Chapter 235: The Correct Way to Deal with Disasters
How much energy does a person have?
It depends on their limits.
And where are those limits?
It depends on how great the threat they face is.
At this moment, Lin Yue is constantly pushing his own limits.
How terrifying is the hurricane? He has only ever seen it in online videos: countless buildings collapsing, blowing away, completely destroyed, leaving only debris on the ground, countless lives reaped under the stormy weather.
The floods brought by the torrential rain will inundate low-lying areas, drastically altering the landscape.
And another compound disaster, named "Thunderstorm."
Lin Yue is quite familiar with thunderstorms.
Previously, he had read specialized books and watched videos on this topic due to a stint of work at a meteorological station.
At the meteorological station, he had worked temporarily for a while, right before starting his official job.
Besides earning a decent amount of living expenses from that part-time job, he also acquired some knowledge, including information about thunderstorms.
Thunderstorm is not just simple "lightning strikes," but rather an extreme convective weather event that encompasses various complex weather situations.
Lightning strikes, thunderstorms, heavy precipitation, and sometimes even short-period torrential rain and hail.
Lightning strikes endanger personal safety, household appliances, and computer rooms directly damaged by strikes or induced lightning, sometimes causing fires.
Thunderstorms also have several classifications: single-cell thunderstorms, multicell thunderstorms, and supercell thunderstorms.
Single-cell thunderstorms occur in unstable atmospheres with little to no wind shear. These storms are usually brief, lasting no more than an hour. They are commonly observed and are thus also known as rain showers.
Multicell thunderstorms consist of multiple single-cell storms and are an evolved form of single-cell thunderstorms. Wind flows create a gust front, which can stretch for miles, and if wind speeds increase, atmospheric pressure rises, and temperatures drop, this gust front expands and affects larger areas.
Supercell thunderstorms occur when wind shear is significant and comprise various degrees of thunderstorms. These storms are the most destructive and have a moderate to low probability of generating tornadoes.
One could say that even a single occurrence of a thunderstorm is enough for all survivors to suffer.
Under the rumbling thunder, storms, lightning, and hail...
It's way too intense!
And what about when combined with a hurricane?
Lin Yue feels a picture of hell unfolding in his mind.
A massive tornado capable of sweeping the shelter into the sky, and under the stormy skies, raging lightning and hail pounding down simultaneously.
Goodness gracious. The genuine article resides on M|V|L&EMPYR.
Is the system telling all survivors to go and die?
It seems that after the last disaster, the system feels there are too many people still alive.
Indeed, after the earthquake disaster, and the acid rain and floods receded, only one billion people died globally.
Compared to the previous disasters, this is way too few.
Eliminating the elderly, the sick, and the weak, those who don't take disasters seriously, and those with poor adaptability, and even those less intelligent and unable to use the system, the remaining ones, as long as their luck isn't terribly bad, can basically survive for so many days.
Lin Yue also noticed that aside from their group, through the global group chat, it's evident that other shelters and refugee villages do not lack water at all.
Perhaps they truly aren't in the barren desert like them.
However, things might be different soon.
Lin Yue believes that if everyone's operations aren't handled well this time, many might lose their lives because of it.
So, based on this consideration, he is now desperately repairing the shelter and other buildings.
Unlike others, the number of buildings he has on the ground is simply too many.
Other refugee villages have at most a few shelters, more in number.
But he not only has a giant shelter but also two large warehouses, a melting furnace, a private airplane, and an enormously large intercontinental missile launcher.
Therefore, the work Lin Yue has to do is evidently much more than others.
If one intends to withstand the hurricane disaster, then it must be ensured that the buildings are sufficiently robust, which initially only required metal structures for support, but now with thunderstorms, he must install some lightning rods.
He has seen lightning rods countless times in Secret Realm; any tall building will definitely have them, like near the Tokyo Tower where he first came out, there are many high-rise buildings equipped with lightning rod devices.
He just needs to take a trip there before it gets dark, bring some back, use the High-Precision Research Workstation to deconstruct them into schematics, and install them at the shelter and other buildings.
But he also has an advantage.
After the last acid rain and floods, he already gained some successful experience in flood control, so he won't panic because of it.
Moreover, he has a "Advanced Wall Blueprint," which can be aptly used this time.
5 meters high, 3 meters wide, 35 centimeters thick stone walls, perfect for enclosing the largest and most dangerous intercontinental missile launcher amid this disaster.
And he indeed has accumulated quite a bit of stone, no need to say more, making a stone warehouse for this missile launcher is more than sufficient.
Lin Yue indeed used the advanced walls to first enclose and seal off this missile launcher within.
Furthermore, he reinforced it with a large amount of steel to ensure stability, so the hurricane cannot possibly lift it into the air.
Next, Lin Yue used the same method to wrap up the melting furnace and the private airplane.
With the remaining stone dwindling, Lin Yue dismantled the first layer of walls and re-deconstructed it into stones, a process that indeed took quite some effort.
Then, he reworked the drainage channels, filled sandbags one by one, and placed them around the main shelter...
After all was done, Lin Yue felt his body was completely drained.
He hadn't paused since the morning until now, close to the afternoon.
"But it seems like a lot has been done that could be done, huh."
Having faced numerous disasters, Lin Yue has formed the habit of immediately thinking and pondering the best way to survive a disaster.
This time, however, he doesn't want to keep this information and method to himself, choosing instead to share it with others.
He doesn't care how others perceive him, but he wants sustainable development, not to end with just his own world.
Moreover, reconstructing Earth requires not just his own prowess but the combined efforts of many.
Opening the system panel, he glanced at his friends list.
There are currently 13 people in here, besides Xing Lingfeng, Fei Yue, and Xia Feihong, who were added before, the rest are leaders from a few refugee villages who had come to help guard the shelter earlier this morning.
Without any hesitation, Lin Yue shared knowledge on thunderstorms and hurricanes, along with his countermeasures, and told them they could freely share it with anyone.
After completing these actions, he didn't wait for their replies.
He climbed up the ladder once again to the rooftop.
At this moment, the eagle-winged insects hadn't made any significant moves for some time.
Have they already finished fighting the Lizardmen?