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A Portal Storm is an event that creates a multitude of portals to other dimensions. As suggested, these portals spread devastating shockwaves outwards in a storm-like manner, causing havoc wherever they hit.

Overview[]

In the aftermath of the Resonance Cascade at the Black Mesa Research Facility, Portal Storms occurred across Earth, bringing forth life forms from Xen. This peculiar phenomenon is generally capable of inflicting severe structural damage to objects, such as buildings and bridges.

A Portal Storm consists of a blue "wave," which either resonates from a Superportal or by a Resonance Cascade, and it moves across a landscape, negating gravity as it goes. As a result, any object in its path would suffer damage from the brief weightlessness effect.

At Black Mesa East, Eli Vance kept a corkboard with several newspaper cut-outs, one of them featuring the header "Portal" Storm Continues. This entry is next to a paper about the Seven Hour War, leading to the belief that the Combine Empire exploited these storms to invade Earth.

During The Uprising, a series of Portal Storms originating from the Superportal at the Citadel ruins ravage the surrounding landscape. Shortly after experiencing one, Alyx Vance remarks that it was "like the first days all over again."

This line suggests that Portal Storms were most frequent in the first few years after the Black Mesa Incident or during the Combine invasion. With time they became more infrequent, meaning that they have not stopped entirely and are still happening erratically.[1]

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Half-Life 2: Episode Two[]

In the aftermath of the Citadel core's meltdown at the end of Episode One, it forms a Superportal at the Citadel ruins in an attempt to reinstate a connection to the Combine Overworld. Due to the Superportal formed, sporadic Portal Storms originating from the Superportal devastate the surrounding landscape imposing grave damage to multiple buildings and bridges.

These Portal Storms continue to exact structural damage to multiple structures surrounding the Superportal until action taken by the Resistance destroys the Superportal. At the end of Episode Two, the Resistance base, White Forest, launches Dr. Arne Magnusson's rocket in an attempt to neutralize the Superportal before the Combine can use it to receive reinforcements from their Overworld.

The rocket launch successfully destroyed the Superportal, ending the erratic Portal Storms, preventing more damage to structures. The destruction of the Superportal also prevented the remaining Combine forces on Earth from obtaining additional support, stranding them on Earth.

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