[Torg] Storm Surge

[Kansas Jim]

Dave wrote:

> It's not really funny, but I had to make a comment about the storm 
> bearing down on Houston (Torg's U.S. Capital).  How powerful would a 
> Reality Storm have to be to do the damage that has been shown and/or 
> projected.  Did the skies act like this before Living Land crashed down, 
> or when Nile dropped on Houston, or when Los Angeles was swallowed up by 
> Tharkold.

I don't recall where I got the numbers from but in the R&E I said that
hurricane-force winds can have DVs as high as 22 (p106). That would be
about equal to the storm strengths around newly established stelae zones
(p161) so it's a fair parallel. In my last campaign I did make flooding
a significant problem around some storm fronts too.

> Mom-in-Law decided she was going to wait it out, thinking it wasn't 
> going to be that bad.  She said tonight she wished she had taken us up 
> on our offfer to have her come out here.  We're a couple hundred miles 

I hope she's all right. I have an uncle near San Antonio so for a while
we were wondering if he'd be okay.

> The storm has a name....and it's Ike.

They really should revise the list they use to name hurricanes and put
some more dramatic, ominous sounding names on it. ;)

-- 
Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
Torg website: http://www.sdc.org/~ksjim/index.html