The Yellowstone Refugees

The Evacuation

We went from being strangers to family in the space of a few hours, everybody was lost and we were all looking for safety.

— a refugee after the Yellowstone eruption of 3016

A Homeless City

Thos who survived the disaster were either the few lucky citizens that lived close enough to the volcano that they were evacuated before there was any real danger, or those who lived far enough away that they had time to escape before the worst of the fire and ash reached their homes.
These thousands of people travelled (mainly on foot) to the nearest safe areas of civilization to seek refuge from the disaster that had taken their homes and lives from them. Even today, people can trace their ancestry back to survivors of the Yellowstone disaster, but it is rarely spoken about as people fear a similar event happening within their lifetimes.

The Aftermath

An Abandoned City

The area destroyed by the volcanic eruption became an abandoned wasteland that stayed desolate for many years later. Even after the land became safe to re-enter, the families, and descendants of those families, very rarely returned. Their grief and suffering was still to real.
Some who visited described Yellowstone City as a ghost-town, almost identical to when it was left. A stationary point in an ever-changing lanscape.

A Warm Welcome

The citzens of the closest unaffected cities in the Yellowstone area were quick to welcome the refugees into their homes and their lives, however the number of refugees greatly outnumbered the available space. It was like trying to fit two cities worth of people into the space of one. This mismatch in numbers caused a housing crisis that lasted for years afterwards.

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