Extreme danger floods the body with adrenaline and all four of them are running off their body's supplies. Both Calhoun and Burke are injured and in shock. Normally, any one of them would be more than a match for Martina, but the storm has been a great equalizer and we don't know w h ere Frank might be. Micco will have a small army of allies in his wild refuge friends, and then there is the wildcard of Long Ears. It feeds off of evil. I wonder if this is quite literal.
This was a thrilling chapter. Man battling against nature's fury and well told.