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Tell your tale of typhoon woe

We tried this a year ago with some very, very interesting comments. Ever been stranded at the Kadena AMC terminal during a typhoon? Caught outside the base with the gates locked after TCCOR 1-E was issued? Lost power in your apartment or home for 40-plus hours? Have your home flood or be forced to flee to higher ground because of a typhoon? What about those back in the States who worried about relatives on Guam or Okinawa or in Japan because they’d not heard from them for days? Anybody left out here who endured the awful devastation of Super Typhoon Bart on Okinawa in 1999 and Super Typhoon Pongsona on Guam in 2002? Sound off! Tell your tale of typhoon woe here at PST. I’d be interested to hear some of the things that have befallen our Pacific crew, particularly the long-timers.

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About the Author


Dave Ornauer has been with Stars and Stripes since March 5, 1981. One of his first assignments as a beat reporter in the old Japan News Bureau was “typhoon chaser,” a task which he resumed virtually full time since 2004, the year after his job, as a sports writer-photographer, moved to Okinawa and Ornauer with it.

As a typhoon reporter, Ornauer pores over Web sites managed by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center as well as U.S. government, military and local weather outlets for timely, topical information. Pacific Storm Tracker is designed to take the technical lingo published on those sites and simplify it for the average Stripes reader.