Black Thursday Q&A

[Grace Hale (DELETED 5425)]

What about the earthquake causing the sewers to back up in places and flood onto the streets?

[Phoenix]

Ooh, I like that. And it reminds me of what happened when the reservoir (it's on the mountain) burst 2 years ago. I don't think Harper Rock has an elevated reservoir, but this what winter flooding looks like <.<

[Alexandrea]

I'm not disagreeing with that, I'm just a little confuzzled considering that the Lounge (place where Nix's group is supposed to be avoiding floods at) is not exactly close to the river.

Just got home and not all together all together, lol but I have experience with the extreme cold climate and the flooding combined.... and just IMO it really IS close enough given how wide the river appears to be on the grid behind the forge across the street to the northeast of the lounge.

Besides, it was one of a few randoms and luck of the draw it matches the geography I bet, lol. I am sure it would be fine to just 'go with it' and no one is going to net pick the science of it. When I feel up to writing, I am just going to write the the elevation of the lounge area was too low for when the river flooded the banks by the bend in that road.

[Alexandrea]

I have to agree with Grace mun, it was the earthquake that causes the flooding:

Nor do they realise that on the same day there's going to be a massive earthquake in the Harper Rock area, measuring roughly 7.0 on the Richter scale. The culmination of these things will cause serious damage to many buildings, tear up trees, flood many riverside areas, and cause power outages and deaths.

Yes the temperatures are below freezing.. but breaches along the river will cause flooding.. then immediate freezing.. so emergency vehicles.. will have no traction on roads covered with a sheet of ice..

This. :)

[Tiamat]

what about the aftershocks?

[Phoenix]

Plot twist: it wasn't an earthquake, it was a giant earth fae getting angry because of the mining activities in the caverns <.<

It moved. Harper Rock shuddered.

[Grace Hale (DELETED 5425)]

lol

[Doc]

I'm not disagreeing with that, I'm just a little confuzzled considering that the Lounge (place where Nix's group is supposed to be avoiding floods at) is not exactly close to the river.

Well it is an earthquake at 7.0.. so the lounge may have experienced a broken water main? Broken water main will flood a building too.

[CharlotteC]

As someone that lives in one of the most seismically active areas in the US and as someone who has lived through quite a few earthquakes in her life (the 94 Northridge being one of the bigger ones) I can attest to all sorts of damage happening to the streets/sewers/water ways/etc. I've seen it first hand. I've also been told by my family about other big quakes like the 71 which threatened the dam near the San Fernando Valley (was also featured in the movie earthquake) where they had to evacuate the entire area for fear it would rupture. It didn't but in the movie it did and it would have looked jus like the movie had it.

That said, flooding because of ruptured sewer pipes and water ways always happens in big quakes, as do fires and all others sorts of things. Especially in areas where they don't build for earthquake resistance like the entire east side of the continent might be given that earthquake aren't as often as they are on the west coast.

The Northridge was a 6.9 (I believe was the final measurement) and leveled buildings, caused flooding, lifted streets 1-4 feet, caused pot holes, fires, all kinds of things... I even have photos of the damage that was done to some of the buildings right at the epicenter.

Anyways that's my 2 cents.

[Every]

Well, what I've been thinking was that maybe the river wasn't entirely frozen? While I was up in Alaska, people were still ice fishing through some of them, so wouldn't a 7.0 be strong enough to crack the ice and cause it to go elsewhere?