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Extracted from the Personal Journal
of Catriona Wilde MSc)
May 11
th
2013
Time: 11:08am
Location: Little Gale
Temp: 17° C
Weather: Fair
Beaufort: 2
Spent the morning taking readings up at Little Gale weather station. Clear
skies, south-westerly breeze. Slightly cooler than expected but high pressure
looks set to hold for a while.
Note: Two slats have rotted and need replacing on the box.
May 12
th
2013
Time: 10:21am
Location: Arkham
Temp: 22° C
Weather: Fair
Beaufort: 3
Headed down to meet Saul and Charlie at the lake house station. Looks like
the hygrometer is on the f ritz again, probably the wiring. Saul’s heading over
to Atsena tomorrow so he’s going to try and grab some solder. I’d rather he
got a guy in to fix it aft er the last time but, as Saul said, money’s tight
and there’s nothing to remind you to disconnect the mains like a shock to
the system.
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Lake Rapture looks beautiful today. I might try and rent the boat house
from the Hendersons next time I get a free weekend.
May 12
th
2013
Location: Jericho
Temp: 16° C
Weather: Drizzle
Beaufort: 3
Time: 15:16pm
Miserable day today – everything ’s grey and dreary. Had coffee with Professor
Toplady this morning to talk over my thesis. Not good. He said I’m going to
have to really pull something out of the bag to make it more distinctive. I
think I need the weather gods to serve me up a miracle. Ho-hum.
May 12
th
2013
Time: 16:13pm
Location: Pensacola
Temp: 25° C
Weather: Fair
Beaufort: 1
At least the sun decided to put in an appearance for the Pensacola town fair
today. The streets are packed and the air is full of tempting BBQ smells.
They just announced the local beauty queen – some skinny blonde with great
teeth and boobs to die for. Co w. Well let’s just hope she slathered on the
sun cream - I’m not sure the sash and crown are going to go with peeling
crimson skin.
[Section Redacted…]
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May 27
th
2013
Time: 16:13 pm
Location: Glocca Morra
Temp: 22° C
Weather: Fair
Beaufort: 2
Just got a call from Glinda over in New Tupelo. She’s been g etting somereally weird readings - reckons her equipment might be on the blink. I’m going
to head over now to try to re-calibrate. While I’m in town I might casually
swing by the Krakatoa Café and see if Sean is working. It’s been a while…
Update: 19:17pm
Location: New Tupelo
Temp: 16° C
Weather: Heavy Rain (extremely localised)
Beaufort: 5 - 6
Jeez, Glinda wasn’t kidding! There’s n othing wrong with her equipment, just
some seriously crazy weather going on here. Heavy rain and stiff winds have
just blown up out of nowhere, totally out of kilter with the rest of the
valley. Even stranger, the storm is incredibly localised – it just ends at the
city limits and seems to be just hovering here. I’m going to stay in town
tonight and keep an eye on it using the portable equipment in the van. This
could be the break I’ve been after for my thesis!
Update: 21:03pm
Holy moly, this is nuts! Just had to come in from the van as it was getting
buffeted so much by the wind – the rain’s coming down in sheets now. I’ve
never seen anything like this in my life.
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May 28
th
2013
Time: 11:28am
Location: New Tupelo
Temp: 15° C
Weather: Storm
Beaufort: 6
Incredibly, the storm is showing no sign of abating. It’s just sitting over New
Tupelo, dumping water. We’re getting some localised flooding down here andthere’s been moderate structural damage reported all over town.
Update: 17:07
Location: Route Zero, heading westward
Beaufort: 6
The storm just started to move, heading out westward following the
approximate direction of the highway. It’s almost like it’s just been waiting
here for something. Very, very odd. Following at a distance in the van.
Update: 19:36
Location: Just east of Pensacola
Beaufort: 7
The storm has stopped again. It’s be sitting just outside of the Pensacola
city limits on Route Zero. This thing is so compact it’s unreal. The wind
seems to be picking up and there has been some hail and thunder in the last
30 mins or so. It’s been tearing up the countryside and I’ve j ust seen a
police car heading out towards the old Dalton farm. I hope John and his wife
are OK.
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Update: 20:06
Location: Just east of Pensacola
Beaufort: Estimated 9 -10 (!!!)
Sweet mercy , I can’t believe what I’m seeing. The storm is whipping itself
into full-blown twister as I watch, doubling, tripling, quadrupling in size and
ferocity. Ringing ahead to see if I can get someone to evacuate the town.
People are going to get hurt.
Oh my god, it’s moving…
Update: 20:27
Location: Pensacola
Beaufort: Estimated 12 [Full hurricane force]
Oh god, oh god, oh god. The town – it completely levelled the town!
Pensacola is just… gone. Flattened. Utterly wiped off the map. Hundreds
must be dead. Thousands maybe. And the storm is still moving, west towards
Atsena…
Oh my god.
Update: 20:50
Location: Atsena
Beaufort: Estimated 12 [Full hurricane force]
Oh lord this is awful. Atsena too – completely destroyed. It looks like n
atomic bomb has gone off. Buildings have been flattened, cars tossed around
like toys. God knows what the body count is going to be.
The storm is still moving west …
Update 21:15Location: Approximately 10 km north of Inwood
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Beaufort: Estimated 12 [Full hurricane force]
The twister has just stopped in the middle of the road. I’m getting as clos e
as I dare in the van but the storm is so unpredictable. This thing is a
monster.
Update 21:19
Location: Approximately 10 km north of Inwood
Beaufort: Estimated 12 [Full hurricane force]
I must be losing it. I swear to god I’m seeing things now. I think t here’ssomeone standing at the centre of the twister, right in the eye. I keep
seeing snatches of him illuminated by the lightning before the dust cloud
swallows him up again. He’s just standing there. I think he’s watching me.
Update 21:26
Location: Approximately 10 km north of Inwood
Beaufort: 12 [Full hurricane force]
The storm changed course! The whole thing just suddenly veered of north
towards Castle Rock at almost a 90 degree angle. This is utterly impossible! I
tried to follow but the storm took out the bridge. I’m heading back to see if
there is anything I can do for the injured in Atsena. This is proving to be
simultaneously the strangest, most thrilling and most upsetting day of my
whole life.
[Section Redacted…]
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June 5
th
2013
Time: 11:28am
Location: Inwood
Temp: 24° C
Weather: Fair
Beaufort: 2
It has now been over a week since the catastrophic hurricane-force event that
tore through our sleepy little county. In the course of one night, two entire
towns, Pensacola and Atsena, were completely destroyed and several more
suffered significant damage. The death toll is in the thousands with manyhundreds more injured. The damage has been estimated in the tens of
millions.
Though it is almost impossible to divorce the human cost from this awful
tragedy, the meteorological mechanics behind this are simply staggering. Not
only in terms of the stor m’s ferocity and speed, but in its very formation
which seemed to defy every known law of physics.
But the oddest thing of all was its direction. Plotting the course of the
storm on a map, it seemed to run ruler-straight until it simply stopped
north of Inwood . It then proceed e
to arc around an area of open country
almost like it was trying to avoid something before continuing again on its
original trajectory. Neither myself or my colleagues can find any feasible
explanations for this.
On a personal level I have been left deeply traumatised by the events and
have been suffering intense headaches and vivid, violent dreams.
Dreams involving a dark figure walking in the eye of the storm.
[Section Redacted…]
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June 11
th
2013
He was there again in my dreams last night. It’s getting to be so intense and
unnerving that I’m afraid to go to sleep. The pills from Dr. Leary only seem
to make it worse.
I awoke with his face burned so vividly into my mind that I was even able to
sketch him.
I can still see his creepy eyes seared into my retinas.
[Section Redacted…]
May 14
th
2014
…h e comes again to take me into the storm oh god the wind is so cold and
the lighting so white and the debris strafes my skin and it tears and I bleed
and the sky is alive with ash like black snow and the houses fall and the wireshum and the people are thrown like broken ragdolls and still he stares he
stare he stares with those eyes he stares and …
May 19
th
2014
I am a shell. The storm man watches and waits. I see his face in the tumult,
his eyes within its great eye.
May 24
th
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May 27
th
One Year. 365 days. 8,760 hours. 525,600 minutes. 31,536,000 seconds.
June 2
nd
.
The medicine no longer works. Vodka refuses to dull the edge. I think it’s
time to blow away like a leaf on the breeze.