ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on the sociocultural production of disruptive weather on its potential textuality as each episode that obstructs the expected course of life can become an episode about which something can be said or written. The book presents the commemorative construction of weather events often sees material culture 'partnering' with social reality and textual imaginaries to produce lasting monuments of meteorological stress experienced by world communities. It considers by noting that such creative reconstructions also create an organic, powerful sense of solidarity. Caught in a severe weather episode and cornered into a claustrophobic sense of imminent danger, people experience a severe and humiliating reduction of freedom and dignity. Endurance, voluntarism, sacrifice and solidarity triumphantly emerge from the diminished spaces, to prevail over their force and reclaim the temporarily confiscated freedom with time, is memorialised as identity, resilience and ingenuity crafted during the community's most trying.
