This is seriously all making sense, now. I can see this happening, and, frankly, I would like to live in Easy City.
>> If you work against the environment, superpowers aren't all that much better than bulldozers. Remember, it's not just raw power that makes a difference, but extra senses. When you can feel the lay of the land, it's much easier to understand how to change things for the better. You can sense where the floods will be worst, where you can raise land and keep it stable, etc. <<
I was thinking that a responsible person with earth powers would be more inclined to work with the environment, rather than against it, but maybe that's just me.
One thing, though. The ground around here is extremely soft. It's like gelatin. The Mississippi River is a fault line, and Louisiana gets an average of three Richter Scale level one earthquakes every year. It's just that the ground is so soft, the vibrations disperse before they get to the surface, so nothing comes of it; we certainly don't feel it. But seismic equipment buried in the ground records it. The water table is extremely high, you don't have to dig very far at all before your hole starts filling with water. We don't have the sink-hole problems Florida has, but all of the surface roads are full of potholes, because there's no support, the ground is almost fully saturated. That's why the cemeteries in New Orleans have above-ground crypts. Otherwise, when floods came, the caskets would be unburied. There are lots of places where the cemeteries don't have crypts, and it's usually okay, but they do flood from time to time, and caskets can end up in weird places. Mudslinger would definitely have to keep that in mind. If he's a native, he'll know this, already.
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>> If you work against the environment, superpowers aren't all that much better than bulldozers. Remember, it's not just raw power that makes a difference, but extra senses. When you can feel the lay of the land, it's much easier to understand how to change things for the better. You can sense where the floods will be worst, where you can raise land and keep it stable, etc. <<
I was thinking that a responsible person with earth powers would be more inclined to work with the environment, rather than against it, but maybe that's just me.
One thing, though. The ground around here is extremely soft. It's like gelatin. The Mississippi River is a fault line, and Louisiana gets an average of three Richter Scale level one earthquakes every year. It's just that the ground is so soft, the vibrations disperse before they get to the surface, so nothing comes of it; we certainly don't feel it. But seismic equipment buried in the ground records it. The water table is extremely high, you don't have to dig very far at all before your hole starts filling with water. We don't have the sink-hole problems Florida has, but all of the surface roads are full of potholes, because there's no support, the ground is almost fully saturated. That's why the cemeteries in New Orleans have above-ground crypts. Otherwise, when floods came, the caskets would be unburied. There are lots of places where the cemeteries don't have crypts, and it's usually okay, but they do flood from time to time, and caskets can end up in weird places. Mudslinger would definitely have to keep that in mind. If he's a native, he'll know this, already.