Bina> You can see through the glaringly obvious lie, but attempt to not digress from the main issue.
"Right - " begins Bina, planning on being the bigger person and not pointing out that whatever nefarious organization this person works for just casually violated her medical confidentiality, but she's cut off by someone, not the Director, on the other end of the line.
'Storm reports up!' says a muffled voice.
"Thank you CJ," says the Director. There are more keyboard noises and then, "You said an hour ago?"
"Yes. It would have shrank and then got bigger again."
"Hmm…"
"What?!"
"Well I do see a fluctuation at that time - " says the Director.
"Ooooh thank god," says Bina, breathing out.
"But only in rate of change."
"What?"
"It's still shrinking," says the Director. "It just slowed down for a while."
"Shrinking?" asks Bina, her voice sounding strange in her own ears. "Since when?"
"Since about one thirty this afternoon," says the Director.
What had been happening at one thirty? Nothing. Literally nothing. They'd been stuck on the observation tower while Bina tried to figure out how to work with a javascript engine running entirely on four dimensional watch gears.
"We have another two dips about an hour later, after it had started shrinking," continues the Director. "Slowed to almost nothing there. The Tactical team reported some kind of subsidence about then just before we lost contact."
The Tower, that has to have been the tower falling.
Did the mess in the tower make the storm get that big? No, that can't be it. Cracks break in reverse as you approach the point of impact from the past…
"When did it start?" a part of her brain not thinking through implications manages to croak out.
"About three AM last night," says the Director, far away in Ottawa.
She knew that, she'd been there, getting drenched.
Her brain keeps trying to tell her that this is good news, that the storm shrinking means the cracks in the world are healing, but that is dumb and wrong because this is time travel and everything is backwards. She throws a mental shoe at it and starts getting properly terrified.