The storm passes at its own pace while people count the damage differently.

An event ends at one moment for everyone and at a different moment for each person. The wind drops, the news moves on, and the accounting begins privately: one household has a fence to fix and another has lost something that will take years. Shared weather does not mean shared cost.

When something difficult passes through a group, resist assuming that recovery is on a common schedule. Asking how somebody is finding it now, weeks after the event has stopped being news, is often when the question is most useful.