Palau is Set to Get Lashed By A “One in A Million” Typhoon

Oceania TV ^ | 12/2/2012 (yeah, it's already Sunday there) | Kassi Berg

[BwanaNdege]

"Palau is an island nation with no building codes. A large majority of homes are built with wood frames and tin roofs

Probably more a matter of money than building codes."

Bingo!

I would imagine that Staten Island has fairly tough building codes & inspectors.

The laws of Physics always trump the laws of bureaucrats & lawyers.

[dirtboy]

Pray for it to pass north of Palau. It will still be bad, but not nearly as bad is the current forecast track.

[MinuteGal]

"The U.S. provides graduated financial assistance...in exchange for 'full international defense authority and responsibilities' "

What the heck is THAT supposed to mean??? I doubt if even one of the islands could provide long enough runways for an air force base. Perhaps someone could translate into peeplespeak what the above sentence means.....thanks.

Leni

[GeronL]

I can imagine a busy body liberal in Palau creating rules and regulations that would cost a fortune to obey.

I am sure it’d work out okay.

“Okay now, these 11,000 will now fund healthcare for those 10,000”

[Procyon]

Under the terms of the Compact of Free Association with the United States all citizens of Palau have the right to habitually reside in the United States. All of them. No visas, no quotas, no green card required.

[GeronL]

I think it means they let our Navy sail through their waters

[GeronL]

habitually?

That sounds like they are addicted to something

[Katiana Kalashnikova]

Palau is the largest island in the in the Palau Island chain. Also in the chain is the Island of Peleliu. Marines on this site will know where I'm going with this. In 1944 US Marines fought a horrific battle there against the Japanese and had huge losses of killed and wounded.

Read more here..

http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/peleliu/bloody.aspx

[jungleboy]

Re: Cebu - Storm will turn North, imho (prayers up)... Hopefully sooner than later.

Make for a great retirement story.

[dirtboy]

[dirtboy]

[Doofer]

That chart has it hitting me squarely here in Cebu, Philippines.

[P.O.E.]

Palau's Compact of Free Association with the US

[AlexW]

“Please try to keep in touch with us”
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My computer and FR is online 24/7, provided that power
and DSL line is up and working.
At the moment it is 8:42 AM, clear sky.
We still have 3 days before Bopha is due.
I continue to monitor www.typhoon2000.ph
I am on the east coast of Cebu, 75km south of Cebu city.

[jocon307]

“...here seems to be a general sense of disbelief that the storm is coming and how powerful it will be when it arrives.”

Oh dear, that’s how I felt before Sandy. We evacuated last year for Irene, and that was a big nothing burger. I did figure the water MIGHT come up to my lawn. Hubby went out early that monday morning and came back white as a sheet, the street that leads down to the ferry terminal had water on it a half mile from the shore.

In the end our house got almost a foot of water in it, we waded out through hip deep water and went to our friend’s a few blocks away and watched the water creep up to their top porch step, after which it began to recede. And there was very little wind to speak of. The office building I work in in Jersey City was out of commission until just this week, and they are amazed they got up and running as fast as they did.

We were so much luckier than many around us. It still boggles my mind that nature caused so much death and destruction in the NYC metro area where I have lived my entire life. Nothing even remotely like this had happened before, not since the blizzard of 1888 at least, which was bad enough that we’ve all heard of it, over 100 years later.

I hope these folks will be OK, but I fear many of them are doomed.

God be with them and protect them, that is all I can say.

[SueRae]

Oh my Lord. Harm’s way doesn’t begin to describe it. Prayers for them in the storm track.

[Billthedrill]

Count me in on the prayer train. 150 mph winds with gusts to 180? 48-ft seas? I lived in Asia for a decade and never saw anything remotely approaching that. Go high and dig in and whatever you do, don’t get caught outside. Prayers up and BTT.

[SueRae]

Be safe, Alex. I will be waiting for you to let us know when the storm has passed and you are all okay.

[Teacher317]

There have been 1 million typhoons since the last one like this one? Wouldn't that go back several thousand years in meteorological history? What did meteorologists use as instrumentation in the 4th Century to track Pacific typhoons?

If I've told you once, I've told you 757 billion times, hyperbole is a trillion times worse than murder!!

[AlexW]

“Go high and dig in “
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While I live on a beach, I do have mountains up to 3000 feet
high, right next to me.
Keeping a close watch and making evacuation plans in case we need to get out and away.
One of my cats just had three kittens last night....bad timing.