#hurricane
After Harvey hit, Erica was leaving her house in rain boots to go help other people and she slipped and fell onto her own leg. She broke her fibula and fractured bones in her foot. The break in her fibula was a spiral fracture
There was no one around, so she had to wait for almost an hour, lying on the ground, alone, until someone came to her aid.
Erica lost her home, everything she had. Not only that, she ended up in the hospital because she tried to help others.
She needs all the help we can get. Even if you can’t donate, please reblog and spread the word. Everything helps. She could really use some good news right now.
Please donate whatever you can, even if it’s just a dollar that you can spare. Time are tough for all of us, so we need to take care of each other.
Here’s her gofundme page: gf.me/u/cxr2df
THANK YOU ♥
JUST A HEAT ENGINE-PART 4
The next page of the comic where the avatar of the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 sings about how awesome being a hurricane is. (And to the tune of “Comet” from Steven Universe…because for some reason when I heard that song my mind was immediately like “this would be even cooler if it was about a category 5 hurricane bragging about himself.”)
Labor Day definitely thinks his life is a very entertaining and wild ride, but the exhausted sooty terns on the bottom panel probably disagree after having been thrown around his eyewall.
Seabirds becoming trapped inside hurricanes is a real phenomenon, and sometimes they end up being blown hundreds of miles inland. There are photographs of ships in the eye of a storm being mobbed by hordes of tired birds looking for a place to rest their wings.
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JUST A HEAT ENGINE -Part 3
Another part of the “Just a Heat Engine” series of comics…that also took way too long to get around to making.
Been overwhelmed with research, learning to use machine learning to do more research, and dealing with the fallout of the big winter storm (”Where’d the mold and water damage come from? A flood?” “No, from a busted pipe -_-”)
But anyways, here’s the next part of the comic, in which I took the song “Comet” from Steven Universe and turned it into a song about the 1935 Labor Day hurricane singing about himself because…
…reasons.
I should note that the white hurricane is still Labor Day, just his “full size” form. The natural disaster characters have a dog-sized form they use to interact one-on-one with people and animals, and a regular-size form they use when just doing disastery stuff.
The “Storms of the Century” sidebar is a reference to an old Weather Channel special from 1999 where they had a bunch of their weather people rank what they thought were the biggest, baddest storms to hit the U.S. in the 20th century. The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane won, which given it was the strongest hurricane at landfall to hit the U.S.*, is pretty reasonable.
*His air pressure and wind speed is shown in the digital display display from his…smartwatch? Yes the hurricane wears a watch…so it’s a…(wait for it)…hurricane watch.
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2021 has been rather overwhelming so far.
The recent Texas winter hasn’t helped much on that front is just the icing on the cake just added to that.
Feels weird that I now have suffered more damage from a winter storm than from Ike or Harvey…
But I guess that is our signal as a society that we need to be prepared even for the things that don’t seem as scary at first glance…
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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM INSIDE THE EVENT HORIZON
The weather outside is frightful
but the latent heat is delightful
*fwoosh*
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JUST A HEAT ENGINE–TWO
Here’s the second page of the comic involving the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 strumming on a guitarfish. I imagine he has a hobby of writing and performing rock ballads, which is not at all the sort of hobby you would expect from a Category 5 hurricane with a mindset that weather is warfare.
The song is basically a rip-off parody of “Comet” from Steven Universe but I imagine Labor Day’s singing voice to be closer to Billy Joel. Either way, it’s very much nicer than his usual voice, which is basically a cross between drill-sergeant yelling and a freight train.
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JUST A HEAT ENGINE—1
Labor Day might be a very ferocious hurricane, with the ability to scour islands of their sand and then kill people with it, but he also shreds a mean guitarfish.
…this is the first page of a multi-page comic I am working on. I will add the rest over time (as my thesis allows).
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Once again, Houston got a really close call.
It is well known at this point that if a Category 4+ hurricane were to hit Houston head on, the results would be absolutely devastating. The buildings are not built to resist hurricane winds at all. The city is prone to freshwater flooding from rainfall. And worst of all, refineries, stores of toxic substances, and petrochemical plants lie along Galveston Bay and the Houston Ship Channel, unguarded against high storm surges. Some have argued if a direct hit were to happen, the resulting release of poison would rival Chernobyl.
Clearly something must be done to prepare for this. But people have limits, and in a new era where rapidly intensifying hurricanes will be more frequent than before, will Houston remain relevant? Will any part of the Gulf Coast remain a desirable place to live in a world of frequent floods, hotter summers, and stronger storms?
I don’t have the answer to these questions.
Storms have been used as a metaphor for the will of the divine since time immemorial. The word hurricane itself is derived from the name of a storm deity that was worshipped in the Caribbean and Mexico. In western culture, storms have been used a lot in Christian literature and music, in ways both tasteful and obnoxious. Once I picked up a historical fiction novel that took place during the 1900 Galveston hurricane, only to find in the last chapter it was a religious book trying to make a statement about how Jesus was the eye of storm (”he is the calm center when everything is swirling around you”…not even remotely subtle).
But after Hurricane Laura, I see why this is the case. Storms remind us that no matter how advanced our civilization, no matter how great our knowledge, there will always be things orders of magnitude beyond our control, forces always just out of reach of our full understanding. It is a physical impossibility to predict the weather indefinitely into the future, even with perfect knowledge of the initial conditions, because the equations that govern the atmosphere have no exact solutions. Uncertainty will always be present in the calculations, and compounded over time.
Sometimes you simply can’t know for sure what’ll come next. You’re basically in God’s hands at that point.
And in this, we find the meaning of grace. For the fact that Houston was saved had nothing to do with its being deserving of saving. It just…was. And for that we have to be grateful.
We look towards the battered coast of Louisiana and say…
“There but for the grace of God, go I.”
My high school creative writing teacher always got furious at the dissonance between my art and writing. But I couldn’t just leave it uncolored, you know?
Some notes on the drawing:
- The hands are green because they’re supposed to be the storm god Hurakan (the ones hurricanes are named after), and Hurakan was painted as having blue-green skin in Mayan murals.
-The ‘Now Kiss’ is referring to the Fujiwhara interaction, which some people thought would happen to Marco and Laura early on. The two storms would spiral around each other and possibly merge if this happened…which it didn’t.
-Marco is nervous because in the scenario where a weaker storm merges with a stronger one, it’s not so much a merger so much as the weaker storm gets ripped to shreds and swallowed up by the stronger storm. So…a Category One going up against a high end Category Four? Yeah Marco better be scared.
This didn’t age well with the dissipation of Marco but here you go:
I don’t know if I will get a chance to color it. I was fortunate during Harvey to be in Los Angeles (instead of with my family in Houston) and so able to do tons of posts. I’m…not quite that fortunate this time around.
Here’s what those little characters for the hurricane, fire, and coronavirus were used for…they were put on water bottles given to graduating residents at UTMB in Galveston.
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JUST A HEAT ENGINE-PART 5
The final page of the comic series where the avatar of the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 sings a parody of “Comet” from Steven Universe.
People are probably not in the mood for silly hurricane comics after Ida, but I was working on finishing this one from before the storm happened. And after I completely blanked out on the whole “the San Andreas Fault runs for president” story arc after page 18, I really wanted to have at least one comic series colored and finished.
In these two pages, Labor Day is singing about how hurricanes are essentially Carnot heat engines, entities that draw their power from the difference in temperature between the ocean and the upper atmosphere. Hurricanes are immense heat-transport machines, and are thought to play an important role in the transfer of heat and water in the Earth’s atmosphere and hydrosphere.
But of course, this mechanism of power, so dependent on high evaporation rates at the ocean’s surface, means that hurricanes, in spite of their power, are rather delicate things. Once they hit land, they rapidly die like a giant beached fish. It is only in the most particular of environments that they are able to maintain the overwhelming force they are known for.
For this reason, the life of a hurricane is short. A rapid rise, a brief moment of category 5 glory, and then a cataclysmic fall. I was trying to capture that in this series…though more from the hurricane’s perspective than from the human perspective.
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Just wanna say Good Luck to all my Florida followers. Stay safe!
ITALY: A “Medicane” (Mediterranean hurricane) Causes Flooding
A rare, cyclonic, non-tropical storm system moving over the Mediterranean Sea, also known as a ‘medicane’, has been causing fatal flooding and damage across southern Italy and Sicily for the past few days. The flash flooding is responsible for at least two deaths and has submerged multiple town squares underwater. On Sunday, more than 11.8 inches (300mm) of rain, approximately half the island’s expected average yearly rainfall, fell on Sicily. The storm system is expected to peak between Thursday and Friday. Italian forecasters blame sea temperatures in the Mediterranean that are 14.4°F (8°C) warmer than average. This map depicts the rainfall levels of the Medicane storm in southern Italy and Sicily. Click on the map to learn more.
Further Reading: Sky News,Reuters,BBC,Washington PostGraphic
Source:Yahoo! News
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If a front board to hurricane is wrong then I don’t want to be right.!
Video by: Dario Rezk
Können nichts, außer nichts zu tun, das aber richtig gut.
Wetogetherdarling
Some speak of prayer to calm the sea. Only
in the dire doldrums are there windless waves
where whole ships, becalmed, die of thirst. The sea
does not care for such prayer. It’s full of graves
of the drowned who didn’t seek to appease,
“One Whose Fury Lays Waste To Everything;”
whose arms, the huracán’s curving winds, seize
and rend. Her name, in Taino rock carvings,
is Guabancex. Let the landlubbers spin yarns
of some old gringo, “parting the waters.”
Any god who can’t quell a hurricane
is bunk, sez’ New Orleans. Mother of Storms,
Guabancex, I’ll ride out your rage. Daughters
that deign, let my prayer join this howling rain.
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Notes:
The people who lived in the Caribbean prior to contact, the Taíno, personified the hurricane as Guabancex (pronounced Gua Ban She) Wrathful Mother of Storms. The art that survives depicts her arms outstretched in a S-shape, the same pattern that the winds of these giant storms take.
Here are several spot illustrations for the current issue of @newsweek about the top medical stories of 2017. Thanks again @mgoesele for the expert art direction and encouraging me to draw this sweet pig! I’m talking about the actual pig and not the guy in the suit and tie #artistsofinstagram #illustration #politics #trump #hurricane #pig #donuts #cigarette #dna #science
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