![]() ![]() Only two Category 5 hurricanes held that appalling distinction: the Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 that had charged across the Florida Keys and Hurricane Camille that struck Alabama and Mississippi in 1969, taking down entire twenty-story condominiums. Heidi could only hope and pray that Lizzie would not touch the populated coast of the United States. This storm had all the characteristics of crossing the threshold of Category 5, with winds in excess of one hundred and sixty miles an hour. But it was a Caribbean word that meant "Big Wind." Bursting with enough energy to match the largest nuclear bomb, Lizzie was running wild with thunder, lightning and driving rain. Heidi never knew who on what island coined the term hurricane. "Before you send me back to Never-Never Land," said Max, "there is one more thing." If ever a hurricane had a one-track mind, thought Heidi, it was this one. Quite often, storms spin around and head in a totally different direction. In all his years at sea, he'd never seen a storm come up so fast. The seas had gone steep in a matter of minutes and the light breeze had turned into a full-blown gale. He felt as though he'd thrown open a door to the desert and had a tankful of water thrown at him. The seas had built from a relatively flat surface to thirty-foot waves in what seemed to the captain of the containership, the Nicaraguan-registered Mona Lisa, the blink of an eye. IT WAS NOON NOW, a crazy, wild, insane noon. Not content to simply become a lower-end tempest, Lizzie soon increased her winds to one hundred and thirty miles an hour, quickly passing Category 2 and charging into a Category 3 system. Soon as they sustained seventy-four miles an hour, she became a full-fledged, certified, Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. She quickly passed the stage of "Tropical Depression" with wind speeds of thirty-nine miles per hour. Her winds spiraled at greater and greater speeds. Hurricane Lizzie did it in four.Īlready, ships in that part of the ocean were feeling her wrath.Īn eighty-foot yacht owned by the founder of a computer software company, carrying ten passengers and five crew on a cruise to Dakar, simply vanished, overwhelmed by huge seas without time to send a Mayday. THE AVERAGE HURRICANE takes an average of six days to mature to its full magnitude. They saw no slackening of Lizzie as she swept past longitude 40 west in mid-Atlantic, still throwing all previous predictions out the window by running straight with barely a wobble. HEIDI AND fellow meteorologists at the NUMA center began hovering in conferences and studying the data on the latest system sweeping in from the east. Bit by bit, millibar by foreboding millibar, the atmospheric pressure fell down the barometric scale. Lizzie was already at 945 and rapidly dropping, forming a vacuum in her center that was intensifying by the hour. Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and Andrew in 1992 registered 934 and 922, respectively. The lower the reading, the worse the storm. What gripped Heidi's concentration was the atmospheric pressure as measured in millibars. Heidi took a few minutes to type a fax to her husband, Harley, at the National Weather Service to alert him to the hurricane's latest numbers. He tried to picture an ancient crewman on a three-thousand-year-old ship throwing a bronze pot overboard four thousand miles from Europe but the image would not unfold. Yaeger sat there, totally lost, as Max vanished back into her circuits. In a battle known as The Tournament of Destiny, they fight."When the glop is cleaned out from the interior of the amphor, you'll find a gold figurine in the shape of a goat." On the green fields near Mount Serrat, two otherworldly entities, Omiquiel, the devourer of souls, and Nomiquiel, the bestower of breath, come together once every thousand years to fight for the dominion of the living realms. You can play with a friend on the same computer or with a friend on another computer using Parsec or a similar service. Will you bait your opponent's attack and parry it? Or will you try to get in close and land a hit? The choice is yours! The game is played in rounds, and the first player to win two rounds wins the match. The goal is to keep your opponent at bay and to avoid getting hit. ![]() Due to the size limit, the game's scope is minimal: you only have one attack and a parry. This 2D fighting game is based on fighting game fundamentals known as footsies or neutral game. ![]()
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