British Guy Reacts to What Happens If Yellowstone Blows Up Tomorrow?

[@anderson74]

I am here in 1 minute! I know this video is gonna be great

[@TheBeesleys99]

Ayyy legend!

[@tyjaifoster1112]

@@TheBeesleys99 you need to catch up with everything NASCAR you really need to and also you need a good intro and outro.

[@NeoGen1987]

You can’t visit because the roads are melted and areas around old faithful is a dead zone

[@Werewindle]

When the Yellowstone supervolcano goes, don't worry, it'll be coming to visit YOU in your little garden in Jersey!!

[@sidwha4665]

The Ocean will hold it back just like it holds back Northern weather. The ice age after would be terrible though.

[@gcanaday1]

@@sidwha4665 Still sounds like a visit to me!

[@newgrl]

Beesley: Don't worry guys! We'll sort you out! USA: No. No you won't. You'll have your own problems.

[@stonewall01]

Someone asked me one time if I had to live somewhere else where would I choose. I said either Wyoming, Montana, or Idaho but just outside of Yellowstone. They asked if it was because I liked nature and I said that was one of the reasons but the main reason is if the Volcano does erupt in my lifetime, I want it to be over quick, preferably before I even know what is happening. It sounds morbid and maybe it is but the aftermath is going to be far worse than the eruption itself.

[@hinklefamily1831]

Dude, I live in Idaho and for as long as my family has been there there was almost no activity. Suddenly, in the last 6 years, we've gotten more earthquakes then ever before, harder then the last and coming from the Yellowstone and Stanley regions. Everyone says that it won't blow up for awhile, but there sure is activity

[@InstrucTube]

@@hinklefamily1831 Can confirm, I'm here in Idaho too. It's kinda nuts, but honestly, if it blows in my lifetime it'll affect me, regardless of where I am on the planet, so I'd rather go quick, like @Quethsegol said.

[@blankslate77]

@@hinklefamily1831 those earthquakes are likely from fracking. Not Yellowstone.

[@hinklefamily1831]

@@blankslate77 .... You do realize we can look up the epicenter online and there from Yellowstone. I literally said that in my original comment

[@blankslate77]

@@hinklefamily1831 sure

[@terrycarter1137]

Beesley, let's put the Yellowstone ash cloud in perspective, in the early 80s MT. ST. Helens erupted and within 48 hours as reached the UK. now think of that and maybe triple the amount. wanna really trip, try the New Madrid earthquake in 1812.

[@tj_2701]

That earthquake sent the mighty mississippi river flowing in reverse for 3 days! It was impossible to stand and was powerful enough that it made church bells all the way on the east coast ring. Everyone thought it was the actual end of the world. And it wasn't even a fully complete slippage of the fault line. 😁😁

[@tonyb7615]

@@tj_2701 this

[@melissabill1640]

I remember when mount pinatubo erupted in the 90s - our hot Michigan summer, (typical 90 F - 100 F) became super cool for months- like in the 60s F !!!! That was huge. I was so glad because my dad hated air conditioning so we had to suffer through in the heat. That summer no AC needed. 😃

[@misabissett2000]

Known as the Year Without a Summer. Remember it.

[@rj-zz8im]

I really enjoy your videos. You are a very genuine personality. I have been lucky enough to have visited many of these amazing parks, but it would a blast to take a road trip with you around the country and visit them again. It's much better when you are with someone else as enthusiastic.

[@dougbowers1256]

Small eruptions in Iceland from Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 affected air travel in Northern Europe for about six months.

[@marief8584]

I was in Ireland at the time, and I remember my flight back to the States was delayed a few days, for a change in wind drifts/currents or whatever. My work wasn’t happy about it, but it wasn’t technically my fault, and I can’t say as if I didn’t enjoy and take advantage of my extra time there.

[@driver19601960]

USGS has stated that there has been a big rise in earthquake's and have said now that the magma chamber has begun to fill even more.So they are watching to see what and when something is going to go off.

[@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage]

It's up but not ever close to normal high

[@billpickard7848]

There's another supervolcano its undersea near Naples Italy Mt Vesuvius is an outcropping of this supervolcano. This is in an area near major cities one maybe Rome.

[@violett6377]

I’ve been there. YELLOWSTONE IS IMPRESSIVE TO SAY THE LEAST. IT IS SO HUGE THAT I HAVE TO GO BACK ONE DAY BECAUSE IT IS SO H BIGTHAT IT MORE LIKE 5 parks IN ONE. LOOK AT A YELLOWSTONE MAP BEFORE GOING. DON’T GET CLOSE TO THE ANIMALS AND DO NOT GO IN SHORTS AND YOU WILL BE FINE. VERY BIG. VERY BEAUTIFUL. 😳😱

[@char5533]

I been am employee in Yellowstone in the 1970's. I have known this even before l worked there. Yellowstone is very awesome and beautiful. A must see for anyone.

[@tamifaulkner4103]

I grew up 90 miles from Yellowstone & have been there many, many times. It is all you think & more.

[@daltont23]

Live about 2 hours away from Yellowstone park! Like seeing your interest in Yellowstone!

[@wonderbubbles4092]

In 2001 I spent the entire summer and most of the fall working on the roads in Yellowstone Park. It was incredible. The East Entrance was the main work area and it is the less advertised entrance. Sylvan lake and the road to Cody, Wyoming are a popular migration route for the bull buffalos leaving the park for the winter. Seeing 5 or 6 big bulls walking shoulder to shoulder down the road is impressive, if anyone wants to see (and record) it I highly recommend it.

[@rhondagraham7855]

I've seen those ash clouds before... In Washington.. In the middle of the day, it got pitch black..

[@newgrl]

Sounds like you're ready for a trip to Yellowstone. Just one thing none of these videos you've watched mentioned... the smell. Yellowstone is gorgeous, beautiful, wonderful, and smells terrible :):) All of that "smoke" you see in these videos from the geologic features is full of sulfur compounds. Smells like something between "someone lit a match" and rotten eggs.

[@rachelmaxwell5936]

Plus, I'm pretty sure that if Yellowstone was building up towards a VEI8 eruption, there would be warnings months or even years in advance. I live in Utah, so relatively close to Yellowstone, so I grew up hearing about this, and it's constantly monitored. But one of the reasons they're so sure it's not going to erupt any time soon, is that they can actually use seismic waves to scan the magma chamber (kind of like sonar), and apparently at the present time only about 2-3% of the magma chamber is liquid enough to erupt, and that's not even close to the amount needed for an eruption to be possible. Of course, that could change, but I don't think it would be an abrupt change.

[@JEFFwasHERE...]

I'm going to do a live on site reaction when Yellowstone erupts 😁

[@josephharrison5639]

I’ve been there before, it’s absolutely beautiful. Knowing bout the volcano before heading out made it that much cooler. It’s home to the worlds largest herd of Buffalo

[@johnchestnut5340]

Been there once. It's even more amazing in person! Give yourself LOTS of time. A few days is NOT enough time. Enjoy!

[@thebirdnerd4765]

Just got back from a road trip from Yellowstone and the thought of it blowing up all of a sudden was on the back of my mind lol!

[@piousaugustus84]

I've been to Yellowstone. And I can assure you nothing you see in pictures and videos comes close to seeing it in person. It's a magical place. :)

[@touchstoneaf]

It's also the first national park in the country I think, well worth a visit, there's also a whole mountain made out of obsidian, that's worth seeing. And since they reintroduced the wolves as apex predators the entire environment reset itself to make up for the damages that had been caused by the lack of predation on any number of different species and the ripple effect from that, so it's a lot prettier now than it was when I went there 20 some odd years ago

[@marief8584]

I could definitely be mistaken, but I’ve heard that it was the first (official, anyway) National Park - not only in the country, but the world itself.

[@louellamoyer5578]

A great video to watch is Antelope Valley in Northern Az. The rock formations are amazing, the colors are stunning. A photographers dream! The Grand Canyon is an EPIC site also.

[@tj_2701]

This video focuses on the US but Canada will be just as effected and Mexico too will be directly effected to some degree.

[@Tigon200]

When Mount St Helens in Washington state erupted in 1980 my mother saw Ash in Pennsylvania

[@steventambon2588]

Love the David Attenborough shout out haha

[@stevemattfis]

Um,... well Magnitude 2.6 earthquake 50 miles from Big Sky, MT · Jul 3, 6:31 AM and three of the 1,722 earthquakes recorded in 2020 were above 2.6 Each of the larger earthquakes were 3.1 magnitude and occurred on March 31, May 29 and Nov. 25 in the area between Hebgen Lake in Montana and Norris Geyser Basin in the park, a place that has historically experienced higher magnitude quakes.

[@marcusfontaine181]

I’m so glad you posted today, I got my wisdom teeth out today and I need some entertainment to get me through this.

[@apex_blue]

I been to Yellowstone and seen the yellow stone caldera's wall with my own eye and it's absolutely massive and yellowstone itself is beautiful they didn't over do it. it truly is that beautiful.

[@georgesnow3985]

If the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted it would be a H.E.L.E. or a human extinction level event.

[@Anthony_Marquis]

Yellowstone is a pretty neat national park, but because of the huge amount of sulfur present, the whole park smells like rotten eggs all the time. So be prepared for that if you're planning to come visit. I suggest nose plugs or VapoRub applied directly underneath the nostrils.

[@kevinwallis2194]

Crater lake in oregon is great to see if you evert come to the states. Crater lake was formed from a volcano that collapsed.

[@schuylerschultz804]

fun fact, the reason Yellowstone is full of so many geysers and hot springs is because those are actually vents through which the super volcano can expel some of its energy. Those vents are basically the reason Yellowstone isn't blowing up right now. It has all those geysers and hot springs to relieve a lot of the pressure from unside the volcano. So it's.....not ACTUALLY dormant. It technically erupts every day! Just....on a very, very, very small scale, and in the form of a geyser.

[@squarebodycasewademckenney6190]

I can't remember if it was the history channel or discovery that posted it on KZbin but they made a "WHAT if" series of many natural disasters from earth related or space and Yellowstone was one of them and they had actual live action adaptations of what would happen...

[@billpickard7848]

Guys check out a video of the Island of Santorini. It to was a large volcano like Krakatoa in Indonesia.

[@debk5427]

That would be horrible. He's not mentioned what could happen with all the underground missile weapons in the affected areas. Not yet.

[@crime_dog27]

I’m from Canada

[@jdanon203]

Sorry about the big volcano neighbor!

[@MrBell1399]

I'm from Minnesota and I've been watching all your food videos lately. You need to do a video on state fairs and fair foods.

[@stairwayunicorn4861]

Pork chop on a stick!

[@daniel_sc1024]

Welcome to Yellowstone. Come for the wildlife, stay for the fiery death! Unless a grizzly bear eats you first. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Rick8151]

We have earthquakes often living here. Watched a documentary on this, the scientists used what data then have found from the last one. Basically when it goes, 100 to 150 miles around would be killed/wiped out with not even knowing what happened. Partially from the quake but more from the sound waves that will rupture organs. Reach Salt Lake City within a minute, level building. Then 15 to 20minutes later the earthquake will hit them from the initial blow out. Lot of people don't realize is the hot springs, hot mineral pools around 5 hours away are part of what's going on there, just lest extream. Along those routes are few other "dormant" volcanoes. Also, if you and your lady comes to Yellowstone, Wyoming (live here) let me know, I'll let you you my pass to save you some money and can show you folks around some wonderful sites.

[@backcountryme]

Been there 3 time. It is an amazing place.

[@willkatie7581]

Fun fact taxes is size of Utah ,navada, and California across

[@tudorjason]

11:30 - Only mildly damaged? WOOHOO!

[@dennissvitak5475]

Lived near Yellowstone. This is a once in a lifetime event. You HAVE to go.

[@andrewbarrett42]

I want to visit Devils tower and Mesa Verde,also from the UK.

[@adamcarew9163]

Yellowstone is very beautiful. I really hope you two get a chance to go.

[@tudorjason]

10:25 - The direction of the ash cloud would depend on the wind. And personally, I think more would be blown to the east because of the Rockys serving as a barrier for winds blowing to the west.

[@brandonb.5304]

Yeah, west of the Rockies, Sierras, and Cascades might actually be alright. They'd still experience that global cooling, but they likely woudn't be buried in toxic ash because of the 10,000+ foot mountain ranges and the fact that the jet stream usually goes in a more easterly direction.

[@garybyrd2480]

Yes please do visit Yellowstone is the most beautiful place in the world and dangerous place don't think of that just enjoy your visit enjoy your stay and have a great time

[@Kenpachi4207]

I live in the Great smokey Mountains of East Tennessee!!

[@BamaXander]

Yeah, we would experience crop shortages that would put Soviet Russia and Communist China to shame. You'd prolly wish that the blast had taken you out rather than the fate you'd be subjected to afterwards.

[@toddf7582]

Heading back to Yellowstone next week

[@SolTerran5050]

It is not a question if, it is a question of when

[@jimrupe9991]

May 18th 1980. Mt.St Helens erupted. I live in Washington state and I heard the explosion despite me living more than 250 miles to the north. Maybe react to that one. Just remember that it is soooo much smaller than Yellowstone would ever be.

[@violett6377]

I WOULD GO FOR AT LEAST 2 WEEKS AND DO THE SNAKE RIVER TOUR TOO…💟

[@dilbertdoe601]

The Brits will sort us out

[@jimmyrodela5515]

Hello Beesley 👋 that would be a horrible thing but according to the diagram of who would be affected and how bad...... Where I live at in Florida (Palm Bay, Fl) I wouldn't experience any of that 🙃 I am just outside of the light damage area 😆😆🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@satsunada]

You might be underestimating the raw food production out of the US midwest a bit. It's not called the 'Breadbasket of the World' for nothing

[@SolTerran5050]

It would plunge the world in a new Ice age

[@jchrisj200]

Also think about the amount of food that the US and Canada export. Those would stop as the crops fail.

[@nalaagirl]

I've been 3 times. Its amazing!

[@ApokalyptikNM]

Should look up the yellowstone live cam I recently caught a geyser eruption.. I took screenshots. I wouldn't want to be there in person

[@madhatman9166]

On the plus side global warming problem solved.... Your welcome from the USA.

[@TheBeesleys99]

ahaha! Always a silver lining!

[@rpn000rpnca]

If Yellowstone blows up I'm moving to England!

[@TheBlackbirdFly]

I've been to Yellowstone. It's my favorite place in the whole of the US. So much so, that I want to move to Wyoming so I can visit all the time. One of the coolest and most beautiful locations I've ever been and I have been to most of the western National Parks. Can't wait to one day go visit again and never return except to visit family in Ohio.

[@JKM395]

Though we would surely appreciate any help from anywhere should that thing go off, I'm not sure any place on Earth will be able to help much for very long. As much as I love you Brits (I married one), you're not exactly known for your miles and miles of wheat or corn farms. If any place was going to help anyone, I think it would most likely be Australia or New Zealand. They're on the other side of the world and they like us too. Drop the temp by ten degrees and Australia might stop being on fire and turn into one of the few places with a growing season.

[@Double0Inside]

Start of video - "Fingers crossed if it happened it wouldn't cause any harm to anybody." Me - 👀

[@billcole3669]

And then there is Mt. Rainier which would devastate the NW.

[@citygirlNorthWest]

An eruption of Yellowstone is indeed an "extinction level event"... AKA... we all die... long term, the weather changes would be the devastating world wide. Volcano is "due" but in geological terms probably not in our lifetime.

[@kathyyoung9539]

It IS I live right next to the park. It's my home. I grew up in that park. IT'S MY PARK. I wouldn't wanna live anywhere else.

[@orphu88]

If you ever visit Yellowstone, keep heading west and join me in northern California (if we haven't burned down by then)! You're always welcome, and I'll show you San Francisco, the Pacific coast, and the Redwood forests!

[@coyotej4895]

I was six when my family went. Just an FYI, don't hit a bear in the nose with marshmallows. They get rather angry. If this happens, purely by accident of course, Be close to your vehicle because a bear Can outrun a person but has less chance out running a family station wagon. :) PS; Don't leave a kid alone in before mentioned station wagon with an entire Family size bag of Cheetos on a hot day either. I was not the most loved kid on that trip.

[@Fridge56Vet]

Some good news is that supervolcanos don't always have supereruptions, so it might go more manageably, at least until we die of something else 1st. 😀

[@katholmes7112]

While Yellowstone is the biggest, I believe that there are 3 super volcanoes in the world and one is Japan. I can't remember offhand where the other is. Yeah, but super volcanoes would literally be extinction events because of the sheer size of the eruptions and how long the sun gets blocked. I believe a super eruption caused the last ice age.

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

If the Yellowstone Super Volcano Blows with it's full potential, you can pretty much say goodby to our Country and will be an Extinction event for humans, like the Toba explosion was. There's a Documentary/potential theory that was made several years ago about this very thing. The beginning of the film, "This Is A True Story, It Just Hasn't Happened Yet".

[@79mib]

Bruh. The wildfires on the west coast have already blanketed the east coast in ash cloud. It comes and goes. This is life in the new climate: sometimes I have bright blue skies, sometimes I have cloud cover because Oregon and California are on fire.

[@suem6004]

Yellowstone’s reaction to all the global warming ninnies. No amount of bicycling or taxes can change the earth as one super volcano initiating a global winter.

[@barkerjames1980]

If it blows up, I'll be one of the first to know, its pretty much in my backyard!

[@jamesstrickland517]

Why do you think I live in Wyoming? If the volcano doesn't go I live less than 5 km from a military base that is sure to be nuked in a nuclear war.

[@user-rl7cw9eg8e]

Funny enough I saw this video a couple days ago

[@johnwillis4706]

That's a lie, Yellowstone is not dormant. The current condition listed by the USGS is Active.

[@KswolfVideos]

I don't know if anyone's commented on this yet, but there's no possible way the U.S. national parks cover 85,000,000 sq km since the entire U.S. is just over 9,800,000 sq km. Germany also isn't even close to 85,000,000 sq km (it's more like 350,000), in fact the combined land area of both Europe and Asia is only 55,000,000 sq km.

[@brianh6]

I pointed this out in the comments for the original video. I saw somewhere else the national park system is 85 million acres (although other places give a lower amount). Pretty huge error.

[@frederickrimler8153]

Yellowstone is gorgeous but one big ass coldera.

[@chrisdavidson6519]

Just that eruption alone would effect the entire world and may even start a new ice age.

[@stairwayunicorn4861]

the global impact is grossly understated. the entire northers hemisphere would endure a nuclear winter.

[@raphaelpaz8476]

Without watching the video I paused this at the 1 second mark and my answer and not a guess is we all die

[@Nighthawk_r33]

We're over 60,000 years overdue for an eruption. Is it going to erupt again? Yes. But the big question is, when? It could erupt in 20,000 years or in 20 days. We just don't know for sure when.

[@michaelkohli5106]

One troubling thing though in the last few months the frequency of high level earth quakes has risen.

[@tax905972]

we already get everything from other countries.

[@juliewilliams2867]

Check out a few more facts. Right now Yellowstone is closed. You can see ground swelling and movement. Idaho is having many small quakes . The potential is there for eruption.

[@robinmills8675]

I have seen this video before. I enjoyed seeing your progressive shock. I kept thinking, wait till he hears whats next.

[@cassiemichael4697]

I love your optimism in the UK's willingness to help America in a food shortage crisis, but you have to admit, it wouldn't be enough. It physically wouldn't be possible for a any European country outside of Russia to help us over here in the States. Because, you're used to land that's capable of producing food for a smaller population of people. And, I know what you're going to say, "Well, than ALL of Europe's going to have to band together to feed America!" Well, it might work for about half of what we need...maybe. Feasibly, you might need all of Europe, Russia, and places like China, India, Australia, South Korea, and maybe Japan to help. America would be absolutely devastated if we lost our massive tracts of farmland. We would literally starve to death while people overseas are scrambling either to help or deliberate to others about what to do. It's like putting a band-aid on a broken leg, and then taking hours to get to the hospital. I know you're a good man, and the British are good people. But we need a backup plan for something like this, not something you can muster in a night or a week. Something that would be send out immediately. We need a food stockpile.

[@canespugnaces2126]

You seemed like you had "it's going to be bad but not that bad" thoughts in your intro. Little did you know.

[@TheBeesleys99]

Absolutly! Never expected what then came!

[@canespugnaces2126]

@@TheBeesleys99 to answer your question about what to would you do if it erupted at the end of the video... well we would probably crack a beer or 30 here in Texas where I life and then after it finished we would get to rebuilding and helping out neighboring states and fellow Americans however we could.

[@PaulSmith-xc7vt]

Hey great reaction

[@rhshear]

While the explosion would be devastating, don’t worry about it. Just go there. It is Fabulous, beautiful beyond words. Just make hotel arrangements a year in advance.

[@rebeccawyse5562]

There are alot of changes in yellowstone going on right now...check it out

[@knightspearhead5718]

By the time these SuperVolcanoes goes off if they follow history like geologists like too say, our technology would be beyond our current understanding.

[@Milleniumlance]

Pretty much 10 hydrogen bombs going off at once

[@markhamstra1083]

You’re not even close. The largest bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba, was about 50 megatons. Deployed nuclear weapons are more in the range of 100 kilotons to a few megatons. The Krakatoa eruption in 1883 was about the equivalent of a 200 MT explosion. A Yellowstone mega eruption would be more than 100 times larger than Krakatoa. That’s more than 400x the largest bomb ever, and tens of thousands of times larger than deployed nuclear weapons.

[@zanepeterson13]

Hey mate! I'm from Jersey where are you from?

[@TheBeesleys99]

Jersey channel island :D