Pandemonium
Else clues• Eddy's mother hugging Slater wildly (9)
• Eddy's mother receiving broadcast alerts (9)
• Outer disturbance
• Powerful whirlpool
• Tumult
• Tumultuous state of affairs
• Turbulent situation
• Very turbulent situation
• Violent confusion of ideas or conditions
• Violent vortex
• Violent whirlpool
• Vortex
• A powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides)