Return to Wake Island, Part II

http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2087831.php

HONOLULU — The Coast Guard team went ashore on Wake Island on Wednesday and confirmed the structural integrity of storage tanks containing 3 million gallons of aircraft fuel, oil and other materials in the wake of Typhoon Ioke, officials said.

The tanks were intact and the Aug. 31 passage of the super typhoon caused no pollution on the island, a U.S. military refueling and research station about 2,300 miles west of Honolulu and 1,510 miles east of Guam.

The Coast Guard Cutter Sherman, a 378-foot high endurance cutter, based in Alameda, Calif., delivered the three-member Pacific strike team based in Novato, Calif.

While the team conducted its ground assessment, personnel from the Sherman confirmed the navigability of the island’s entrance channel, which will be used by ships delivering post-typhoon supplies.

videos and imagery here: http://homeport.uscg.mil/mycg/portal/ep/contentView.do?contentTypeId=2&contentId=48968&programId=12609&pageTypeId=16440&

Meanwhile...

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=10764422&PageNum=0

"On Wednesday, Typhoon Ioke is inexorably approaching the Pacific coast of Russia. Meteorologists have issued a storm warning in the Pacific Ocean, Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea water areas around the Kuriles chain and the Kamchatka Peninsula.

According to the Sakhalin-based hydrometeorology centre, a powerful downpour will come to the Kuriles as early as on Wednesday night, the wind speed will reach 22 metres per second and waves will be four metres high. The storm in the Kuriles area will rage for more than one day gradually moving towards Kamchatka where the typhoon will turn into a cyclone and after September 8 will go away to the Pacific Ocean. "


What's left of Ioke is currently causing problems in Alaska