Previously, in Stormbreak: The power of the hurricane puts several crimps into Stormbreak planned operations…

Doctors and nurses stood at their stations, neural trauma, thoracic surgery, and orthopedics and vascular surgery closest to the forward bulkhead. Closer to the ramp waited crew for non-terminal broken bones, punctures and bleeding, and burns. Still nearer the ramp, almost to the water lapping at the limit of the deck, nurses and nurse practitioners waited to minister to effective boo-boos, those injuries that, in a normal clinic, might be considered out-patient care. Off to either side, shock care.

The dead were catalogued and stored outside in the driving rain, which is where Stormbreak procedure fell apart. The triage and out-processing teams should have had tents and v...

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