Further shocks to the system come with the sudden devastation of the dance's last moments.
"He's in a wheelchair," Stammler said, noting that it would be even harder for his friend to escape in the sudden devastation.
"Everyone's family was gone, their social networks were gone," Ms. Hero, 48, a New Orleans native, said of the sudden devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Using the floodway allowed the 200 residents of the basin to evacuate and move valuable possessions and equipment out of harm's way, he said, without the sudden and uncontrolled devastation that a breach elsewhere could have caused.
Today many communities, the most vulnerable especially, feel the results: the sting of drought; the devastation of sudden and massive floods; the shift in species in the waters that families have fished for centuries.
"It was a tube then all of a sudden it wasn't a tube, it's just devastation, black, black devastation and I'm thinking, 'Where has the carriage gone, I mean where has it gone?' "Then just screams, screams, what the hell's happened, help me, help me, just raw screaming in this dark and dust and devastation.
The writings of man contain frequent mention of the devastation of coastal settlements by sudden great waves.
The film struggled against many pre-production obstacles, including the sudden departure of original director Darren Aronofsky and devastation caused by the tsunami in Japan, where they hoped to film.
Children are also suffering from the psychological effects of the disaster, having experienced the devastation, loss of family members and sudden displacement.
The devastation wrought by the impact almost certainly explains the sudden death of the land-based dinosaurs, according to fresh analysis of the latest data.
The play ended with a monologue in which "Carmen" imagined the rapist having a sudden rush of feelings: "All his feelings of remorse, compassion, sadness, grief, anguish, devastation and bone-crushing pain come up like a flood.
