Wed 16 Nov 2005
When my family lived in Guam, we had a house on a cliff overlooking Apra Harbour. In the two years we lived there, we had dozens of typhoons and tropical storms blow over our house. Sometimes we evacuated to the Bachelor Officer Quarters, and sometimes we hung on, but miraculously, our wooden house remained intact year after year. The house had actually been there since the middle of the 20th century. Then, shortly after we left the island, the winds changed, the storm brewed, and *whoosh*! There went a 5000 sq. ft. house off the cliff.
