The whole community has been effected. Businesses have closed, homes and neighborhoods destroyed or facing a long recovery. Emotional reactions due to stress are the normal after effect of disaster. Stress caused by the disaster can affect how we function at work, how members of our family interact, how we cope with small things that were not a problem before the disaster. Some families are still hosting disaster victims in their homes.
Some people are still in motels.
Those who volunteered during the sheltering part of the disaster are effected by the stress of what they saw happen to others. Some families have been separated by the disaster. Your family may be fighting more. Adolescents may be acting out in new ways. Schoolwork may be difficult for them to do.