The military said it moved its ships out to sea as a standard precaution. Benjamin Nicholson, Joint Region Marianas commander, authorized the evacuation of defense personnel, dependents and employees in areas expected to be affected. forces in the Pacific, and the Department of Defense controls about a third of the island. "A lot of folks are keeping their eyes on trees," he said before the storm hit. In low-lying Agat along the southern coast, resident Reuel Drilon said nearly every home in the village has a mango tree, which officials warned could become roadblocks and deadly flying projectiles. But much of the beachfront tourist district of Tamuning, where many resort hotels are located, is close to sea level. The highest point on the island is Mount Lamlam in the southwest at 1,334 feet. Lou Leon Guerrero ordered residents of coastal, low-lying and flood-prone areas of the territory to evacuate to higher elevations. A flash flood warning was issued for the entire island as forecasters predicted as much as 25 inches of rain in addition to a life-threatening storm surge of 4 to 6 feet.Īhead of the storm, Guam Gov. Many communities on the 212-square-mile island had lost power by afternoon, and some to the south had lost water service. He urged people to stay in shelters and encouraged them to try to get as much sleep as possible ahead of "a long day tomorrow as we start the recovery process." Just be together, talk to each other and things will slow down toward midnight and continuing into Thursday morning." You can hear the sounds: The winds are howling, things are breaking. It's going to be a little bit scary as we go later into the night. It's going to be scary because there's no electricity unless you have a generator," Brandon Aydlett - a science and operations officer for the weather service, and Landon Aydlett's twin brother - said in a Facebook Live broadcast. "This is going to be kind of a long night. Trees sway in strong winds from typhoon Mawar in Tamuning, Guam, in this still image obtained from social media video. The weather service warned of an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation on Guam and said people should take cover and remain in shelter for the next few hours. In the South Pacific and Indian Ocean, storms are called tropical cyclones regardless of their sustained wind speeds. In the Southwest Pacific, where Guam is located, the same storms are called typhoons. In the North Atlantic, central North Pacific and eastern North Pacific oceans, those storms are called hurricanes. When wind speeds rise above that threshold, they become tropical storms, according to NOAA.Ī tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 74 mph or higher is either classified as a hurricane, a typhoon, or simply a tropical cyclone, depending on its location. The weakest tropical cyclones are called tropical depressions, with sustained winds below 39 miles per hour. Meteorologists classify tropical cyclones using more specific terms based on strength, which is based on sustained wind speed. Both hurricanes and typhoons are tropical cyclones, a type of weather phenomenon characterized by rotating, low-level systems of clouds and thunderstorms that form over waters in tropical or subtropical areas. The only difference between a hurricane and a typhoon is the location where the storm occurs, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They made it so they had to fight among themselves for a place to lie down, to get a little bit of food.Mawar, a Malaysian word that means "rose," is forecast to continue moving north-northwest and may threaten Taiwan next week. I have to choose, lie down with my choices, make my efforts, try to get better, live to see my sickness not through crazed eyes, but through the eyes of a shared language – It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down. Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength. When we told our eldest, he said ‘he’s like Jesus’ – because he had been learning about it in school. I was strong in that belief that he was our Easter miracle. By Easter Sunday, he was stable enough that I felt comfortable enough to have a lie down. We just said’stop there is still fight in him,’ then his oxygen levels started to pick up, and he started coming back to us.
Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
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