[Torg] Storm Surge

[Michael Jason Teegarden]

I lived in Houston for 18 years, and only two months ago moved northwards.  During our TORG campaign (also mostly set in Houston), one notable reality storm between a PC and NPC hit the red zone on the storm chart, consistently, and multiplied x4 or x5 twice .. before going maelstrom.  We figured its size (it wasn't Ike or similar) but it did take out city blocks radius 10 blocks.  The few eyewitnesses saw it as a circular explosion.  :)
 
Michael



----- Original Message ----
From: Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org>
To: torg at justintimeadventures.com
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:40:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Torg] Storm Surge

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
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