We got evauated!

[Tonguez]

Yesterday at 3am we were woken up by Civil defence and evacuated due to the local river bursting its banks due to rain - the roads a mess but our house is cool (its on higher ground than most of the rest of the road)

Anyway has anyone ever use a Flood as a game element - it was quite fun after the initial shock and like I said our house is an Island and stayed dry despite the water...

 

[tmaaas]

Just curious... were are you from?

 

[Schmoe]

Yeah, I had the river of the local town overflow its banks on a dark and stormy night. It was especially fun because it coincided with some portentuous dreams concerning the god of storms.

The town gathered to try to stem the flow with sandbags that had been gathered earlier (the river was swollen from autumn rains, and flood was a real threat), and then sought refuge in the second floor of the town hall. There's some fun role-playing to be had when an entire town is gathered in a dark building with a storm raging outside.

 

[s/LaSH]

Where are you at? I'm in Wellington, on a hill hence out of the way of the worst of the recent weather, but I haven't heard of any local evacuations in the past few days so I'll assume you're further north up the island.

I haven't used any natural disasters in-game, although I have set an adventure on a sunken ship. It's just that antagonist-driven adventures are more compelling, to me, and earthquakes and floods are difficult for them to create.

That doesn't mean I can't use them, though... hm.

 

[Snoweel]

I'm pretty sure Tonguez is in New Zealand.

I have a Kiwi mate who just joined the Navy; he says that due to the weather his initial training is horrific - blokes getting hypothermia, spraining knees and ankles (I'd say a lot of them are in shock at having to wear shoes on a regular basis ).

But New Zealanders are tough - the show goes on.

 

[tarchon]

I'm pretty sure Tonguez is in New Zealand.

I have a Kiwi mate who just joined the Navy; he says that due to the weather his initial training is horrific - blokes getting hypothermia, spraining knees and ankles (I'd say a lot of them are in shock at having to wear shoes on a regular basis ).

But New Zealanders are tough - the show goes on.

Yeah, well, they always knew one day all those sheep were going to take a piss at once and then woosh.

We used to flood every couple years where I grew up, got used to bailing out the basement a lot.

 

[Moleculo]

I swear I read this as, "We Got Evaluated" instead of Evacuated heh.

 

[Graywolf-ELM]

I swear I read this as, "We Got Evaluated" instead of Evacuated heh.

Me too at first.

I did take part in an evacuation however. I was at Clark Air Base in the Philipines, when Mount Pinatubo erupted, years ago now. There were lines of vehicles stretched out to Subic Bay for many miles. Later, there was a storm that hit the Island, and it was raining rock and ash, with multi-colored Lightning in the sky. It seemed that all heck had broken loose. Planes that were to be used for evacuation had so much ash on them, that they were not viable for flight.

I haven't set any of my gaming groups through something like this, but the possibility is there.

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

Members of a cult devoted to a god of machinery and biomechanics have a hidden stronghold inside a mountain. Their furnaces and arcane machinery have caused the snow on the top of the mountain to suddenly melt, thus flooding the village at the base of the mountain.
The PCs have the option of trying to save anyone they can from the rising flood. In addition they might be enlisted by a dryad to try and fix the ecological damage caused by the flood and discover what caused it so they can stop the cult members.

This has yet to happen in my campaign as it is on hiatus until the players can escape Real Life.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Not directly, but I have run an adventure involving a city sunken beneath a meandering river, and the direct opposite of a flood - a draw down as a dam is removed and the river recedes to it's original level.... And given that the game was Call of Cthulhu you can draw your own conclusions...

The Auld Grump