Guam residents and officials are assessing the damage the day after Typhoon Mawar smashed the U.S. Pacific territory
Typhoon Mawar
"We are waking up to a rather disturbing scene out there across Guam. We're looking out our door and what used to be a jungle looks like toothpicks — it looks like a scene from the movie 'Twister,' with trees just thrashed apart," said Landon Aydlett, a“Most of Guam is dealing with a major mess that’s gonna take weeks to clean up,” he added.
Leah del Mundo spent the night with her family in their concrete home in Chalan Pago, in central Guam. She told The Associated Press they tried to sleep but were awakened “by violent shaking of the typhoon shutters and the whistling strong winds.” “It was like a freight train going on outside,” said Thomas Wooley, who recounted how wind and rain pushed through the aluminum shutters of his family's concrete home overlooking Tumon Bay. When day broke, he found their outdoor china cabinet toppled and its contents shattered on the ground. A chainsaw-wielding relative helped clear downed branches.J.
Power was also knocked out for all of Rota, the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. said late Wednesday. The island has about 2,500 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau., according to the weather service. Mawar, a Malaysian word that means"rose," was forecast to intensify further.
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