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Godzilla due any day now

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Tyredofallthis1 · 20/09/2021 10:27

We've had plague, brexit, wildfires, hurricanes and now there is a volcano erupting in the Canary Islands. It's the one where they do the doommongering documentaries that the next eruption will cause a tsunami that will wipe out most of the USA east coast. (threat has been downgraded according to Wiki). And volcanoes affect the weather in not good ways, just as we are looking at food shortages.

Please can we catch a break.

OP posts:
REP22 · 20/09/2021 12:41

Cats. Cats will enslave us all in the end.

Purring is just a smokescreen - that's actually cats saying "rise, my feline brothers... the time of reckoning draws closer...".

REP22 · 20/09/2021 12:43

@TooBigForMyBoots

I don't mind as long as he doesn't bring that annoying little fucker Godzuki with him.🦖
Hehe, yeh. The Scrappy-Doo of the radioactive giant reptile world.
EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 20/09/2021 12:54

My news alert has just told me Cyprian waters have been invaded by alien toxic toadfish and its a catastrophe for the sea.

Happy Monday.

FourTeaFallOut · 20/09/2021 13:03

All the magpies in our area seem to be going fekking nuts. And, as any fellow disaster movie fan will confirm, crazy birds are always the first real sign that the shit is about to hit the fan.

EvilPea · 20/09/2021 13:08

@REP22

Cats. Cats will enslave us all in the end.

Purring is just a smokescreen - that's actually cats saying "rise, my feline brothers... the time of reckoning draws closer...".

One of my dc is utterly convinced it’s ducks that are going to take over. Flooding Melted ice caps
Sn0tnose · 20/09/2021 13:21

I think we should all head to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint and wait for all this to blow over.

BiddyPop · 20/09/2021 13:21

St. Vincent, one of the Carribbean Islands, had a volcano erupt followed by a hurricane hitting it this spring, while the volcano in Iceland was erupting as well (which has been ongoing for 8 months or so now continuously).

The volcano in the Canaries which is currently erupting is not Mount Teide on Tenerife, the one that they're afraid will split the island in 2 and cause a tsunami across the Atlantic and that there have been a number of documentaries about. It's a smaller one on a different island (Cumbre Vieca in La Palma). The Canaries is a string of volcanic islands - they were formed by volcanic eruptions and have a number of extinct and dormant volcanoes, and I guess now an active one again.

There is always some activity in Mount St Helen's in the Yellowstone National Park (which had the catastrophic eruption in the 1980s), and very active volcanoes in Hawaii constantly. As well as around a "Ring of Fire" in the Pacific Ocean, places like Fiji, Java, etc also being formed by volcanoes and occasionally having an eruption.

There are also large storms every year but as they are often in more developing countries, we don't hear so much about them - the annual "rainy season", or bigger hurricanes/typhoons etc. It's just there are more happening closer to home. 2020 had 30 named storms in the US/Central America/Carribbean area, and was a record breaker in lots of ways.

But, in the 2020/21 storm season here, we only had 1 named storm (Aiden), while we had got as far as Dennis at least in 2019/21 (so at least 4) and I may have forgotten some, but there were 11 (as far as Katie) in 2015/16. So, similarly to the USA system, there are years we use up a lot of storm names because we've had a bad season, but there are plenty of other years when we have hardly any.

There are always wildfires in LA in the US, other parts of the US/Canada, parts of mediterranean Europe like France/Spain/Greece and huge swathes of central Africa. It just happens that this year, it was particularly hot and dry in a lot of places at the same time (and also a slow news part of the year which was particularly slow this year) so there was a lot more coverage of it. I remember fires in Devon caused a lot of local chaos a few years back, and gorse fires on Howth Hill are also common most summers.

We've had other plagues like AIDS, SARs, bird flu, etc over the years. Outbreaks of diseases like ebola happen on occasion, particularly again in developing countries. Do you remember the Zika problem a couple of years ago? Or the foot and mouth outbreak across the UK and Ireland in 2001 and the chaos THAT caused? (which again shut down large parts of the economy for months - yes schools and offices stayed open but we had serious restrictions on movement etc and were not allowed into the countryside for months, lots of sanitising requirements etc).

We've had a few snowy winters too - the 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons were fairly memorable (they included the "Beast from the East" and totally disrupted Christmas travel that year), but lots of winters we get nothing more than a couple of hard frosts.

My point is that these things happen, sometimes there are a lot that happen together - but there are some kinds of "disasters" happening somewhere on the globe almost daily. It's just that a lot of the time, there is enough going on here and they are not disastrous enough IYKWIM (and unfortunately, tend to happen in less developed countries a lot of the time so get less attention), so we just don't hear that much about them.

BiddyPop · 20/09/2021 13:25

Oh, and it happened to be the year in the US that the Cicadas (sp?) emerged so there were millions of loud, buzzy, crawly insects flying and crawling around to mate and reproduce, and eat lots, for a number of weeks on the East coast there. But then they will hibernate for a few years before coming out again.

CustardySergeant · 20/09/2021 13:36

"One of my dc is utterly convinced it’s ducks that are going to take over."

I assume you've already told them they're quackers.

Partyhearty · 20/09/2021 13:43

My dc would love this. Godzilla’s his bloody hero.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 20/09/2021 14:00

@CrumpetsForAll

A volcano in the canaries is gonna wipe out like, NYC?! You sure, OP?
The island is all rock and there is a big rift down the middle of the island following earthquakes and eruptions over thousands of years. The projection is that eventually part of the smaller side of the rift will crack off and slide into the ocean creating a big tsunami that will head off in the general direction of North-East US. They are pretty sure that something similar has happened in the past as some of the other Canary islands have skeletal sea life (mostly shellfish) on high ground.

However predicting it is a very inexact science, it might happen in our lifetime, it might happen in tens of thousands of years, it might never happen. A bit like the Yosemite supervolcano, which might be about due or might not happen for thousands of years.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard

CrumpetsForAll · 20/09/2021 14:07

I see they’re struggling to keep a lid on the duck thing. Very interesting...

BiddyPop · 20/09/2021 14:12

The volcano with the rift is Mount Teide on Tenerife.

The erupting volcano is on La Palma - a different island in the Canaries.

REP22 · 20/09/2021 14:44

See, this is how they operate. The cats.

I tried to warn you - but they padded in and now everyone's talking about ducks and volcanoes. They tip-claw in, sow discord, and sit back to watch and cackle at us whilst innocently lapping at their Whiskas Cat Milk and pawing at their fluffy catnip toys.

It'll be the cats, all the way. With that Charley off the freaky TV ads as their Infernal Majestic Overlord.

ElGuardiandenoche · 20/09/2021 15:17

@Sn0tnose

I think we should all head to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint and wait for all this to blow over.
Yep! I’m with you on that. We just need to make sure we bring some proper stuff to barricade ourselves in.
jesusmaryjosephandtheweedonkey · 20/09/2021 15:21

This!!!

Godzilla due any day now
dodobookends · 20/09/2021 15:35

@CrumpetsForAll

A volcano in the canaries is gonna wipe out like, NYC?! You sure, OP?
This has been talked about for many years and the OP is right. La Palma is basically an enormous volcano and yes, if it were to erupt in a cataclysmic way the whole island could collapse into the Atlantic and yes, it could possibly cause a tsunami that would reach the east coast of the USA, the west coast of Africa and Europe and the whole of the UK.
NeverDropYourMoonCup · 20/09/2021 16:19

Don't worry too much about King Ghidorah. We'll have Kong to help us.

OK, we'll also have the other creepy bird bastards coming out to play once the volcanoes sort out a handy portal, but we might have just enough time to build some robotech to help out our relatively friendly (or at least indifferent) kaiju.

AdaColeman · 20/09/2021 16:28

Those of us who've been on Mumsnet since it was all green fields round here, know that there is a Mumsnet Zombie Apocalypse Plan.

So no need to panic! Wink Wine

EvilPea · 20/09/2021 16:41

it could possibly cause a tsunami that would reach the east coast of the USA, the west coast of Africa and Europe and the whole of the UK.
And then the ducks take over

Dc was right Shock

EvilPea · 20/09/2021 16:42

@CustardySergeant

"One of my dc is utterly convinced it’s ducks that are going to take over."

I assume you've already told them they're quackers.

Oh my god. I’m losing my touch, I didn’t think of that one. Grin

I’ve tucked it away for next time it comes up

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