Interesting plot and start. For a first chapter it has everything a good novel needs, plenty of action, some sort of interesting tidbit that the reader hears about thinks about and knows nothing of. Oh yah and a motivation force that will follow the characters about for the rest of the book tying this in with everything else.

I saw a picture to do with this on deviantart; it always intrigues me when people create illustrations of their characters (your art is very good, indecently.) However, when I read the first line of this my eyes glazed over. There are three fundamentally mistaken ways to begin a book:
a)Describing the surroundings
b)Starting off with a dream sequence
c) describing the weather.
This uses both the first and the third. Still reading? I don't mean for this to be a flame - the story in itself is very good once it gets going; the death of a wife, theft of babies, etc., are interesting things, and the focus should be on that from the start. The weather can be worked in as you go along. Try to think of something that will grab the reader by the eyeballs and force them to continue. Might I suggest something like: The night she died, there was a (insert adjective for extremity here) storm. Anything to make it more than a weather report.

...I hope I wasn't too harsh. Good luck always, keep writing/drawing.

hey cool!

I saw your artwork on deviantart and had to read this. It was great! Im really excited to see what happens next now. Except whose noah? I felt like he just showed up at the end, is he another character?