Posted on 12/17/2021 11:46:47 PM PST by blueplum
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A powerful typhoon left at least 19 people dead, knocked down power and communications in entire provinces and wrought widespread destruction mostly in the central Philippines, officials said Saturday. A governor said her island province has been “leveled to the ground.”
Typhoon Rai blew away Friday night into the South China Sea after rampaging through southern and central island provinces, where more than 300,000 people in its path were evacuated to safety in advance in a pre-emptive move officials say may have saved a lot of lives.
At its strongest, Rai packed sustained winds of 195 kilometers (121 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 270 kph (168 mph), one of the most powerful in recent years to hit the disaster-prone Southeast Asian archipelago....
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Dad worked for the Army in procurement.
Mom taught English to Japanese war brides.
I grew up in Sagamihara and Yokohama.
Six trips from Seattle and back on MSTS.
That’s the way we traveled back then.
We came home in ‘61...
MSTS? You mean MATS? Later became MAC? Now it’s something else I guess...
Military Sea Transportation Service.
Troops on the fan tail and bow sections.
Military and dependents stacked in tiny staterooms five deep...
The ships were named for late Army generals.
Our last trip was on the General W. A. Mann.
Two weeks from Yokohama to Oakland.
We stopped for one day in Honolulu.
I remember flying on commercialized versions of the C-97 and also flew on the Lockheed Constellation...... never went seabee, though...
The dining crew would walk though the corridors tapping a xylophone,
“First call for breakfast...”
I was stationed at Lajes Field in the Azores right after I got COT’d back from Okinawa via Cheyenne Mt. for 5 months in the early 70s. It was the only place I knew of at the time where the Army ran the ports, and the Navy did the day-to-day flying and AF ran the comms and support services....
No
We were just overwhelmed by them
I have about five acres of woods and I’d say maybe 20% of the trees are ash
At one time I had nearly 30 trees with yellow tape around them signifying they were dead
Any ash survivors among those dead ones? That would indicate a very hardy ash. Except for the two oaks I have that I grew from acorns, the ash trees are the best I have for beauty and shade. I don’t look forward to losing them. Have you planted any replacements and if so what type?
Actually took down a couple of fine trees two years ago because they were too close to the house and undermining and lifting the sidewalk in places. We didn't want them getting under the foundation/slab to mess things up worse.
There was a dead oak by the barn that came down at the same time; all three done by pro arborists.
My luck (skill) at getting the trees to fall in the direction I wish, even when pulled by cables and a big van, are less than 100%. Twice I had trees close to house that fell 90° away from direction I wished, narrowing missing it.
The only replacement trees I’ve planted are apple.
And those just by collecting the fallen fruit and tossing it into the woods; letting Nature do her thing.
I can’t even get grapevines to last long enough to produce much fruit.
The entire province of Cebu is under a state of calamity due to Odette, a Category 5 – Super Typhoon, that made landfall in Carcar City last Thursday, December 16. Odette was the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year.
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