One of many gut wrenching stories from #Rota after Super Typhoon #Bavi decimated the area at Category 5 intensity. Jeannette Rimen shares her story of survival. While she was working at the hospital to keep everyone safe. Her home was being completely destroyed and is now homeless on the island. @JordanHallWX

Initial view coming into Rota of the devastation from #Bavi @JordanHallWX

We are on the first media plane into Rota thanks to the massive help from Tina (beside me) who works for the airline and reached out to us about getting on the plane for coverage. We will be providing the first aerial images and stories from Rota once we get back. @JordanHallWX

10:14pm power has gone out here in Saipan. Door rattling as outer bands of #Bavi come onshore. Winds beginning to howl.

Sappy post alert! But man, I tell ya. On this massive, spontaneous adventures across the world I can't help but to get sentimental about stuff. I am once again, on a random island I know very little about surrounding by just the most incredible people in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. We've been making friends, meeting new faces, and word has quickly spread that two storm chasers are on the island and similar to the Batanas, so many people are greeting us with hellos, offering to help us in anyway that they can despite still recovering from a direct hit by a typhoon earlier in April. This morning, Glen took us around the island and showed a spot where absolutely nuclear waves were smashing into the coastline that doesn't normally see huge waves before he went into work. He was at our hotel at 5am super excited to hangout and show us around and observe the waves for himself before returning to our hotel and getting to hangout with a gentleman named "Bob". Bob was kind enough to bring us to his house, show us around his dream retirement home he created (with the strongest tiki bar in the Pacific) and introduce us to his wonderful wife before allowing us to interview him about living in Saipan and dealing with all of the recent storms. Meanwhile, I look out my balcony to the bluest of blue waters with a Sherman tank from the battle of Saipan in World War 2 just chilling in the ocean surrounded by so much beauty and happiness despite the devastation already left behind. I could have never imagined in my life, coming from a nobody living in a corn field town to one day traveling the world on a limb like this and just become immersed in so many different lifestyles across the globe. Its something I will never ever take for granted. If I wasn't the free spirited nomad I am today. I'm not sure I'd even see a fraction of the world that I have today. With that being said, I am still staring down the barrel of a Category 5 Super Typhoon. Time to enjoy my last hours of peace before the chaos unfolds. @JordanHallWX

One last calm before the storm #Bavi