People in Guam and the Northern Marianas moved to emergency evacuation centres and made last-minute preparations on Sunday, hours before a \u201csuper typhoon\u201d was projected to bulldoze through the US Pacific territories.<\/p>\n
Super Typhoon Bavi was forecast to roar westwards over the area at around 10.00am (0000 GMT) on Monday with winds of 260 kilometres (160 miles) per hour \u2013 equivalent to a category 5 hurricane \u2013 and gusts of up to 315kph.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service (NWS) called the typhoon \u201cvery dangerous\u201d, warning of \u201ctropical storm force\u201d winds from Sunday afternoon or evening and \u201ccatastrophic\u201d damage near the system\u2019s centre later.<\/p>\n
\u201cSignificant flooding from torrential rains, and coastal inundation are expected,\u201d the NWS said, with projected waves of up to 35 feet (10.7 metres) \u2013 the height of a 10-storey building \u2013 creating \u201cextremely dangerous\u201d conditions at sea.<\/p>\n
There were few cars on the roads in Guam on Sunday as heavy rain and strong winds lashed the island.<\/p>\n
Pinky Cubacub, 55, said as she boarded up the windows of her eatery that she had lined up early on Saturday to buy US$500 worth of plywood at a timber store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People in Guam and the Northern Marianas moved to emergency evacuation centres and made last-minute preparations on Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,319848,319854,319845,319844,58629,11500,48385,319847,319853,24030,3,319851,319849,319852,319850,319846,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-744783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-arabella-paulino","tag-aubry-hocog","tag-copernicus-marine-service","tag-damon-michael-borja","tag-el-nino","tag-federal-emergency-management-agency","tag-guam","tag-mawar","tag-miku-sakurai","tag-national-weather-service","tag-news","tag-northern-marianas","tag-pinky-cubacub","tag-rota","tag-sinlaku","tag-super-typhoon-bavi","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}