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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 3920089" data-attributes="member: 2795">RumbleDr. Lasky looks pensive as she chews on her upper lip. "You could say that," she replies. "The antennae are part of a system that covers half the East Coast. We're trying to develop a more robust early warning system for natural disasters. Let me show you."She walks over to a group of monitors. They show a sweeping radar image with clearly defined sections of the coast line. Rumble recognizes Chesapeake Bay, Cape Hatteras, and Delaware Bay."My field is probabilistic intuition, which is a fancy way of saying I have mild psychic talent trained to filter through seemingly unrelated events in order to deduce likely future events. My colleagues in the meteorology department have worked with the programmers to create sophisticated algorithms that reproduce what I can do, but a much grander scale. These computers process terrabytes of data in order to probabilistically predict natural disasters."Right before the attack on the roof, the CPUs were processing some interesting data related to the highly complex fronts that have produced our current thunderstorm. There were inexplicable anomalies, especially centered on these two locations."Dr. Lasky touches one of the screens. The view changes, showing a magnified section of coastline Rumble isn't familiar with. Two circles pulse on the display."This is the Highpoint Lighthouse. It's part of our system. This other circle is an area about twenty miles off-shore due east of the lighthouse. As far as I know, there's nothing there but ocean. Unfortunately, we're no longer receiving new data from the lighthouse, and the rooftop damage has apparently cut us from a few other stations as well."</blockquote>

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