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My grandparents live in Cody, just outside Yellowstone. I've visited them several times and been inside the park a bunch, too. The crazy thing is that if you look at a topographical map of the area, and you know what to look for (which, generally, I don't without some help), you can see the crater left by the three largest volcanos that have erupted over the last few million years.

It's true, Yellowstone is home to some of the wildest geothermal activity in the country. The smell of sulfur is common within the park, and the thermal pools are alive with colors from the minerals in the water, but the soil in the surrounding areas is extremely fertile due to the debris thrown off by the eruptions. lava-rich soil is known for being great for growing stuff. Sadly, the growing season in Wyoming is quite short, so instead of seeing crop farms, you often see cows and horses.


I, myself, live in Southern California. I've been in one large earthquake since I moved here in 1994, and it wasn't the Northridge one, because I missed that by two months. I was on a Zoology field trip (back when I was a science major) in the desert for the Hector Mine quake of '99.


speaking of volcanos, Mt. St. Helens erupted on the same day I was born. I beat her by several hours. :3

Well, in my scince class we were talking about global warmig. My scince teacher and many scincetists belief that most of the current disasters are from global warming. But global warming they said only might be happening because of history. The temerature would go up every so years that it's finally adding up. In my opinion I really don't think it's happening. They also say pollution could be a contributing factor to these disaster streaks going on is the U.S.A and all over the world.

Back when I lived in California, I was in several earthquakes. None of them were major. Brushfires were worse. There was one in '03 that took out thousands of home and very easily could've burned mine to the ground. That fire was awful. It made the air quality so bad that school was canceled for a week and nobody went outside without a mask of some kind to filter the air through.

This was shot from my backyard the first day of the fire, when you could still see blue sky. That's smoke, not clouds. (And on my birthday, too. Thank you, nature!):



Here's another fire, from a few months later. It was just a little one, but it's always scary when you watch a hillside less then a mile away go up in flames. The firefighting aircraft flew back and forth over my house, which was pretty cool because they fly really low.



The first fire was the combination of accidental arson (a hiker didn't bury his campfire as well as he thought) and a lightning storm. Both caused small blazes that eventually joined together to create a monster. The lightning fire alone would've probably grown up all by itself, so that couldn't of been prevented. The second fire could've, however, because it was just accidental arson. Some idiot lit his barbeque under a tree, and things only got worse from there.

Super Goo: Wow, that's insane. There've been fires in my area (CA) but not too major. We get earthquakes though.

Where exactly did you live in California. Santa Clara?

Ah. We had a fire just outside of San Jose around the same time.