Neu: 2001-12-25 Contents of this issue:
1. Lucky Miss ======================================================================== December 25th, 2001 1. Lucky Miss: Supertyphoon Faxai slipped past Saipan and headed far out to sea, leaving the Mariana Islands with nothing to worry about but Christmas, reports tthe Pacific Daily News. The storm, at one stage packing winds of 260 kilometres per hour, was downgraded from supertyphoon to typhoon. "It was a glancing blow," National Weather Service meteorologist Dan Mundell told the Pacific Daily News in Guam. "There really wasn't any impact on the populated islands." Faxai came barrelling out of the Federated States of Micronesia, headed straight for the Marianas. It put all the islands on alert. But in the end, the storm passed by far to the east of the islands, the Pacific Daily News said.(PINA Nius On Line). __END__
