Typhoon Mawar hit the US island of Guam with winds up to 140 miles per hour and torrential rain damaging houses. It continues to inch across the Western Pacific Ocean but there were no early reports of deaths or injuries
Early reports following daybreak on Thursday had yet to show any deaths or serious injury, but news was slow to come in after power was knocked out for all but 1,000 of the island's 52,000 homes and businesses, according to the Guam Power Authority.
Wind speeds placed the storm in Category 4, the second-strongest designation on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind scale, and just short of Category 5. But people in Guam take typhoons seriously and typically hunker down in reinforced concrete structures, Aydlett said.
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