The scary Rabby. Sometimes in 1968 Saipan was hit by typhoon Jean at a magnitude wind speed of 125 mph. Recent typhoon have been known to intensified to 195 to 220 mph wind and can be determined strong but their rout where usually out in the ocean. Unlike Typhoon Jean with win speed of 125 mph. Her forward speed was 3 mph. and crawl directly over Saipan. It arrived on a time when 95% of the people living on Saipan had their house structure mostly wood with tin roofs. All in all destruction was major. With limited broadcast info. This typhoon caught I and my family in surprise. In the wake of this typhoon. We were residing at Chalan Laulau middle road. Plain simple. We were far from any close-by shelter and no transportation. Being young at the age of fourteen and can run like rabbit. These catastrophic events were like adventure with nothing to worry about. During the early hour of that typhoon. I and families were hanging round the farmhouse steadily trying to sit out the typhoon. During the heated hour of this weather. Our farmhouse motion started acting like rubbery expanding like balloon where my old man shouted to everyone to get out and run. At about 100 feet away and like magnetic pull. We all stop. Look back under heavy rain and foggy visions. We could see the farmhouse rises about 20 feet, spin 360, and slam straight down and boom flatten into itself. With no more farmhouse and no where to hide under the strong wind and rain, we head up into the nearby cave and the no worry rabbit had turned into scary rabby. Resting roughly in that cave with whispering strong wind trees fall in all direction. A few minuets pass noon. We were looking straight into the clear sky with sun shining hot like a normal day. About 45 to 50 minuets later. Darkness approaching fast. The strong win picks up. We ran back into the cave. The previously fallen trees were picked up again and slammed onto the opposite direction . Two days after the wind had settled a bit and relaxing back, the old man figured out that the eye of typhoon Jean crawled over the island. No where to live we went back to San Jose village with catastrophic scenery that changes the entire island only to fined out that even our st. Jose house was destroyed and the US military were already in assistance. Days followed. While we and others were putting back together our lives. Radio station KUAM Guam was playing the first ever chamorrow song “Hu Gaiya Hao” by Johnny Sablan.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 12:24:28 +0000