TCOR 3

We've been stationed here in Guam for almost 3 years now and we've only gone into TCOR 3 twice. The first time we had a typhoon scare, we were still living in our first house. We didn't even know that a storm was brewing until we saw a long line of cars at the gas station. We were like, "Did they lower the gas prices?" "Maybe gas is free!" We were new so we were clueless. Once we learned that a storm was coming the commissary and BX were busy! Everyone was there buying emergency supplies and there was hardly anything left for us. Thank goodness the typhoon changed its course and missed Guam because we weren't prepared.

After that incident we learned to always stock up on emergency supplies, canned goods, water, and batteries.

The last time we had to secure our house it was just a base exercise to make sure we were ready for typhoon season.

Now that the hubby is away, we had another typhoon scare. Neil called and woke me up in the middle of a good dream around 7am this morning telling me to keep an eye on the weather. I didn't hear anything from my husband's squadron yet, so I wasn't too worried. I couldn't go back to sleep so I started stacking the patio chairs and folded the kids' table just in case. At around 10am Tess called and told me we were in TCOR3 so we started putting our patio furniture in our car ports. When we were almost done Jesse came over and helped me take the tarp down and then I had him help Tess too. After I came back from getting gas and water Samuel came by to check on us and Tavis's mom called too. Then Amanda messaged me and Neil came over to double check everything outside...so yeah, i had lots of help! Thank goodness for our support system while PeeJay's away.

Jazlynn was so funny when the shutters were all closed. She was like, "Mommy, it's too dark! It's not night night yet!" I told her that we were gonna go camping in the living room.

Now I feel a little claustrophobic in the house with all the typhoon shutters closed. I'm hoping this storm continues to change its course so it'll miss Guam again.