>>>Hah! I'm not afraid of earthquakes or tsnunamis! <g>
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>>>But, that's because I live on the east side of the Cascade mountains (100 miles from Seattle)... I'd barely feel an earthquake over here and also wouldn't have to worry about tsunamis.
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>>Yeah, seems me to Yellowstone is a much bigger risk for you guys.
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>Yellowstone is about 500 miles, as the crow flies, from Ellensburg. I've read articles about Yellowstone's super volcano potential, spewing "a cloud of plant-killing ash would fan out and dump a layer 10ft deep up to 1,000 miles away". However, we wouldn't be downwind, so we'd most likely get nothing blown our way. I would also think that, being 500 miles away, earthquakes wouldn't be too bad either. We'd probably be ok ...

I think we can all assume that, when Yellowstone goes, life in North America (and maybe worldwide) will change dramatically for all of us. We can hope that it's still millenia away, but who knows.

Tamar