Typhoon Karen Hits Guam - 1962
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2021
- In November 1962 category-5 Typhoon Karen hit Guam. My Dad, Frank Root, took video with his 8mm home movie camera. In 2021 I digitized the video.
My Dad's hotel had its roof ripped off. My Dad lay under a mattress and held it to protect himself during the storm. - Наука та технологія
Very interesting video. My Dad was stationed on Anderson AFB from 1957 to 1960 and we heard about Karen when we were in Germany, his next station. I recognize several of the locations in the film. We lived in Dededo, Tamuning, and lastly in Fleming Heights on Anderson AFB. Only the house in Anderson survived the Typhoon. Guam was Dad’s best tour and we lived on the beaches especially Terague Beach, north of Anderson. He and Mom talked about Guam the rest of their lives.
One of my most monumental experiences in life and survived. My family was stationed at Andersen AFB, Guam. We remained for the clean-up. I was employed at the Base Exchange and helped many people prepare with clothing to leave the Island and return home.
Thank for sharing. I recognize it all. My family moved to Guam in 71 and everyone was still talking about Karen, especially when we walked past foundations of buildings destroyed by her.
My dad was stationed there when it hit. I have all of his photos from his Guam days. He always talked about the typhoon. I miss him.
Thanks for sharing this. I was just under 6 months old when Typhoon Karen hit Guam. My whole family survived without injury and growing up hearing the stories of what we endured is amazing. I would love to visit Guam, perhaps next year on the 60th anniversary?
Im from guam and still live on island, born in 1997. Super cool to see how guam looked back in the day.
Thanks for posting your video of Typhoon Karen. I arrived on the island a couple of years later and it was the most talked about event for those that endured the storm. My wife was living in a Quonset hut and had to take shelter either at the church or school. The positive outcome of the storm resulted in rebuilding of concrete homes that would withstand typhoons, but also a 8.2 earthquake in 1993. Living in Guam in the 1960s and 70s was to me like living in paradise. A highlight of my life. I really miss it.
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My family lived on Nimitz Hill in base housing, which was/is typhoon-proof. My dad was a Navy meteorologist, so he was busy working, and we weathered the storm at home. I remember being without electricity for weeks, and one evening, while sitting on the back porch, we could see lights coming on in our neighborhood. I think we were without power for 27 days.
Did you ever go to the outdoor movie theatre up on the hill?
My dad was a weather pilot flying WB-50's. He said a weather plane flew up into the typhoon and got the readings and landed. A while later Karen was seen on the base radar! Holy crap it was huge! Dad said the typhoon the WB-50 flew into was one of the feeder storms. Dad said all the flight crews grabbed an airplane and took off before they were destroyed on the island. They filed a flight plan after they took off. He said it was amazing to see all these KC-135's, B-47's and WB-50's lining up on the taxiway and just taking off no sitting around waiting for clearance, go go go. Interesting times.
Thank you for that story!
My dad was with the 54th Weather Recon. at Anderson 1959 -until when it was de-activated. Then he flew with a SAR squadron until we went back to the states. My dad said flying Weather Recon was the scariest flying he ever did.♥
I was sixteen years old when Typhoon Karen hit Guam. There were about nineteen people in one bedroom when all the other rooms of the house were covered with water and debris. My uncle and aunt urged us to stay with them since their house was strongly built. Fortunately, we went with their urging. Our house was completely demolished during the storm. The aftermath showed it all. There's so much more to talk (write) about, but I'll leave it at that. Thank you so much for the video and showing something that we all can refer to many times.
Wow, never thought I would see Typhoon Karen video.
Thanks for posting this. Brings back memories of the night my family hunkered down (thank god) inside concrete block housing at NAS Agana. We were so naive, trying to mop up water. At one point, we wondered where the 18-year-old college student living with us had gone to. We found him in the pantry, the only room in the house with concrete block on all four sides and no windows. He had come from Saipan, so he knew what sort of shit show we were in for. Best/weird memory: Losing power and having to dispose of melting ice cream from our freezer the next day --- by drinking milkshakes. Yes!
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I was a Navy dependent at the time and also went through typhoon Karen. The house you described sounds like we lived in the same housing development, as I remember it was called Old Tipalao. It was a concrete slab home and we had the same pantry. All night long we listened to flying debris hitting the metal louvers we had closed down. Our house mildly flooded and my mother along with my younger brother and sister swept water out of the house. My father had to report for duty, so he had no idea how we fared until he got home. I was in the fifth grade and went to Piti Elementary. In February of '63 he received orders to Key west, Florida where we got to experience hurricanes.
I was living on Nimitz Hill when Karen hit. I was seven years old it was the worst storm I have ever seen. A family living down the road from us had their home destroyed and they somehow made their way to our house in the middle of the storm. We were all couped up in a back bedroom waiting for our house to be destroyed. I still have library books that I checked out from the Nimitz Hill Library which was destroyed.
My mother was very heavy with child (me) when Typhoon Karen hit Guam (I was born just a month later in December 1962). My family talked about Typhoon Karen the whole time I was growing up on the island. Thanks for the video. Very interesting!
I'm glad you and your Mom were physically ok. The devastation to housing was incredible.
@@DarrellRoot - thank you. Yes, it couldn't have been easy getting ready to have a baby and then having an infant to care for in the aftermath of such a storm as Karen was. 😲
Crazy, I was born In agauna heights Guam, April 30th 1988 during category 4, typhoon Roy wrecked the island one day before. No power except the military bases and hospital. :) we are storm babies
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Thank you so much for posting this video. My dad was stationed at Anderson in 1959. I was born there in 1960. My mom took my sister and me back to the states months before, but my dad just barely missed it returning home just before it hit. I am glad your dad was not harmed.
Thanks for sharing!
In the 1970s, everyone was still talking about Typhoon Karen as if it were yesterday. At the time, they blamed the disappearance of island birds to the brutality of storm on trees (before blaming the brown snake infestation) and the empty foundations around the island. That was until Super-Typhoon Pamela hit in 1976, when my family left the island.
Two years old at the time and have no recollection of Karen but from the stories I've heard, continue to hear and now seeing this video Karen illicit a chilling respect from those who experience and remembered. No other typhoon whether Pamela, Yury, Omar, Pongsona, etc. do the stories told about them rise to the level of fear and awe as Typhoon Karen.
I was 2 as well. Born January 8, 1960, at the Naval Hospital. We left Guam before it hit. I read that it was the most powerful tropical cyclone to strike the island of Guam and has been regarded as one of the most destructive events in the island's history causing devastation to 95% of the homes and basically leveling the island..
My mom and grandma went through this in asan. Roof torn off