User blog comment:TheAlphatheOmega/Grath/@comment-12161342-20150719224640/@comment-12161342-20150726204552

Beach Alpha

Time to Aeolus Landfall: 3 hours

''Winds have reached category five strength at 165mph, and the relentless waves have eroded the beach to the point where waves are lapping at the rebel bunkers that were situated closest to the shoreline. Ships at sea are bucking wildly at their moorings, and are heeling on their beam ends due to the winds. The bunkers, however, are holding steady, though hailstones the size of artillery shells are raining down and lightning strikes anything taller than its surroundings.''

''Further inland, loyalist trucks are being overturned by the winds, and people not inside are being thrown into the air. Some of the houses in the village have been taken out by debris and wind, but most hold up. Loyalist aircraft that were not flown out are tossed about by the winds, soaring through the air before slamming into buildings or the ground in erupting mushroom clouds. Even worse, the extreme rotation of the hypercane becomes more evident the closer the center comes, and frequent cloud-to-ground lightning starts illuminating water vapor funnel clouds grasping towards the ground, eager to become tornadoes.''

''Out at sea, those transport ship captains who had the presence of mind to take their ships to open waters to avoid being trapped against the coast have been acting as impromptu weather forecasters, relaying information about incoming conditions before they reach the shore. Dodging large swells and powerful waterspouts, the transport ships are in for the fight of their lives. For most of the loyalists and rebels, these ships are the only advance warning they have, since the weather satellites and comms satellites are all blocked by the storm's electrical disturbances(OOC: think of how lightning always messes with directv). Suddenly, transmissions come through that make everyone's blood chill... the furthest out transport ships begin frantically reporting a massive steep-sided swell in the ocean's surface which can only be the storm surge of Aeolus.... rapidly moving inland and estimated to be over one hundred feet high. Many transport ships are unable to fight their way up the side of the surge, and become entrapped and are dragged along with it, all prisoners of the hypercane that still has not shown its full fury.''