However, after a real-world hurricane season concludes, the community doesn’t delete its pages, and eventually the future becomes the past. (Another user suggests the severity of a possible storm, “considering much of the city’s buildings were destroyed, you could argue a high-end 4 or maybe even 5.”). Instead, users playfully roast each other’s storms (“Damian flopped kinda hard,” one user says about another’s zig-zagging tropical storm) and help one another workshop in-progress entries. Though the entries can read as quite earnest and dry, the conversations on the HHW Discord server show writers processing their subject without the emotional weight that follows tragedy. But Hypercane keeps his fiction reined in-only three of the six tropical storms he describes will morph into full-fledged hurricanes, most forming off the coast of Brazil and traveling eastward to the shores of Angola and South Africa. As Hypercane’s entry states, this would be the first official hurricane season for the South Atlantic Ocean in recorded history hurricanes are rare in this region. He created the 2020–21 South Atlantic Hurricane Season, storms that will brew between South America and the southern tip of Africa. While Rollback goes for realism, another user, Hypercane, a 22-year-old from Ohio who joined HHW when he was 16, prefers to write outlandish scenarios. Hypothetical hurricanes are a way to process our impending environmental disaster, and they’re dreamt up by young people who might be affected hardest in the future. He studies emerging and historical hurricanes and cyclones, runs his own analyses of actual Atlantic storms, and looks up satellite imagery to get a feel for their patterns and scale. Rollback, a teenage hurricane enthusiast based in Lithuania, wrote to me via email to describe his storm-crafting approach: “I aspire to make my articles as realistic as possible with a little unique flair, maybe a higher number of storms hitting Europe as an example.” Like many writers on the wiki, Rollback spends a lot of time researching storms and teaching himself meteorology and physics. Imagining fictional hurricanes can also be a scientific pursuit. No one causes hurricanes,” he added (setting aside that humans exacerbate the severity of climate change).
“Hurricanes are a meteorological anomaly and we just have to accept their existence imo,” restartingE wrote to me on the HHW Discord server. HHW writers insist that what they’re writing isn’t callous, but rather a grounded understanding of a world we cannot control.
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