Later, when the noise eased for a moment, Maria Adelaide went out into the street 'almost in her nightdress' just to check the house was still standing — and now fears the house will give way from the inside: 'we have no water, we have no power'. Report from the road to Pedrógão Grande, where the storm felt 'like the end of the world' and 'no one came to help' — and whereas during the fires power was restored 'in a day or two' and there was communication, now there isn't; now 'it's much worse', it's 'a calamity, it's unbelievable'.