The power grid is destroyed. Greencroft is without power for a week. Rachael retreats to Chicago. Coleman fuel is sold out for 100 miles around. D.B. only discovers months later that there are showers in the Beckman Institute.
Locals claim that the storm is unprecedented.
After 2 different 500 year floods that summer, the '93 floods, the '96 tornado, etc. Brady's learn the retrospectively obvious lesson that individually unlikely events are collectively likely. D.B. looses his front teeth. The Volvo era begins. D.B. and George Papen had breakfast together once each week in the fall, mainly discussing technology and war.