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I have to say in Pennsylvania there aren’t that many natural disasters and me living on Guam I was exposed to not only large earthquakes but also typhoons. Well my last couple of months living on Guam I was a part of a huge natural disaster. A typhoon was headed near the island and the weather guys said that it was likely to miss us so no one in my office building prepared for it.
Well it hit and it hit the island at over 145 miles per hour. I was called into work to spend the night and live and work there while the storm hit. The sound of the wind was indescribable and the only thing that comes close is the Wraiths on Lord of the Rings movies when they scream. Water was coming from underneath the door seal like God had a fire hose stuck right under the door. We had to squeegee the water from an important wire trough that was the backbone of the building electrically. We did pretty well at keeping everything dry.
After we did that I went outside where it was somewhat protected and I saw something really weird. I saw two lights shooting into the sky in a diagonal path. It was a work van turned on its roof with its lights on. The wall of horizontal water streaming past us at over 145 miles per hour made it look crazy. Across the road a power transformer fell off of the telephone pole and started humming and sparking, finally it exploded with a spectacle of sparks. It felt like a Mother Nature war zone.
I went back inside because our power went off and our generators were running out of fuel. We had to shut down our computers and hardware because everything would overheat and get damaged. Our building is not to be shut down ever because we were a communications station and it was a huge deal. Around 4 in the morning we were in complete darkness and alls we could do is make fun of the situation we were in and wait out the storm. I finally got to my room after the coast was clear and I went to bed after a 30 hour fight with Mother Nature. I had no bathwater, no electricity, and no air conditioning in a tropical island. I went to sleep exhausted and content that we held up against a super typhoon.
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