Super Typhoon Champi Passes Guam as Power Falls to About Half the Island
GUAM, Oct. 18 -- Sixteen babies were delivered at Guam Memorial Hospital after the island moved to Condition of Readiness 1 on Saturday, and the hospital reported no power loss while Super Typhoon Champi passed south of Guam on Sunday morning, Guam Homeland Security said.
None of the 13 expectant mothers the hospital sheltered delivered during that period. Late-term mothers had been told to report in before the storm, as TEH covered in its Typhoon Champi Guam report on the hospital plan, and three patients were treated in the emergency department and discharged.
Champi made its closest approach at about 4:26 a.m., Guam time, roughly 10 miles south of Merizo, and southern Guam took the worst of the wind and rain, the agency's Joint Infor...
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