Finley noted the horror’s lingering impact on the survivors: “The effect upon the people was pitiful in the extreme. Night after night hundreds of people never went to bed, but remained dressed and with their lanterns trimmed, watching for a fresh onslaught which they expected momentarily. Every dark cloud or sudden increase in the velocity of the wind seemed to fill them with evil forebodings which could not be allayed until every vestige of supposed danger had vanished.”
