"If we should have another bad storm soon, the whole ship might break up."

There really is a bad storm coming, and she might get caught in it.

This is pretty early in the year for such a bad storm, isn't it?

"One bad storm, and we will have a major problem here," he said.

In a bad storm, those dead branches could break and land on the house.

And in a bad storm like this one, they might not be.

Also something about "the bad storm coming down from the north."

It was the worst storm any of them had seen in the 40 years the family has run the business.

"What's going to happen when we get another really bad storm."

A bad storm, but the house still stands, I see.