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[[Jake Morgendorffer|Jake]] is also coming home, driving and trying to call his house. The despair over the lack of answer and the traffic makes him drive recklessly and hope that both his daughters are safe ("Gah, Gah, Dammit!"). When he arrives, he finds Quinn and Helen preparing for the hurricane. As none of them knows Daria's whereabouts, they call the Lane's and Helen insists for [[Trent Lane|Trent]] to come and stay with them for the storm's duration. ▼

Daria, for her part, is still struck at the school roof with Jane, Brittany and Kevin. For lack of a better option, they decide to hide in a small shack on the roof. While inside, all think and sing about their respective families and how they must be worrying about them ("They Must be Worried").▼

At the Morgendorffer's, Trent has arrived and all are enjoying some cocoa. Jake laments his usefulness over not being searching for Daria. As Helen intervenes, pointing that it's no use playing superman and going outside with the rain and wind, Jake snaps, saying that, in an emergency, a thought man is necessary ("Manly"). In a show of bravado, Jake and Trent leave to search for Daria and Jane. Unfortunately, they quickly crash the car. ▼

Meanwhile, the shack on the school roof is slowly falling apart, so the four inside decide to leave before it breaks down completely. As the door is stuck, Kevin strucks it down, prompted by Brittany, Daria and Jane ("Manly"). When they leave the shack, lo and behold: the storm has passed and a clear sky with a rainbow greets them! The four sing and dance with the joy of having survived the hurricane ("The Big Wet Rainstorm's Over"), a song that is also sang by other of Lawndale's inhabitants: The Fashion Club, happy that they can shop once again; [[Mack Mackenzie|Mack]] and [[Jodie Landon|Jodie]], depressed that Lawndale has stayed the same; the [[Trike Girl]]; Jake and Trent, who recuperate while Jake rants about the car accident.▼

As Jake and Trent leave the car, they meet Daria and Jane (who presumably walked home). All greet and embrace each other enthusiastically and are soon joined by Helen and Quinn, also happy they are all right. Daria then breaks the fourth wall and comments to the audience the strangeness of the day and the hope another weird day will come. All Lawndale citizens then join them, singing about the next morning in Lawndale ("Morning in the Burbs").▼

For the record, Jake's song in the car goes "'''gah-gah''' dammit", not "god-god". It's obvious they mean "god", but it wouldn't bode well for network censors.▼

This episode features [[Trike Girl]]'s most prominent role. She is seen riding her tricycle at both the beginning and end of the episode, leading some to ponder if she had been riding the entire time through the hurricane.▼

There's a notable severe weather safety error on part of the Morgendorffers. Helen tells Trent to come over to their house, arguing for his safety. They all then proceed to weather to storm in the kitchen nook, right next to two large plate glass windows - the worst place to be during a hurricane, as any flying debris outside could shatter the widows, cutting everyone.▼

Roof doors, like the one that locks Daria, Jane, Kevin and Brittany on the roof, in reality are designed to lock on the ''inside'' to prevent people from getting out on the roof in the first place, but ''not on the outside'' so that no one becomes trapped on the roof, as happened in this episode. However the door to the roof may have simply been in violation of building codes due to Ms. Li's paranoia.▼

The voice singing "Manly" over the end credits sounds like the bragging guy Mystik Spiral met while in jail during [[Speedtrapped]].▼