Traveling in storm season is risky, as they learned

[DandyDon]

I have traveled to Cozumel with a hurricane in the Gulf and quickly regretted it, then escaped. And I've been caught traveling in blizzards and thunderstorms, but these folks are on a rough ride.

Nearly a dozen people from the Upstate stranded near island of Guam​

 

[TravelGas]

I have never heard of anyone going to Chuck for one day. Hard to imagine that no one from their group bothered to check the weather. A terrible situation. If a plane costs $200K to get them out, how about taking them out by boat?

 

[bakodiver391]

Chuuk was not hit by the typhoon. The airport in Guam was flooded and damaged, meaning no United Airlines flights could land or take off. People all through Micronesia were effected by a week-long suspension of flights to the area.

 

[DandyDon]

So, it'd be a 1500 mile boat ride to Manila to escape before Guam reopens? Various news stories say that the runways were okay but the terminal was flooded and trashed along with facilities around the airport. United has flown some humanitarian flights with cargo. Reports differ on reopening between the 30th and the 3rd.

And this didn't help: Former Korean Air Guam Manager Charged With Bank Fraud

 

[TravelGas]

Would trip Rescue insurance cover an evacuation, if you run out of your prescribed meds ? I would think so. Sounds like none of those folks had it or they would have been picked up by now.

 

[rmorgan]

Very glad they’re safe, and I hope they’re out by now. We are in PNG, and were on the liveaboard Oceania when Mawar was gathering force. Although the typhoon was ~1000 miles north of the Bismarck Sea, we had moderate wind and higher-than-expected seas (meaning, 2-3’ swells), and we understand that the Febrina, which was to our north in the Witu Islands, had quite a rocky day and night as the storm drew energy from the region. Walindi Resort had very high winds overnight. Once the typhoon started to move northwesterly, things returned to normal—it’s the doldrums here, and the sea is a mirror—although visibility was below normal at many sites for the duration; it still is. I showed a drop of about two degrees Fahrenheit in a two-day period. An impressive demonstration of the extended impact of a massive storm even here; I can’t really imagine being in its path.