I'm not being bullied, I'm being chain-scolded

The rain had been going on for a week. The flooding was getting worse, as it rained without stopping. It didn't seem like it was ever going to let up, and she was starting to worry even more than before.

What if the rain never stopped? What if it continued on forever, pouring endlessly until Nevremia was nothing more than a giant ocean? What would she do? Where would they go? What would happen to the people who had their homes flooded out?

Her people were evacuating to the upper city. But. There was a limit to how many people could live in the palace. Even if she kicked out the nobility, there was a limit.

And there was a limit to the resources that the city had in terms of food, water, and general supplies. They couldn't all just. Live in the palace for the rest of their lives.

And the people who had lost their homes needed those supplies now, not at some nebulous time in the future after the council had stopped arguing about it.