  The house is sealed up tight this evening. Shutters are closed and locked, my front door is secured with nails and sandbags ring the floor below the door stop.
I think this is the best prepared I've ever been for a storm. Too bad it's passing over a urlLink hundred miles to the south . Just because the eye of the storm is well south of Guam, the winds are still picking up. I was outside about a � hour ago and the wind was about 35 - 40 mph. I suspect it will pick up to about 50 mph a little after midnight as the storm makes it's closest approach.
I am always amazed by the power of a typhoon. The violent center of this storm is affecting hundreds of square miles of ocean, whipping up the winds, driving rain, tumultuous seas. Too think all this fury is engendered by low pressure over warm water and the rotation of the planet. One of nature's rawest spectacles is glancing towards Guam, and it is harrowing to look into the face of this beast. 
