Won Pat International Airport next Tuesday. Officials said they anticipated being able to resume operations at the flooded A.B. There were long lines at ATMs and some stores and gas stations on Friday. Many wooden or tin homes were badly damaged or had collapsed outright. He drove around in a pickup after the storm passed looking for supplies to repair her roof, but most stores were without power and accepting only cash. His mother rode out the storm with him at his concrete residence, he said, but "my mom's house didn't escape." "The cleanup is the struggle but we all pitch in and help each other," he said via text message.Īlso in Yona, winds peeled back the roof of Enrique Baza's mother's house, allowing water to damage everything inside. His major worry was shortages, saying supplies were at levels similar to what they were during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Two trucks and an SUV were completely submerged.Īflague said the mood on the island was like after every storm, as people assess the damage and move toward rebuilding their lives back to normal. Aflague's mother-in-law and sister-in-law live, he said. In the southeastern village of Yona, the floodwaters reached above the waist at the home where Alexander Ken M. The swirling typhoon churned up a storm surge and waves that crashed through coastal reefs and swamped houses. The central and northern parts of the island received more than 2 feet (60 centimetres) of rain as the eyewall passed. Water contamination from the heavy rains and runoff was a concern: The Guam Waterworks Authority issued a notice advising residents to boil water before drinking it, and the Guam Environmental Protection Agency warned people to stay out of the sea at all beaches because of high bacteria content. And nearly 1,000 people were still in shelters as of Thursday, Guam officials said. About 51,000 customers were without electricity, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Some villages had little or no water Friday, Tapao said.
Pacific territory of roughly 150,000 people, flipping cars, tearing off roofs and leaving trees bare. Still, officials said it could take weeks to clean up the mess after Mawar briefly made landfall as a Category 4 storm Wednesday on the northern tip of the U.S. "Storms have taught our island to be resilient," he said. He added that there's a saying in Chamorro - the indigenous language of the Mariana Islands - "inafa maolek," that means cooperation, a concept of restoring harmony or order.
"That's the Guamanian way - that's embedded in the blood." "Everyone helps out with the cleaning," he said. Climate Barometer newsletter: Sign up to keep your finger on the climate pulse.To Tapao, the roar of the mechanical saws was a reminder of the resilience of the storm-prone U.S. Paul Tapao said there did not seem to be any major damage, main roads were passable and "Guam has been very blessed to have no storm-related deaths or any serious injuries." While it was still early going in the recovery effort, police Sgt. Chainsaws buzzed Friday as neighbours helped neighbours clear toppled trees and began cleaning the wreckage of Typhoon Mawar, which walloped Guam as the strongest typhoon to hit the island in over two decades but appeared to have passed without leaving death or massive destruction in its wake.
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