If RD is the alicorn of storms, what if she earned her god status by controlling/stopping a storm gone haywire? She's the element of honesty so maybe she has to make a choice between risking her life to stop this storm from destroying half of equestria or escaping with those closest to her and leaving the rest to figure it out? She embodies her element by being loyal not just to her friends but to life itself and ascends that way?



After ascending she could be considered a harbinger of good weather and safety for cloudsdale residents who would have been the most effected by a haywire storm of that magnitude.