As the rains continue unabated, the next stage of the cataclysm unfolds. A surging wall of water stretching as far as the eye can see, comes sweeping across the canyon rims. The ice dams holding back glacial lakes throughout the world have swollen and burst from the rain. The third and final stage of the cataclysm soon follows. Bitterly cold strong winds begin to blow.
Waters surging in from the oceans sweep back inland over the already flooded coasts.
In arctic regions, drowned wooly mammoths who a short time before feasted on abundant spring flowers, now are surrounded by freezing slush. While the ice-age climate now has ended for the rest of the earth, the mammoths are locked in ice where before there was none. Far in the future, their deep frozen flesh will stay fresh enough to be eaten as a delicacy by the wealthy at exclusive Victorian-era restaurants. When there is heavy precipitation, dust washes out of the atmosphere before reaching the polar ice. When there is light precipitation, dust stays aloft and is carried to the ice sheets with the snow.