Typhoon Yutu is gone, but not forgotten. Recovery in the Mariana Islands is just beginning, and one indicator is this message in a caption of a photo of the damages. "... Residents of the U.S. territory are preparing for months without electricity or running water after the islands were slammed Thursday with the strongest storm to hit any part of the U.S. this year."
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.