6 am Wednesday: JIC says Guam remains in COR 1, Sinlaku downgraded to typhoon

#Guam remains in Condition of Readiness 1 as #Typhoon #Sinlaku continues to bring wind and rain to the island as of Wednesday morning.

Installation access points are closed, with the exception of U.S. Naval Hospital Guam.

According to observation sites, gusts of 130 miles per hour were reported at Saipan as the eyewall made landfall, NWS said.

#NorthernMarianas #CNMI #Saipan #USA #wx

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6 am Wednesday: JIC says Guam remains in COR 1, Sinlaku downgraded to typhoon

Guam remains in Condition of Readiness 1 as Typhoon Sinlaku continues to bring wind and rain to the island as of Wednesday morning.

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I wonder if FEMA sent a team ahead of time to Guam and CNMI ahead of Typhoon Sinlaku. Although, is FEMA even still a functioning government agency at the moment. Like American Samoa, both Guam and CNMI is in FEMA Region 9.

#NorthernMarianas #CNMI #Guam #Sinlaku #Pacific #typhoon #cyclone #USA #wx #FEMA

8 am Tuesday: Sinlaku brings 60 mph winds to Guam, damaging winds through Wednesday | News | guampdn.com

Forecasts showed Super Typhoon Sinlaku bringing winds of 50 to 60 miles per hour to Guam, gusts up to 70 miles per hour, and flood risks from heavy rain, but the worst of its 175-mile-per-hour winds were still tracking towards the Northern Marianas as of just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday

#NorthernMarianas #CNMI #Guam #Sinlaku #Pacific #typhoon #cyclone #USA #wx

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8 am Tuesday: Sinlaku brings 60 mph winds to Guam, damaging winds through Wednesday

Forecasts showed Super Typhoon Sinlaku bringing winds of 50 to 60 miles per hour to Guam, gusts up to 70 miles per hour, and flood risks from heavy rain, but

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Getting in before the Americans flood my feed to wish any #Filipino folks out there a happy #RepublicDay.

(And, of course, happy #IndependenceDay to my American peeps, and #LiberationDay to anyone out there from #Rwanda or the #NorthernMarianas.)

#4thOfJuly #Philippines

This is a latte stone. It is one of the last bunch still standing in its original location on Guam. I captured this image at the old Hila'an village recently.

#history #ancient #relics #ruins #village #northernmarianas #rocks #guam

If you wonder why Americans do not know nor understand their colonies better, well, for one, their government just does not collect data like they do with states.

>U.S. Territories: Coordinated Federal Approach Needed to Better Address Data Gaps https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106574

#BackInTheUSColony #MastodonPR #PuertoRico #GovDocs #data #information #NorthernMarianas #USVirginIslands #Guam

U.S. Territories: Coordinated Federal Approach Needed to Better Address Data Gaps

We report in this Q&A on gaps in federal data for the U.S. territories (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the...