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| Indigenous tribes removed from Park, "for their own safety" |
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| Old Faithful... |
Finally ol' Gray (Jerry's nickname) rattled out onto freeway from Burton, Florida, heading straight to Yellowstone. In 30 minutes or so, ol' Gray wheezed to a stop, and all could see the radiator boiling ,sending steam straight up.
Jerry felt his colon cramp and his stomach become a knotty mass of anxiety.
When ol' Gray returned to bus station, Jerry was nearly crying. While there had never been any sort of competition between calendar to calendar, Jerry had kept years of Hot Babes calendars, crossing off days after days. This was the month...the month...
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| How far can it go? |
While this is a blurry map, it does show the extent when the caldera blows. Bad news for all.
Ironically, the next day it was announced that the immense caldera beneath Yellowstone Park blew, exploded, blasting apart all states from Canada to Texas, Nevada to Illinois, over to Oregon and down the western coast, and all parts in between. Clouds of ash covered the skies around the worldJerry's head hung down despondently. Gone, it was gone. As he tacked his new Hot Babes calendar, Jerry pondered where he would go instead. Iceland? Iceland would be nice...He crossed off another day, heading toward Iceland in a decade or so.
Oh, Jerry, poor uninformed Jerry.
Stupid tourists with falling boulders from YouTube
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Poor Jerry. Then again, maybe he caused it?
ReplyDeleteHad to watch that Iceland video. Stupid!
I call those tourists as having an immortality syndrome.
DeleteSome people do need help in the brain cell department.
ReplyDeleteThose are part of the Darwin culling out program.
DeleteFar too many of us seem to believe that we are undiscovered superheroes and bad things can't happen to US. And some of us learn differently too late.
ReplyDeleteA lovely, and very different take, on this week's words. I hope moving house is going as smoothly as possible.
We have been watching too much Nat'l Geographic Channel. We joke that we will go there, the day before the eruption. Fortunately it has, and we haven't.
DeleteThe key words for moving: pack, pack, throw away, donate, pack...and repeat.
ooops, it hasn't and we haven't. Whew. bit the bullet on that one.
DeleteIt's like "the big one".
ReplyDeleteIt would be THE big one as volcanoes go. Now we just need a good earthquake.
DeleteI figure we here in Colorado will go fast when that sucker blows, so I refuse to worry about it. :p And those people standing there while debris flies everywhere are idiots!
ReplyDeleteCan you believe that? What were they thinking, or were they thinking? Some people...
DeletePoor Jerry. Will he ever get it right? Great story, but now I have to google caldera.
ReplyDeleteAs for the tourists, they were lucky. There's no way I'd be hanging around if something like that happened here.
Tourists can be totally dumb, feeling the immortal complex. Oh well.
DeleteI've heard of the caldera, didn't know it would take out most of the US, so glad I live in the east. :)
ReplyDeleteWow!
But poor Jerry, doomsday man! Well done!
So unaware of geology and its unexpected events.
DeleteSometimes, try as you might, nothing will go right.
ReplyDeleteHas Jerry heard of Krakatoa? Although that’s gone completely now, if remember rightly.
Jerry is so focused on his own plans, so he couldn't listen to anything outside of that.
DeleteKrakatoa is still remembered as the most devastating volcano eruption to date. But Jerry didn't know that.
Sounds like he's fortunate the bus blew. You don't want to be anywhere near a blow out of that magnitude. ;) Now I'm going to go watch the video. Good job on using those words!
ReplyDeleteThanks! The video is worth a 2nd watch as you gape at stupid tourists.
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