

He better get his ass to the generator to check it out. Richard recalls a generator malfunction in '06 due to air in the fuel system, which Frank assured him would never happen again. Frank has no clue why the emergency lights haven't kicked in. Owen comes in with Frank to check if Webber needs anything. The monitors have switched to battery power but the echo hasn't. Richard tells the nurse to get him a head lamp. Richard is operating on Bailey's patient in a dark OR with Ben as the anesthesiologist. They wait for the generators to kick in, which doesn't happen. Meredith did not plan on having surgery but Cristina comforts her by saying a C-section is barely surgery. Connie examines her and says there's face presentation, which means they need to do a C-section. Lauren refuses to just sit around and accepts Alex's assignment.Ĭonnie, the OB, enters Meredith's room. Alex gladly accepts while Arizona turns her down again. Lauren arrives and again offers her help. She tells Alex, Jo, and Stephanie to make sure that the parents are happy and remain calm. Only two nurses made it in for their shift. When the lights flicker, Arizona eases the worried parents. Stephanie, who's on the phone with the ER, tells them that the evacuations have to stop due to the weather. She assures the dad that it's perfectly safe here. She arrives in the NICU as Alex explains to a father that they are moving the highest-risk babies first. Lauren proposes to help out but Arizona declines her offer and quickly leaves. Arizona says the NICU is understaffed and that she should be there already. Lauren, who's still lying in bed, asks her if she's okay. Callie thought Arizona was overseeing this and asks if anyone has seen her.Ī seemingly regretful Arizona is getting dressed in the on-call room. Jackson passes by with an incubator and tells Alex they need help moving the babies to another hospital. Owen then sees Alex and Jo, including her bruised face, as they walk in. Once Bailey's gone, Callie tells Owen to cut her some slack. Callie assigns her to make sure there is enough surplus blood in the ORs.

Bailey wants to help but Owen says that's hard if she won't touch patients. Richard steps in and says he'll perform the surgery. Strickland recognizes her as his son's doctor and asks if they are done operating. Bailey comes up and asks Owen if there's a general surgeon available for an ex lap on a patient who's already under. At the nurses' station, Callie advises April to pin her engagement ring to her scrub top as she keeps running it into stuff. The beds are filling up quickly, which Richard attributes to scared people looking for a safe place to ride out the storm. He will treat this hospital as his patient so they can focus on their real patients. Frank, the hospital maintenance guy, tested the generators lasted month. In the ER, Jackson and Owen are worried about the building and the power. After getting gowned and gloved, Bailey says she can't do this and leaves. It will be the first time for her to operate since the infection. Shane and Ben are in the OR, waiting for Bailey to get ready to operate on a man who was cleaning his gutters during hurricane-force winds. Meredith asks Cristina to tell her about Owen to distract her from the pain. Cristina can't help but repeat everything Meredith says back to Derek, who leaves to get ice chips and find out what's holding up their OB. In Meredith's room, Derek is comforting her as she's in labor. As the medivac guy brings back the gurney, Cristina gets a worrying page. Cristina thinks he'll one day look at her and only see the things she couldn't give him. He says he's not lying about loving her and wanting to spend his life with her. She knows he wants kids while Owen claims it was about Ethan in particular. As Ethan is taken to the helicopter, Cristina addresses the elephant in the room and asks Owen if he was planning on telling her he wanted to adopt Ethan. As the dad's wheeled to the helicopter, the medivac guy tells them to wait for the gurney. Ethan asks him to come too, but Owen says he's needed here.

In the elevator to the roof, Owen explains to Ethan that he and his dad are going to be moved to a safer hospital as Cristina looks on. I never thought it would happen to me," she says. Meanwhile, Meredith's voice over talks about the "perfect storm" in medicine, which is when everything that can go wrong, does go wrong. Meanwhile, one of the doctors fights for their life.Īs the storm continues to rage over Seattle, Derek and Cristina are running down a completely dark hallway at the hospital. Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital enters crisis mode as the storm rages, resources become scarce, and patients flood in by the busload.
