REPORTS

Sunday, January 10. 2010

2:33 p.m. National Weather Service issues a flash flood advisory for township of Domain. Residents near the Wysiwyg River should seek higher ground.
2:49 p.m. Mayor Brenda Bruin issues alert. All city employees on emergency status.
2:55 p.m. Domain Sheriff's office sends out vehicles to low-laying neighborhoods to assist in evacuation.
3:11 p.m. 911 calls indicate rising water near the Domain ferry service.
3:17 p.m. National Weather Service reports that 21 inches of rain have fallen in the past 24 hours.
3:23 p.m. Calls to 911 increase. Rabbit warren tunnels sealed off. Earthworms are the first to evacuate.
4:12 p.m. Cell phone service disrupted due to heavy calling traffic. Media updates confirm that the Wysiwyg River is over its banks and rising rapidly.
4:45 p.m. Police cruise affected neighborhoods, issuing evacuation orders on loudspeakers. River now five feet above flood stage. Ferry service, recycling plant, water treatment plant now under water.
4:49 p.m. Board of Education press officer reports that all students of Eyetooth High School have safely been evacuated. Caliban Academy, situated on a high bluff, is out of danger.
4:53 p.m. National Weather Service issues statement that Wysiwyg River is nine feet above flood stage and rising.
5:15 p.m. Mayor Bruin issues edict prohibiting all looting and all predation during crisis. She assures all that the city emergency staff continues to function thanks to having the foresight to create its own wi-fi network, maintained by the local company Hare-Link.
5:37 p.m. National Weather Service reports that river is 14 feet above floor stage. Number of affected homes are in the dozens.
6:45 p.m. Wysiwyg River crests at 19 feet above flood stage. Some homes are completely underwater. Miraculously, thanks to the citywide preparedness and its communication network, no deaths are reported.

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I hope there are no deaths unreported.

Any idea yet what caused this flood? Even global warming isn't expected to have this effect. (And if you have that, it suggests that humans aren't much more destructive than species in your world.)

#1 Classic Steve (Link) on 2010-01-10 12:54 (Reply)

Hope all the servers and more valuable items are okay, Lindesfarne, as well as Fenton's Tree.

#2 Bixyl Shuftan (Link) on 2010-01-10 12:54 (Reply)

Hopefully, the death toll from the flood remains at zero. Let us hope we hear from Tree shortly: on our side, communication with her appears to have shut off abruptly. Perhaps the power to her speakers just got cut off.

Earthworms are always the first to evacuate: they have to be. they'd drown quickly otherwise. On our side, they crawl out onto the sidewalks and are often stepped upon. It's not like they have a choice: die for certain one way or die for certain in another...

#3 CharlieG on 2010-01-10 13:00 (Reply)

Can't be the speakers. Tree could talk before she had any equipment.

#3.1 Classic Steve (Link) on 2010-01-11 11:07 (Reply)

Wow, some flash flood. I'm glad that isn't a problem where I live.

Well, I hope everything goes ok.

#4 Alex on 2010-01-10 13:52 (Reply)

Whats the question Lindesfarne? If its us asking you questions what I want to know is what species snow white is with her hair as dark as coal skin as white as snow and lips as red as blood.

#5 asdf on 2010-01-10 14:55 (Reply)

I'm guessing that Lindesfarne has more urgent matters to deal with at the moment.

#5.1 Guest on 2010-01-10 15:47 (Reply)

An albino vampire bat with hair dye

#5.2 CharlieG on 2010-01-10 16:21 (Reply)

Aparently that's your version. Here she is an albino fox, with hair as pure as show and eyes as red as rubies.

#5.3 Bioman on 2010-01-19 15:18 (Reply)

I would not expect a blog entry, she has to get to a dry and functional computer first.

I expect that a large amount of the servers are toast. And Tree may be internally flooded. Which may lead to later fungus problems, assuming tree survives. See Katrina style damage.

The map shows that the reservoir should flood too, that should/could take out the water treatment plant, the power plant, and RL's large house.

'Otter

#6 Old Prof. Otter on 2010-01-10 22:33 (Reply)

Flooding in January is fairly unusual. The last time that happened here was 2004-2005, when a heavy snowstorm was followed by a month of temperatures above freezing. Then again, I suspect Domain is farther south, maybe in the state of Georgia? Did you have drought conditions this summer?

#7 Greg (Link) on 2010-01-11 01:01 (Reply)

That sure is a funny name for a river. Who came up with it? It's a strong coincidence to "What You See Is What You Get"

#8 Osprey on 2010-01-11 06:06 (Reply)

This started out as (and still is to some extent) a computer joke oriented comic. What you see is What you get is likely to be the river's name.

'So today (11th) we start to see what the damage might be.
'Otter

#8.1 Old Prof. Otter on 2010-01-11 10:13 (Reply)

Wow. 21 inches of rain and you only had a flood of 19ft above flood stage. You're fortunate. Back in late March 1987, Maine got 6 inches of rain, which caused our entire snowpack to instantly melt resulting in the flooding of the Kennebec River. It crested around 26 feet above flood stage a few days later and remained above flood stage for over a week. Entire neighborhoods were destroyed, a few bridges were washed-out and there were a few deaths--one was suicidal. It was dubbed the April Fool's Day Flood.

#9 Aldin on 2010-01-11 20:34 (Reply)

Tree's roots are now extractable, should there be a reason to move tree somewhere.

'Otter

#10 Old Prof. Otter on 2010-01-11 22:10 (Reply)

If their is a chance of moving Tree mabye it will be to an area near where Lindesfarne will be doing here college work. That way tree will still be with them.

#10.1 STEVEN BRAMS on 2010-01-11 23:16 (Reply)

i must say you dad is a super man. not that he bites through steel with his bare fangs or anything but he's always there to help out and support the family. i'm glad he had the fore thought to prepare for this eventuality and i hope tree with be okay throughout all of this. i don't know if you'll tell him or not but i think he does the name Iron rabbit proud.

#11 e_voyager on 2010-01-12 00:32 (Reply)

I called it. Wow, cool.
The main problem is that they do not know where they will be after graduation, right? Though they could guess, I guess.
'Otter

#12 Old Prof. Otter on 2010-01-12 00:41 (Reply)

They may not know exactly where they will be. But their must be a place neat most if not all the universities Lindesfarne may do her studies at.

#12.1 STEVEN BRAMS on 2010-01-12 04:00 (Reply)

Sounds a LOT like what happened to us here in the Roswell/Norcross area of GA. Glad you all were better prepared and set up to handle such a situation than we were.

#13 Corey-Jan on 2010-01-12 08:35 (Reply)

The expensive way to move a tree would be to rent a CH-54 skycrane helicopter. 40K pounds lift, can lift tanks.

Assuming that something like that exists in Domain's larger land.

'Otter

#14 Old Prof. Otter on 2010-01-12 23:34 (Reply)

Its nice that Lindesfarne & Fenton could find a spot close to the University. But now where is Harelinks going to store their servers & othe equipment.

#15 STEVEN BRAMS on 2010-01-13 11:44 (Reply)

I guess they could find some room in the Dewclaw household. Danelle did move out when she got married.

#15.1 Alex on 2010-01-14 00:35 (Reply)

I was sure she would move Tree to this University. Why go any where else when you know this one well.

Now Tree will not have to wait for the holidays to see them.

How big was Danielle's living area anyways. It can't be to big or the room above would come crashing down.

#15.1.1 STEVEN BRAMS on 2010-01-14 19:36 (Reply)

Now that I read the Quill more carefully,
what 'National Weather Service'?
The citizens of Domain etc. have boasted of their
ability to sense weather frequently.
With that in mind who would orbit large satalites
and staff a place with many high paid high degreed
people?

'Otter

#16 Old Prof. Otter on 2010-01-16 19:42 (Reply)

On the human side of the portal, Prof, our animals can apparently sense changes in the weather... but only for the immediate future. When dealing with major systems like hurricanes, they could 'sense' their approach, but not realize the size or severity. This means they might make the mistake of staying put instead of heading to high ground. Other systems, specifically tornadoes, develop quickly but the systems that produce them can be monitored to give some warning to take cover.

In short, the Domain side of the portal has a National Weather Service for the same reason it exists on the human side: to save lives.

#16.1 CharlieG on 2010-01-16 22:45 (Reply)

I need not do urls here.
Archives, 2003, jan 26.
Archives, 2002, dec 28.

And if all were rational, the herbivores would be wearing stuff that would defensively stop predators. Bill has assured me that they are not rational on this, just as many of our decisions are not rational.

It is therefor likely that the comic archives are more
canonical than this blog, and there is not a National Weather service.
The problem comes with the implied put down that humans need something to predict the weather and to disseminate this information.
'Otter

#16.1.1 Old Prof. Otter on 2010-01-17 22:55 (Reply)

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