Re: Thunder During Snow?

From: Oliver D. Bernuetz <bernuetz_at_...>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 21:17:10 -0000

• In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Solovay" <asolovay_at_r...> wrote:
  > Oliver D. Bernuetz <bernuetz_at_m...> wrote:
  > >
  > > At the -29 c level there will be no water outside, not even fast
  > > running streams or waterfalls unless they're hot springs.
  >
  > ...or magical, of course. I expect the Creek, Stream, and River are
  freely
  > flowing even at fairly cold temperatures. (Why? Because they're
  *water*, of
  > course. Water flows. That's one of its powers. They're going to
  resist being
  > turned into ice.)
  

Good point though if it gets cold enough...
>
> > If it gets cold enough the trees can shatter from their sap
> > freezing. Thankfully it doesn't get that cold in Winnipeg.
> > Fimbulwinter though?
>
> Ditto. And no matter how cold it is in Fimbulwinter, I'll bet the
Darkness
> was worse. Any trees around in the Third Age are descended from
ones that
> (somehow) survived the Darkness--they've got to have a few tricks
up their
> sleeves.

The trees that shatter are unfornately the very trees that are evolved to resist the cold. If it gets cold enough...

Oliver