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brooklynite

(94,592 posts) Wed Oct 24, 2018, 11:07 AM Oct 2018

Cat 5 Super Typhoon about to pass over Tinian (Northern Marianas) with 200 mph gusts

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Cat 5 Super Typhoon about to pass over Tinian (Northern Marianas) with 200 mph gusts (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2018 OP

Yikes! 2naSalit Oct 2018 #1

Damn! malaise Oct 2018 #2

Yeah Especially Since this is a Commonwealth of the United States Stallion Oct 2018 #3

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)

1. Yikes!

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Oct 24, 2018, 11:12 AM

Oct 2018

And there's no place for the inhabitants to go! The whole island set looks like it fits inside the eye!

I hope they can survive that. From the comments at the link, sounds like they have a system of bunkers there but speculation of them being seriously tested by this storm sounds like it's quite tentative as to how many will survive.