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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 2406766" data-attributes="member: 571">So instead of hurricanes you have Russians and Swedes. Don't sound like a fair trade to me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Think of a hurricane as like a house. An area 4 miles in diameter would then be a shoebox. In Flashman at the Charge a British general studied a map of Russia, then turned to his colleagues and observed, "Big, isn't it?". Even with dragonshard focus items there aren't enough wizards in Sharn to keep anything larger than an anemic category one away.Them suckers is big.A hurricane really is not just the area with the hurricane force winds. It is also a huge band of winds and rain that can cover hundreds of thousands of square miles. It is also the subsidiary storms that can extend over an area of a million or more square miles. When we say that a hurricane has come ashore at a particular location, that means the eye of the storm is expected to pass over that spot. The rest of the storm system encompasses much more territory.Back many years ago a rare event occurred around here. Through the right combination of events an Eastern Pacific hurricane went up the Gulf of California. By the time it reached the Sea of Cortez in the northern gulf it had downgraded to a tropical storm. But it was still strong enough to cause extensive damage when it came ashore at the mouth of the Colorado. Though there are mountains between San Diego and Imperial Counties we still got a lot of rain from that storm. Rain and high winds that did a lot of damage. Had the waters of the Gulf of California been a few degrees warmer that year the story could've been very different.We like to think we have mastered this world, but natural phenomena such as storms, earthquakes, and fires have a way of pissing on our conceits.</blockquote>

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