B.J. Deming (@bjdeming.bsky.social)

VEI 8’s: Yellowstone — An Introduction (1/5) What if Yellowstone had erupted during the innocent "feed the bears" days of the 1950s? Fiction is too difficult a thing for me to attempt, but a good writer could go into great detail about the post-WWII American public's very human reactions to…

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VEI 8’s: Yellowstone — An Introduction (1/5) What if Yellowstone had erupted during the innocent "feed the bears" days of the 1950s? Fiction is too difficult a thing for me to attempt, but a good writer could go into great detail about the post-WWII American public's very human reactions to precursory changes in "Jellystone's" geysers and hot springs; the ground swelling and tree die-offs; scary fish kills at fly-fishing ponds and streams, and animals dropping dead at low spots all over the park; the new stench of sulfur everywhere, occasionally at toxic levels; and then, a flurry of strong earthquakes, followed by that astonishing and explosive plume -- under which a great flow of rhyolite lava would creep out across the land for weeks and possibly even months to years. http://flighttowonder.com/2026/05/03/vei-8s-yellowstone-an-introduction-1-5/