I’m not very interested in living in the aftermath and in the meantime I’ll never get sick of the Rocky Mountains.

It's a natural impulse. It's difficult to get people to think in geological time frames. In California, for example, people soon forget the last major earthquake, and always seem surprised when the next one occurs. I lived there for over 50 years, and experienced several destructive earthquakes, but a year after each one, most people were no longer concerned about the next one.

Huge volcanic eruptions are even less frequent. Nobody alive experienced the big Lassen blowout. Mt. St. Helens is now forgotten, as well. So, the next one will come as an enormous surprise to almost everyone.

Yellowstone? There's not even a human historical record of that supervolcano event. It's not something too many people think about, really.

Part of the problem, really, is that we can't do much about geological catastrophes, so we pretty much don't think about them all that much. They happen rarely enough in any given place that the odds are very small that we'll be affected.

Yellowstone will likely be the location for another catastrophic event. The probability of it happening in any given lifetime, though, is very, very low. When it does happen, it will come as an enormous surprise for all but a very few people.

For instance, the dinosaurs died out approximately four games ago, while the universe formed about 830 games ago.

Two and a half weeks for clean up of an eruption

and if it can happen before the 2018 mid-terms, hopefully this time result in a genetic bottleneck that kills off the current crop of racist fascist right wingnut jackasses that turn our stomachs daily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck

I'm sure in two thousand years, the archaeologists will find my body Pompeii style sitting in front of my computer typing these last words to you... what was tha