Hopefully this is taking place at the same time Dr. Lee just got hooked up to VR! btw,Sweetheart just have them get some toner out of office supply or run down to Office Depot! The other 2 crisis…..I’ve got nothing. 🙁
Hurricanes, freak or otherwise, do not mean certain death for everyone in the way. Unless Annex One is much closer to the ocean (or a body of water that can be affected by storm surge) than has been usually shown, they should be OK.
The basement dwellers might need to change levels, except for the liquid entity, which will no doubt mock everyone else some more.
I don’t think it’s ever been mentioned exactly where Annex One is located, but I suspect that it is somewhere relatively near to Langley and Washington, D.C., which would put it over 100 miles from the ocean (but only about 30 miles from Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay). If that is the case, they would almost certainly be safe from the storm surge from a hurricane. Even the worst hurricanes on record didn’t produce surges that reached anywhere near that far.
However, There have been hurricanes that have themselves traveled much farther inland than that (Hugo actually made it all the way to Ohio before heading back out to sea). With control over the weather, A-Sig could easily produce a Cat-5 or higher storm with enough rain and high enough winds to pulverize anything in its path. And they could lower the temperature inside the storm, thus producing hail flying at well over 100 miles per hour, doing even more damage. Add in a few thousand motor vehicles and trees being picked up and also propelled at the same speeds, and nothing in the storm’s path is going to survive.
And I do remember that. But even the worst storm surges on record for that part of the country only made it about 10 miles inland from the Chesapeake Bay. So if they’re in the path of a freak hurricane, it’s the storm itself they have to worry about, not the swell.
There is also the point that “you’re in the path of a hurricane” basically means “your general vicinity is in the path of a hurricane”, as in your entire state! (* Not necessarily valid in Texas or Canada. 😉 ). Now, Anasigma is known for over-the-top lethality, but that’s not using a bazooka to kill a fly, it’s trying to squish a bunch of cockroaches with a mattress.
Marcie is certainly not a meteorologist, perhaps she (or Tip) has reported “hurricane” where “tornado” was meant?
I’m pretty sure that neither would substitute a different word, given what they’d heard.
But seeing the word “tornado”, and thinking about Oz, gives me a whack idea: what if, rather than something to be endured, or an engine of devastation . . . the hurricane is actually a (potential) engine of travel?
Dr. Jones _might_ be able to build an anti-weather machine machine. Unfortunately, people’s de facto rather than de jure or de headcanon abilities are, as always, at the mercy of Plot.
I suspect that Ira never showed the blueprints to Tigerlily but turned it over to his Anasigma cronies and that it is that special device that is actually causing the hurricane.
Even if he didn’t, since Virginia designed it, she would know more about it than Sweetheart could figure out from the blueprint anyway. The question then remains where exactly Virginia is, and how long it will take her to find Nick.
If the inhabitants of Annex One (you know, the opera-loving silverfish, the crystal entities, etcetera) wouldn’t go when they set fire to the building, why would they evacuate now?
One can have a crisis, babe,
Two can make it seem so real.
One can cope with two disasters.
Three can make us really squeal.
One can deal though it’s bizarre,
Two and we can muddle through.
One can fight it out with a bark,
Three can make a panic brew.
It takes three, babe,
It takes three, babe,
You and me.
You know it takes three.
It takes three, babe,
It takes three, babe,
To make a brain come free.
It just takes three.
One can have a hurricane
About to come down hard,
Two can be a missing chopper
Kidnapped by a security guard.
One can need evacuation,
Two is pretty do-or-die.
Three can find one all out of toner,
Bureaucratic blood supply.
It takes three, babe,
It takes three, babe,
You and me,
It just takes three.
It takes three, babe,
It takes three, babe,
To make a brain come free.
It just takes three.
One will take an organization
Briefed in bureaucratic feats.
Two will take a stealthy mission
Undercover and discreet.
And one can go for walks in the rainstorms,
Feeling that it isn’t nice.
But three crises coming arm in arm
Is too much of a sacrifice.
It takes three, babe,
It takes three, babe,
You and me.
Just takes three.
It takes three, babe,
It takes three, babe,
To make a brain come free.
—from “It Takes Two,” Sylvia Moy / William Stephenson. Performed by Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston.
It me.
Dav’s not here man.
Just get Unity to punch the hurricane. Problem solved.
That could work,I’ve always thought ofUnity as a force of nature!
“Buiding”?
Maybe they were in a hurry. Unless Sweetheart’s mouth is supposed to be white from terror in the last panel.
Tip knows it’s time to get the L out!
Sweetheart knows her limits.
I wonder which crisis she will give priority to? o_O
NONE! ALL IS LOST!
Hopefully this is taking place at the same time Dr. Lee just got hooked up to VR! btw,Sweetheart just have them get some toner out of office supply or run down to Office Depot! The other 2 crisis…..I’ve got nothing. 🙁
Without filling out the proper forms? Are you mad!!?
Hurricanes, freak or otherwise, do not mean certain death for everyone in the way. Unless Annex One is much closer to the ocean (or a body of water that can be affected by storm surge) than has been usually shown, they should be OK.
The basement dwellers might need to change levels, except for the liquid entity, which will no doubt mock everyone else some more.
I don’t think it’s ever been mentioned exactly where Annex One is located, but I suspect that it is somewhere relatively near to Langley and Washington, D.C., which would put it over 100 miles from the ocean (but only about 30 miles from Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay). If that is the case, they would almost certainly be safe from the storm surge from a hurricane. Even the worst hurricanes on record didn’t produce surges that reached anywhere near that far.
However, There have been hurricanes that have themselves traveled much farther inland than that (Hugo actually made it all the way to Ohio before heading back out to sea). With control over the weather, A-Sig could easily produce a Cat-5 or higher storm with enough rain and high enough winds to pulverize anything in its path. And they could lower the temperature inside the storm, thus producing hail flying at well over 100 miles per hour, doing even more damage. Add in a few thousand motor vehicles and trees being picked up and also propelled at the same speeds, and nothing in the storm’s path is going to survive.
You have to remember, most of DC was built on what would now be considered a wet lands flood plain or swamp.
And I do remember that. But even the worst storm surges on record for that part of the country only made it about 10 miles inland from the Chesapeake Bay. So if they’re in the path of a freak hurricane, it’s the storm itself they have to worry about, not the swell.
There is also the point that “you’re in the path of a hurricane” basically means “your general vicinity is in the path of a hurricane”, as in your entire state! (* Not necessarily valid in Texas or Canada. 😉 ). Now, Anasigma is known for over-the-top lethality, but that’s not using a bazooka to kill a fly, it’s trying to squish a bunch of cockroaches with a mattress.
Marcie is certainly not a meteorologist, perhaps she (or Tip) has reported “hurricane” where “tornado” was meant?
I’m pretty sure that neither would substitute a different word, given what they’d heard.
But seeing the word “tornado”, and thinking about Oz, gives me a whack idea: what if, rather than something to be endured, or an engine of devastation . . . the hurricane is actually a (potential) engine of travel?
Ira-onically, Dr. Jones could use the weather control blueprints Dr. Lee gifted Ira to build a defense…
Oh. Freak hurricane. As in “Category 5 with superchilled downdrafts freezing everyone solid”. I guess It’s already had it built!
Well, I mean… maybe they mean freak as in “Super-Freak”, and it’s actually a whirling storm of funk? 😛
To fight a freak hurricane they can get their freak on.
Dr. Jones _might_ be able to build an anti-weather machine machine. Unfortunately, people’s de facto rather than de jure or de headcanon abilities are, as always, at the mercy of Plot.
From experience, I’m expecting that this threat will be resolved in some way funnier (and sillier) than “Mad scientist does some mad science.”
I suspect that Ira never showed the blueprints to Tigerlily but turned it over to his Anasigma cronies and that it is that special device that is actually causing the hurricane.
Agreed. My hope is that It’s sentimentally hung the framed original in his guard shack for Sweetheart to discover.
(Autocorrect keeps changing Ira to It’s)
Even if he didn’t, since Virginia designed it, she would know more about it than Sweetheart could figure out from the blueprint anyway. The question then remains where exactly Virginia is, and how long it will take her to find Nick.
If the inhabitants of Annex One (you know, the opera-loving silverfish, the crystal entities, etcetera) wouldn’t go when they set fire to the building, why would they evacuate now?
Perhaps it’s their third crisis, and all is lost.
Maragda??? Oh. Ok. Emerald. Green.
Named it after himself, I suppose.
One can have a crisis, babe,
Two can make it seem so real.
One can cope with two disasters.
Three can make us really squeal.
One can deal though it’s bizarre,
Two and we can muddle through.
One can fight it out with a bark,
Three can make a panic brew.
It takes three, babe,
It takes three, babe,
You and me.
You know it takes three.
It takes three, babe,
It takes three, babe,
To make a brain come free.
It just takes three.
One can have a hurricane
About to come down hard,
Two can be a missing chopper
Kidnapped by a security guard.
One can need evacuation,
Two is pretty do-or-die.
Three can find one all out of toner,
Bureaucratic blood supply.
It takes three, babe,
It takes three, babe,
You and me,
It just takes three.
It takes three, babe,
It takes three, babe,
To make a brain come free.
It just takes three.
One will take an organization
Briefed in bureaucratic feats.
Two will take a stealthy mission
Undercover and discreet.
And one can go for walks in the rainstorms,
Feeling that it isn’t nice.
But three crises coming arm in arm
Is too much of a sacrifice.
It takes three, babe,
It takes three, babe,
You and me.
Just takes three.
It takes three, babe,
It takes three, babe,
To make a brain come free.
—from “It Takes Two,” Sylvia Moy / William Stephenson. Performed by Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston.