Time marches on, and with it comes that most difficult time of year: hurricane season.

People have died, in the time between first contact and now. There was a lot of debate over whether that was enough anything to crush the fish rock. But it seemed not quite the right scale of thing, and so the world has been mired in indecision.

Until now.

The third hurricane of the season has been spotted, and tracked, and now it's due to make landfall just south of Adequately Un-Swampy City, and it's going to be ... bad.

þereminia has a functional insurance market, so the cities likely to be menaced by hurricanes are built tough. But not tough enough, and the rail network doesn't have enough capacity to evacuate before the storm hits.

At 15:03, Smaller Continent Emergency Services Site Director In Charge of Hurricane Response Vornmeth makes the call. On a rocky beach beside the city's harbor area, he crushes the fish rock.