The island Array's recoil arrived nine seconds after the white route vanished.
Its southern ring dropped through the harbor bed. Water rose beneath six streets and lifted them as one slab. Houses stayed on their foundations while foundations climbed through kitchens.
Controller Kail Oru lost the control room floor.
One neighborhood witness caught the charge table. The other, Sali Morn, fell through the opened ring and struck a recoil rail four meters below.
Venn reached her before the second drop.
Sali had a broken pelvis and one leg trapped under the rail. Harbor water entered through the southern cable gallery.
The stabilization pulse had stopped rotation and restored drinking-water pressure to five neighborhoods. It had also opened the ring beneath 317 occupied homes.
Fishing crews moved roof to roof. Residents crossed under hand lines that began and ended on each building. Nobody declared the neighborhood one evacuation destination.
