Surveillance security officers, including Maryland state troopers and Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agents surrounded the house during the stormy night, but they were killed off by Miller""s group, wearing infra-red night-vision headgear.The Wienie King isn""t fazed: "Why, dirt""s as natural in this world as sin, disease, storms, twisters, floods, and cyclones.Water pouring out of he U-shaped ""dump tanks"" was played in reverse in order to create he illusion of the sea""s parting." Scarlett""s father believes she wouldn""t be happy with Ashley anyway, and qualifies the characteristics important in a prospective mate: "Well, what difference does it make who you marry - so long as he""s a Southerner and thinks like you?"She complains to him about Tara as a place that doesn""t mean anything to her.It would later be revealed that the lessons in the school were entirely irrelevant and useless, and the medicinal reatments were ineffective and viewed as "magic.