The Flood Worry No One Is Mentioning.

[MannyIsGod]

Yeah, they can't afford to around with it. They have to open and it and even then the system will be under quite a bit of strain.

[RandomGuy]

The Mississippi River Commission has given U.S. Army Corp of Engineers the authority to open the Morganza Spillway.

[RandomGuy]

The Yellowstone supervolcano is on a 600,000 year cycle and it has been almost 600,000 years. The tsunami that'll wipe out the eastern seaboard won't be caused directly by an earthquake like the one that wiped out Sendai; it'll be the landslide from half of the island of La Palma falling into the ocean after an earthquake, and the tsunami will be hundreds of feet high.

The three super eruptions occurred 2.1 million, 1.3 million, and 640,000 years ago, forming the Island Park Caldera, the Henry's Fork Caldera, and Yellowstone calderas, respectively.[8] The Island Park Caldera supereruption (2.1 million years ago), which produced the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff, was the largest and produced 2,500 times as much ash as the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. The next biggest supereruption formed the Yellowstone Caldera (640,000 years ago) and produced the Lava Creek Tuff. The Henry's Fork Caldera (1.2 million years ago) produced the smaller Mesa Falls Tuff but is the only caldera from the SRP-Y hotspot that is plainly visible today

Chances it will happen in my lifetime: very small.

Chances that humanity's technology will advance to the point that we will acquire the ability to prevent the next one before it happens: pretty high

chances that the supercomputer life form that will take over after we are extinct will be able to prevent it: 100%

[MannyIsGod]

Chances it will happen in my lifetime: very small.

Chances that humanity's technology will advance to the point that we will acquire the ability to prevent the next one before it happens: pretty high

chances that the supercomputer life form that will take over after we are extinct will be able to prevent it: 100%

Prevent? Yeah ing right. The chances of preventing an eruption of that size are pretty much the chances of blowing up a nuclear weapon in the palm of your hand and still having fingers.