NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: If you object to my starting this just ring in and I'll postpone until ye is ready. I also understand that some of you use celsius and some of you use Fahrenheit. I say we just use whatever it is that we use and everyone just converts to what they want (or you could post in your threads). Here is the conversion formula [From C to F: (°C x 1.8) + 32)][From F to C: (°F - 32) / 1.8]. To get the degree sign do this: ALT+0176.

It was mid-January. The western hemisphere had undertaken an unusual cold spell with temperatures some 20°F to 25°F below the normal average except in one place, the Gulf of Mexico. Temperatures were, surprisingly, 20°F to 25°F above the average. It was most peculiar and it had meteorologists completely and utterly confused. A powerful El Niño that year and they figured that to be the main problem.

In the meteorology stations throughout the four provinces of the Empire of Layarteb, special teams were working on weather prediction for the continuation of the winter. All of their analysis put a most peculiar system in the Gulf of Mexico and quite possibly the most powerful Nor'Easter ever just off the coast of Layartebian Massasschussettes. However, their real focus was in the Gulf of Mexico. Whatever was brewing had hurricane like qualities but was definitely nothing like a hurricane. It fed off of warm water but the real source of its power came from the low pressure systems to the north. As they would grow, so would it.

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OOC: Great, Layarteb. My poor harbors are going to be wiped OUT.

anything hitting africa, middle east, india? If something hit gambia that could add a bit of excitement to the events going on

Huge TAG.

The Celtayoshi Met Office is watching the weather with great enthusiasm as usual.

I think I forgot to post this in the main thread for everyone...Figures...Anyhow sure if you want to create stuff elsewhere in the world by all means go ahead. This is open to all Earth II. Hell make earthquakes and tsunamis and volcanoes if you wish.

TAG- Will post later.

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It was a calm, sunny day in downtown New Orleans. The city, capital of the new Republic of Texas, was restored to its former beauty, being the Roman Empire's entertainment hotspot.

However, not all was rosy in New Orleans. Weather stations in the Gulf of Mexico were sensing a massive hurricane was forming off the Cape Verde Islands (OOC: where most of the destructive hurricanes form), and could potentially hit New Orleans. In the few months that Rome has controlled the city, they built massive fifty-foot-high walls (with sealable gates to let water flow into the city) around the city in an effort to control waterflow into the city and upgraded the city's pump system, but there were worries that this may not be enough. There were already talks before about rebuilding the city just off the Mississippi River instead of having it being directly on it, but with reports of a hurricane those talks became more serious. For now, though, there wasn't anything the Romans could do except sit and wait- and hope the pumps would bail them out.

OOC: The barometer will be at 24.89" when this storm hits. Winds will be sustained from 60 - 80 mph with gusts up to 120. It will be dumping 52" of snow onto Layarteb and Dnalkrad with temperatures below freezing.

The Nor'easter forming to the east of Layarteb and Dnalkrad was about six hundred miles from shore, sucking in the icy, deep water. It was growing in size and strength, the barometric pressure dropping faster than anything else. The storm was being fed by the jet stream. Immediate predictions wer eputting wind speeds in excess of seventy knots and a size in excess of one thousand miles. If such was true, the storm would persist for a week to ten days, wrecking havoc everywhere. With such conditions, the air would be filled with foam and waves would be in excess of forty-five feet. No sea wall in history could prevent that. Being fed from the hurricane-type system in off the Cape Verde Islands, this Nor'easter would be massive. The two fed off each other with a massive low pressure system also forming over Montana and North Dakota. The triangular weather pattern was enough to cause even the most stable environments to be the most catastrophic.

Not only would the Nor'easter put powerful waves onto the beach but could also dump several feet of snow within a few hours. The barometer was already low, just over 32.05" with winds around 40 mph, gusting to 55.

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Role Feed...............

This is a Special Report for
KXKS TV-8
Billings, Montana
Brock Marion-Meteorologist

"Good evening Billings this is Brock Marion here at the KXKS weather desk and I breaking into the Broadcast of "Everybody Loves Raymond" to bring you this special weather alert. A huge Arctic Cold Front is diving south from Canada and is expected to impact our area in the morning. This front combined with the over-saturated air rising from the Gulf of Mexico has produced a rich environment for record snow fall. We are expecting between 2-6 feet of snow to fall within the next 24 hours. I have talked to MDOT (Montana Department of Transportation) and they say it will be difficult for them to keep the emergency transportation corridors open with the snowfall rates predicted. Emergency shelters are being setup in several local schools and citizens that have an electric source of heat are asked to move to these shelters as widespread power outages are expected. The State Government has asked Prime Minister Wales mobilize the special Mountain Divisions of the Hawdawg Army to assist with this most unique situation. I cannot restate this enough if you are in a substandard home or building with electric heat only please move to a shelter. A light snow is falling as we speak and as you can see here on the Doppler Radar Image the large ban of snow with Blizzard like conditions will arrive around 8am in the morning. Temperatures are expected to plummet to -15 degrees F and Winds are predicted to be as high as 60-80 mph. A Blizzard warning has been issued for all counties in Montana effective immediately. Please stay tuned to your local station for continuing updates on this Winter Storm. I am Brock Marion and we now return you to your regularly scheduled program."

OOC:I will wait a day or so and continue this destructive storm.

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I can't see this affecting me down in South America but it looks to be an interesting read.

The port-city of Mobile, Alabama, roughly a 2-hour car drive from New Orleans was preparing for the storm.

A curfew would be put in place once the storm hit, and generators provided by the government were being sent to many of the houses and apartments in the city.

Millions of gallons of clean water and hundreds of thousands of food rations were being sent to the city.

The port city would be placed under martial law during the storm, to prevent looting or any other crime.

Along the coast with the Gulf of Mexico, a 50-foot, steel-reinforced, 10 foot-thick wall was being hastily constructed.

The towns in this region would be would be given similar resources to those given to Mobile.

Along the Mississippi coast, the same actions were being taken.

In all regions along the coast, thousands of Germanian Red Cross agents had been sent, and were preparing for any possible injuries or deaths from the storm. Government contractors were sent to the regions to help secure apartment buildings, houses, and neighborhoods.

Hopefully, Germania would be able to survive this storm with little to no casualties.

A message to Roman Officials in New Orleans was sent, proposing that if necessary, the two respective nations should work together.

- N.G.

Up north the situation was worsening. Sustained winds inside the storm were at 50 mph and gusts extended out to 80. The barometer had plummetted to 29.05" and was only getting lower. The storm was only 400 miles from the shore of Layarteb and Dnalkrad, directly due east and moving to the west at a grueling 4 mph, continuing to feed off the arcticly cold waters. When the storm hit it would be more than a story, it would be cataclysmic.

The Liebermonkian satellite systems orbited over the Gulf of Mexico and began beeping rapidly sending messages to Ida, the home base. Liebermonk had small claims in south Texas. Liebermonkian Hidalgo was a bustling little county-state, but it was not near prepared for what was brewing. The satellite could not tell exactly the movement of the system, just that it was growing, fast. A red alert was sent down to McAllen, the capital city of Liebermonkian Hidalgo. All persons were told to board their windows, and stock up on emergency supplies.
A mass frenzy occured at the supermarkets. Riots broke out over food. Reports of one man dying over a bottle of water have surfaced. So many things were occuring over the few Cities in the county-states, and no one was even sure if they were going to need it.

.......8:00am...........
Billings, Montana
Temperature -20 degrees F
Wind 60 mph gusting to 75 mph
Visibility zero
Snowfall a staggering 8 inches per hour
Blizzard Conditions

On the street only the foolish ventured out. Many people thought the weatherman was only kidding about the blizzard warning. Many cars are trapped on the interstate without anyway to get out of the path of this horrific storm. White out conditions prevail. Emergency plow crews are working double-shifts, but with 8 inches falling an hour they can barely keep the emergency routes open. Power is out to 3/4 of the city and the Hospital is running on emergency power. The Hawdawg Mountain Division from Fort Laramie is in route to try and assist the local government but they are cut-off by a 12 foot snow drift that has severed the main routes into town. Billings is isolated and citizens didn't listen to the warning to go to shelters. Without electicity many folks simply won't last long even inside their homes. Roofs are beginning to buckle from the wieght of the snow and the Police and Fire Departments are unable to help. The situation is dire. Without power or basic heat the death toll in the city will be high. This scenario is playing out all over the state. Cattle and sheep herds are literally freezing standing up. Winter crops are buried. Wild and domestic animals are having to paw through the snow to find anything to nibble on. This can only get worse.


OCC: This is a snapshot of what is happening all over Montana. The state is officially at a standstill.

The storm was only one hundred miles from the shore of Layarteb and Dnalkrad. The fun was beginning. The barometer was now steady at 27.03" and the sustained winds were up to 60 mph, gusting to 92. It was a mini-hurricane, except a thousand miles wide. Moving now at 5 mph, the storm was creating waves between twenty and thirty feet.

For as far as sixty-five miles inland in Dnalkrad, there was nothing. Those with beachfront property evacuated further inland as their beaches vanished and their streets sunk underneath the rising water level. Snow was already falling, a total of 6" had accumulated thus far on some of the more inland parts and the damage was beginning to mount. Street signs were being torn and flung around, electrical powerlines being ripped away. Luckily, the power had been turned off in anticipation.

Coast Guard frigates on the seas as far south as on the southern coast of Long Island were seeing increasingly hostile sea states. A rescue operation of a Cottish freighter was underway and it would not be easy for the tug to hook up to the ship with sea crests of eight feet.

It was only a matter of time now before the utter worst slammed into Dnalkrad and Layarteb...

Celtayoshi had been unusally slow to react, with only a matter time before Prine Edward Island became swamped with some of the worst weather seen for centuries the military had begun to fly out people and belongings, however, now they too were pinning down.

Refuge was beening seeked inside military shelters, and in basements, but for sure the island would bear the brunt of Celtayoshi's damage. The Ports were in lockdown, many boats had been moved to mainland ports for safer storage. Even some of the larger Navy Vessels were not staying close to shore, for fear of being forced aground. Aircraft flights have been cancelled and the area declared a no-fly zone, Celtayoshi Air Traffic Control has announced that several planes may have escaped through the net, before bad weather interfered with radar. The coast guard and Navy are out searching.

OOC: I figure this as the storm track:

1. Storm slams into Labrador & New Foundland.
2. Storm comes down into Gulf of St. Lawrence and slams through there.
3. Storm enters Atlantic Ocean on a SE course.
4. Storm turns and slams into NE USA.

OOC: Sorry for the late reply...I've been busy.

IC: The storm clouds brewing over the Cape Verde Islands were growing more and more worrisome every day. Meteorologists watching the clouds knew a hurricane would come from those clouds- they just weren't sure when.

A message to Roman Officials in New Orleans was sent, proposing that if necessary, the two respective nations should work together.

- N.G.

******Official Communique From The Roman Government******

We would like to work together with our ally North Germania over this situation. The storm may be bigger than expected, so the cleanup efforts will be huge, and we'll both need all the help we can get. We would also like to trade information regarding the weather systems between our governments to help in this regard.

Signed,
Roger Doria,
Governor, New Roman Imperium
New Rome (OOC: Houston)
February 10, MMV

The storm hit...

The barometer was at 25.12" and the winds were sustained at 68 mph gusting to 105 mph and it was snowing. Hard! The temperature was down to a mere 2.0°F with the sustained winds and a frigid -1.5°F with the gust. Already some 16" of snow had fallen as the storm went southwest through Dnalkrad. It was some 1,000 miles wide and from space looked mamoth. It was unbelievable.

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Should I just put this as done?

Should I just put this as done?

Not active for almost a month? I'd say its finished.