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Super typhoon Ioke is barreling towards Wake Island (Military, civilians & contractors evacuating)
KHON TV and KHNL TV ^ | August 27, 2006

Posted on 08/27/2006 8:41:03 PM PDT by HAL9000

KHON TV -

Super typhoon Ioke is barreling towards Wake Island

It's big and packing quite a punch. Super typhoon Ioke is barreling towards Wake Island.

The massive storm is churning around in the central pacific. It's packing winds of more than 160 miles per hour, a category five storm.

Roy Matsuda from the Central Pacific Hurricane Center says, "it is projected to go along this track toward wake island as you can see and to reach Wake Island approximately Wednesday afternoon our time within 13 nautical miles."

And because of that a team from Hawaii will head to Wake Island to help evacuate about 200 people before super typhoon Ioke hits.

Military and civilian personnel on Wake Island support US pacific command operations. The base also serves as an emergency airfield.

Two c-17 planes are scheduled to leave tomorrow morning to pick up the evacuees.

We'll have a videographer heading with the team to Wake Island, and will bring you a full report when they return to Hawaii.


KHNL TV -

Hickam Airman To Evacuate Hundreds From Wake Island

(KHNL) Two C-17 Globemaster III aircraft will depart from Hickam within 24 hours to evacuate approximately 200 military, DoD civilians and contractors from Wake Island.

Hickam Air Force Base C-17 Crewmembers are preparing to rescue those working on Wake Island.

Hurricane Ioke is expected to reach Wake Island within 72 hours; the evacuation mission will need to be completed prior to the expected storm surge.

Wake Island supports U.S. Pacific Command major regional taskings. The base provides facilities, vehicles, aerospace ground equipment and aviation fuel to sustain aircraft for combat operations.

It also provides for the bed down of forces and emergency divert airfield operations.

Some tour groups offer treks of WWII historical sites and aircraft.

According to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Hurricane Ioke has been reclassified as Super Typhoon Ioke.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricaneseason2006; ioke; island; pacificcommand; supertyphoon; typhoon; wake; wakeisland
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To: HAL9000

That's one boring target.


61 posted on 08/30/2006 5:20:39 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
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To: DungeonMaster

sure, but gonna be some killer surf in Japan. wish i was there!!


62 posted on 08/30/2006 8:23:04 AM PDT by ratt
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To: dljordan
Dummy! I went [Googling] to Guam! Doh!

As a boomer sailor in the 60s I made numerous flights between Hawaii (where the off-crews were based) and Guam (where the missle subs put in).

Over the entrance to the terminal at Anderson AFB, as you walking in from the tarmac, was a big sign:

Where America's Day Begins
- GUAM IS GOOD! -
(By Order of the Commanding Officer)

63 posted on 08/30/2006 4:39:50 PM PDT by IonImplantGuru (()
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To: kingu
"This was a recent water vapor image of Ioke. It still boggles my mind comparing the latitude lines to where I live, and how much territory it would cover were it in the United States."

What are the divisions on the image you provided in your post? 1 degree? 5 degrees? 10 degrees?

The main part of the typhoon takes up about 4 x 4 divisions and the eye is about 1/4 or 1/3 of a division in diameter.

Just trying ot get a sense of scale here.

64 posted on 08/30/2006 5:01:24 PM PDT by IonImplantGuru (()
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To: SandyInSeattle
They didn't evacuate us, because honestly, how do you evacuate the entire island of Okinawa? They just told us not to come to work.

We had the same situation in Gitmo. You hunkered down and rode out the hurricanes. One of them hit us 3 times in one week.

65 posted on 08/30/2006 5:05:01 PM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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To: SandyInSeattle
They didn't evacuate us, because honestly, how do you evacuate the entire island of Okinawa?

Didn't they have a bunch of school buses?

66 posted on 08/30/2006 5:09:43 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: Doe Eyes
Didn't they have a bunch of school buses?

I just spit on my keyboard. Fortunately, it was water. :-)

67 posted on 08/30/2006 5:30:54 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: IonImplantGuru
Divisions are two degrees (Long/Lat).



Here's a recent (2330Z Aug 30th) IR image of Ioke approaching Wake Island. That black dot, two squares down, two squares right from the top left is Wake.

Current observations on Wake (00:48Z Aug 31st) 43.15 knots per hour wind, 56.57 knots per hour gusts, 992.40 mbars pressure. No idea how long the weather station will last on Wake, wave heights are supposed to get to 50 feet, and the station is at 12 feet.
68 posted on 08/30/2006 6:11:14 PM PDT by kingu (No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
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To: kingu
This link has some satellite pictures and weather data from Wake Island.
69 posted on 08/31/2006 3:20:53 AM PDT by isawitonline
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