When they refuse again, Lucille White Levy begins walking. She takes on the blocked streets, the shattering glass, the falling bricks, the rising water, the wavering trees, the shadows, the fears, the anxiety and anything else that stands in her way. She gets to her kids. Louise and Frank Driver are looking for their daughter, Patricia, whom they had dropped off earlier in the day at the home of Norvin and Tot Greene on Dune Road. It is not going well.
Every possible route is either impassable or under ocean.
What's more, people are whispering that no one out on the barrier beach, where as many as 80 houses have vanished, could possibly still be alive. The statement proves to be rumor, but that does not mean it may not be true. Someone suggests Greene go to the Westhampton Country Club, which is being used as a temporary morgue. He could not face what he fears he might find there. The Drivers find a spot with a distant view of Dune Road.