The Oracles weren't wrong about the lack of sudden disasters. All the disasters that followed were entirely predictable and yet impossible to fully avoid all the same.
Workharder and Things-Things did their best to keep trains working and to repair the power distribution through the Empire.
Both of them worked as hard as any of their subordinates, and following Things-Things' schedule, four days later, the power was cautiously put online again.
The bees cheered as they saw beams of projectors light their path, and factories could return to work again! But… Many machines in the Central Region were still offline because of the ash.
And on the same day when I got to enjoy electrical lights in my office, Amby came with news about more problems.
Or, more precisely, pointed my attention to them. She was already near at the time, lounging next to me on a couch to deal with paperwork in comfort. Same as I was.
