![[0254] Positive Attitude](/comics/2011-03-17-0254-positive-attitude.png "[0254] Positive Attitude")
The current story arc started with this strip: A New Adventure.
Have you already read the blog post about our Sandra and Woo fanart contest? The winner will receive $100, and the four runner-ups will receive another $100!
- Sandra: We may be stranded in the wilderness, but let’s look on the bright side: We certainly won’t die of thirst!
- Larisa: Harvey, am I allowed to poke Sandra in the face with this twig to express my disapproval of the statement she just made?
- Harvey: Yes, you are.
- Sandra: Hey!
- Sandra: Let’s look on the bright side: It can’t take long before the others are going to search and find us.
- Caption: 4 hours later
- Sandra: Well, maybe it can.
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Did they set up signals? What were their travel plans, was it announced where they are going? Four hours can be terribly short time in situations like this.
Also, WHY ARE THEY STILL IN THE RAIN? At least hide under a tree or something. Being soaking wet does not do good for one’s body temperature under the circumstances. Have they made a fire to dry themselves? Have they made an effort to determine their location?
I know that I am a survivalist nut and that I shouldn’t expect people to know the SAS Survival Guide by heart, but at least Harvey should have ideas to what should be done other than just wait and do nothing.
Zixinus, if this trip had actually been well-planned, there would have been personal floatation devices, just for a start. In real life, a badly-planned trip like this, involving minors, could turn into a festival of lawsuits. But this is a comic strip, so it will probably all turn out just fine.
Larissa uses Stick Poke!
Sandra blocks it with Positive Attitude!
Eventually, Sandra’s gonna snap.
That will come at about the same time Larisa is unable to start a fire.
The shading here makes me realize how flat Sandra actually is.
… That wasn’t too suggestive, was it?
Aand they all already forgot the beast that Larisa hit with her cellphone?
Ugwump wrote:
I’ve been in situations like that. No hypothermia. Not even close to hypothermia. Fallen in rivers, spent hours in pouring rain, no problem… besides my glasses fogging up in the rain (the last time I fell in a river I didn’t wear glasses, thankfully).
There are more variables at play than you’re accounting for… such as what sort of clothing you’re wearing, how long since you last ate… and the ambient temperature of course.
Really now… when did everyone become such cowards about the rain? I’m Welsh… I’m not even comfortable unless its raining.
Ugwump wrote:
… So you don’t know what an anastomosing channel is? A braided river for that matter… Perhaps you’ve heard of an alluvial fan?
Try looking up these terms. Maybe research rivers a little more. It really is quite a fascinating topic once you get into it… at least for a short while anyway. To be quite honest, only a few people can tolerate week after week of limnology lectures… but whatever.
Given that he didn’t even think to bring lifejackets, it seems a foregone conclusion that Harvey won’t be capable of lighting a fire. I would expect Cloud or Larisa to have a clue though. And really, why are they sitting out in the open? There are arguments to be made for either following the river towards civilisation (better chance of being found), or for finding shelter and hunkering down (reduced exposure to the elements). Sitting around in the open like that just seems crazy though.
@ SotiCoto:
Sure, exposure is more dangerous in some circumstances than others, but the facts seem to be against them:
1. They’re wearing pretty light clothing. Larisa and Cloud are in T-Shirts!
2. They’re located in the northern US, which places certain limits on how warm we could expect it to be.
3. Heavy rain alone is far less effective at robbing you of heat than being fully submerged in a river.
4. They’re all pretty skinny. Body fat is both an insulator and a source of energy.
Interesting that The Healer Stalks from the Doom 2 soundtrack makes such a good song for this story arc.