Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 569: Hundred-meter Storm Surge

Langton is a city on the sea.

Although it is difficult to feel this when living in the city of Langton, the lower reaches of the river that runs through the city are where the estuary meets the sea. If you follow the river downstream, you can indeed drive the boat into the sea.

In fact, the city of Langton was so prosperous in the past that the founding monarch even chose it as the capital when Victoria was established. This was largely due to the convenient waterways here, which enabled easy maritime trade with other countries in the Old World.

The former city of Langton was one of the cities with the most developed shipbuilding industry in Victoria. However, with the development of Victoria, the royal shipyard was established in the city of Pus, and the shipbuilding industry in Langton gradually declined.

Today, the estuary of Langton hardly resembles what it once was, with solid embankments on both sides and full of houses.

If you can't see the sea by the embankment, perhaps no one would think that Langton is actually a city by the sea.

Perhaps only by looking down from the air can you see what this place once looked like from the shape of the river and the coastline.

As for the people living in Langton City? They may have long since forgotten that the city is still close to the sea. Especially after the seawall at the estuary was built, the rise and fall of the tide did not even affect the water level of the river, making it even less likely that this is a city close to the sea.

But as the white star hung in the sky, the coldness enveloped the earth and the ocean along with the appearance of the white star, and the white wind mixed with snowflakes blew across the earth, people finally felt once again that this city was really by the sea.

Because a wave at least a hundred meters high was sweeping towards the city of Langton.

"Damn, I actually forgot about this!" Looking at the tsunami approaching in front of him, Perfectcot suddenly realized that he had forgotten something important.

The drop in sea temperature will disrupt ocean currents and global atmospheric circulation, resulting in a series of related climate changes, the most serious and easiest to produce of which are tropical cyclones.

Because the warm currents in the ocean transport hot water from near the equator to high latitudes, lowering the sea temperature in the equatorial region.

If the seawater in the equatorial region cannot flow to high latitudes, heat will accumulate and the sea temperature will rise.

The increase in sea temperature will heat the air above the sea surface, causing changes in the air pressure in local areas.

As a large amount of air rises, the ground pressure decreases, and the outer air continues to flow into the rising area. In addition, due to the influence of the planet's rotation, the inflowing air begins to rotate.

As the rising air cools, the water vapor in it condenses and releases heat, further promoting the rise of low-level air, forming stronger rotating air currents, and eventually developing into a tropical cyclone.

The more heat released by the ocean, the larger the tropical cyclone will be and the more powerful it will be.

When a tropical cyclone gradually upgrades and develops into a typhoon or a more powerful super typhoon, the strong winds and sudden changes in air pressure it brings will cause abnormal rise and fall of sea water, making the tide level in the affected sea area much higher than normal.

This phenomenon is called storm surge in the original world, and is also figuratively called a storm tsunami.

It’s just that ordinary storms and tsunamis can only cause the sea level to rise by a few meters or more than ten meters at most, but for humans it is already a very serious disaster.

However, if the tropical cyclone is large enough, absorbs enough heat, and stirs up a storm that is fierce enough, the scale of the storm tsunami will be far beyond imagination. Waves as high as nearly 100 meters rushed towards Langton City.

"What should we do now?" Sandryong's mind was blank at this moment. Looking at the tsunami that was pressing down on him like a mountain range, he did not have the calmness of a demigod at all and looked at a loss.

At this moment, she and Perfect were riding in an airship above the estuary, facing the terrifying tsunami that was approaching.

Originally, they just came to check out the changes in the outer city area after the appearance of White Star, but they didn't expect to see a "mountain range" coming towards them when they flew near the estuary.

"How can human power fight against nature? Even I can't compete with the mighty power of nature." Perfect felt deeply powerless, and he collapsed as if his spine had been pulled out.

"But there are still so many people in the city of Langton. What should they do?" Sandrion supported Perfecto, who was about to fall, and asked her a very important question.

Facing this question, Perfect shook his head and said, "It's not a big problem. Although the sea water will flood the streets, the water won't be too deep, and as the storm moves northward, the water surface will soon freeze.

Apart from some damage caused by the tsunami, other problems are not serious.

Fortunately, the coastal areas of Longton are all in the outer city, the inner city is at a relatively high altitude, and there are walls and moats between the inner and outer city, so the overall situation will not be affected too much. "

After hearing what Perfectok said, Sandrion felt relieved, but she still felt worried and powerless about the tsunami that was approaching.

"Let the airship ascend. We can't do anything." Perfect gave the captain an order weakly. However, after biting her lip, she still gave the captain another order: "Send a message to the city and tell everyone to take shelter in higher places. Close all entrances and exits of the underground shelter immediately to prevent water from entering the underground."

The construction template used for the underground shelter in the city of Langton was designed by Perfect. She did consider waterproofing at the beginning of the design, but that was only to deal with the accumulation of water caused by large-scale rainfall.

But in this situation, we can only choose to trust our own design.

What else can they do? A tsunami of nearly 100 meters, even the gods of the past would not be able to deal with it.

The captain of the airship naturally did not dare to be negligent. After all, he also saw the tsunami in front of him that was like a mountain range.

While ordering the ship to ascend quickly, he was also sending radio messages and shouting according to Perfecto's request.

As the altitude increased, many crew members rushed to the sides of the ship and looked down. A white line along with the black sea water behind them began to gradually swallow up the coastline of Langton and go deep into the city.

There is no doubt that the estuary of Langton became the first place to be "broken through". The original river channel became the fast lane for the tsunami to advance, and the squeeze between the two banks also caused the tide to rise further, making it even more terrifying.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the entire lower city area was engulfed by the sea and completely turned into a swamp.

Only a few higher areas in the entire lower city survived, and almost all other places were submerged in water in an instant.

(End of this chapter)