After a storm, the air smells cleaner. Rough weeks can clear things out too.

Difficult periods sometimes clear out arrangements that were quietly not working. Things that survived only because nobody examined them tend not to survive a storm, and what stands afterward is what was actually sound. That clarity does not compensate for what you lost. It is simply a real effect that arrives alongside the damage.

Once the worst has passed, look at what changed and ask which of it you would choose to keep. Some of what got swept away does not need rebuilding. Starting from what remains is easier than restoring what was there before.