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'Super' Typhoon Ioke Slams Tiny Wake Island (Winds at 220 mph, gusts top 250 mph)
Fox News ^ | August 31, 2006

Posted on 08/31/2006 9:37:02 AM PDT by HAL9000

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Super Typhoon Ioke, a Category 5 storm and the strongest to hit the Pacific in more than a decade, slammed into tiny Wake Island Thursday, threatening to submerge the U.S. territory, U.S. Navy weather forecasters said.

The storm, packing sustained winds of more than 220 mph, with some gusts topping 250 mph, came ashore at about 10 a.m. ET, and was slowly tracking west, gaining strength over the warm tropical waters, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported. Wake Island is located about 2,300 miles west of Honolulu.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricaneioke; hurricaneseason2006; ioke; pacific; supertyphoon; supertyphoonioke; typhoon; typhoonioke; wakeisland
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To: HAL9000
Wake Island is an Atol of 3 Islands..Historical landmarks may have been lost forever..

"The "98 Rock" is a memorial for the 98 U.S. Prisoners of War who were forced by their Japanese captors to rebuild the airstrip as slave labor, then blind-folded and killed with machine guns on 5 October 1943.

An unidentified prisoner escaped, and scratched "98 US PW 5-10-43" on a large coral rock near their mass grave, on Wilkes Island at the edge of the lagoon.

He was recaptured and beheaded by the Japanese admiral, who was later convicted and executed for these war crimes.

The rock still bears the original inscription and a small plaque identifying it; a bronze plaque naming the victims has been placed at the site.

There are also memorials for the military and civilian personnel who died defending the islands from the Japanese take-over.

The remains of Japanese fortifications during World War II are still visible around the islands".

sw

41 posted on 08/31/2006 10:18:33 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: Dog Gone

Frenchman surrendering to typhoon ping.


42 posted on 08/31/2006 10:19:16 AM PDT by sine_nomine (American is a great country: 20 million illegals can't be wrong. So build that wall, Mr. Bush.)
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To: ContemptofCourt
Maybe he wanted salvage rights.

30 ft underwater, boggles the mind....and I haven't been boggled in a while.
43 posted on 08/31/2006 10:20:12 AM PDT by ASOC (The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
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To: ASOC

I can't find any news stories about anyone being left behind on the island.


44 posted on 08/31/2006 10:27:41 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: ContemptofCourt
Maybe he wanted salvage rights.

30 ft underwater, boggles the mind....and I haven't been boggled in a while.
45 posted on 08/31/2006 10:28:01 AM PDT by ASOC (The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
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To: HAL9000
Reports just coming in that the Marines have evacuated the last F4F Wildcat! What would Winfield S. Cunningham say?


46 posted on 08/31/2006 10:28:50 AM PDT by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: ContemptofCourt
"Apparently a 72 year old French weatherman stayed on Wake to ride it out....I guess he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory...."

He'll die of drowning.

47 posted on 08/31/2006 10:30:31 AM PDT by blam
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To: ContemptofCourt

Was he from NOLA?


48 posted on 08/31/2006 10:31:16 AM PDT by brothers4thID (Being lectured by Ted Kennedy on ethics is not unlike being lectured on dating protocol by Ted Bundy)
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To: HAL9000

Yes, but it shows the range that the hurricane's winds are in. The 220-250 mph winds must be upper level wind speeds.


49 posted on 08/31/2006 10:31:17 AM PDT by CollegeRepublican
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To: ASA Vet

that makes sense. maximum sustained winds of 220mph would set a world hurricane record.


50 posted on 08/31/2006 10:37:32 AM PDT by philsfan24
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To: Dog Gone

http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=104131&st=240


51 posted on 08/31/2006 10:38:17 AM PDT by ContemptofCourt
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To: FlatLandBeer
Our family stopped there en route to Japan in 1959 and we flew in on a Constellation. I remember the beached WWII ships on the island's periphery. When we were landing I thought we were crashing because I didn't see a bit of land for a landing site. On the return we stopped at Midway.
52 posted on 08/31/2006 11:06:21 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: ContemptofCourt

Look at this pic...the tiny dot in the eye is (was?) Wake Island.

http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=54974

What a magnificent storm! If someone really did stay behind, I'd have to say he drowned. There had to be 30-50 feet of water over the island when the eyewall hit.


53 posted on 08/31/2006 11:06:45 AM PDT by TampaDude (If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the PROBLEM!!!)
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To: HAL9000
The said the entire island was probably more than 30 feet underwater at peak of the storm.

No way. Wake's highest point is about 20 ft above sea level - that would mean a 50 ft surge. There's no continental shelf around Wake to make a surge like that build up. Surge probably wasn't more than 10-12 feet. Wake will be fine.

54 posted on 08/31/2006 11:11:00 AM PDT by green iguana
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To: ContemptofCourt

I dunno how much to believe it. That's an unsourced statement on a weather forum and he didn't provide any support for it, even when asked.

I think it would be big news if the media heard that one person remained on island that was supposed to be completely submerged. So, if it's true, the media doesn't know anything about it.

But how would anyone else know?


55 posted on 08/31/2006 11:12:20 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: green iguana

Don't forget about the 50+ foot waves, dude! Cowabunga!!!


56 posted on 08/31/2006 11:13:01 AM PDT by TampaDude (If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the PROBLEM!!!)
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To: TampaDude

I'm not buying it... We'll see tho'.


57 posted on 08/31/2006 11:14:53 AM PDT by green iguana
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To: Dog Gone

The source was apparently a tv news report out of miami. I dunno...


58 posted on 08/31/2006 11:20:26 AM PDT by ContemptofCourt
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To: green iguana
The eye of the super typhoon — as strong as a category five hurricane — is expected to come within 13 miles of Wake Island, bringing an 18-foot storm surge and 40-foot waves.

http://www.airforcetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2069125.php

That should pretty much scour the island.

59 posted on 08/31/2006 11:26:02 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: vetvetdoug

We did the same exact thing, 1959, Constellation and headed for Tachikawa AFB in Japan. I was eight years old in '59. I vividily remember the wrecked ships and other vehicles. We might have gone to school together!


60 posted on 08/31/2006 11:34:52 AM PDT by panaxanax
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