The Little Prince in the Ossuary

00079 — #Hardened Earth –16:50

#Hardened Land, Fort Roberts (2)

A hurricane came at the end of January. According to a warning from the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) in California, Category Four Hurricane Carissa was scheduled to sail off the coast of San Diego to Baja California, Mexico.

Carissa was the third hurricane of the year in the eastern Pacific Ocean and the first to cancel all Fort Roberts’ operations. The previous two hurricanes, Angelique and Beryl, had made little impact on California because they had passed far from the coastline. On the other hand, Carissa was so powerful that Fort Roberts, 460 kilometers northwest of San Diego, experienced strong winds and rain.

The NHC also warned of the possibility of a new hurricane before Carissa disappeared. Gyeo-ul recalled part of this story.

「Formation chance through forty-eight hours… high… ninety percent.」

The expected location of the hurricane was thirty-eight degrees north latitude and 127 degrees west longitude. It was about five hundred kilometers west of San Francisco. If hurricanes started there, California would suffer from heavy rainfall and crazy winds.

Because of this, flood prevention had become a priority task. They had added new rings and ropes to prevent the tents from flying away and put at least ten additional poles into each tent. They were also building sandbags on the outskirts of the base and using heavy equipment to dig drainage channels leading to low-lying areas.

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