Many residents of Guam were without power and utilities Thursday after Typhoon Mawar tore through the remote U.S. Pacific territory the night before and ripped roofs off homes, flipped vehicles and shredded trees.
Navy Finds SEALs Training Plagued by Failures in Medical Care, Poor Oversight, Performance-Enhancing Drug UseGuam Power Authority said crews were working to restore power to critical and priority facilities such as a hospital, water wells and wastewater facilities. Guam Waterworks Authority was working to restore water service and had issued a notice advising customers to boil water.
As the typhoon crept slowly over the island, it sent solar panels flying and crumbled part of a hotel's exterior wall to the ground, according to videos posted on social media. At what felt like its peak intensity, the winds screeched and howled like jets, and water swamped some homes. Winds peeled back the roof of Enrique Baza's mother's house in Yona, allowing water to damage everything inside.
“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.When it comes to hurricanes, there's more to them than meets the eye.
Guam is about 3,800 miles west of Hawaii and 1,600 miles east of the Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
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