The Empress finally stepped forward to lead the cabinet in fully responding to this disaster, a major event for the entire Victory.
For the cabinet officials, having someone to lead them and a backbone to rely on is more valuable than anything.
Previously, their backbone was Perfikot, who conquered everyone with her genius and turned the cabinet into her echo chamber.
While the cabinet usually engaged in various political maneuvers with Perfikot and performed reasonably well in daily affairs, the sudden snowstorm was entirely beyond their scope of handling.
It's not that they were completely petrified, but all known methods were utterly ineffective against the snowstorm.
They tried to send messengers to contact other cities, but the messengers almost froze to death before even leaving the city; they attempted to deploy trains as rescue teams, only to find the snow on the tracks almost burying the vehicles...
