“We told them we’ll have to wait until the storm clears up a bit,” he said. Most of the calls overnight came from worried people off-island who were unable to reach family members, Asprer said. Asprer, a police officer in the Dededo precinct in northern Guam, said before dawn that he had not received any reports of injuries but several police cars and personal vehicles had been damaged by debris, and uprooted trees made some roads impassable. Lots of Guam is dealing with a major mess that’s going to take weeks to clean up.” “It looks like a scene from the move ‘Twister,’ with things just thrashed apart. “It looks like toothpicks,” Aydlett said. The governor and lieutenant governor were making their way after daylight arrived to assess the damage, weather service meteorologist Landon Aydlett. The early scope of the damage was difficult to ascertain, with power and internet failures making communication with the far-flung island difficult. Videos posted on social media showed fallen trees, an overturned pickup truck, solar panels flying through the air, parts of a hotel’s exterior wall crumbling to the ground and exposing rebar, and storm surge and waves crashing through coastal reefs. At what felt like its peak intensity Wednesday night, the winds screeched and howled like jets flying overhead and rainwater rushed into some homes.
Mawar was forecast to intensify further.Īs it churned slowly over the island, the typhoon flipped cars and ripped branches from trees. The storm strengthened to 150 mph (241 kph) winds the following morning, regaining its status as a super typhoon, according to the weather service. The typhoon, the strongest to hit the territory of roughly 150,000 people since 2002, briefly made landfall Wednesday night as a Category 4 storm at Andersen Air Force Base on the northern tip of the island, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Patrick Doll. territory of Guam and continued lashing the Pacific island with high winds and heavy rain Thursday, knocking down trees, walls and power lines and creating a powerful storm surge that threatened to wash out low-lying areas. HAGATNA, Guam - Powerful Typhoon Mawar smashed the U.S.
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