me at the end.
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Kens Racers
USA
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Posted - 10/03/2004 : 8:14:13 PM
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Drafters
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Posted - 10/04/2004 : 09:40:06 AM
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Ken, they're saying fresh magma is moving up and geologists have revised their eruption predictions. Originally they said this would not be a big eruption but now they are saying, based on a scale of 1 to 5 with the 1980 eruption being a 5, we may see an eruption in the 3 to 4 range. They are now detecting CO2 and sulfer which isn't good since that indicates an explosive eruption is possible. It's getting serious now and deep moving magma makes me concerned about one of our other volcanoes Mount Rainier. Ash is the only thing I have to worry about from St. Helens but my home is only 30 miles from Rainier and is in danger from giant debri and mudflows. My business is closer at 25 miles away but it's on a hill so all I have to worry about up there is ash and a 2000 degree lateral blast.
On my agenda today is figuring out a way to make a dust mask for my dog Kelly.
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Kens Racers
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Posted - 10/04/2004 : 10:04:34 AM
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hmmmm...cheesecloth might do the trick
c`mere trippod......good boy....hold still boy.... come back here boy......TRIPOD.....TRIPOD |
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Drafters
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Posted - 10/04/2004 : 10:27:33 AM
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I don't think cheesecloth is fine enough and it looks like I may have ash coming my way. Gotta go.
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Drafters
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Posted - 10/04/2004 : 11:04:41 AM
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Ash is moving northeast so I'm safe.
Wheelie, just heard again that bulging is occuring at Three Sisters. |
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Team Budweiser
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Posted - 10/04/2004 : 1:07:11 PM
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So that thing is gonna spew "WHITE HOT MAGMA"?
LOL
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Drafters
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Posted - 10/04/2004 : 5:23:37 PM
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No TB, probably a dull orange. We get thick lava up here that likes to explode instead of flow. You got em down there too. Mt. Lassen blew up about 100 years ago and I think you have another one much farther south whose explosion was even greater then when the volcano now known as Crater Lake blew up. I think it is in or is Long Valley.
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Drafters
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Posted - 10/04/2004 : 7:49:23 PM
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....."Long Valley Caldera was formed about 760,000 years ago by the catastrophic eruption of more than 600 km3 (130 miles3 ) of rhyolitic lavas (the Bishop Tuff), accompanied by subsidence of an elliptically shaped crustal block 1 to 2 km (0.6 to 1.2 miles) into the partially evacuated magma chamber. Smaller eruptions from the residual magma chamber accompanied uplift of the westcentral section of the caldera over the next 100,000 years to form the resurgent dome. Subsequent eruptions of rhyolite lavas occurred around the margin of the resurgent dome at 500,000, 300,000, and 100,000 years ago (Bailey, 1989, 1990; Bailey and others, 1976).
Between about 220,000 and 50,000 years ago, basaltic and rhyodacitic lavas erupted from widespread vents in the west moat of the caldera. During this same interval, repeated rhyodacitic eruptions from a tightly clustered group of vents on the southwestern rim of the caldera produced the domes and flows that form Mammoth Mountain (Bailey, 1989).
The most recent eruptions in the region occurred along the MonoInyo Craters volcanic chain. Rhyolitic eruptions began along this chain about 40,000 years ago and have continued through recent times with eruptions along dthe north end of the Mono Craters about 600 years ago (Bursik and Sieh, 1986) and along the south end of the Inyo Craters about 550 years ago (Miller, 1985). In both cases, the eruptions resulted from the intrusion of an 810 kmlong, northstriking feeder dike into the shallow crust that vented several places along strike. Intrusion of a shallow crypto dome beneath Mono Lake 250 years ago uplifted the lake-bottom sediments to form Pahoa Island and vented in a small eruption of andesitic lavas from vents on the north side of the island (Lajoie, 1968; Stine, 1987). As illustrated in figure A2, the eruptive history of the Mono-Inyo volcanic chain over the past 5,000 years includes some 20 small eruptions at intervals ranging from 250 to 700 years. Although small, most of these eruptions have been explosive in nature. Given this 5,000-year eruptive history, the odds of another eruption somewhere along the Mono-Inyo volcanic chain are about one in 200 in any given year (0.05 percent per year)."......
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/bulletin/b2185/appenda.html
.....If more steam vents appear [Yellowstone], that means a continuous pathway for pressure release has been established to the magma chamber. If that happens, the pressure in the magma chamber will continue to drop until it reaches a critical stage when the superheated water within the magma explodes. When that happens the super-volcano will blow violently, blowing out a chunk of its cap-rock and sending millions of cubic feet of ash into the atmosphere in a Pompeii-like explosion, but 100,000 times worse.
When you hear those reports, you will have about two days to "get out of Dodge" before the eruption. Unfortunately, as the steam venting subsides, there will be a false sense of security. People will think it was just another cyclical event, and the danger is over. But that will be the farthest from the truth. It will be the quiet before the storm. A major earthquake will suddenly rock their towns for hundreds of kilometers around Yellowstone, and soon thereafter 1,000+ degree pyroclastic flows will descend on them at hundreds of miles per hour, extending out to 600+ km.
That 600 km radius around the caldera will experience total devastation. The next 600 km out may receive as much as 5-10 feet of ash, depending on wind direction. The thickness of ash will decrease away from the super-volcano, but will reach the crop belt in the Midwest (Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, etc.), destroying most of the fertile croplands of the United States. California will be hit hard by falling ash, with its central wine valley severely damaged (the French will love it). Agriculture will have to shift east of the Mississippi for years. The Garden State will once again live up to its name.
In northern Idaho you will have to contend with several feet of ash and isolation. Roads will be closed. Power will be out. Phones will be out. Communication will depend on Ham radios and local stations that have generators. Rescue will take weeks or months. Some areas will never see rescue teams. The survivalists will be best prepared to make it through the difficult months following the eruption. Make new friends. Have plenty of dust masks on hand, because you cannot breath any airborne ash if you want to avoid lung disease. It's what caused mass kills of plains animals 12 million years ago, resulting in extensive bone beds beneath the ash. Drinkable water will sell at the price of gold.
To recap, I don't expect anything to happen in the near future. But with such an unpredictable event, being prepared is your best ticket to survival."
Dr. Bruce Cornet
http://www.rense.com/general41/yellowstoneupdate.htm
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