Please remember us in the PNW when the 9.5 Richter Mega-quake hits.

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95. That jives with what I was thinking (assuming?) about the jet stream's effect if...

...that kind of thing ever went down: Basically, that it would help blow a big portion of the ash/whatever to the east. It would be a really strange, alone, feeling to be in a hypothetical Seattle/Portland/Salem/Eugene surviving cities group after such a calamity. Presumably survivors would come in droves to the coast simply because they couldn't make it anywhere else very easily. I don't even know how food would work in a situation like that. Probably, as grim as it sounds, it wouldn't.

The other thing, that thread you linked to: Thanks for that, I'm going to check up on that right now. One of the great things about DU is the further information people can recommend on a topic and, AFAIK, I haven't heard about this event before.

Looks fascinating, thanks!

One of the secret pleasures of mine is trying to find correlation between ancient natural disasters/events/natural phenomena and correlating them to oral histories. For instance (although this isn't something I've actually looked into much) the Biblical Flood.

There was a PDF I grabbed (probably a rip of someone's book) called "Ancient Astronomy" or "Weird Astronomy" or somesuch which went through a large number of celestial events as recorded either through oral history or from ancient astronomers (think Chinese) and tried to correlate the reports to events now known to modern astronomy.

Super fascinating stuff.

PB