This puzzle doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence that the weather is going to clear. If I've got it right, it reads: For many days we had been tempest-tossed. Six times had the darkness closed over a wild and terrific scene, and returning light as often brought but renewed distress, for the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost.
… which is the opening sentence from The Swiss Family Robinson. If you weren't as big on books as I was as a kid, it's about a family that shipwrecks near an island and has to learn to survive there.
So maybe everyone planning around a storm has the right idea, is what I'm saying.