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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
Excerpt -
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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KEYWORDS: hurricane; hurricaneioke; hurricaneseason2006; ioke; pacific; supertyphoon; supertyphoonioke; typhoon; typhoonioke; wakeisland
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:37:04 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Voice of America -
'Monster' Typhoon Ioke Makes Direct Hit on Wake Island
Super Typhoon Ioke has made a direct hit on Wake Island, pounding the tiny U.S. Pacific territory with catastrophic winds of up to 300 kilometers an hour. Ioke is the strongest central Pacific typhoon in at least 12 years. Forecasters expect the "monster" storm to submerge Wake Island and destroy everything on it that is not made of concrete.
Wake is home to a U.S. Air Force base and a scientific outpost, roughly midway between Hawaii and Japan.
The eye of the typhoon skirted the north edge of the coral atoll Thursday. The U.S. Air Force had already evacuated all of the island's 188 residents to Hawaii, 3,700 kilometers across the Pacific.
The residents - Air Force personnel and American and Thai contractors - left Monday aboard two U.S. C-17 Globemaster planes. It was the first time the territory was evacuated in nearly 30 years.
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:37:25 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
(Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
To: HAL9000
Associated Press -
Air Force to fly planes to check Wake Island damage after typhoon
HONOLULU (AP) _ The Air Force plans to fly planes over Wake Island after Typhoon Ioke passes to see how much damage the storm inflicted on the mid-Pacific U-S military refueling outpost.
Air Force planes evacuated all 200 of the island's residents on Monday in preparation for what forecasters are calling the most powerful central Pacific tropical storm in a decade.
Forecasters have predicted the storm would submerge the island and demolish any non-concrete structures.
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:37:41 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
(Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
To: HAL9000
FreeRepublic keyword -
Ioke
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:39:40 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
(Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
To: HAL9000
sustained winds at 220mph? someone has their information screwed up.
To: HAL9000
That's the biggest pounding Wake island's taken since Hurricane George Hebert Walker Bush clubbed it with explosives back in '43.
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:40:30 AM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: philsfan24
sustained winds at 220mph? someone has their information screwed up. Actually, that is probably correct.
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:40:57 AM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: HAL9000
I can say I've been to Wake; refueled there on the way to Vietnam, 1968.
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:40:57 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: HAL9000
And the Drive-by-media said..............
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:41:29 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
To: HAL9000
Sweepers man your brooms!
Of course the storm may have cleaned off the entire island...
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:42:13 AM PDT
by
GreenLanternCorps
(The Solution to the GOP's Problems Isn't More Democrats!!!)
To: HAL9000
Send Rather to hang onto a lamppost in 250 MPH winds, Shep too.
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:43:28 AM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:43:41 AM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: bmwcyle
And the Drive-by-media said..............
"More proof of global warming!"
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:44:55 AM PDT
by
westmichman
(Please pray with me for global warming. I'M a BUSHBOT!)
To: onedoug
Went through Wake several times during my tour at Hq Pacific Air Forces at Hickam AFB April 69-August 72. One of my neighbors at Wheeler AFB took his wife to Wake for a two week vacation in 1971--said that they had the beach and the lagoon all to themselves.
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:44:58 AM PDT
by
RightWingConspirator
(Glad that Ted the Boorish Drunk, Hitlery the Witch and John Fonda/Fraud Kerry are not my senators.)
To: HAL9000
I was there once in the 60's. It seemed the whole island was no more than 4 foot above sea level.
I'm assuming I must have been there during high tide.
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:45:34 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(3.03)
To: HAL9000
kingu posted this last night -
Wake Island is the small black dot at 8 o'clock in the eye of the storm.
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:45:49 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
(Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
To: westmichman
And the Drive-by-media said.............. "More proof of global warming!"
Which means this is all Bush's Faulttm.
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:46:22 AM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:48:07 AM PDT
by
Sax
(You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat)
To: HAL9000
Wake Island:
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:48:32 AM PDT
by
groanup
(Faith, hope, charity. Industry, thrift, intellect. But the truly gifted man knows how to plan ahe)
To: HAL9000
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:48:50 AM PDT
by
US_MilitaryRules
(Time to eradicated islambs and mooselimbs! GO PTSC)
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